Hello - Daniel here from the Sydney Morning Herald. I wanted to know if anyone was making the trip down to Melbourne this weekend for not only the Swans, but also the Roosters' semi-final against the Storm? Would love to hear from anyone who is - shoot me a message or email me on daniel.losurdo@smh.com.au if you're keen for a chat!

With the roster this coach has had his entire tenure the roosters should have far more minor and premiership wins. A championship team will always beat a team of champions and we have seen it for the last 3 years with Penrith and as long as Craig has been at Melbourne. Robbos record is only good because of the players any other coach with these teams would get the same or better results.

Finally JWH gets time. Uncle Nicks bags are running low

1. James Tedesco Captain

2. brain to'o

3.steph Crichton

4.Joesph Aukuso suaalii

5. Jacob Kiraz

6.Matthew Burton

7. Mitchell Moses

8.Payne Haas

9.Api koroisau

10.Adin Fonua-Blake

11.Angus Crichton

12.Liam Martain

13. Mitch Barnett

14.Wayde Egan

15.Terell May

16.Spencer Leniu

17.Dylan Edwards

18.Ruben Garrick

19.Jacob Preston

20.Damien Cook

That’s the only thing stopping me from getting a modern roosters shirt. I hate gambling companies and think they should be banned from advertising in sport. I might see if I can pick up a jersey from before they were sponsors. Anyone have an idea of where I can find an older roosters shirt or should I just try Facebook marketplace?

Who will take conversions with Walker back in the team?

This is a bit of a vent, but is it just me or is our fan gear getting progressively worse lately? ISC were a bad apparel partner and yet somehow Castor have been worse.

It’s not just them though - the general direction feels wrong… the quality is poor across the board and the stuff that WAS good and worked has been dropped.

I'm particularly thinking of the 47 Brand caps and beanies here - they were simple, used our classic logo, and yet imbued it with quality and detail that our gear hadn't ever seen before (as per the picture). What's more, it looked successful - I used to buy their 'clean up caps' 3 at a time, because I knew they sold out and liked having fresh caps for game day. Now we have New Era, which is generally ok, but in this department their gear looks like a cheap knock off of the 47 Brand ones.

But why can't we have a whole range of apparel in that simple and yet quality category that '47 did with caps?

TBH, apart from the quality of Castor being crap, it's also covered in the sponsors. Personally, I don't want to look like a rally driver when I'm wearing fan gear for my footy team - I want something that can be a bit versatile - and most of my mates are the same.

So if anyone from Roosters HQ is reading this, a request: please re-engage 47 and maybe find a separate provider to make some decent casual fan gear that isn't littered with sponsors. I’m just over all our fan gear costing Hugo Boss prices and delivering Lowe’s level products.

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