But, after just three rounds, the Tricolours have already come under heavy scrutiny after leaking 40-points in two of their opening three matches.<\/p>\n
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Their most recent performance occurred on Friday evening against the Penrith Panthers in which they struggled to contain the club\u2019s attacking threats and were repeatedly exposed around the edge of the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo 40-point results conceded in week one and week three. Not good for a team that knows you\u2019ve got to be one of the best defensive teams to play finals,\u201d Cooper Cronk said on Fox League after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was almost like their goal-line defence wasn\u2019t able to get the line speed and make good decisions to attack the Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n
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Revealing that the side is still a \u201cwork in progress\u201d, Cronk stated that the next couple of months could describe their season and if they have a chance of making a deep run into the finals that many people predicted before the start of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll be a work in progress but they\u2019re going to be a team that cop a little bit of flack if they lose and they\u2019ll get a lot of wraps when they win,\u201d Cronk added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for the next sort of four to six weeks, they need to find their rhythm and their style of play and start banking in some wins and consistency.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause if they are more losses than wins in eight or ten weeks\u2019 time, then there\u2019s going to be a lot of noise around the Roosters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former NRL player turned analyst Braith Anasta and Australian Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters echoed those sentiments.<\/p>\n
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The duo stated the pressure on the Roosters is inevitable if they keep conceding several points during a single match and are unable to win, especially given the quality of their roster and, in particular, their spine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be because there is a lot of pressure on them for good reason. They\u2019ve got a good squad. They\u2019ve brought DCE to the club and Reece Robson.\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
Kevin Walters continued, \u201cTheir spine needs some work. They need to get some games together, train together and their edge defence hasn\u2019t gone down quite as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo lots to work on for the Roosters but we are only into Round 3.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arrival of Daly Cherry-Evans and Reece Robson in the off-season saw many tip the Sydney Roosters as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-553681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553681","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=553681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}