Round 25 v Canberra

[Fangs]

On today the roosters flog us Kenny back will help but Cleary is a must

It might sound like a cop out to some but for me it's false equivalence.

We didn't prepare to play the Roosters. We went on a crap road trip to Canberra with an injured team hoping to scrap two points. And we almost did that outside of Luai's brain fade.

We don't play with so much width today if it's the Roosters. And we play them in Sydney, in a finals match. That's the likely scenario. I can't read into today's game and think about how the Roosters would handle it.

 

[Chins get the wins]

Why the fk are we offloading the ball around so much coming out of our own end. So many times we either lost metres or made none

Because our attack has nothing if we don't. It's that or Yeo setting something up, we have nothing else

 

[unKwn]

Roosters are bums. We'll beat them week one

Playing like how we’ve been playing last 2 months. No chance

 

[Girds89]

Well heres hoping the dragons and titans have huge games this weekend and get the win.

 

[Black Diamond]

Discipline is more than just giving away penalties (although that is a big part of it). Throwing dumb passes, not having patience.

I think we will win the comp.

Are you taking the piss with that last paragraph?

 

[Girds89]

We need our best 17 on the park to be any chance.

 

[Iamback]

That isn't going to happen and you know that.

We are finishing top 4. The priority is avoiding a road trip to Melbourne. I don't care where we play in Sydney we win any of those games.

You trust us to certainly put both teams away?

I don't trust the team

 

[betcats]

Raiders got penalised a lot and we still have Yeo who eats PCM for breakfast. Looking at their contact, effort and body language screams they aren't mentally on.

down on form definitely but I didn’t see a lack of effort costing us that game. Just a lack of execution.

 

[unKwn]

Because our attack has nothing if we don't. It's that or Yeo setting something up, we have nothing else

Getting down the field isn’t our issue. The early spreads in our end are fine. It’s when Bizza would take a hit up and offload the ball out the back to no one that confuses me

 

[Fangs]

exactly i think there’s some serious overections going on here. We are down on form no doubt I’d say we are at 65-70 percent right now. 2nd place finish is still entrirely possible even in our current form. Obviously it needs to improve if we want to do anything in the finals.

Yes.

Put it this way, if there were genuinely great teams I'd be worried.

The other contenders simply aren't that good. If the Broncos of 2023 were playing I'd say we will lose the premiership. Instead we have a bang average Storm team and a Roosters side that looks better in attack but is still ill disciplined and couldn't beat us down troops earlier this year. It was a carbon copy of previous Roosters games.

It's 2024 we should react accordingly. We aren't playing that well but with Cleary it's still the team to beat.

 

[WestyLife]

down on form definitely but I didn’t see a lack of effort costing us that game. Just a lack of execution.

Maybe you're right there's a lot of interpretation from me but looking at them they don't look happy to be there at all. Laurie was downright miserable and almost needed a welfare check after having a try confirmed.

 

[Chins get the wins]

I can't get my head around how bad Luai was. An abortion of a performance

 

[The Realist]

I don’t get the idea that the efforts not there. We dominated field position and possession that whole second half. Forwards did what they had to do. Even the backs were solid besides Laurie’s errors. The spine just didn’t get it done.

Yep and that's on the coach and Luai. Fox were talking all game about how great Luai was but even BEFORE the intercept he was poor considering all the possession and field possession we had. Putting a few good grubbers through and getting some repeat sets is not the entirety of the halfbacks job.

I feel so sorry for Yeo. Best player on the ground by a mile 2 games in a row and put in huge efforts but the spastics around him couldn't do their jobs properly.

 

[Panther Mike]

Unfortunately, this is now officially our worst regular season in the 2020's with the 7th loss today. Historically I have been more than happy being in this kind of position with 2 rounds to go if it weren't for the fact that we'd won the last 3 premierships, and any loss seems to be a crisis now.

We might have to lower our expectations as well. Our squad has been stretched this season and the short comings have been exposed with some pretty average players getting more game time. If we make even 4th under those circumstances, it's a good result.

 

[Iamback]

Roosters are bums. We'll beat them week one

We are going to Melbourne. Sharks won't drop a game

 

[WestyLife]

I can't get my head around how bad Luai was. An abortion of a performance

This is what I'm saying. I'd back Luai to ice that I rate him. What the hell happened to them? If I'm wrong and they are mentally there what was it?

 

[unKwn]

Yes.

Put it this way, if there were genuinely great teams I'd be worried.

The other contenders simply aren't that good. If the Broncos of 2023 were playing I'd say we will lose the premiership. Instead we have a bang average Storm team and a Roosters side that looks better in attack but is still ill disciplined and couldn't beat us down troops earlier this year. It was a carbon copy of previous Roosters games.

It's 2024 we should react accordingly. We aren't playing that well but with Cleary it's still the team to beat.

That’s with our full team but if Clearys shoulder goes at any point during the finals we are so fkd

 

[Iamback]

I’m as disappointed as anyone, but all of this talk about the season being over is OTT. The big issue for me is discipline, and if we can fix that up I am confident we will still win the comp.

We haven't played 3 good games all year. Let alone 3 in a row

 

[Chins get the wins]

We are going to Melbourne. Sharks won't drop a game

Sharks are bog average. I wouldn't back them to beat anyone

 

[Michael Matral]

I hope we fire up next week to begin our finals charge..lots of upsets at the moment so no panic required yet.just some team position tweaks needed. Nobody looks formidable at the moment..Storm deserve favouritism at this stage though