Official Match Thread - New Zealand Warriors vs Sydney Roosters

[Guest]

Maloney and SBW won a premiership for us. Pearce had his usual deer in the headlights performance.

Just like Cameron Smith won premierships and origins while Cronk got flogged 40-0 without him lol

[Guest]

That spud from Melbourne is one of the greatest halfbacks of the modern era. And he's won 2 Premierships. 4 if you count the two stripped. And about 7-8 Origin series. And a couple of World Cups.

Slightly better resume than Mitchell Pearce.

The Melbourne potato is nothing without Cameron Smith, what’s he won without Smith? A whole bunch of players owe their legacy to Smith and to a lesser degree Slater. Cronk is poo poo without Smith who was the real start, dare I say he was better than Joey

[Johnny Tobin]

I'm fired up about the refs now.

In my "there's gotta be an investigation into this!" moment where I investigated the refs bias against us, this was one of the most shocking and egregious stats I found...

Since 2007 our penalty count record in out of Sydney matches is as follows...

W 6
D 4
L 45

Take out the timid Titans environment and at NZ NQ Brisbane Melbourne Canberra and Newcastle it's...

W 4
D 3
L 42

If that isn't blatant cheating and home town anti Roosters reffing I don't know what is.

Have a look at what happened the last couple of times we played over there and had Klown. Thankfully we have Ceccin and our record with him is much better. I have been waiting years to say this but I actually think the refs will not disadvantage us in this game. That may be famous last words though..

[Jacks Fur Coat]

We will beat the Warriors this week...get on.

[Johnny Tobin]

We will beat the Warriors this week...get on.

Massive if we do and then back it up against Brisbane away the following week.

[ism22]

Shaun Johnson is out.

So it's practically in the bag like last time right?

Issac Luke is more important to them and could wreck us up the middle so if he's out I think we win.

Yep like last time, Lino is better than Johnson so we will get smashed.

The only difference is that Tupou, Manu and Radley are out this time... oh and we are in NZ... so we can expect an even bigger whipping.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Manu isn't out.

[Bigchook]

That spud from Melbourne is one of the greatest halfbacks of the modern era. And he's won 2 Premierships. 4 if you count the two stripped. And about 7-8 Origin series. And a couple of World Cups.

Slightly better resume than Mitchell Pearce.

Lol don't worry about the sht these people post. In 5-6 weeks if we're on a roll they'll be back on the bandwagon.

[Arties Pie]

Let's hope the team finds some cohesion and rips them a new one. Roosters by 6

[Jacks Fur Coat]

He won a premiership for us and I can guarantee that spud from Melbourne we have won’t win one for us

That spud??

I think you forgot the minus sign to kickoff your username.

[Waylander]

That spud??

I think you forgot the minus sign to kickoff your username.

Actually, I think you've misunderstood his user name. I'd say 200 Ignorant Quips is a pretty spot on description so far.

[Kingsgrove-Loiner]

seriously im a bit outraged at whats transpired this year, i admit i bought a bit into the hype albeit not initially, i am a pearce fan boy, not going to deny it, i felt he was treated very harshly by some on here and what he did right he seemed to given grudging credit, he had his faults no doubt , but his running , passing and defence were for the most part far above average kicking game wasnt bad but off fied he was poor, friend ive never really felt he was that good anyway, hell i thought segeyaro was superior a year or 2 back prob still do, that says something, now cronks been given 9 rounds and the team is worse this year then last, nobody can deny it, we dont even look close to the top teams this year, our defence is good, i just feel cronk is a real fish out of water at the roosters, hes such an organised disciplined player who was meant to bring structure to our chaos instead the chaos has somewhat engulfed him , pearce seemed able to work within the chaos better if it makes sense and he and keary were great together, i just cannot in no way see cronks stable influence in the team bar a kick or two and given hes been paid a million a year i expect more, maybe this seems unreasonable but blaming pearce for the semi final loss is unreasonable too, its not all cronks fault but hes not proving to be much of anything bar the odd good kick , hell luke walsh was good for that , maybe the forward pack is done, maybe the hookers past his use by date, maybe the new fullback s a fish out of water too at least hes trying, i dont know, but im thoroughly pissed about it, hell i got foxtel installed to watch all roosters games this year expecting re runs of 2013, sadly disappointed and i cant see it changing cronk aint in the same breath as a fittler or smith or lockyer or johns and sadly appears another melbourne player who appears far better then he actually is under concentration camp bellamy / smith , and i wouldnt mind so much if it wasnt eating up a million a year for a 34 yo, sadly im shaking my head, a bit in disbelief , this really sucks.

Let punctuation into your life mate. I read 3 lines and had to go have a drink.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Let punctuation into your life mate. I read 3 lines and had to go have a drink.

It was the great wall of text.

[TheLoneRooster]

Let punctuation into your life mate. I read 3 lines and had to go have a drink.

LOL, I got that far and just stopped reading. My head hurt.

[crikey chris]

Seems most here see a smashing in Auckland. With Johnson out, it didn't hurt them at the Sfs. No one gives us a chance, but I am quietly confident of a narrow win.

The comp is so topsy-turvy that, even though we are very inconsistent, so has the majority of the other teams.

Easts by 8