Freddys Intercept (VIDEO)

[stephenj]

made my day watching that!forgot i wasnt in the chookpen jumped up started punching the air other people at gymea tradoes must have thought i was crazy! doesnt matter , i am crazy about my roosters

[Guest]

you are crazy Stephen Everyone on here is

[Darkone]

kane goes alright

shame to see no freddy. I cant find anything about him injured. I know liu is out with his right knee. season by the sounds of it.

The like of Samisoni will get the opportunity, but I have big respect for Siosiua Taukeiaho he is a very, very special talent & we may see his ability on display sooner than expected...

I will say this, to me he's the SBW protégé for 2015...

[Geohood]

Brilliant.

[Guest]

Enjoy! I Know i did

Nice one IRoostermanI I can watch this one over and over again

[stephenj]

only thing better if marty had helped him up, "nice one coach!"

[Parkway_Drive]

Highlight of the day for me.....I was standing up clapping and cheering....Freddy the Legend!!

Shades of that memorable intercept off Andrew Johns in the 2000 Preliminary Final.

[easts4eva]

Got goose bumps when I saw freddy run away, bought back memorys of the 2000 semi V the knights.
Call me old fashioned but I love Freddy in an easts jersey.

[Johnny.]

That intercept proves that age may slow the body but Freddy still has that cunning football brain in his head. He's seeing the game at 180 frames a second, like always...he knows what's going to happen two seconds before it happens.

I admit freely to choking up a little bit watching that.

[Guest]

...and the presence of mind to make it a five pointed instead of running to the corner to avoid the tackler

[Guest]

Bloody brilliant, I leapt from the couch and cheered like it was 2000.

Made a very good concept even better.

I really like the nines.

Chook.

[Gary Worthless]

Freddy's sledging is still up to scratch too. Some funny quotes in the article below from nrlcom.

Putting paid to suggestions their participation made a mockery of the tournament, retired NRL players Brad Fittler and Steve Menzies performed admirably on the opening day of the Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines. While Fittler's 70-metre intercept try stole the show, the 42-year-old didn't look at all out of place, putting his body on the line tackling Eels battering ram Fuifui Moimoi and later in the day cleaning up a dangerous Ben Barba as he threatened to run into space.

The one-on-one hit on Barba was solid but penalised for being too high, much to Fittler's bemusement. "Can you believe that was a penalty?" he exclaimed to reporters after the game. "I'm going to have a word to them later, the refs. What chance did I have? But I knew I had support on my inside so it might have looked like a great tackle but it wasn't that tough."

Fittler also produced some slick passes and was one of the best on field in the Roosters' second up 14-7 win over Brisbane. Fittler said the body was holding up ok, aside from a sore hip that he hinted may have been the result of one of his tackles on Moimoi.

"I felt better running out than I do walking back in, don't worry!" he laughed.

He also revealed the intercept was far from a fluke - and possibly a direct result of an unwillingness to tackle Sonny Bill Williams at training.

"They defend a bit different now. At training I was taking a lot of intercepts because I didn't want to tackle Sonny," he said. "They all knew I was going to take an intercept it was a matter of when."

He also had a friendly dig at the man unfortunate enough to throw the intercept pass, Broncos forward David Stagg.

"David Stagg mate, what's he ball-playing for anyway?" Fittler laughed. "I knew I was going to pick someone off, I left it to 'Staggy'."

[Guest]

Even the room full of dragons I was watching with, cheered that moment. Pearce is looking fierce.