Swearengen🐔

Having been blocked and called a dipshit by him after telling him he had a conflict of interest as a commentator and football manager, this will do kinda nicely as vindication ...

@DCarlin21 Much rather see Radley at lock and keep Wong in the #12.

Hopefully part of the work imposed was how to take a tough carry and be the same footballer he was 2-3 years ago, Siua Wong bout to lose his edge position to a bloke who ran for 50 metres in a final 🤦‍♂️

@Julzk06 @AJLucantonio Does anyone believe he plays at 106 kilos? I reckon Crichton is probably 106 and Whyte closer to 115. Why do the club's player profiles misrepresent?

@AJLucantonio Whyte is another level 🔥

Forward pack numbers Whyte - 15 runs for 170m Collins - 12 runs for 110m Crichton - 17 runs for 178m Wong - 17 runs for 138m Watson - 15 runs for 138m Nat - 19 runs for 211m (YES - THIS IS RIGHT) Foketi - 9 runs for 91 metres Total and UTTER domination! #NRLManlyRoosters

@Shanechooks @CundyBradley It's kinda true, I think. I'm not the biggest Cleary fan but he reminds me a lot of how he plays: great hands, good on his feet, very direct, strong defender, super boot.

@CundyBradley @Chookmania I think the whole side looked better when Hugo was on

Nervous about Billy Smith's injury. Anyone heard anything?

@Krazykroc Mm. Maybe it's Hugo?

@Chookmania Need to find someone other than Jnr for mine.

Still some clunky and dumb sh!t but lots of hard running (10 players @ 100+, 3 @ 200+) and long kick metres (830) are good signs and go hand in hand with vastly improved discipline.

Have thought a bit since watching us get lapped the other night from the concourse, about the Panther's superior intensity and line speed in defence. It occurs that their 11 and 12 both played about 65 mins and ours played 80. Maybe we need to look at our rotations.

@bondiroosters Yep, add it to the list.

@Chookmania Is a 13 link man, who can also make a few tough carries, too much to ask too?

Would like tomorrow night for: Collins to pull his finger out and play as he did against Souths; Robson, now he's blown away the cobwebs, to up our line speed in defence; Crichton and Wong to run some try-scoring lines; Walker to stop whinging and make something happen;

@chadtownsend10 Lachlan Galvin must be playing busted or we otherwise would have seen evidence already of the "ridiculous" increase in speed Roger Fabri says he acquired during the off season.

What’s your biggest take away from Round 3 of the NRL? #NRL

@EastsToWin1994 Saying we play for premierships was initially about winning attitude but has become something of a joke. The truth is, we don't.

Sydney Roosters v Penrith Panthers/Melbourne Storm since 2020 (7 seasons) Not a good look for the Sydney Roosters. A team thats expected to be title contenders each and every year How lopsidingly bad is this?!??

@EastsToWin1994 It's traditionally worth waiting a month to six weeks before making a call on who's who. But it already seems clear enough that the Warriors are looking like a top four side and Penrith like a team to beat. The Chooks might improve a lot along the way but not enough to be either.

Roosters got smacked by the Warriors and Panthers. But perhaps those two teams are far ahead of everyone else because they’ve put scores on the other teams too #NRLKnightsWarriors

@ReadingThePlay Penrith were like Hannibal Lecter tonight: the pulse never got above 85. They've had harder training sessions.

3, 4, 5 years ago you could make too many errors and still dominate and win #nrl if you had the stronger (and or marquee) team list. Roosters and Robbo used to bang on about it all the time. Not now in today’s game. Dominate the error list and 90% of the time you’ll dominate the loss list. First half tonight Roosters 6 Panthers 1

@CundyBradley Penrith are hardly ruthless. They are barely out of first gear. We are that far behind ...

Well we started well. Penrith too ruthless

@EastsToWin1994 Agree. They've won both games on plays where they shouldn't have had the ball.

Bulldogs have gotten pretty lucky in their first 2 games. Referee investigation?#NRLRaidersBulldogs

@EastsToWin1994 So the Panthers are not riding a restart wave but are receiving plenty of penalties. The Roosters are mostly conceding penalties.

NRL's penalty and set restart (combined) count after Round 2 1 game: Bulldogs, Tigers 2 games: The other 15 teams

@Warriorsman92 @mking1090 Jealousy over what? Johnston's record? How have I discredited him in any way? It seems to me you equate his achievement with belittling the Roosters. One has nothing to do with the other. The fact the two sides were playing when it happened means zero.

@Chookmania @mking1090 Seems like jealousy.

I absolutely love that Johnston broke the record tonight, on a night where Souths embarrassed themselves & lost. Epitomises the entire Johnston career and Souths existence post 1971. Pathetic club and another embarrassing night in their putrid modern history. #NRLRoostersSouths

@CundyBradley Exactly what was needed of Collins. Great game. But why not every week?

I was on Lindsay Collins hate watch last week but he was huge tonight. Rob was a defensive beast tonight tho wow