Why Panthers\u2019 win could make title bid harder in jostle for spots<\/a><\/p>\nJames Tedesco and Trent Robinson.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually the intuitive player doesn\u2019t want to work, don\u2019t touch me, let me just let me do my thing, where as Ted does all the work, works harder than anybody else, runs the system, believes in it, drives it. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut then has the ability to move to the intuition and freedom on the back of it. It\u2019s an incredible balance to do both.\u201d <\/p>\n
Tedesco preferred to deflect praise to his teammates for his form, but admitted he has done the work for those plays to come off. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s changed too much for myself, I\u2019m always looking to improve and get better, but it\u2019s just about combinations and connections with the team, with my edges,\u201d Tedesco said. \u201cI feel like on that right side with Hugo and Bobby and Mark, we\u2019ve just got a great connection at the moment. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re practising our plays every day of training, and then on the field as well. We\u2019re just putting that practice into execution, our plays where we need to be, our skills, and then we\u2019re going out and trusting that and playing footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I don\u2019t think my game\u2019s really never wavered too much over my career, but I\u2019m always looking to improve on every aspect really. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then again, the guys in and around me, the guys in this team have been playing awesome footy and that allows me to be at my best.\u201d <\/p>\n
After scoring four tries last week Nawaqanitawase backed it up with a hat-trick against Souths to take his tally to 24 tries from 23 appearances to lead the NRL in 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s surprising him scoring the tries, we sort of saw that, his ability, their combination and being able to score those,\u201d Robinson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been his desire to pick up the whole game of rugby league. I mean, rugby league people I like to think we\u2019re unique and we\u2019re tougher than the other sport and all of that. <\/p>\n
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\u201cBut I mean, this guy has come across and it\u2019s a credit to him. There\u2019s some things that we can learn from the freedom of their play. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if any of them want any other ones want to come over, then they\u2019re more than welcome because I do think we get to exhibit the skills that they get to practice sometimes a bit more. \u201cBut he\u2019s been able to do the attrition part and then he\u2019s been able to do the freedom part.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Roosters started the season slowly, with plenty of experts writing their chances off, but in this form, they are a real dark horse for the title. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think a couple of people thought we could do something this year and we\u2019re improving,\u201d Robinson said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWe haven\u2019t got to the top of the mountain yet on where we want to go. I feel like we\u2019re physically in good shape. We know our style. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve said often that we\u2019re searching for our style this year. We know our style and now we\u2019re continuing to improve on that. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe keep talking about improvements. We\u2019re not trying to hold on to anything. We are putting the foot down and we\u2019re trying to get to our best footy this year.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Robinson paid tribute to skipper James Tedesco and Mark Nawaqanitawase after the pair blitzed the Rabbitohs to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47898,63,689,86846,4591,5334,86848,50709,86845,43,4415,4580,27146,86571,4746,44,677,86847,159,7623,8088,28060,4439,1080,11375,73582,41,39,42,40,4737,7619,1651],"class_list":["post-123472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-answer-critics","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-combination-plays","tag-dylan-edwards","tag-finals-berth","tag-finals-fixtures","tag-finals-scenarios","tag-freedom-part","tag-headlines","tag-james-tedesco","tag-jamie-humphreys","tag-linebreak-assists","tag-man-clean-out","tag-mark-st-john","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-real-dark","tag-rugby-league","tag-run-metres","tag-sin-bin","tag-siua-wong","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sydney-roosters","tag-tackle-busts","tag-title-bid","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trent-robinson","tag-try-assist","tag-wayne-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}