Roosters vs Dragons Match Day Thread

[bondi-boy]

Stupid penalties...

It's ridiculous...undisciplined rabble.

Pearce gives away another dumb penalty.

And...just how many seasons/years is it gonna take him to be able to kick grubbers into the in-goal to get repeat sets?

[Spirit of 66]

Baffles me how the team getting totally dominated has such good discipline??

Be careful what you say. You'll get called a "conspiracy theorist" if you imply that refs use penalties to even up games.

[Burnt Rooster]

These stupid pot plant penalties is why we are No.3 in line, Souths and Storm would smash us given all that free ball, we gotta start fineing the ****witts for the offence, $500 a stupid penalty to go to a roosters charity. out of their money.That might slow them down, its just plain dumb.

[Guest]

Good half of footy. Some of you blokes need to take a step back and relax.

Again, why do we need grubbers into the in goal on the 5th tackle when we're scoring on the 4th tackle?
For majority of tonigh, we've been putting up bombs from the 40m line or so. The only two times I can think of otherwise was a crossfield bomb which tupou caught but was pulled down short and a grubber into the in goal which was a bit too deep.
We piggyback them with stupid penalties, and although they look sharp going down the edges, we have been able to shut them down.

The way some of you carry on, you would think we're losing 18-0.

[liver1971]

IF we get rid the stupid penalties , this will get ugly for the Scurge .Guerra really needs to pull his head in !

[Tommy Smith]

Some of you are kidding if you DON'T think this is a refereeing stitch up.

Everytime we lose it it's a knock on. Everytime they lose it it's a penalty.

SBW hits the arm and the ball comes loose - ref calls a knock on! Horrendous.

We're dominating the forward battle when we have possession and yet not one offside penalty! Just one ruck penalty!

It's a ****ing stitch up!! Pearce did NOTHING wrong at the end; the Dragons merkin dropped it.

I'll criticise us when we're displaying poor discipline but today, as usual, it's another STITCH UP.

[Guest]

and Robbo has to pull the boys heads in. Use the Canberra game as an example. We cant get into a comfort zone knowing we are up 18-0.

[Guest]

It's funny watching a merge player having a go at the touch judge....it wasn't that long ago ,was it

[Guest]

Some of you are kidding if you DON'T think this is a refereeing stitch up.

Everytime we lose it it's a knock on. Everytime they lose it it's a penalty.

SBW hits the arm and the ball comes loose - ref calls a knock on! Horrendous.

We're dominating the forward battle when we have possession and yet not one offside penalty! Just one ruck penalty!

It's a ****ing stitch up!! Pearce did NOTHING wrong at the end; the Dragons merkin dropped it.

I'll criticise us when we're displaying poor discipline but today, as usual, it's another STITCH UP.

what about when nightingale got penalised for watching Jennings take out tupou in the air?
or when pearce knocked the ball out of fien's hand but it got called a knock on.

The refereeing has been atrocious for both teams.

[bondi-boy]

Better just hope the Dragons don't fire in the second half like the Raiders did against us in Canberra.

TIME to cut out all the stupid penalties we're giving away...get onside! stop verbally abusing the refs! stop touching the ball in the rucks- PEARCE!

...and start practising being perFECT for the finals.

ONE stupid mistake against the Storm or Rabbits etc and the game could well be lost.

Gotta get to the finals/top4 first...gotta play the Sharks twice, the 40-0 in the first half Knights, Rabbits etc.
A repeat of this undisciplined crap could cost us bigtime.

[Tommy Smith]

what about when nightingale got penalised for watching Jennings take out tupou in the air?
or when pearce knocked the ball out of fien's hand but it got called a knock on.

The refereeing has been atrocious for both teams.

We got away with the Pearce one.

The other was irrelevant. Tupou still caught the bomb and it cost them about 5m.

It's the penalties that are continually criminal.

We're ALWAYS so bad, and the opposition, despite being hammered in the forwards, are ALWAYS so disciplined.

I don't care if people think im a conspiracy theorist; I truly believe we get treated like a black fella in a jewellery store. Its just ASSUMED that we're doing something wrong!

[Guest]

We got away with the Pearce one.

The other was irrelevant. Tupou still caught the bomb and it cost them about 5m.

It's the penalties that are continually criminal.

We're ALWAYS so bad, and the opposition, despite being hammered in the forwards, are ALWAYS so disciplined.

I don't care if people think im a conspiracy theorist; I truly believe we get treated like a black fella in a jewellery store. Its just ASSUMED that we're doing something wrong!

and what can you do?
there will always be that feeling around. Manly fans especially will feel the same way. We just have to out score them, and we are.

[Guest]

and Robbo has to pull the boys heads in. Use the Canberra game as an example. We cant get into a comfort zone knowing we are up 18-0.

Couldn't agree more...
We'll get swamped if we think we have this won...

[Guest]

Apparently SBW is done for the night (hamstring)...

[Guest]

hamstring strain