Beetroot Face into Us Again

[Kurt Sherlock's Mo]

All this talk of a 'premiership for Easts in May is far too soon'* then 20 June 2012 is definitely too soon to call it, right Phil?

Cronulla Sharks will win comp ... in 2013




* use of single quotation marks in line with News Ltd policies on misrepresentation and inaccurate reporting.

[Guest]

Well that single quotation information is quite interesting.

[Johnny.]

All this talk of a 'premiership for Easts in May is far too soon'* then 20 June 2012 is definitely too soon to call it, right Phil?

Cronulla Sharks will win comp ... in 2013

* use of single quotation marks in line with News Ltd policies on misrepresentation and inaccurate reporting.

To clarify, under the ACMA code the single quotations are to represent a summing up of what a person says and the double quotations are a direct quote.

Like so, John likes 'big breasted women' is a summation of my feelings.

John said "I happen to like women whose breasts are larger than a b cup" is a direct quote.

And in keeping with the idea of no-one is wrong all the time, Mr. Rothfield is right - yesterday proved we are nowhere near ready to say we're going to win a premiership.

[Andrew Walker]

What he has written is failry accurate in regards to us not having beaten much nd having had 6 home matches so far

the motives of the article though need to be questioned This is due to his dislike of our team Also it is a lame attempt to try and put pressure on us especially if we weer to lose all three which I dont think will happen

[elo]

Buzz is getting anxious at our successful start to the season, relish it.

[Headless Chook]

I loook at the article and see it as a supporter from another team just having their say in response to the recent press that our team has received. Lets say the recent media dribble about us being contenders was instead being written about Souths after they had been given a similar draw. Would we not say similar stuff to what Rothfield has written here?

I dislike Rothfield as much as the next Roosters supporters but don't have an issue with what he has written today.

[Johnny.]

The clarification needs to be whether Mr. Rothfield wrote the piece as a reporter or a commentator. If he wrote it as a commentator then he is allowed to have all the bias he wants, people don't need to read it if they don't want. But if he wrote it as a reporter then he needs to be, for want of a better word, straight.

Case in point, Andrew Bolt vs Leigh Sales. Leigh Sales is the host of the 7:30 Report which is listed as News and Current Affairs and therefore needs to be unbiased in it's reporting. Andrew Bolt's program on Channel 10 is, as he has said, an opinion show which has no need of balance.

I suspect an even better comparison would be Mr. Rothfield and Danny Wielder. No-one knows what, if any, team Danny Wielder supports and that makes him an unbiased journalist. He rarely, to my knowledge, offers unsolicited opinion and is particularly straight in his reporting of sport.

[Muffdaddy]

Unfortunately I can't argue with what he has written.
Its basically a piece to get another thread on the Chook Pen started about him and to boost his pay packet bonus. I told you they add an extra 5K to his salary every time a new thread is started on the Chook Pen.
We're making him rich.

[Guest]

I tend to agree. We aren't going as well as some of the score line suggest. That said, I'm enjoying it!

I liked the point from 26 rounds on the weekend where he noted at the start I the season rothfield said we didn't have the squad to make the 8, now he says we are cap cheats.

[mightyrooster]

All I will say is he isn't saying anything that isn't the truth or that I don't agree with.

But if it were the Sharks in the same position would he be writing the same article?

[Thirteen]

Nothing wrong with it..
Open the other eye up mate. He is spot on.
The next 8 weeks will be telling with games against the Cows, Manly and Melbourne plus origin.

They struggled against Parra!
No excuse we should smash them!

[Guest]

He's only spot on about not beating a gun side yet, not about everybody at Easts says we are good things to win the premiership, we cant help the draw, you play who you drawn to play, we will get the big games coming up soon, the wanker should of waited till then to have a go, if he had something to have a go at. But its not rocket science we all know we haven't played most of the gun sides yet.

He was mainly referring to what Freddie said over the weekend, Freddie reckons the 2013 Roosters squad has more talented players than the illustrious 2002 team, I have no idea what possessed Freddie to say that or even if he was quoted correctly, all I know is that it is too early for anyone to be heaping that sort of praise on this team. If we beat Manly, Cowboys & Storm in coming weeks then & only maybe then should anyone be getting their hopes up to the extent of us playing & winning a GF this year, we still have so far to come & it is so far away, anything can happen.

[Andrew Walker]

They struggled against Parra!
No excuse we should smash them!

Never mind the 5 day turn around after what will be a tough match against Manly Never mind the Parra game was an away game or that when they play us it will be their hom game

[Guest]

The only people that are talking us up as contenders are the "journalists" on his own staff.

[Guest]

The only people that are talking us up as contenders are the "journalists" on his own staff.

and Freddie