Central Coast Stadium, Gosford Saturday 1 July 2017 Kick-Off: 3pm 1. Michael Gordon 2. Daniel Tupou 3. Latrell Mitchell 4. Joseph Manu 5. Blake Ferguson 6. Luke Keary 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 9. Jake Friend 10. Dylan Napa 11. Ryan Matterson 12. Mitchell Aubusson 13. Aidan Guerra Interchange: 14. Isaac Liu 15. Zane Tetevano 16. Nat Butcher 17. Connor Watson 18. Kane Evans 19. Mitchell Cornish 20. Chris Smith 22. Victor Radley 1. Valentine Holmes 2. Sosaia Feki 3. Jack Bird 4. Ricky Leutele 5. Gerard Beale 6. James Maloney 7. Chad Townsend 8. Andrew Fifita 9. Fa'amanu Brown 10. Matt Prior 11. Luke Lewis 12. Wade Graham 13. Paul Gallen Interchange: 14. Jayson Bukuya 15. Chris Heighington 16. Kurt Capewell 17. Joseph Paulo 18. Sam Tagataese 19. Jeremy Latimore 20. Jesse Ramien 21. Edrick Lee
Don't be excited for this one, we're a fucking terrible footy team. It's enough to make me believe in a god that we've got this many wins so far with the performances we've delivered. It's simple shit like errors and penalties that are killing us, which you would assume would be quite simple to fix but nothing has been rectified. We've had one game all season where we've put it together and that's when we blew out Canberra in Round 2. I'm predicting another 10 errors before the roosters blow us away in the 50th minute.
I don't have a problem with them blowing penalties for kick blockers who grab or unjustly impede chasers but it has to be equitable. Any chaser who blatantly dives is not only penalised but put in the bin for 10 minutes. I'm not going to sit there and watch them crack down on this shit while Jarryd Hayne is flopping every fucking kick as he did in Origin (and most of his career). There has to be some sort of disincentive for both sides.
Is there a single centre in this match who doesn't want to defend like an arsehole? Interesting game but jeez the defence from both sides has been pus.
We're shot. Too much tackling in the first half, looks like we've got nothing in the tank. Need to get Friendy off quickly for starters.
Only 2 Cronulla forwards have made over 15 tackles and we're 55 minutes in. This has all the signs of a cricket score coming up.
Really poor. Edges too raw and backrow way too lightweight without Cordner and SST. Just got trampled by the better forward pack.