This time last year, the Roosters couldn’t score for 79 minutes, and never looked like scoring either. Now the NRL’s most scrutinised attack has left the rest of the competition for dead.
This time 12 months ago, the Roosters took on the Cowboys and couldn’t score - never looked like scoring either -On Sunday, arguably the most analysed and scrutinised attack in the NRL takes on the Cowboys again.
He dubiously insists it is the Roosters’ lucky charm. But it is a pointer to his own maturing as a playmaker along with an emerging influence in the red, white and blue - where the likes of Connor Watson, Terrell May, Spencer Leniu and Angus Crichton have helped lift Trent Robinson’s side. “It feels like for a long time we’ve hurt ourselves with errors and field position too. Attack gets pretty hard when you’re defending your line or coming off it all the time.
In the days after that Magic Round mess last year, when only a Crichton try in the last minute saved the Roosters from being held scoreless, skipper James Tedesco was equal parts bewildered by, and scathing of,A year later, the Roosters’ 53.91 support plays each game, according to NRL.com, rank second only to Canterbury .
He and Brandon Smith have both thrived in their switched up roles that can be tweaked accordingly based on opposition and conditions.
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