Rd20: 3pm Parra v Canberra GAME DAY THREAD @ GIO Stadium 19/7/25

[senior]

Sandon Smith
Possibly Savala on loan
Jonah Pezet
Adam Doueihi
Jake Averillo

All are available.

Ryles doesn’t have time to f**k around next season or he will go by the way of Kearney and rightly so.

Sandon Smith is not it

Savala unavailable

Pezet only available if Hughes re-signs

AD Good stopgap option

Averillo has a year left on his deal but apparently he’s home sick (Best option imo)

 

[JokerEel]

Sandon Smith
Possibly Savala on loan
Jonah Pezet
Adam Doueihi
Jake Averillo

All are available.

Ryles doesn’t have time to f**k around next season or he will go by the way of Kearney and rightly so.

Who is playing 5/8 for the Roosters next year?

I would be knocking on Mitch Woods managers door to see if he wants a gig..

 

[Avenger]

Who is playing 5/8 for the Roosters next year?

I would be knocking on Mitch Woods managers door to see if he wants a gig..

DCE

 

[Delboy]

Sandon Smith
Possibly Savala on loan
Jonah Pezet
Adam Doueihi
Jake Averillo

All are available.

Ryles doesn’t have time to f**k around next season or he will go by the way of Kearney and rightly so.

Jack Gibson said success starts in the front office, not sure how to assess our lot. Been close to inactive for years, lack of talent identification and not sure of ability to sell the club.
If they aren’t targeting those names or similar in consultation with the coach, what is their job description and KPIs.

 

[Eelogical]

And he can take his experiment with him. 8 missed tackles and 2 ineffective. I should have left him on the shit list.

Sounds like you have a case of the green onions.

 

[hindy111]

Kuatoga is a good second rower for mine will play plenty of first grade

He has a good offload and is big. Has slow leg speed but so dont see him busting the line. I reckon his ceiling is an average nrl player.

This was what Balize Talagi was chalking up for us last year - and look at him now in the past month at Panthers.

It's worth persisting with Joash into next season imo, also given that there are absolutely no alternatives out there.

Not in the same class. Blaize could be anything. Joash might become an average 5/8.

 

[JokerEel]

DCE

Forgot about that mad merkin!

 

[Eelogical]

We are a better side in 2026 based soley on

Ionghi
Silva
Tuivati

They'll go up a level. And all 3 at this stage have potential to be top shelf.

Morretti helps a little and had an injury hampered season.


Add Moses who's our best player is going to be massive.

Throw in De bellin and the middle is looking OK.

I'd love to add a 5/8 a strike centre and a gun back rower.
From what I gather we have a good 5/8 and 2nd rower in Flegg. And 2 or 3 promising middles. But who knows if they will step up.

The problem is that Moses is not likely to play for more than half the season based on recent form.

 

[Avenger]

Jack Gibson said success starts in the front office, not sure how to assess our lot. Been close to inactive for years, lack of talent identification and not sure of ability to sell the club.
If they aren’t targeting those names or similar in consultation with the coach, what is their job description and KPIs.

Surely we are looking at a few of them

 

[JokerEel]

Bugger Sloan just lost the game with his bad read in defense

 

[hindy111]

It will be quite interesting watching the development of
Blaize,Galvin and Strange. Right now id say Strange is the best of them bit it's very close. He's just so unpredictable

 

[Soto]

Sandon Smith is not it

Savala unavailable

Pezet only available if Hughes re-signs

AD Good stopgap option

Averillo has a year left on his deal but apparently he’s home sick (Best option imo)

Averillo come on down

 

[Gary Gutful]

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[Gherkin]

DCE

If he doesn’t end up at the roosters we should look at him for a year. Not the ideal combo with Moses but I don’t think we have any better options at the club already and if we don’t have a first grade quality 6 we’re throwing the season away before it begins

 

[Soto]

If the Titans win tomorrow we most likely are last as we copping it up the clacker with no vaso....green poops more than green shoots

 

[eel01s]

I was surprised by Guymer today. Thought he played his best game since his debut. Made some great tackles and nice hands for the first try.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

16 all with Hopgood on. 24 to nil, with him off.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Williams stupid offload lead to raiders going in front.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

It's disappointing losing like that in the second half. I was pleased with their effort till the last period of the second half. Things like giving the ball away so easily in crucial periods is something they need to fix. And Canberra are dangerous around the ruck but gee we looked so lazy at marker, no urgency in defence.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Williams stupid offload lead to raiders going in front.

This.

It wasnt on but he basically popped the ball up instead of passing it. Really poor error.