NRL Round 7 - Roosters Vs Knights - 2:00pm Sunday, 19th April - Allianz Stadium

bremsstrahlung said:
We just couldn’t wrestle back momentum and get some decent possession.

I don’t really think Roosters deserved that scoreline. I’m stopping just short of saying they didn’t deserve that win, also. Largely due to our second half effort. I don’t think the Roosters did anything special. Aside from some well executed kicks leading to tries, I think we held them out reasonably well. DCE and Robson lucky we don't care about forward passes anymore. Lots of line balls with a few inching forward.

From a club/long term perspective, it’s exciting to put up that kind of performance with Ponga, Best, Frizz, Lucas all out. Manuleleua getting a start, Hopwood and Hola getting minutes.

From a short term, game itself perspective it was a disappointing second half effort in a game we earned every right to win.

Couple of moments that could have gone our way, and changed things a little bit.

Hunt excellent. Even if that was a ceiling performance (still plenty to improve), I think he gets first dibs at Gagai’s spot.

Manuleleua did well. Some great breaks/runs.

One of Mooney’s better games.

It’s been mentioned a bit but Sharpe was not at his best today. Curious if there’s a bit of a niggle or if it’s a lack of confidence in that knee. Unless he can get his spark back, I think it’s him that makes way for Ponga. To give him some time to get himself right.

I’m gutted that they had some some flukey plays to get back into the game. If they put together something we couldn’t defend, fair play, like those kicks and Rugby union-esque passes mid air. Hats off to them. But that free ball on our try line…

Manuleleua couldn’ve jumped on it. But he’s travelling toward our try line and can see Sharpe there. So decides to shoulder ?Butcher off the ball instead.
Idk if Sharpe copped a horrible bounce, or saw Manuleleua steaming towards him but didn’t put his body on the ball there.
Graham aware he was offside (wasnt aware he was downtown) and didn’t wanna touch it.

In the context of the game, I can see why nobody wanted that ball. They all were odds on to concede another set. But, I kind of think your first instinct needs to be BALL. If we have it, they can’t score.

Anyway. TLDR; I don’t think we went in expecting a win there. But with some great performances, it was very much our game to lose at one point. A bit of disappointment that we let that get away from us.

Edit: Oops, this was long. Sorry.
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Excellent post.
 
bremsstrahlung said:
We just couldn’t wrestle back momentum and get some decent possession.

I don’t really think Roosters deserved that scoreline. I’m stopping just short of saying they didn’t deserve that win, also. Largely due to our second half effort. I don’t think the Roosters did anything special. Aside from some well executed kicks leading to tries, I think we held them out reasonably well. DCE and Robson lucky we don't care about forward passes anymore. Lots of line balls with a few inching forward.

From a club/long term perspective, it’s exciting to put up that kind of performance with Ponga, Best, Frizz, Lucas all out. Manuleleua getting a start, Hopwood and Hola getting minutes.

From a short term, game itself perspective it was a disappointing second half effort in a game we earned every right to win.

Couple of moments that could have gone our way, and changed things a little bit.

Hunt excellent. Even if that was a ceiling performance (still plenty to improve), I think he gets first dibs at Gagai’s spot.

Manuleleua did well. Some great breaks/runs.

One of Mooney’s better games.

It’s been mentioned a bit but Sharpe was not at his best today. Curious if there’s a bit of a niggle or if it’s a lack of confidence in that knee. Unless he can get his spark back, I think it’s him that makes way for Ponga. To give him some time to get himself right.

I’m gutted that they had some some flukey plays to get back into the game. If they put together something we couldn’t defend, fair play, like those kicks and Rugby union-esque passes mid air. Hats off to them. But that free ball on our try line…

Manuleleua couldn’ve jumped on it. But he’s travelling toward our try line and can see Sharpe there. So decides to shoulder ?Butcher off the ball instead.
Idk if Sharpe copped a horrible bounce, or saw Manuleleua steaming towards him but didn’t put his body on the ball there.
Graham aware he was offside (wasnt aware he was downtown) and didn’t wanna touch it.

In the context of the game, I can see why nobody wanted that ball. They all were odds on to concede another set. But, I kind of think your first instinct needs to be BALL. If we have it, they can’t score.

Anyway. TLDR; I don’t think we went in expecting a win there. But with some great performances, it was very much our game to lose at one point. A bit of disappointment that we let that get away from us.

Edit: Oops, this was long. Sorry.
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Pretty short IMO
 
Still don’t think we are getting enough minutes out of our bench.
Graham 33 mins (included Marzhews HIA 8 mins), Saulo 22 mins, Hopwood 18 mins and Hola 13 mins.
Keeping in mind that Crossland, Manu and McEwen played full 80 yet our 4 man bench played a total of 86 mins
 
Frank McWilliams said:
Still don’t think we are getting enough minutes out of our bench.
Graham 33 mins (included Marzhews HIA 8 mins), Saulo 22 mins, Hopwood 18 mins and Hola 13 mins.
Keeping in mind that Crossland, Manu and McEwen played full 80 yet our 4 man bench played a total of 86 mins
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Yep something Holbrook needs to fix, he used the bench pretty well early in the year but lately he has struggled to use it effectively, but this is the same coach that picks Cant religiously despite others that can offer more like we saw from Manu.

Hola can play more he has done it at the NRL level before, Hopwood in that game did look like he could do more minutes, first game no but against the Roosters I think he could have done more but was pulled.

Saulo, I flat out don’t like and am extremely disappointed in him.

It’s up to Holbrook to figure this out and do it better, if he doesn’t trust those players pick others, all in all the bench works fully comes down to the coach
 
KPGreatness said:
Yep something Holbrook needs to fix, he used the bench pretty well early in the year but lately he has struggled to use it effectively, but this is the same coach that picks Cant religiously despite others that can offer more like we saw from Manu.

Hola can play more he has done it at the NRL level before, Hopwood in that game did look like he could do more minutes, first game no but against the Roosters I think he could have done more but was pulled.

Saulo, I flat out don’t like and am extremely disappointed in him.

It’s up to Holbrook to figure this out and do it better, if he doesn’t trust those players pick others, all in all the bench works fully comes down to the coach
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Saulo has been solid I think. He’s just playing limited minutes.
 
Cody Hopwood got 27 fantasy points in 18 minutes. He had 8 runs in 18 minutes and Jacob Saifiti had 9 runs in 66 minutes. Hopwood did 14 tackles with 0 missed as well, and did 2 good offloads. Our entire forward pack had 3 offloads, (Mooney had 1) so Hopwood did twice as many as the rest of the forwards combined.
Playing against kids his own age, he'll play full minutes and do 10 or more quality offloads a game.
 
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