A great quartet of games with everything a sports fan could wish for. Enough introduction-let’s tear up your topics of conversation.
What a game between roosters and rabbits. A record of seven sinbins (including four from two players), five HIAs (three misses), barely a tackle under the neck and a real aggression between two teams who do not like each other.
With so much going on, the strangest number of attempts (five out of eight) was the team that had the numerical disadvantage, especially the rabbits, who recovered from it when they had only 11.
The Roosters were standing with their backs to the wall the whole time when Victor Radley couldn’t help but get stuck for a punch, and things got worse from there. If they had managed to get a win, they would have suffered all sorts of injuries and suspensions, not that South Sydney wouldn’t have those worries about Cronulla.
Of all the headshots, it was still Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker who stood up and led their camp through the storm (a salute also to Campbell Graham).
With these two shots, the Southerners are capable of anything.
I noticed that a lot of people are Ash Small and bagging the bunker because they “lost control of the game” on Sunday. Garbage. Let’s be 100% clear – the lack of discipline and the lack of football was entirely the responsibility of the players. The only thing that could have been done better was to send Tom Burgess for his high punch that ended James Tedesco’s afternoon.
Everyone is preparing for sanctions
Michael Chammas tried to convince Roosters coach Trent Robinson to keep the players in the penalty shootout, but forget about Sunday-the weekend was already full of flops, dives, dummy injuries and balls that were too slow to bring the referee or bunker to a favorable decision.
Melbourne and Canberra both delivered a logie-worthy performance, with players Parramatta and Penrith taking their time to play the ball. Every game you’ve seen has been there. Every team does it, your team does it. And every team will continue to do so, as there is so much at stake.