Sydney Roosters vs North Queensland Cowboys: NRL live scores, blog

Hate to be a stickler but it's roughshod. You're right though. O'Neill has a couple of really good seasons but he gets far too much wrong in defence now.

Don't know what the NRL were thinking scheduling this match against Swans / Collingwood, which always gets a good crowd - all it does is highlight East's poor attendance.

I was talking about ratings generally (this may be hard for you to believe but Sydney is not everyhting in Australia) and by implication Vossy bagging the AFL and using the moniker of the "greatest game of all" is all of simplistic, unlikely (given its lack of geographic spread) and the fact that the Cowboys got lots of cheap decisions to get then back into the game.

Is this your 1st year watching? He has played flat his entire career. 2 errors and 2 missed tackles. How many times did you hear Cronks name last night? Cronk also made 2 errors yet only 1 run, JT played all over him. How does a bloke 2nd in try assists and leading in LBA be considered playing for personal stats? It's a ridiculous link to say "If it wasn’t for JT, they come no where near the Roosters tonight”.It’s akin to saying he a deserved CC. medalist" You're grasping because you cannot produce a legitimate argument for your unwavering bias against the bloke. If he was back on the market tomorrow, every team would buy him and walks back into the Qld and Aust team - fact.

Fake News? Says plenty about you, 99% of the RL world can see and agree with a topic and you try and discredit with Fake News. Now you're even questioning his contribution at rep level? All credibility gone.

The point is JT has as much blame as anyone for the loss. They could have said Taumalolo, and Scott almost lead the Cowboys to victory, as when they were off the field the Roosters took control. The Roosters dominated and had to many attacking weapons for the Cowboys. But when Scott and Taumalolo were on the field the Cowboys were in the game. 2nd point. You have just stated what I dislike"The bloke won us the game before that with a bung shoulder funny you should ignore that". The fact he was injured (before)could have cost them the game. Obviously the other players Smith, Morgan, Cronk, Holmes, Gagai, Slater were just his support cast. Look JT has been a great player. Unfortunately his game has been in decline for a while and is a big part of why they are coming last. He's playing for personal stats (glory) and that's not what inspires team mates IMO.

Well put Emcie! Totally agree!

I believe it's fair to say that any team is capable of winning any game if they come to play. The teams having a crack and playing attacking football are winning more than they lose. The Cowboys are a prime example of a team going through the motions and expecting the result to come their way. They have rarely played with a desire to promote the ball and run in numbers in attack. The Dogs and Souths played with freedom and intent. Maybe it's the right mix of youth, strength and speed that create the confidence in attack? What ever it is the Cowboys don't get enough of those players involved in their attack until it's to late. Coach Green picks the team and Thurston runs the show on the field. If they continue playing one out, negative, slow motion football over the remaining rounds they will unfortunately only be winning the wooden spoon.

Fair dinkum mate, you're off your rocker. One dubious CC medal means he's terrible and to blame for each and every one of the Cow's woes, and we're all sheeple worshipers for not agreeing? Give me a break. What's the relevance? What even is that second point? What does Melbourne have to do with his rep performances? How does Munster's G3 performance even matter here, is it meant to invalidate his entire previous career or something? The bloke won us the game before that with a bung shoulder, funny you should ignore that. Turn it up, champ.

AFL rates poorly on tv in Sydney but does pull a crowd. The game day experience is better at actual ground with AFL.

Because it's fake news. Sells papers and feeds the plebs what they want to hear. Take your pick Nat. Remind me how JT received the CC. when his errors led to 10 of the Broncos points? Think how successful the Storm are and then tell me how JT has had so much success at Rep level winning accolades. Remember what Munster did in game 3 2017 outside Cronk with Morgan and Slater running of him.

A crowd of 9721 (if that number can be believed - must have been counting arms and legs) to 39,238 at the SCG. I wonder how Peter and Todd's fan forum went tonight?

He's old and cheating for time so yes he plays flatter. He is getting bumped in defence and players around him are under pressure to help. You bag Cooper, O'nell Martin and others around him for dropping his passes in traffic. JT had at least 2 handling errors, gave away 3 penalties, missed more than he made in defence and missed a bread and butter conversion from in front. It's a bit rich saying "If it wasn’t for JT, they come no where near the Roosters tonight".It's akin to saying he a deserved CC. medalist. The Cowboys made the GF last year and the young blokes passed the ball and off loaded? They looked committed and enthusiastic even though they were playing busted. The way they played chasing points tonight is something they do when JT allows them to do it IMO. Maybe it's the coach? They didn't do it at the backend of last year but it's been how they have played with JT at first receiver for much of this year. JT probably shouldn't be at first receiver If the Cowboys honestly want to win games and improve for next year.

Fox Sports "Roosters hold off amazing Thurston-inspired comeback" NRL.com " Thurston magic not enough as Roosters hold out fast-finishing Cowboys" DT, " Johnathan Thurstons competitive nature kicks in..." CM "Jt's herorics not enough..." Tell me again why you know more than every other person watching Rob?

Blame the man who is 2nd in try assists tops line break assists, makes sense

Don't give yourself too much credit, mate. Nobody's "worshiping" Thurston, we're also calling what we see. JT isn't the reason your attack's struggling, far from it. "Even" Granville is incapable of throwing passes normally at the best of times, O'Neill is a defensive liability, etc etc. JT should have twice as many try assists/lb assists as he does, it's not his fault blokes aren't going through the line and scoring. You're not brave, we're not "sheep," and this isn't half as clever as you seem to think it is.

O'Neil has played plenty of QCup this for exactly the same reason he showed tonight. Fergo runs around him twice for scoring plays and you make another sarcastic comment about it being JT's side. He defends 3 in - nothing to do with it. I understand you're a Cowboys supporter and a frustrated one at that but to blame JT for how they are performing this year and tonight especially shows you formed an opinion in Rd 4 and stubbornly stuck with it with blinkers on.

After the game Vossy said this is the greatest game in the world daylight second in front of 10K whereas next door the Swans got up in the last 2 minutes in front of 37K. This must be a surprise to his employers who paid the best part of$2.5bn for the TV rights for the AFL. Such hyperbole is unusual from the NRL - not

He should have taken the gift 2 IMO at that point. Puts them 4 behind and the Roosters having to kick off. I'm a Cowboys supporter not a Thurston worshiper like yourself. You give it to O'nell and every other easy target but fail to look at what's happening in the game. Grow some and stop being a sheep.I'm happy to call a spade a spade not roll with the popularity groupies.

JT's the reason their attack's been flat? Turn it up.