PRE-GAME Finals Week 1 - Roosters vs Broncos

[Big Pete]

Discuss

 

[Dee]

If Boyd and Tevita are injured, we lose.

 

[Donald Garner]

This will be Saturday night won't it?

 

[_noosh]

If Boyd and Tevita are injured, we lose.

Yeah, these two are a massive loss.
Boyd's loss can be mitigated by bringing Benji in with his cool head and organising ability.
TPJ's loss is massive considering we're out of blooded props now. Sims injured. Fai injured. We'll have to go with second rowers in Arrow or Su'A.

Our defence was pretty good. I would be a lot happier if we didn't let that last one in.

Hopefully the injuries aren't major.

 

[Spoon]

If Boyd and Tevita are injured, we lose.

Wow could you be more pessimistic? Every post you make is negative.

GO THE BRONCOS

 

[Donald Garner]

Is this game Saturday night.......????

 

[Broncs_Fan]

Our defence was very good considering we did alot of it in the second half.

 

[Dee]

Wow could you be more pessimistic? Every post you make is negative.

GO THE BRONCOS

Not pessimistic mate, but realistic.

Boyd is one of our key players and our captain, we need him playing to win the GF.

 

[mitch222]

This will be Friday night
Melbourne won't play in Melbourne on Friday up against the AFL

 

[Super Freak]

If Boyd is out, we lose. It's as simple as that.

Not only do we lose our organizer in defence, but that pushes Benji into the halves. One thing I noticed when Benji came on, Milford went into his shell.

You can't have that in finals footy.

 

[Donald Garner]

This will be Friday night
Melbourne won't play in Melbourne on Friday up against the AFL

I always thought 2vs3 was Saturday night which is obviously good for us because of our injuries

 

[ZTop]

If Boyd is out, we lose. It's as simple as that.

Not only do we lose our organizer in defence, but that pushes Benji into the halves. One thing I noticed when Benji came on, Milford went into his shell.

You can't have that in finals footy.

I agree with you on that, Milford went into his shell in the 2nd half and didn't appear as much. I was wondering if that is to do with Benji

 

[Danoz Direct]

If Boyd is out, we lose. It's as simple as that.

Not only do we lose our organizer in defence, but that pushes Benji into the halves. One thing I noticed when Benji came on, Milford went into his shell.

You can't have that in finals footy.

To be fair we also didn't have much ball when Benji came on, but agree Milford needs to be the dominant half.

 

[Donald Garner]

I agree with you on that, Milford went into his shell in the 2nd half and didn't appear as much. I was wondering if that is to do with Benji

I don't think we had the ball the second half lol. Milford didn't have any opportunities in the second half

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Boyd will play. The Broncos made it clear his night off was precautionary. Pangai is another matter

 

[Super Freak]

1. Isaako/Kahu
2. Oates
3. Roberts
4. Moga
5. Kahu/Pearson
6. Milford
7. Nikorima
8. Thaiday
9. Hunt
10. Blair
11. Glenn
12. Gillett
13. McGuire

14. Marshall
15. Arrow
16. Ofahengaue
17. Ese'ese

I want to keep Marshall out of the halves. Our best chance of winning is if Milford is taking control as he thrives under that. When he isn't the one taking control, he goes into his shell and he is too inconsistent over the 80 minutes when he does that.

 

[mitch222]

I always thought 2vs3 was Saturday night which is obviously good for us because of our injuries

Two years ago we played the cowboys at 2v3 on Friday night because they didn't want to go near the afl

 

[Super Freak]

Two years ago we played the cowboys at 2v3 on Friday night because they didn't want to go near the afl

It was on Saturday night.

I remember because Roosters vs Storm was the first game and the city traffic was pretty good which is never the case on a Friday night.