Roosters vs Storm Pre-game Discussion

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Are you talking about Sitili or Lindsay?

The Collinator.

[ROC181]

Melbourne Storm are apparently now training on an oval ground usually used by Collingwood

Desperate times calls for desperate measures...I wonder if they managed to mark the field, put up the grandstands and install the floodlights in time to recreate the true feel...

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Melbourne Storm are apparently now training on an oval ground usually used by Collingwood

Ah...well I did notice Smith kicking a few behinds last week. Hope he is on similar target this week.

[zac]

Maybe the Collingwood oval exercise backfires. Presume its dimensions and feel are different to the SCG,s. Good to stick with your routine at this time of year.

There's no way they can catch up with our experience of playing on the SCG.

[Salvatori Grubber]

The Collinator.

I meant Sitilli

[NorthChook]

In today's SMH article:

"Club bosses were told earlier this month by the NRL that Souths, Brisbane, Parramatta or Canberra in the grand final would be a financial success, while the Roosters, Storm, Manly or Cronulla would likely lower profit expectations.

A potential Souths-Roosters blockbuster would be the best possible result for the NRL given the bitter history, and McCarthy said the three games between the historic clubs this season would have the Roosters concerned"



This was always assumed the NRL wanted certain teams to make/win the grand final - here is evidence that it is discussed openly and to the clubs by the NRL. No doubt now that referees would be swayed towards certain teams to give them some extra help.

Although according to this statement, the NRL would prefer to have the Roosters win this weekend in the hope of a Roosters-Souths Grand Final

How can you have a fair competition when preferences of who wins the comp is spoken openly by the governing body?

[zac]

In today's SMH article:

"Club bosses were told earlier this month by the NRL that Souths, Brisbane, Parramatta or Canberra in the grand final would be a financial success, while the Roosters, Storm, Manly or Cronulla would likely lower profit expectations.

A potential Souths-Roosters blockbuster would be the best possible result for the NRL given the bitter history, and McCarthy said the three games between the historic clubs this season would have the Roosters concerned"



This was always assumed the NRL wanted certain teams to make/win the grand final - here is evidence that it is discussed openly and to the clubs by the NRL. No doubt now that referees would be swayed towards certain teams to give them some extra help.

Although according to this statement, the NRL would prefer to have the Roosters win this weekend in the hope of a Roosters-Souths Grand Final

How can you have a fair competition when preferences of who wins the comp is spoken openly by the governing body?

Agreed. To protect the integrity of the comp the NRL should go out of its way to distance itself from 'preferred results'.

[roosterproud]

Just a quick stat. 25 rounds of football. 2 byes.
jwh had 5 games of in 2019 and we lost two of those games. Thats a 60% win ratio without him. That to me is alot more realistick.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

I meant Sitilli

Oh sorry mate...I think he went the distance playing on left edge where he is best suited. Him and Lam were a dangerous combo.

[QWERTY]

Just a quick stat. 25 rounds of football. 2 byes.
jwh had 5 games of in 2019 and we lost two of those games. Thats a 60% win ratio without him. That to me is alot more realistick.

2016 is the main reason why we have a 44% win rate without Jared. Take away that year and the percentage shoots up

[PeeGee]

2016 is the main reason why we have a 44% win rate without Jared. Take away that year and the percentage shoots up

I’ll bet anyone any amount that if the Storm lost by 12 this Saturday night, then The mighty roosters will win by exactly 12 points.
Final score roosters 22 - Melbourne 10........



geeze i crack myself up .....lol
some vintage humour to break up the tension


i was was so shocked when people told me I live in a phantasy land that I fell off my unicorn.

[Waylander]

Just a quick stat. 25 rounds of football. 2 byes.
jwh had 5 games of in 2019 and we lost two of those games. Thats a 60% win ratio without him. That to me is alot more realistick.

Correction:
JWH missed 6 games this year, and there was only one bye. We won 4 of those, so that's 67%. The two games we lost during his absence, Keary was also out. We had a 50% winning ratio when Luke was out.

[Tommy Smith]

We have a 100% winning ratio with Joshua Curran in the team and a 70% win ratio without him.

So it'll be harder winning without Curran but I have belief in the boys that they can still get the job done in his absence.

[NorthChook]

Ticket sales seem to be going well - Roosters bays sold out, Cat 1 and 2 single seats only, Cat 3 only has tickets for no more than 3 seats at a time - while the Storm supporters bay seems far from full with you still being able to buy 8 seats at time.

Good weather should see a lot of late tickets sold around the Fri/Sat

Update: seems they have added more seats to Cat 1/2/3 as they are no longer single seats only. I think as a sales tactic they don't allocate all seats in a bay unless its quite full and there is opportunity to sell more (eg like the final against souths the first few rows of some of they bays were empty - I suppose if they have plenty of seats left they'll leave space to sell to sponsors/advertising if they can)

[bondi.boy]

On NRL360 they were saying we win 77% of games with JWH and it drops to 44% without him.

So basically we're stuffed.
Now that we're likely to lose the game without him, maybe he could use the rest of the week to impart his style on to Collins, Tauko, Liu etc.

Surely our coaches and players can view tapes and see what JWH does...and slot SST into his role, to play the same as he does.
Surely we don't have to have 5 degrees from Harvard to figure it out.