Roosters captain James Tedesco mentioned his facet must “have a good look at ourselves in the mirror” after a 20-6 loss to the Cowboys in Magic Round.
The Roosters produced a gritty win over the Warriors in horrid circumstances in Round 9 however seemed to battle within the rain at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday with the one factors they produced coming within the 78th minute.
Coach Trent Robinson mentioned in his post-match press convention that the circumstances weren’t guilty however agreed with a journalist that the Roosters are taking one step ahead and two steps again.
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“Definitely… We’ve had some good wins and some poor performances,” he mentioned.
“We didn’t outwork them and we didn’t out-enthuse them. When you’re relying on motivation in this game you’re in trouble. You’re going to yoyo from week to week.
“If you’ve got a mindset of playing hard every single week then you’re going to get the right thing in this competition and we’re not there yet.”
Robinson obtained a comply with up query asking how distant the Roosters are, to which he merely mentioned “not sure.”
Tedesco conceded that there was “a lot of frustration” throughout the group round their “inconsistency,” admitting: “We had that tough win last week and then we probably just thought we’d come out and perform the same but we didn’t.”
The veteran fullback additionally addressed the facet’s clunky assault — and put the blowtorch on the star-studded backbone.
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“I just feel like our attack is not anywhere near where it should be with the players we have and the work we’re doing on it,” he mentioned.
“We’re not executing our plays very well and it’s not threatening. It’s quite frustrating and we’re sort of relying on individuals.
“We’re not threatening, we had chances there to score some points and didn’t really look close to be honest.
“We’ve had some changes in our spine, when you look at our spine it’s really strong but I guess it’s on us to run our plays well and execute our plays.
“We just have to keep working at it but it’s Round 10 now and we still haven’t nailed it so we’ve got to have a good look at ourselves in the mirror and work hard at training.
“Have the conversation, we’ve just got to go out and do it, we can’t wait another three or four weeks — it’ll be too late. That’s on us.”
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Robinson made the controversial resolution to drop younger playmaker Sam Walker, shift Luke Keary to halfback and transfer Joey Manu into the halves three weeks in the past.
But he believes the problems in assault don’t have a lot to do with the personnel modifications as a result of all of them know the attacking buildings.
“Our system doesn’t change… It’s still the one we’ve been running for a while so Joey knows it inside out,” he mentioned.
Robinson was requested about how he thought Manu had been going within the No.6 jersey and he mentioned “he’s been OK.”
“I feel like he’s defending well, he’s had some good running performances but we can get better there,” he added.
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