2022 R25 Fri - Sydney 26-16 South Sydney @ Allianz

[yobbo84]

Lol good luck with that

 

[Stinkfinger]

JWH to grub it up and only get fined again!

Both teams will manage players mins now

If I were the Chicken King, I would tell JWH to stay home for this one. Teddy too. All that is at stake is the right to pick the venue for next week. As such I think Souffs will win this and force the Chooks to travel to the ends of the Earth (Homebush), with Chooks to reverse that result next week.

 

[big hit!]

Wise decision

Can't risk him with that thug Latrell on the loose in what ultimately is a meaningless game.

Do the Roosters want to christen this stadium with a loss?

 

[Reflector]

In one of the all time great meltdowns...

Petty Roosters move a low blow in bitter feud

'The latte sippers have used their influence'

wwos.nine.com.au

Do yourselves a favour and read this article, there are some crackers in there.

Mark's one of those Souths fans rocking up to the game in his Land Rover, making sure to clear the traces of adult Wizz Fizz off the centre console before leaving it in the Valet Parking section and wrapping the Bunnies scarf from the parcel shelf around his neck while he and his buddies straighten their blazers, babbling on about how Easts will never understand what it means to be "The People's Team"...

...Before getting cussed out and told to f**k off home with the other derros by Dayle, a lifelong Roosters fan who free-rode the train in from Mt Druitt and (win or lose) is 100% going to smash the glass barbie when he gets home and cracks open his 8th Woodstock Bourbon & Cola for the evening.

 

[Valheru]

Do the Roosters want to christen this stadium with a loss?

I would rather win next week than this week. Winning both would be nice but if given the choice...

 

[Captain Apollo]

In one of the all time great meltdowns...

Petty Roosters move a low blow in bitter feud

'The latte sippers have used their influence'

wwos.nine.com.au

Do yourselves a favour and read this article, there are some crackers in there.

I was watching a Channel 9 podcast yesterday, and Brad Fittler's response to the Souths captains run request for Round 25 was "When does this happen anywhere else in the NRL? It never does".

Only time the opposition gets access to an "away" ground for a training run, as far as I'm aware, is in the finals series.

I mean did the Wests Tigers get to have a "Captain's run" back in 2019 at Commbank stadium before they were hosted by the Parramatta Eels on 22 April 2019? I'll bet they didn't.

Further more, the "its publicly built ground and should be accessible to all" didn't help the Hunter Mariners when they tried to gain access to play games at (the named) Marathon in 1996 and 1997. The Newcastle Knights had a lease agreement with the ground's management which gave them exclusive access to the ground, and when the Mariners took the Trust to court over it the Mariners lost. Lasty time I looked, Souths don't have a lease agreement to use Allianz Stadium whereas the Roosters, Waratahs and Sydney FC do (along with the ARU and the FA too I'd suspect). Hence with the NRL, ARU and FA using the ground in very close succession today, tomorrow and Tuesday next week, pray tell why anyone would think a non-tennant could access it for a one off training run as if they have a "god given" right to do so?

It is one of the biggest furphy's of an argument ever raised.

 

[yobbo84]

LOL at all the people who took that "request" seriously

It's all theatre

 

[big hit!]

I mean did the Wests Tigers get to have a "Captain's run" back in 2019 at Commbank stadium before they were hosted by the Parramatta Eels on 22 April 2019? I'll bet they didn't.

How much are you willing to put up?

Look at the end of the day, it's another venue with a playing field marked 116m in length x 68m wide. Doing a captains run in an empty stadium wont provide any benefits when there are 42.5k screaming mad supporters in there.

It's imperative the Roosters stamp their authority on the joint like Parra did to Wests a few seasons back when the Tigers were going on about how WSS was their home too before the opening match. Parra have made that joint a fortress.

Roosters fans can downplay tonight as much as they want, but winning tonight and winning well is a shitload more important to them than it is to Souths. If Souths win, they get initial bragging rights over the joint, and then get to play the final at Olympic Park.

 

[yobbo84]

We played each other in the final round of 2019. Souths won, but Sam Burgess copped a suspension for pulling Billy Smith's hair. JWH then went on to dominate us the next week in the final.

Without our forward leader, and the Wayne Bennett masterstroke of playing Adam Doueihi on the wing where he got found out multiple times, lead to our demise.

Tonight, outside of d**k swinging is absolutely meaningless. If JD puts the call in to rest Latrell he goes up levels in my estimation.

All I want out of tonight is a decent hit-out. No trick shots, no practice defending our shapes, none of that. Save it for next week.

 

[Sans Souci Saint]

I'm actually really excited to see a nice full stadium. Looks amazing. Watching Sports Sunday yesterday where they showed a brief promo and I was shocked to see Fitzsimmons talking it up. A man of real conviction that one.

 

[Fangs]

6.00pm actors should pack it in and get the real footballers on the field.

 

[Tipster]

Key players from both teams are playing. Interesting

 

[skeepe]

What creative way can Latrell rule himself out of the finals this year? Can’t wait to find out!

 

[Valheru]

At the stadium... absolutely phenomenal venue!

 

[SDM]

This game has anti-climax written all over it.

 

[This Year?]

Souths to put 50 on the Roosters then get their season ended a week later.
Stick that in your scrapbook Rusty.

 

[Someone2]

Verrills FTS

 

[hineyrulz]

Lol Shartway Drive.

 

[This Year?]

It just had to be Dan didn't it?

 

[skeepe]

Haha that clip of Ashley Klein in the Fox promo for this game looks exactly like Munch’s Scream