I had to leave 20 mins before the end of the game. But what I did see was dire.
It's hard to draw any positives from a 64-6 flogging. If I was being charitable, I'd say Miller and Naden tried hard. Naden was doing most of the playmaking with Bud AWOL. Bu like the rest of the team, Naden was clueless in the redzone. Every play was a dummy haf effort, crash ball to Miller or backline sweep at half pace.
Mason and Tavana dropped a few bombs. In Tavana's defence, he would've been hesitant after being tackled mid-air twice.
Mougios, the new winger was slow and unfit. I felt sorry for him because he was clearly out of his depth.
Feledy was mostly unsighted. He didn't even look threatening close to the line as he usually does.
Casey is just an awful player. I can't stress that enough. He is only known as a defensive centre because his attack is so poor. But he also makes a lot of costly misses in defence.
Broerderlow and Tapisale have shown some promise this year but they were well off the pace today, especially Broerderlow who missed a heap of tackles. The Roosters also targeted Hodges who was poor on both sides of the ball. The number of passes from dummy half that hit the ground was frightening.
Our front row rotation of Aho, Laulilii and Sukkar were monstered by the Roosters' more physical pack. It's very concerning that Laulilii and Sukkar are in our top 30 next season. Laulilii has gone backwards at a rate of knots this year and I honestly don't know what the club sees in Sukkar. Perhaps it's his size because he hasn't done anything to deserve an NRL contract. The same could be said about Tumeth and Matamua, though at least they were star juniors.
Score line was terrible. Team structure Definitely needs changes.
Sukkar was solid for his minutes played. Had a few solid hit ups with some hospital passes and in defence he rattled the Rosters big front rower and they had to take him off.
Sukkar is more of a second row edge player and very good in defence which is what was needed yesterday. The Rooster run a muck on our edges all day.
Feledy needs to be given the ball especially in the oppositions half. Every time it looked like something was on, they sent the ball the other way.
Too many missed and dropped balls from Mason and that put a lot of pressure on our forwards having to run back and get into the defensive line. Just sucks the energy out of the big boys.
I feel for Naden, he plays hard every week and because he is one of the older boys in the team he is trying to do a lot more then he should to fill the gaps and carry the team.
Broerderlow is not Ready for NSW Cup, he needs to go back to Flegg and gain more confidence. It would be good for him especially if they make the finals in Flegg.
Tapisale needs to work on his defensive work and needs to get more involved in attack.
Our wingers had no idea! They kept running in to defend creating overlaps instead of marking their man.
Our half needs to attack the opposition line straight and quickly get the ball out the back. They kept running sideways for an easy read of play by the opposition.
It will be a busy and interesting week for the coach to deconstruct the game and do his review but if we get the same line up again with same players in same positions then it will be ground hog day again next week fokes!!!