Unbeaten Roosters receive Origin boost; Broncos dealt crushing blow \u2014 NRLW Preliminary Finals Teams List<\/a><\/p>\nAnasta suggested there was an \u201celement of risk\u201d to changing what\u2019s been successful over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Journalist Paul Crawley thinks the Roosters need Walker to beat the Dolphins in front of a sold-out Suncorp Stadium this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt (style) was successful against the Sharks. I thought in the Penrith game, they probably lacked a little bit of Sam\u2019s magic, especially when Nathan was in the sin-bin when they couldn\u2019t get a point,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
Riccio said the worry for the Roosters could be if the game is tight and the pressure is right on.<\/p>\n
Will an underdone Walker struggle to keep his side on track?<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it criticism, but if there was to be some feedback around Sam\u2019s style of play, it was that freelance footy that at times the teammates can get a little bit lost in translation,\u201d Riccio said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWith DCE and Savala there, I\u2019m sure every player knows exactly what they need to do and where it\u2019s going to go. It\u2019s the unpredictability that can be the biggest strength, but also the biggest weakness,\u201d Anasta added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with the decision for him to come in, it\u2019s just what\u2019s going to happen, how\u2019s it going to play out? <\/p>\n
Anasta also believes Cherry-Evans should run the side around the park and allow Walker to play what he sees when he gets the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting to the points on the field that they need to get to to beat the Dolphins, DCE needs to be in control of that and executing that game plan,\u201d Anasta said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Walker\u2019s spot in the Roosters side, after suffering a serious injury just a month ago, has come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-901359","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\/901359","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=901359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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