Roos run riot to humiliate Storm
QUICK BREAK: Roo's Ty Millard scampers up the field in his team’s match against Edmonton Storm. CDRL KANGAROOS showed their determination to finish the season on a high, running out comfortable 62-12 winners over Edmonton Storm at Vico Oval yesterday.
In their last home game for the season, Roos gave their fans plenty to cheer about as they found the stripe on nine occasions.
Winger Leslie Byquar had a memorable day playing his first A grade game for the club.
The 17-year-old Roos junior opened the scoring with the first of his two tries on the afternoon.
Prop Taia Savage also crossed the line twice, while the lethal left-edge pairing of Solomon Fauid and Linton Enoch crossed for five tries between them, with Fauid scoring a hat-trick and Enoch bagging himself a double.
“The last few weeks has been building,” said Kangaroos coach Michael White.
“We had some confidence coming into this weekend. We certainly showed we can play some footy when we do the little things right first.”
Roos will miss out on finals this year after a mid-season form slump, but are poised to finish the year off strongly.
“We stumbled and a lot of that’s our own undoing,” White said.
“But we showed throughout the year we can play with the top sides and we certainly have the capability, but we let ourselves down. And there’s a number of factors – injuries, player commitment and so forth, but that’s the season.”
Roos will have the bye this weekend before closing out the season against Brothers.
“We’ll give them a nice hard contest,” White said.
“If I was in their position, I’d be looking for a fairly hard game because you’ve really got to toughen up mentally for finals footy.”
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BRISBANE 18 (D Fifita A Milford J Turpin tries J Isaako 3 goals) d NORTH QUEENSLAND 14 (J Clifford S Wright triesJ Clifford 3 goals) at 1300SMILES Stadium. Crowd: 17,530. NZ WARRIORS 24 (K Maumalo 2 L Sao J Tevaga tries C HarrisTavita 4 goals) d MANLY 16 (R Garrick 2 J Thompson tries R Garrick2 goals) at Mt Smart Stadium. Crowd: 9,595. PENRITH 26 (D Edwards 2 N Cleary B Naden tries N Cleary 5 goals) d CRONULLA 20 (S Feki W Graham J Morris J Williams triesS Johnson 2 goals) at Panthers Stadium. Crowd: 10,860. ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA 40 (T Sims 2 E Aitken T Frizell B Hunt J Saab P Vaughan tries G Widdop 6 goals) d GOLD COAST 28 (P Sami2 R Jacks B Kelly K Proctor tries T Peachey 4 goals) at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium. Crowd: 6,532. PARRAMATTA 20 (C Gutherson 2 R Mahoney M Sivo tries M Moses 2 goals) d NEWCASTLE 14 (M Barnett S Kenny-Dowall tries M Lino3 goals) at Bankwest Stadium. Crowd: 20,671. CANTERBURY 18 (J Jackson J Marshall-King N Meaney tries N Meaney 3 goals) d WESTS TIGERS 16 (P Momirovski 2 L Garner triesP Momirovski 2 goals) at ANZ Stadium. Crowd: 9,636. SYDNEY ROOSTERS 22 (D Tupou 2 L Mitchell V Radley tries L Mitchell 3 goals) d CANBERRA 18 (J Croker J Rapana E Whiteheadtries J Croker 3 goals) at GIO Stadium. Crowd: 19,530. MELBOURNE 26 (J Bromwich B Croft C Munster J Olam tries C Smith 5 goals) d SOUTH SYDNEY 16 (C Graham 3 tries A Reynolds 2goals) at Central Coast Stadium. Crowd: 19,533.
WE HAD SOME CONFIDENCE COMING IN …. WE CERTAINLY SHOWED WE CAN PLAY SOME FOOTY WHEN WE DO THE LITTLE THINGS RIGHT FIRST