Post Match Sydney City Roosters v NZ Warriors - [Round 1, 2026]

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Sydney City Roosters v NZ Warriors - [Round 1, 2026]
POST MATCH​

The official NZWF thread for all post match discussion on this weeks game. Celebrate. Vent. Who were your stand outs? Who needs to be dropped? Man of the match (MOM)?

Discuss...

 

[afakasi247]

Can we officially say this replaces round 1 2018 (vs. Rabbits in Perth) as our best round 1 performance in recent memory?

 

[Barzak]

Fuck I love the Warriors
No in depth breakdown from me this time.
What a weekend it’s gonna be.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Guys, our Dally M calibre halfback isn't even back yet......

Footys back baby!!!!!

 

[Bippidydoodah]

Was the result ever in doubt?

 

[Bluecat]

WOW!! What a great day in the office for the team.
Well done boys

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

I fucken love JACKSON FORD!!!!!!! Hes better than Barnett!!!! He plays origin this year.

 

[Bippidydoodah]

My favourite thing in this game was JFH and Clark coming back on and stifling the roosters comeback.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Smashed it. Comps not won in March though.

 

[Dannevegas]

Good Fkn Game!
Big Apologies to Egan and Boyd, killed it. Especially Boyd, had huge pressure on him and he delivered.

 

[Natedogg]

For a first round performance like that, if you arent giving that an A+

If you need to adjust your score haha

 

[Canonball]

Steel and Spunk - this team, up the fucking wahs

 

[snake77]

First two points of the year. Nice.

 

[Jaffa J]

Great win a few errors but as good as you could ask for a first game hate we got no respect from the media heading into this game glad we proved them wrong

 

[CWC]

Wow what a hot start.

Loved the last 2 try celebrations too

 

[Natedogg]

THat was some excellent defence and some really creative and off the cuff attack.

Roosters are no easy beats, they hung in there, and gave them a killer blow at the end.

 

[sup42]

Congratulations to you guys, long suffering, stuck by them for years, finally get a round one thrashing of a top four club on a Friday night with the whole NRL watching.

You all deserve this glow, enjoy it Whanau much love from a brother fan.

 

[snake77]

The song "Tonights going to be a good night". Keeps repeating in my head.

Helps the young fella celebrating was singing it.

 

[Wigan Warrior]

Great win to start the season.

Is it too early to get excited?

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Fish man of the match for me. Really had a tough, hard nosed approach and took Whyte on up front early on. Imo set the tone for the match. Loved seeing him dominate the young buck, gave him no room to move and made great meters. Later on had arguably the save of the game with Collins in under the posts, its a different game with 7 to go ans only down by 6.

Chanel was great, Boyd was great.

Interestingly, numbers were waaaay down for both Clark and CNK, I wonder if that was an intentional plan by Webby to try and keep them fresh.

Overall - fucking stoked. What a performance. A +

Edit: 5 offloads for JFH...fucking hell son. To put that in to context thats the same amount of times he offloaded ALL year last year...