Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Bulldogs

[The Brain]

My prophecy came true in these thread..Burton's bomb killed us..throw in some poor difference and a couple of errors.Butcht is useless..Foketi should never had been dropped .He is a goer and a hard ****.Dirsnt make errors.Oncr again Robbo ****ed up the bench.Left Butcher and Collins on too long .Whyte and Spencer were playing great.Thatswhere we really lost it.

[Chook2]

I can cop a loss but im getting frustrated with the way we just throw games away with poor handling and attacking misreads FFS the Dogs weren't that good tonight-they just hanged in there waiting for us to gift them the win- and we did exactly that

Agree it’s hard to watch us loose it ourselves so many times

the dogs aren’t that great, certainly beatable they just do the basics well and wait for other teams errors

[Andrew Walker]

So I don't disagree that's Sandon probably will make room for Sam but no way those 2 mistakes you mentioned lost us that game .If toups passes to billy we win .If Rads doesn't give a penalty we have the ball .It's to easy to just blame a half .

The forward pass at 20-18 on the first tackle when we could have iced the game or at very least run the clock down was unforgivable and changed the trajectory of the game We had them on the ropes so to speak but that let them off them

[Rooster_6]

Couple of lazy misses from Vic lead to tries under the sticks.

Burton try, sure. Not sure you can blame him for the Xerri try though, if anything maybe you can be critical he pushes too hard but Watson is way too deep in the line so even if he wanted to he can't go harder at Xerri in that instance. Can't fault Watson though, he's being over relied on at the moment.

Collins at fault for the other two linebreaks up the middle so it is disappointing to see it coming from our senior players that's for sure. Collins looked well under done, will be good for him to get some minutes for QLD before returning.

[Andrew Walker]

I think everything that Sandon can do, Sammy does better. Yes Sandon has some X factor and can pull stuff out, but so can Sam. Sandon probably has Sam covered for pace but everything else Sam is light years ahead.

Neither Sam or Sandon have what young Hugo brings to the table, which is a long kicking game and a big body.

Hugo and Sam is the way to go in my opinion.

Agreed

[Chook2]

What a poor way to start the weekend

[Bates]

It's not all doom and gloom. We got within 4 points of the team that's top of the table and it highlighted a number of areas in our game that need work. It's also put the spotlight on a number of players that aren't up to scratch imo and are 1 step closer to being moved on.

The one thing that bothers me when we lose like that is we pretty much stopped moving the ball around in the second half. We attempted to defend our way to victory which was always unlikely to work! The Dogs are a team that's been finishing games off strongly and they'll grow in confidence with every try.

[bondi.boy]

Yes, Hugo and Sam for mine.

[Mickie Lane]

We lost that game twice.

It's not a 50/50 probability when the Dogs continue to win games like that and we continue to lose games like that (See Warriors & Rabbitohs games previously).

We have a different interpretation of what 50/50 means

[RoosterFanNZ]

Can we swap foketi with Egan. I don’t understand how Egan has got his spot so definitively over others?

[Bansai Pipeline]

I can cop a loss but im getting frustrated with the way we just throw games away with poor handling and attacking misreads FFS the Dogs weren't that good tonight-they just hanged in there waiting for us to gift them the win- and we did exactly that

yeah fair enough

we’re too young and stupid to grind out a win in a situation like that

but that’s no surprise to me

we’re a team in the making

[Bansai Pipeline]

Can we swap foketi with Egan. I don’t understand how Egan has got his spot so definitively over others?

Egan was disappointing.

i told my wife he was good for a huge error and he didn’t disappoint.

They can’t all be superstars I guess

[bondi paul]

As good as Radley is at times besides banging the esky he clearly didn’t want to bang it tonite. That last effort was woeful.
Watching his decline is like watching a champion fighter having too many fights.

[King Salvo]

The telling factors were some of the main stats - set completions and errors

Set completions - Roosters 65% vs Dogs 80%
Errors - Roosters 18 - Dogs 8
Yardage - second half the Roosters struggled to get out of their half and often kicking within their 40 - Running Metres - 1st half Roosters 779 to Dogs 541 - Second Half - Dogs 941 to Roosters 594
Tackled in 20 - 1st half - Dogs 30 - Roosters 18 - 2nd Half - Dogs 29 - Roosters 17

[Chook2]

The first half was some of the best footy I have seen from us all year
then we gave it all away in the 2nd

lookimg at the sheds after they know it was on them