Roosters '10

[Captain BF]

Credit where credit is due, the Roosters were awesome on saturday night. They deserve to be sitting where they are on the table. Outplayed Parra in every part of the game.

 

[CMUX]

Lookout, I think you've gotten on the famous Gaba Carousel.

It's a world where nothing is as it seems and Gabas cyclical, ill informed reasoning confuses and frustrates all who enter it.

I had a near death experience on it and live to tell the tale.

I suggest you get off sooner rather than later or risk going insane trying to reason with the one person that is too dense to reason with.

Haha, yes for the sake of my sanity i think i will have to jump off this dizzying carousel

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Really?? I think that is our strength, those wins against souths, broncos and dogs were all against adversity, mainly from the referees and in the case of the broncos game it was mostly our own fault.

I thought those results showed tremendous resolve and an extreme will to win

The amount of young players in the team and players in unfamiliar positions is what concerns me. But mainly its a team by Brian Smith, and his teams are notorious for falling apart when the structures have been broken. They are playing with a similar mentality to us in 01 but with a lot less discipline. A few quick early tries followed up by a strong defensive effort for a few sets, I can see the wheels fall off. There just appears to be no B plan for them.

 

[Tom Ace]

The amount of young players in the team and players in unfamiliar positions is what concerns me. But mainly its a team by Brian Smith, and his teams are notorious for falling apart when the structures have been broken. They are playing with a similar mentality to us in 01 but with a lot less discipline. A few quick early tries followed up by a strong defensive effort for a few sets, I can see the wheels fall off. There just appears to be no B plan for them.

Who, besides Anasta really, is out of position?

Carney was always in the halves until this year for the first 15 or so rounds. Stepping back into the halves has sent his game to another level.

In my eyes, everyone is actually playing the positions they should be.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Anasta is in his correct position. Not many players are out position much less the younger ones.

The amount of young players in the team and players in unfamiliar positions is what concerns me. But mainly its a team by Brian Smith, and his teams are notorious for falling apart when the structures have been broken. They are playing with a similar mentality to us in 01 but with a lot less discipline. A few quick early tries followed up by a strong defensive effort for a few sets, I can see the wheels fall off. There just appears to be no B plan for them.

Take a hankie and wipe the dribble off your mouth.

 

[JJ]

atm they look great... but the best thing is with the cheats gone, the comp is anyone's... pretty much any of the teams that make the 8 "could" win...

 

[Tom Ace]

Anasta is in his correct position. Not many players are out position much less the younger ones.

I agree he's in his best position, but you could make an argument that it's not a familiar one to him after playing 5/8 for 10 years.

 

[dice]

Saints only hope next week against Easts is that Weyman and Fien come back in and start taking us forward, with powerful runs by Weyman, and smart dummy half play by Fien.
Dean Young wouldn't have made much of a difference yesterday I don't think.

I'm worried about what the score might look like next Sunday.

As much as I love the roosters, let's not get carried away. Parra is the only game they have totally dominated which is more a measure of how overrated Parra are IMO. The Broncos made the Roosters look ordinary in the second half, we only just beat Souths, the bulldogs were on top for most of the game.

Roosters are a good team playing with confidence, they are far from certainties on Sunday and I will be very surprised if they put a cricket score on a team that can actually defend.