Official Match Thread - Sydney Roosters vs South Sydney Rabbitohs

[Chris]

Need a big turn around in the second half.

[fletch]

haven't been mentally in this game right from the start, problem now is the first 20 minutes of the 2nd half is usually the worst period of the game for us.

[LargeMike]

Why play Jared for the entire half? Changes after 28 min after defending the entire time?

Also, how did Trent not get the team up for this game out of all games.

Im well and truly starting to lose faith in him. Same shit every week.

[nayfo]

Souths have had 11 offloads compared to our ZERO!!!! No wonder Cook is being able to cause havoc around the ruck.
Seriously why can't we manage to even have one offload at all?.........

[Bronte Chook]

We won’t have enough gas in the 2nd half.

[Arties Pie]

We have been an absolute joke tonight. Our middle defence has been absolutely disgraceful.

Our middle defence behind the ruck has been truly awful for Eons... Trent doesn't seem to have the skill's to fix it so it would seem anyway. Teams always seem to make massive inroads there regularly.

[crikey chris]

We are rubbish tonight, but it's 8 all

We are allowing Cook to look like an immortal for farks sake . Souffs shooting blanks apart from Cook

[ROC181]

Someone fast should be shadowing Cook. And stop those bloody offloads cause we can’t do any of them.

[milanja]

No idea how that was play on, Souths clearly knocked the ball on in the tackle and then its just play on? Okaaaaaaayyyyyy

Watched the replay a few times, he actually offloaded, with 4 players on him. 50/50 for mine.

[Fairfax]

59/41 possession. We're completing at 80% the 67% if they held on to the pill they'll be 30 in front.

[King Salvo]

Cooks dashes from dummy half and Walkers show and goes are killing us but somehow it's all locked up at oranges - Lucky the Vermin are going wide when in our red zone as better teams would have scored a few more meat pies at this stage with all those breaks and field position- the refs greater than 10 metres is also a problem as the Roosters defence seem to be waiting and lazy and not being pro-active only reactive and slow at that too one has to say. Big second half needed to get the W one suggests

[RoosterFanNZ]

Another week where teams can split us easily. I would love to see one offload or we stop them

[ROC181]

Souths have had 11 offloads compared to our ZERO!!!! No wonder Cook is being able to cause havoc around the ruck.
Seriously why can't we manage to even have one offload at all?.........

Our forwards always die with the ball on the ground. They submit to the tackle and go down so they can’t/won’t offload. Not sure if that’s a tactic or our forwards haven’t got the strength to stay up to be able to offload.

no second phase play for us.

[King Salvo]

Our middle defence behind the ruck has been truly awful for Eons... Trent doesn't seem to have the skill's to fix it so it would seem anyway. Teams always seem to make massive inroads there regularly.

I am sure Robbo has a plan for the second half to combat this and other areas of their game that need attention - Keep calm and carry on

[Vasco]

Very ordinary first half.

Fergo must be back on the drink.

Matterson has had two bad misses in defence. Still not convinced he is a better option than Maubs on the right edge.