Superstar recruit Sonny Bill Williams will miss the sydneyroosters' qualifying final against Penrith on Friday night because of injury | SMHsport NRL
Roosters coach Trent Robinson knows finals experience will count for nothing if his premiers do not ‘‘lay it on the line and go out and play the style of footy we want to play’’ against Penrith.
"Every one of them rang me over the weekend to discuss it, which is very rare in our game,'' Robinson said on Thursday."These guys don't run away from anything or dismiss it without trying to improve - it was a lesson that had been sent our way.Coach Trent Robinson says every one of his Roosters players called him after the Souths shellacking last week.
Freddy Lussick has been named to start in the No. 9 for the concussed Jake Friend, but Robinson stopped short of declaring the blond rookie would start the game at dummy-half. "Our job is to defensively work over the opposition to nullify their strengths. We'll do that," Robinson said."I feel like [Flanagan and Keary] have developed really well.
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