2009 all over again?!?!?!?!!?

[Guest]

Clearly, to be a Rooster, you have to have a flair for the over-dramatic.

I can't believe how many people have hit the panic button before the season has even begun.

How come you can't believe it? Its the usual suspects every year...

[Kramer]

Clearly, to be a Rooster, you have to have a flair for the over-dramatic.

I can't believe how many people have hit the panic button before the season has even begun.

Exactly!

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Lauren View Post
Clearly, to be a Rooster, you have to have a flair for the over-dramatic.

I can't believe how many people have hit the panic button before the season has even begun.

How can he possibly resist the maddening urge to panic at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful, shiny button? The jolly, candy-like button? Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?

[ism22]

FWIW we won the Trials last year... Tigers came 3rd and we came 6th...
Sure we made the GF, but it wasn't like we had a cruisy season, we just happened to come good during the finals season.

One reason I like being a Roosters fan is the ups and downs. We always have our setbacks, but a good team can hold things together regardless of setbacks. In all seriousness... Watts, Cherro, Guerra, Graham Carney and (maybe) T. Carney out... most of them are fringe players at best and I doubt Watts would have pipped Friend anyway. Bar Todd Carney we pretty well have a full strength team... and hey... he's fit! Who says he won't play? I'm optimistic...

2009 Was BULLSH!T... 2011 will be 2011, not 2009. The boys look fit and Smithy has the support of the boys. My guess it that the best is yet to come and we lost the trials because the other teams had the psychology going that they HAD to win against last year's runners up. We on the other hand:
- Had nothing to prove.
- Wanted to test our wealth of young blokes (after our NYC team + the Jets killed it last season.)
- Didn't want anybody getting hurt.

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I'd be silly to think that the injuries won't hurt us, but in the scheme of things... I reckon we have the depth to handle it. We survived last season without J. Carney, Watts, Cherro, Guerra and Graham, and I'm sure we can do it again.

[BUDDY]

FWIW we won the Trials last year... Tigers came 3rd and we came 6th...
Sure we made the GF, but it wasn't like we had a cruisy season, we just happened to come good during the finals season.

One reason I like being a Roosters fan is the ups and downs. We always have our setbacks, but a good team can hold things together regardless of setbacks. In all seriousness... Watts, Cherro, Guerra, Graham Carney and (maybe) T. Carney out... most of them are fringe players at best and I doubt Watts would have pipped Friend anyway. Bar Todd Carney we pretty well have a full strength team... and hey... he's fit! Who says he won't play? I'm optimistic...

2009 Was BULLSH!T... 2011 will be 2011, not 2009. The boys look fit and Smithy has the support of the boys. My guess it that the best is yet to come and we lost the trials because the other teams had the psychology going that they HAD to win against last year's runners up. We on the other hand:
- Had nothing to prove.
- Wanted to test our wealth of young blokes (after our NYC team + the Jets killed it last season.)
- Didn't want anybody getting hurt.

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I'd be silly to think that the injuries won't hurt us, but in the scheme of things... I reckon we have the depth to handle it. We survived last season without J. Carney, Watts, Cherro, Guerra and Graham, and I'm sure we can do it again.

Thinking back to this time last year, we lost Cherro, JWH and Sydmonds to injury and Friend was sort of sacked, Ryles wasn't 100%, Mini wasn't 100% forcing Carney to fullback for half the season, Anasta wasn't 100% plus he had to play 5/8 , we had off-field problems with Cherro, Carney and Friend. This year we have enormous amount of depth, Carney starts the season at 5/8, injuries haven't really impacted the core of our first grade team from last year, the young guns from last year (BJ, Linnett, JWH, Friend, Kennedy, Masoe) have a year of success under their belt, we have bought some handy players (Carney, Watts, Tasi) to add to our depth not forgetting Symonds is back. We have the cattle. All we need is the passion.

[Guest]

2009 Was BULLSH!T... 2011 will be 2011, not 2009. The boys look fit and Smithy has the support of the boys. My guess it that the best is yet to come and we lost the trials because the other teams had the psychology going that they HAD to win against last year's runners up. We on the other hand:
- Had nothing to prove.
- Wanted to test our wealth of young blokes (after our NYC team + the Jets killed it last season.)
- Didn't want anybody getting hurt.

n.

Totally agree + we got rid of the cancer that was W. Mason.

[Guest]

Interesting. Care to elaborate?

Sorry i shouldn't stir you in your present condition,carstration would be very painful. faaaaark your forehead must be sore???