The alarm bells are ringing for the Roosters after a 48-4 defeat by the hands of the Panthers on Friday evening, with the play of captain James Tedesco coming beneath query.
Arguably possessing top-of-the-line rosters within the competitors, the Tricolours have misplaced 4 of their previous six video games, averaging a meagre 11.66 factors a recreation in that span and now sit outdoors the highest eight.
The Roosters and Australian captain has constantly been one of many standout gamers within the league over the previous six or seven seasons, however clearly hasn’t been near replicating his greatest in 2023.
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Veteran journalist Brent Read says that the Roosters needed to seem for a last-minute Saturday morning coaching session on the again of their disappointing loss.
“Apparently they have been called in this morning, that’s what I’ve been told. You can understand why after how they played last night,” Read mentioned on Triple M.
After a strong first 20 minutes in opposition to the defending champions, the Roosters have been unable to offer a solution to the Panthers from there on in, doing what they happy, scoring eight tries to at least one.
While the microscope will be positioned on numerous underperforming Roosters, Tedesco deserves his share of the blame in accordance with Read.
“They have so many players who aren’t playing well but the one that has gone under the radar a little bit is James Tedesco,” Read mentioned.
“I must say he’s set such a high bar for himself, but I don’t think Teddy has been playing like the Teddy we know and (State of) Origin is around the corner as well.
“It’s hard to find a player in that team who’s actually playing to their standard at the moment. Maybe Lindsay Collins, maybe.”
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Roosters coach Trent Robinson mentioned his aspect acquired “an incredible lesson” in his post-match press convention, inserting the blame on himself.
“You can talk about attack and defence but you can talk about getting the team ready to play and ready to compete and I haven’t done that in the last two weeks,” Robinson mentioned.
“We got bitten pretty hard tonight so that’s on me so I have to make sure I get that right and turn it around pretty quickly.”
Read was additionally perplexed, stating a loss like that’s “unheard of” for a Robinson-coached outfit and that the crew’s new combos aren’t “meshing”.
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“It’s very un-Roosters like the way they are playing at the moment,” Read mentioned.
“They’ve obviously had a training session or meeting this morning so obviously they are doing some soul-searching at the moment.
“Many expected them to win the comp this season because of players they bought in like Brandon Smith but the chemistry doesn’t seem to have worked.
“Brandon hasn’t seemed to mesh with some of those other players.”
Robinson made a shock change to his halves a month in the past when he dropped halfback Sam Walker, as an alternative preferring standard centre Joey Manu and Luke Keary as his halves pairing.
Walker is now anticipated to overlook just a few weeks as a result of a knee damage however there might be many in Bondi clamouring for his return when he’s wholesome if the Roosters can’t flip issues round within the interim.
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