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Rd15: Eels v Roosters GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank 18/6/22

hindy111

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Good first half. Excellent tbh. But the 2nd half was ordinary. At home against Roosters without Keary or JWH and lost two players to HIA. I thought we would steam roll them and win 40-16.
Not sure what happened.Maybe conserved energy but a 10 point lead was tense. I reckon one try and everyone's left nervous. I guess it was great to see our defense hold up.

Sivo showed why he is streaks above Russel or Opacic. He was excellent tbh.
Simmonson was ok but needs to do more.
I'd also like to see Penisini and Blake get a little more early ball.

On the Roosters. Suali,Manu and Teddy are basicaly all 1 million dollar players. Manu and Sualli may not be getting it but would if tested the market. I'd be curious to see what they do here. I just don't feel you can have 3 guys costing that who play 1 ,2 and 3. They probably need to move Teddy on soon.

JWH,Keary and Teddy imo will be shipped soon and the squad will be built with Suali and Manu featuring more. And I can see them making a huge splash for Burton. If they moved Critchton on also they'd have about 3.5 mill.
 

lucablight

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Good first half. Excellent tbh. But the 2nd half was ordinary. At home against Roosters without Keary or JWH and lost two players to HIA. I thought we would steam roll them and win 40-16.
Not sure what happened.Maybe conserved energy but a 10 point lead was tense. I reckon one try and everyone's left nervous. I guess it was great to see our defense hold up.

Sivo showed why he is streaks above Russel or Opacic. He was excellent tbh.
Simmonson was ok but needs to do more.
I'd also like to see Penisini and Blake get a little more early ball.

On the Roosters. Suali,Manu and Teddy are basicaly all 1 million dollar players. Manu and Sualli may not be getting it but would if tested the market. I'd be curious to see what they do here. I just don't feel you can have 3 guys costing that who play 1 ,2 and 3. They probably need to move Teddy on soon.

JWH,Keary and Teddy imo will be shipped soon and the squad will be built with Suali and Manu featuring more. And I can see them making a huge splash for Burton. If they moved Critchton on also they'd have about 3.5 mill.
I think a lot of fans have taken Sivo for granted. He adds some much needed penetration to our backline. One thing that has impressed me about Simonsson is that he’s been pretty safe under the high ball so far. There were a couple of kicks to his wing under pressure that could have easily resulted in tries if he hadn’t defused them.
 

Bandwagon

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Good first half. Excellent tbh. But the 2nd half was ordinary. At home against Roosters without Keary or JWH and lost two players to HIA. I thought we would steam roll them and win 40-16.
Not sure what happened.Maybe conserved energy but a 10 point lead was tense. I reckon one try and everyone's left nervous. I guess it was great to see our defense hold up.

Sivo showed why he is streaks above Russel or Opacic. He was excellent tbh.
Simmonson was ok but needs to do more.
I'd also like to see Penisini and Blake get a little more early ball.

On the Roosters. Suali,Manu and Teddy are basicaly all 1 million dollar players. Manu and Sualli may not be getting it but would if tested the market. I'd be curious to see what they do here. I just don't feel you can have 3 guys costing that who play 1 ,2 and 3. They probably need to move Teddy on soon.

JWH,Keary and Teddy imo will be shipped soon and the squad will be built with Suali and Manu featuring more. And I can see them making a huge splash for Burton. If they moved Critchton on also they'd have about 3.5 mill.

Ref allowed the Roosters to slow the PTB down noticeably in the second half, in the first half it was far quicker on average than it's been all year yet NRL.com have our PTB speed as slower than the Roosters over the game.

That's the difference for mine between the two halves, we weren't allowed to keep up the tempo we were playing and had to get into the grind. But for a lucky bounce for the Suaalii kick, which come off the side of boot ffs, we matched and bested them in the yardage game. Which I reckon deserves kudos for adapting to the way the game changed.
 

Bandwagon

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Yeah but Roosters were very brave. Tedesco played with a fractured skull ffs and Hutchinson? Everybody thought that fuc*er was dead!

The Roosters played well, it's not like they had a shocker or anything. That fact alone makes the win sweeter.

We beat them because we we played f**king great, not because they had an off day.

end of/
 

Joshuatheeel

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Was the 2nd try for Roosters a forward pass or not? If not then I was wrong.
If yes then I was right again. My predictions can't nor factor in referees missing blatant forward passes. Had they let ours go and not there it's 32-10
Ha ha no excuses, you were wrong!!
 

golfer

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Ref allowed the Roosters to slow the PTB down noticeably in the second half, in the first half it was far quicker on average than it's been all year yet NRL.com have our PTB speed as slower than the Roosters over the game.

That's the difference for mine between the two halves, we weren't allowed to keep up the tempo we were playing and had to get into the grind. But for a lucky bounce for the Suaalii kick, which come off the side of boot ffs, we matched and bested them in the yardage game. Which I reckon deserves kudos for adapting to the way the game changed.
That is a very good assessment of what happened. The Roosters got every call in the second half including a number of forward passes let go. There second try was definately off a forward pass and was identical to the Matterson one called back.
 

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