21 MAN SQUAD v PANTHERS

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19-man Update


The Roosters' side to take on the Penrith Panthers at Panthers Stadium on Friday night has been trimmed 24 hours prior to kick-off.

Sam Walker and Sitili Tupouniua have been omitted from the side.

Adam Keighran and Egan Butcher have been promoted to the starting side at five-eighth and second row respectively, while Sam Verrills will start at hooker having previously been named on the interchange bench.

Tuku Hau Tapuha and Ben Thomas come onto the interchange bench via the extended bench, while Billy Smith and Joseph Suaalii have been named as 18th and 19th man respectively.

Sigh. Not gonna make it any easier ay?

That said, I think this is a game we'll win on attitude/passion rather than 'having the better roster available' if we are to do so.

One where we'll just have to wait and see. I mean if Manu gets his game on then no pimply teenager's gonna sit in his way.

[Waylander]

Bugger. That makes this game that much harder.

Go Easts.

[Team Evil]

Wow, we are missing over half our team!

[fletch]

Wow, we are missing over half our team!

11 guys missing

Keary
Cordner
Friend
BMoz
Collins
Nat Butcher
Tupouniua
Walker
Radley
Hutchison
Marschke

[ChookMaster]

A mammoth task can we pull it off? I hope so.

[kakaruk]

Penrith home ground, walker and stilli out , in fact half the team out injured or retired, Kline as the ref it wouldn't surprise me if the cats put a big score on us .Panthers by 15 maybe more if we don't turn up. Happy to be proven wrong tomorrow but i don't think i will be, if the cats cant clean us up with the side that there going to run out tomorrow they wont trouble the storm this year.

[zac]

no backs on the bench. wouldn't be surprised if joey s comes into the centres, joey m to 5/8, keighran to starting hooker, verrills to the bench

[ROC181]

This isn’t good. It wasn’t until Walker came back on with a busted shoulder that we managed to get our attack back on the front foot.

We must be coming second to the broncos with as many halves combinations in a season.

[Bmw06i]

Speaking of the broncos, watching them today I’m still in shock how we lost to them. They are woeful.

[Yeception 7]

God help us

[Lydon]

What a season this has been

[Teddy]

These past two seasons have been nothing short of a ****ing nightmare we cannot seem to get any continuity with a full strength side or a fair shake from the monkeys in yellow just fast forward to ****ing 22 already FMD so frustrating B2B has come at a huge cost still worth it but far out I find it impossible to look forward to game day with this shit we have a punchers chance tomorrow thats about it really.
Hopefully we can keep it competitive.

Goodluck boys.

[Bahrain Rooster]

Not ideal at all, hopefully Keighran and Lam can combine well in attack so Walker’s loss isn’t felt as much.

[ccfc bondi]

At least our No. 1 goalkicker will be on the field for 80 mins. C'MOOOON!

[Monaco's Fan Club]

It’s better not to risk our only real halfback. We want him able come September