Trial vs Roosters @Gosford

[Joel-22]

Brailey, Watson, Hunt, Gehamat all good

Fitzgibbon shit

 

[Silent Knight]

Herman the smooth operator.

We need to keep him.

 

[Frederick]

Shibasaki > ramien

No doubt about it

 

[mozza91]

Undefeated premiers?

 

[Joel-22]

Round 1 team
1. Kalyn Ponga
2. Edrick Lee
3. Enari Tuala
4. Gehamat Shibasaki
5. Hymel Hunt,
6. Tex Hoy
7. Mitchell Pearce
8. David Klemmer
9. Jayden Brailey
10. Daniel Saifiti
11. Aidan Guerra
12. Mitch Barnett
13. Herman Ese'ese

14. Connor Watson
15. Jacob Saifiti
16. Tim Glasby
17. Lachlan Fitzgibbon

 

[mozza91]

Been on the piss since 10am amd couldn’t watch. How did Mann go?

 

[slotmachine]

No worse than Pearce

 

[slotmachine]

I don't know how to deal with a centre that knows what they're doing in defence. Strange.

 

[Spot On]

No worse than Pearce

Geezuz.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

I thought Mann looked better than previously.
Watson suited a kind of rover position. His running game was allowed to flow.
I liked Barnett out wide on the right.
Backs went exceptionally well. Brailey will be an asset.
JSaf is bound to be in the 17.

 

[mozza91]

I don't know how to deal with a centre that knows what they're doing in defence. Strange.

Shiba or Tuala?

 

[mozza91]

No worse than Pearce

Is that bad or good?

 

[Knight Vision]

An old Guerra is better than Fitz, for a big man he is a lazy plod

No way known to Mann is he our 5/8 solution ...dito Lino.....Crosslands will be there once fit.

Shibazaki looks the goods

Jsaf is lean and keen

Barny is going to have a huge year

Bailey is a good pick up

Watson off the bench adds so much to the side

The Watson Bailey 1-2 coming off a quick play the ball is jizz worthy

 

[Lynoman]

It's Brailey KV, not Bailey. lol

 

[Yosh]

As a team, very professional performance. We've been a lot of things over the past decade but professional wasn't one of them.

The Team could have easily come and played half arsed and won it 30-18 and let the baby Roosters just have an easy time. However, we put them to the sword. Not just tries but every run up, every kick chase, every tackle, every set for the whole 80. Regardless of who was on the pitch. Really impressive.

I hope we continue to develop as a team that win or lose put in a professional performance 80 minutes every week.

 

[aqua_duck]

Not surprising that Shibasaki looks good defensively as I've heard a few Broncos fans including those who don't rate him list defence as his biggest strength, the criticism is he's not much chop in attack.

 

[Yosh]

Not surprising that Shibasaki looks good defensively as I've heard a few Broncos fans including those who don't rate him list defence as his biggest strength, the criticism is he's not much chop in attack.

He scored two good tries no? Maybe he was just in a cap system? Seemed to run a great line and had great hands to catch it behind his back to score.

 

[slotmachine]

Is that bad or good?

Bad.

Shiba or Tuala?

Both, but Shiba especially.

 

[Spot On]

Roosters should have scored at least twice (maybe more) in the opening 20 mins or so. Broke our line 5 times (4 on Mann's side) and they looked the better team up until we finally got a repeat set around the 25 min mark.

Still a lot of work to do for us.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

The 0 score from them was more pleasing than the 58 we scored. We’ve known for a while that we can score points but it’s always been out leaky defence that gets us into trouble.

Obviously putting it into context we were playing against the roosters’ reserve grade side so not making any bold predictions off the back of that but at least we put them away like a decent side should.

I’ve only watched the highlights but people are talking about our centres playing well which is a good sign.