Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Knights

[easts4eva]

Sutton had a solid first half against us.

[Monaco's Fan Club]

I hope every player donates their wage to the Flood relief fund.. they certainly didn’t earn it today

[DP1990]

Did we even train in the preseason or prepare for round 1 ?

Where are those mixed bag of reserve grade players that did the job for us last year ?!

[TheLoneRooster]

That was embarrassing, pathetic, and slow. As others have said, you wait months to see the team play and they serve up that steaming pile of excrement.

[The Lip]

Frustrating because Knights aren't looking anything special and there's been a few dud calls.

It's like watching that frigging un-co kid beat you slowly because he got given a ridiculous head start and somebody tied your shoelaces together.

No mate we were the unco kid and that's being totally disrespectful to the unco kid. Worst performance in I don't know how long.

#embarrassed

[FlamingRooster]

Sutton had a solid first half against us.

At this point are there any refs that don’t hate us? Matt cecchin but he’s gone

[TheLoneRooster]

Gagai..always saves his best when playing NSW and Easts.

I hate him.

Spot on Bruce, and that 6 of theirs does the same thing when playing Easts, even when he was a cowgirl.

[roosterchook]

Once the ref and bunker demoralised us with their continual biased decisions we just lost heart. Our try WAS a try and Tedesco was tackled without the ball- where was the bunker then? It was all downhill from there. Yes we made a heap of errors but I think the thinking then was we lost all hope of a fair go so gave up. Toups was best. The kicks in the corner to Toups where were they?

[Bruce Pickett]

Once the ref and bunker demoralised us with their continual biased decisions we just lost heart. Our try WAS a try and Tedesco was tackled without the ball- where was the bunker then? It was all downhill from there. Yes we made a heap of errors but I think the thinking then was we lost all hope of a fair go so gave up. Toups was best. The kicks in the corner to Toups where were they?

Maybe, but we have to be mentally tough enough to overcome dud decisions.

[Roosters1908]

At this point are there any refs that don’t hate us? Matt cecchin but he’s gone

I don’t care if they love us or hate us. But I do expect them - all of them - to do their effing job and referee both teams for the whole match. A ref doing their job would be awesome. Can’t wait until that happens.

[TheLoneRooster]

Funny how they disallowed Teddy's try for an obstruction but let the same type of obstruction go in the lead up to the noughts' first try.

[ChookMaster]

Biggest thing for me to take out of this was our defence and attitude.

Defence was non existent today, too many missed tackles and again were leaking offloads like no tomorrow which is so annoying! Robbo’s chink in his armour has always been he fails to address this time and time again, it kills us.

Wrap the ball up properly and stop letting them drive the legs, Jesus sometimes we can be all about the system and tackle selection but lack aggression in technique.

[kakaruk]

regardless of being the first game that performance was really bad .missed tackles, dropped balls who is the chooks attacking coach? not much attack there tonight that has to be addressed quick smart robbo wont be impressed with that rubbish ,might be a couple of changes next week.

[roosterchook]

Maybe, but we have to be mentally tough enough to overcome dud decisions.

That’s what was lacking, that rooster toughness. We just folded mentally unable to focus on our game plan and just allowed frustration and desperation to rule instead of cool heads. Losing Friend, Cordner and the Brest brothers shows up our lack of resilience.

[TheLoneRooster]

... Bring on Manly

Be careful what you wish for as the chip stealers were good against an even better pamfers side, much as I hate to say. If the Eoosters play next week like they did today, another loss is incoming.