Official Match Thread - Sydney Roosters vs New Zealand Warriors

[King Salvo]

Latrell to the wing
Maubs to the centres.
Don't know what to do with Manu and Fergo..
Got any monster forwards and backs anywhere?

Maubs back in the centres will be a red flag for others teams - the Chooks have no depth- Many are saying they have less than 17 NRL standard players too- real premiership contenders don't win one week by 30 and lose the next week by 24 its as simple as that - Sharks will own us next week for sure and certain and their pack will dominate ours and with a bumbling back three (if Robison retains his place) Townsend will make their night hell with his spiral kicks and their outside backs will make ours look like butlers.

[Grant Hedger]

name your 17 for next week.

1 teddy
2 manu
3 latrell
4 ikuvalu
5 fergo
6 keary
7 cronk
8 JWH
9 baptiste
10 SST
11 Cordner
12 butcher
13 liu

14 faamausili
15 tetevano
16 napa
17 Radley

[King Salvo]

name your 17 for next week.

Mitchell
Fergo
Maubs
Manu
Sharpe
Keary
Cronk
SST
Friend
JWH
Matto
Tevo
Liu

Bench
Radley
FPN
Napa
Butcher

[The Brain]

F me of a game... How do you go from 1st try in two minutes and turn it into a disaster of a game.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

My apologies to Mason Lino...he floored US!

[stringaz]

F me of a game... How do you go from 1st try in two minutes and turn it into a disaster of a game.

"Hey team, Johnson's out"

*Head swells*

*Score in 2nd minute*

*Head swollen*

"Hey team I'm complacency, mind if I park here?"

Just making a joke tho, just outgunned really

[Louis N]

We didn't put pressure on them and that was the story. Not enough repeat sets to establish a flow. On the other hand we gifted them with the same. And then we panicked...kicks out on the full. Three moments from the end of the first half, start of the second, cooked our goose. One was RTS diving to stop Latrell when he'd cut then wide open. A try then would have boosted our confidence and put us back in the game. Then when we did manage some pressure, due to them giving goal line penalties away, we had no-one running at the line, it was too much lateral movement. Friend trying a grubber on the last that was SO predictable and just bounced off the legs of the defence. And we were reduced to 2 points to trail 18-6 at the break. 18-10 would have made a big difference. The third moment was giving away an early penalty in the first set of six to give them the momentum starting the second half. And it was 24-6....game over.

[bondi.boy]

F me of a game... How do you go from 1st try in two minutes and turn it into a disaster of a game.

You throw a stoopid pass in the in-goal to SST at his head, he doesn't catch it...and you hand the momentum of the game to the Warriors on a platter...and they never lose it....thrash you as a result.

[bondi.boy]

"Hey team, Johnson's out"

*Head swells*

*Score in 2nd minute*

*Head swollen*

"Hey team I'm complacency, mind if I park here?"

Just making a joke tho, just outgunned really

Your joke was right on the money!

[Bronte Chook]

I seriously cannot believe Matterson played in the halves. His ball skills are appalling.

[stringaz]

We didn't put pressure on them and that was the story. Not enough repeat sets to establish a flow. On the other hand we gifted them with the same. And then we panicked...kicks out on the full. Three moments from the end of the first half, start of the second, cooked our goose. One was RTS diving to stop Latrell when he'd cut then wide open. A try then would have boosted our confidence and put us back in the game. Then when we did manage some pressure, due to them giving goal line penalties away, we had no-one running at the line, it was too much lateral movement. Friend trying a grubber on the last that was SO predictable and just bounced off the legs of the defence. And we were reduced to 2 points to trail 18-6 at the break. 18-10 would have made a big difference. The third moment was giving away an early penalty in the first set of six to give them the momentum starting the second half. And it was 24-6....game over.

In the 2nd half Cronk put it in goal and the team reacted poorly which allowed the wazzas to get it back in play, the attitude was telling no desperation

[stringaz]

I seriously cannot believe Matterson played in the halves. His ball skills are appalling.

He did? I thought he went alright he certainly is no half tho, more like half a cup of braith.

[Guest]

Tough game, guys.

As a suffering Warriors fan it's too easy to blow a win out of proportions. Especially when we were going in without S.Johnson, S.Mannering, J.Gavet, S.Lisone and G. Beale.

I was wondering how much injuries you guys were struggling with? I noticed no Tupou (Robinson had an absolute shocker) but am not familiar enough with the rest of the team.

[Louis N]

In the 2nd half Cronk put it in goal and the team reacted poorly which allowed the wazzas to get it back in play, the attitude was telling no desperation

From memory it was left to Cronk to effect the eventual tackle.

[King Salvo]

better get used to it as the chooks wont win the comp with this squad or head coach - too much invested in too few players- development to NRL standard has stagnated and reactionary recruitment and retention policies have severely weakened the squad and depth - even one injury to Toops has caused massive issues as Robinson is not up to NRL so Robbo's only alternative is to put Maubs back as centre - if he's injured then Matto - if both injured whose next Cordner??