Valheru
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Sigh.... this game was just the perfect example of the 2023 roosters.
Despite what the cookers on the roosters facebook page will tell you, this was a decent performance. I thought we played very well in the first half and TBH were a 2 try better team than them in that period. The forwards made yards, our defence was quick and storng and we poked wholes in their defence but found ourselves 6-4 down at halftime. Because confidence is at an all time low, from there as soon as storm got a sniff in the 2nd half they went bang bang bang and the game was over.
I've said it before and i'll it again, defence is not the issue with this team. Overall it has been acceptable but ultimately it will always fail because we cannot score points. To prove my point, our defence is in the same ball park as Souths, Parra, Sharks and Raiders who are all in the top 8 but we have scored 200 less points than those teams. We know we can't score points, the opposition knows we can't score points and against the good teams we inevitably capitulate in the 2nd half when the opposition scores against the run of play. Against non top teams we find ourselves in low scoring battles and sometimes we win and others we don't. I have seen enough though in the last 3 games to believe things will turn around next season, the defensive pieces are there and hopefully after a proper off season we will be rejuvenated in attack. I am also very bullish about the Young and Leniu purchases which I think will do us a world of good.
Luck has also abandoned us which tends to happen when you go through these periods and confidence is low. We seem to have these good first halves and the opposition always seem to get a lucky try. This week it was an intercept, last week also an intercept, against raiders it was a kick that bounced sideways in to a raider's arms, knights it was that ricochet of a shit kick. We aren't getting any of that go our way at the moment.
On this game specifically, there is not too much I can criticise TBH, they put in and tried their best we just don't have what it takes to beat a side like Melbourne in 2023. I'm not going to bag young Sandon, that pass was there and Coates just happened to make a play. Radley tried a few short plays which didn't work but hey at least they are trying something which may come off against other teams.
If we play like we did the last 2 weeks we are good things to beat the titans and pretty comfortably IMO
3 Toops
2 Manu
1 N Butcher
A huge congratulations to Toops for equaling Mini as the club's all time try scoring leader.
Despite what the cookers on the roosters facebook page will tell you, this was a decent performance. I thought we played very well in the first half and TBH were a 2 try better team than them in that period. The forwards made yards, our defence was quick and storng and we poked wholes in their defence but found ourselves 6-4 down at halftime. Because confidence is at an all time low, from there as soon as storm got a sniff in the 2nd half they went bang bang bang and the game was over.
I've said it before and i'll it again, defence is not the issue with this team. Overall it has been acceptable but ultimately it will always fail because we cannot score points. To prove my point, our defence is in the same ball park as Souths, Parra, Sharks and Raiders who are all in the top 8 but we have scored 200 less points than those teams. We know we can't score points, the opposition knows we can't score points and against the good teams we inevitably capitulate in the 2nd half when the opposition scores against the run of play. Against non top teams we find ourselves in low scoring battles and sometimes we win and others we don't. I have seen enough though in the last 3 games to believe things will turn around next season, the defensive pieces are there and hopefully after a proper off season we will be rejuvenated in attack. I am also very bullish about the Young and Leniu purchases which I think will do us a world of good.
Luck has also abandoned us which tends to happen when you go through these periods and confidence is low. We seem to have these good first halves and the opposition always seem to get a lucky try. This week it was an intercept, last week also an intercept, against raiders it was a kick that bounced sideways in to a raider's arms, knights it was that ricochet of a shit kick. We aren't getting any of that go our way at the moment.
On this game specifically, there is not too much I can criticise TBH, they put in and tried their best we just don't have what it takes to beat a side like Melbourne in 2023. I'm not going to bag young Sandon, that pass was there and Coates just happened to make a play. Radley tried a few short plays which didn't work but hey at least they are trying something which may come off against other teams.
If we play like we did the last 2 weeks we are good things to beat the titans and pretty comfortably IMO
3 Toops
2 Manu
1 N Butcher
A huge congratulations to Toops for equaling Mini as the club's all time try scoring leader.
