2022 FW1 EF Sun - Sydney 14-30 South Sydney @ Allianz

[BadnMean]

Those wacky Rorters. You never know what they'll get up to next.

Pretty sure Suaali is there just as product placement for some dating show.

 

[fourplay]

Let's be serious, Roosters were without internationals and origin players Teddy, toupu, Collins, stilli, manu, Crichton, Suallii out of position and first choice centre Smith out and souths only won by 2 tries

A serous team ( Panthers, Cowboys, sharks, eels) would have put 50 on them, even the Titans or Tigers would have won that game.

It's super coach Robinson's fault for running out with a full strength team last week in a meaningless match that meant absolutely nothing and losing Manu. He risked everything for zero gain and suffered the consequences. He should have rested Manu, Tedesco and everyone else he could have last week.

 

[taste2taste]

It's super coach Robinson's fault for running out with a full strength team last week in a meaningless match that meant absolutely nothing and losing Manu. He risked everything for zero gain and suffered the consequences. He should have rested Manu, Tedesco and everyone else he could have last week.

200% correct, in a nothing game both teams should have rested thier stars.

The Roosters threw everything into a nothing game with no long term view, now thier gone and serves them right

 

[hineyrulz]

f**k this thread where's the parasite v raiders thread I want to start sledging their bald heads mercilessly

 

[ColdWetPanther]

f**k this thread where's the parasite v raiders thread I want to start sledging their bald heads mercilessly

It’s weird. When I picture Ricky in my head he is bald. Just had to Google an image of him to see if he has hair…

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

How do they call this a sellout with the upper tier basically empty

Possibly members who are Tahs supporters. Also a ton of people, me included (I was quite high up) left their seats to stand on the concourse. Much better viewing

 

[wittyfan]

Surely Lachlan Ilias is a lock-in for Rookie Of The Year now after today.

 

[big hit!]

Surely Lachlan Ilias is a lock-in for Rookie Of The Year now after today.

Kid has got some talent, but geez he has a bonehead play in him too. Did 3 today - the kick out on the full in the first half. Lucky nothing came of it. The drop ball off the kick off in the second half led to a try. Then the kick in goal for a 7 tackle set out more pressure on his team that wasn’t needed. If it was Penrith, they would’ve pulled the bunnies apart.

Lucky Cody was f**king on today to set up some tries.

 

[Reflector]

Is there a better rivalry in sport than Rabbitohs and Roosters?

Every year I think the intensity of the rivalry has peaked bur every year it surpasses expectation.

Its beyond rivalry and become genuine hatred, and something that used to be more shared amongst the fanbase is probably even fiercer on the field now

I give shit to Roosters but we couldn't have such great games without them. See you round 1 next year

The stadium was literally ringing with noise at times this afternoon.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

We made a GF without ours
Any decent team would

You have better fullbacks

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Is there a better rivalry in sport than Rabbitohs and Roosters?

Every year I think the intensity of the rivalry has peaked bur every year it surpasses expectation.

Its beyond rivalry and become genuine hatred, and something that used to be more shared amongst the fanbase is probably even fiercer on the field now

I give shit to Roosters but we couldn't have such great games without them. See you round 1 next year

Do you think the atmosphere in the crowd at our games has gotten darker over the years? Saw a few fans go close to blows

 

[Wb1234]

 

[big hit!]

Disagree.

The style is fine, nothing wrong with good hard footy. Crightons was a technique issue and teddy copped a high shot.

What we need to do is bank a few more points on the first half of season so we don't need to play at 100% for 8 weeks to even make the finals.

play a high risk aggressive style, expect big wins, and expect big losses when another team gives it back in spades

 

[Valheru]

It's super coach Robinson's fault for running out with a full strength team last week in a meaningless match that meant absolutely nothing and losing Manu. He risked everything for zero gain and suffered the consequences. He should have rested Manu, Tedesco and everyone else he could have last week.

Neither team knew there was nothing to play for until after the 24 hour cut off. In hindsight joey should have been cut prior to that and yes teddy and one other could have come out of the side before kick off.

I have a feeling there was some significant pressure on robbo to field a good team with the stadium opening.

At the end if the day we just need to not be in a position to have to win so many games at the end of year to ensure a finals spot. All 3 of our premierships under robbo have featured an end of season down period before ramping back up for finals.

 

[big hit!]

Well, it's hard to score when you have your reserve grade backline on the field.
At least souths can dream for 1 more week until the sharks give them a tickle up.

the roosters were just brought back to the rest of the comp, I.e., politis’ brown paper bags were taken out of the equation.

 

[Valheru]

play a high risk aggressive style, expect big wins, and expect big losses when another team gives it back in spades

That's the point.

Other teams are occasionally going to give it back and that's fine. We had to play like that for 9 weeks total (12 to win the comp) due to the situation we found ourselves in after 2 thirds of the season. You are just never going to be able to maintain that and always come out on top over that long a period so winning 8 was a very good effort. Ideally you would play like that over different 3-4 week periods over the season and then the finals.

Souths have had to do it once and I doubt they get anywhere near as "up" again next week.

 

[big hit!]

Do you honestly think that was good?

Two good teams who only wanted to bash each other? Don’t buy into the Fox League crap…

Oh yeah, let’s get excited about Parra v Penrith

 

[BranVan3000]

Do you think the atmosphere in the crowd at our games has gotten darker over the years? Saw a few fans go close to blows

Definitely. I used to sit with my Roosters mate 10 years ago in the Roosters fan section and you would cop abuse now and then but mostly light hearted, only ever one drongo wanted to escalate it - which was during the "take me now I have seen it all" moment.

Last few years though it feels like some stuff is gonna pop off everywhere. Especially as people leave the stadium

Its all pleasant when you're in a box though

 

[yobbo84]

I've got a feeling there might be a little bit of emotion in this one.

Just a tad

 

[horrie hastings]

Definitely. I used to sit with my Roosters mate 10 years ago in the Roosters fan section and you would cop abuse now and then but mostly light hearted, only ever one drongo wanted to escalate it - which was during the "take me now I have seen it all" moment.

Last few years though it feels like some stuff is gonna pop off everywhere. Especially as people leave the stadium

Its all pleasant when you're in a box though

Yeah, i had a drink at the Cricketers Arms hotel after the game and just as we were leaving two other Roosters supporters walked out behind us and every second word was F or C and this carried on all the way down the street, bloody embarrassing and unwarranted , then when i was buying wine for dinner on Crown St i had a nice friendly chat to a lovely Souths supporter outside the shop. Both experiences were poles apart from what i expected.