Eels v Roosters match discussion thread

[Spanner in the works]

Robbo will blame the refs. Same team picked next week. Expecting the same results.

[ROC181]

That fat little number 9 offers zero in attack.
Manu needs to run when bringing back the ball.

And... Needs to play the ball faster. He stands up, puts the ball on the ground and doesn't roll it back and the dummy half has to reach in to get at it, meanwhile the defence is already up.

[mightyrooster]

That'll do me.

[G-Unit Guerra]

I'm losing my ability to care anymore. It's not lost, but it's half out the door.

[RoosterRooster]

What a disgrace. Will never win another premiership under robinson. Whats he going to whinge about this week. Piss off Friend.

[The Brain]

we are gonna be in limbo for a few years yet

[Headless Chook]

Those people blaming the bunker, even if Gutherson did touch the ball, we took our advantage in my view so its play on anyway.

[Spirit of 66]

I'm sorry. While I concede that Roosters teams from the last few years would have overcome the adversity they faced tonight, this game was an absolute case study in how referees and video bunker buffoons can engineer a result.

For the last 30 minutes of that game, Parramatta were allowed to do anything they liked - hold down the tackled player, stand 8 metres offside, strip the ball - without sanction. They had no chance of getting field position without 5th tackle and obscure attacking penalties and deserved to lose. And then, to avert what was probably a remote chance of a Roosters victory, the video ref chooses to ignore the call of the touch judge standing 2m from the incident, and declare that there was "no evidence" that last pass was touched by a Parramatta player.

Friends, this is fundamentally a stupid non-sport. It is a carefully choreographed entertainment for idiotic bogans. It makes me sick to watch it.

[HEGtheROOSTER]

We did 50 less tackles, ran for 400 more meters, had more line breaks, more offloads, 55% of possession, missed less tackles, conceded less penalties, playing a team with a new halfback in the middle of a plethora of off-field problems/scandals, etc, who played virtually the whole game with 15 players.....

And still lost.....
(after leading 18 - 6 in the second half)

[RoosterRooster]

Such a pity there are no journalists left who can write about what has happened to our sport. Results managed as evidenced tonight. LAck of Integrity. Needs an honest investigative journalist to uncover this.
What sums it up best was "no clear evidence of a knock forward". As the vidiot called this the replay clearly showed the parra's fingers touching the ball. Gold! No LEadership in the NRL to sop this.

Get real you imbecile. What about the rest of the game? **** off

[TheLoneRooster]

I'm losing my ability to care anymore. It's not lost, but it's half out the door.

Same here G-Unit, I'm "comfortably numb" as someone else put it here.
I look at the players after the match and I see smiles from some - why should I give a damn if they don't.

[MCMLXVI]

My take on our team at the moment. The following players need to be jettisoned.....Copley, Guerra, Friend, Hastings. The sooner the better. I have been happy to give Copley the benefit of the doubt but he just doesn't have it. Friend is terrible at the moment. He kicks for himself, he rarely makes a dominant tackle and he offers nothing in attack

Add Trent to that list. Friend has no understanding of how to captain any team. He is the absolute weakest link in our chain. I don't remember him passing backwards at any time in this whole game, and when he did get pulled up for just one of his forward passes his reaction showed to me that he has no idea how bad he is. Friend is the fish head.

[RoosterRooster]

Friend and Hastings are nowhere to be found when the pressure is on. Norman smashed us second half.
Dear Robbo, please don't whinge about anything in the post match conference. You were outplayed and outcoached big time.
How do you lose a game when the opposition are down to 1 on the bench for the second half?

[TheLoneRooster]

What a pathetic team the Roosters are at the moment. A truly stupid team with some truly stupid senior players who are coached by someone who thinks it was a good idea to bring on Connor Watson with just under four minutes left in the game. Would be interested to know just what the idiot coach thought Connor could do in just under four minutes. Also, a big fat brickbat to JWH for losing the ball which led to the try that put the slipperies in front.

Oh, and luke patten, you can go and get farged.

[One Eyed Willy]

We did 50 less tackles, ran for 400 more meters, had more line breaks, more offloads, 55% of possession, missed less tackles, conceded less penalties, playing a team with a new halfback in the middle of a plethora of off-field problems/scandals, etc, who played virtually the whole game with 15 players.....

And still lost.....
(after leading 18 - 6 in the second half)

Mate, spot on
**** we are weak mentally
People can blame the refs and the bunker all they want, we have no one to blame but the 17 players and the coaching staff