I know I will sound like a sore loser, but gees we copped some rubbish calls tonight. Why do we even have the bunker and the millions of $ that the NRL investted in it, if they won't interject with an incorrect call? It is so arrogant. Get rid of it all together if this is the way the NRL want to play their game. Can someone also please tell me whatever happened to the 10 metres?
That said, our effort was there and this team still has the potential to go all the way. Ths team impresses me and I am far from giving up. Something special is on the way. We made some stupid errors that hurt us badly tonight, and still have some things to learn and improve on. Well done to the Roosters as much as I hate saying it. Perhaps a loss that we needed, but we competed well. We are building pressure well but we still just don't seem to have that unique kind of strike player that can break the game wide open. Some comments from me:
1. Waqa Blake had a head knock and perhaps this contributed, but his defence was appalling tonight, multiple grasps at jerseys and then line breaks which resulted in tries.
2. Do our wingers know what it means to do an inside run? There appears to be very poor communication between both centres and their wingers, both in defence and also in attack. I highlighted this weeks ago and IMO oppositions are targeting this. So many opportunities tonight if the winger took the inside ball rather than trying to take on the line with a power play when out muscled when it was so predictable.
3. Nathan Brown was bloody awesome tonight, but no doubt he will be suspended yet again. Mark my words, Latrell Mitchell gets away with his head clip, I bet Nathan Brown won't.
4. Junior Paulo, Gutho and Ryan Matterson....just awesome.
5. Again, a number of line breaks with no one in support or positionally in support which may have perhaps resulted in tries.
6. As awesome as Sivo is, I see that he still struggles to read some aspects of the game and what is before him. Can only get better with more experience.
7.Great to see Dylan Brown getting more involved. Needs to back himself more.
8.I think our forwards are as good as any in the comp.
9. Our backline still has work to do. Our attack does not flow, or have the opitions, or line breaklng ability that we need when compared to the Roosters.
10. Lots of great spreading of the ball tonight, but we need to convert that. We failed to convert the occasions where we had the Roosters scrambled tonight.
Our team is still, well and truly in this. Proud of the effort tonight and on a positve note, we can only learn and improve!
EE
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1. You're probably right there with the head knock. His defence needs a lot of work, we're too fragile down the right.
2. Fergo has not come out of the blocks this year at all. Not sure what's up there.
3. Yeah, he was awesome and definitely dominated Radley in defence and attack.
4. Junior will debut for the Blues this year, he's been the best prop in the comp imo. Matto was amazing and Gutho outplayed Teddy, who would have thought?
7. Dylan's tackling is so good that he's embarrassing our centres. That chase on Keary was mint.
We've still got a lot of improvement left. By the end of the year we should be a much better team.
I think you may be right with the head knock for Blake. I know Morris has been in good form but Blake simply couldn't tackle him. His defence up to now had been pretty good.
I'm not disappointed but we need to become more professional. Piss poor tackling after 60min mark. NOT ACCEPTABLE to miss tackles like that. Work in progress but we're well off the Roosters standards. Hopefully we can tighten up out defence against team such as the Chooks and Storm.
We were focing the play passing to player on the touch line instead of taking the tackle. I think that happended 3 or 4 times. This is were you need to keep you head when you make a break and not get too over excited.
What I did like were our defence for 60 mins, our off loading, finding ways to penetrate the Roosters defence. We bombed 2 tries in Matto being stripped and Gutho not having any support when he ran 70 metres.
PS Sivo lined up Teddy and said: "I'm now going to fuck you harder than Ron Jeremy but with less warmth". And he did. Brutal. It was like a lion raping a sheep but in a bad way.