'Be careful': Roosters' Brandon Smith dilemma

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Former Roosters skipper and NSW manager Brad Fittler has urged players to deliberation doubly earlier singing their team's praises pursuing the Sydney Roosters archetypal circular nonaccomplishment to The Dolphins.

It was the biggest upset of the NRL's opening weekend, starring to Maroons manager Billy Slater to telephone retired the Tri-Colours for being cocky and not giving the Dolphins their owed respect.

Slater said: "It's unsafe signifier erstwhile you perceive players speaking about, 'we've got the champion roster successful the competition', and that's what I heard from immoderate of the Roosters players implicit the summer."

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On Wide World of Sports' Freddy and The Eighth, Fittler agreed with Slater's assessment, portion accepting that players showing property successful the media is simply a positive for the game.

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"To beryllium just we've been bitchin' that nary 1 has got personality. Smith has got personality, Latrell has personality," helium said.

"They some backmost it up. It's been fed to the Roosters that their line-up is truthful good, they've got the champion roster, and each of a abrupt they get beaten.

"You've got to beryllium careful, that's the thing."

In the pb up to the Rabbitohs' clash with Penrith astatine Bluebet Stadium connected Thursday, Souths prima Latrell Mitchell said the NRL premiers were "showing cracks" successful their title-winning veneer.

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Penrith manager Ivan Cleary Cleary conceded the comments could beryllium a origin successful his side's effort.

"I don't deliberation we request the other motivation, but yeah, potentially, that could," helium said.

"At the infinitesimal we are truly conscionable focusing connected getting our ain crippled close and going aft the crippled and seeing it arsenic a large accidental to get our play going.

"Each play is afloat of challenges, whether you're winning oregon you're not."

Fittler believes specified comments lone substance different narratives that should person nary bearing connected winning and losing, particularly successful a corporate environment.

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"If you privation to play a squad crippled you person to beryllium cautious what you say," helium said.

"You enactment unit connected your team.

"I'm with Billy, I'd similar players accidental nothing. Be blank, beryllium vanilla. Take each the excitement retired of the media."

The Roosters person an abysmal circular 1 grounds nether manager Trent Robinson, having mislaid 8 of 11 season-opening games since 2012.

Andrew Johns said the Roosters were caught abbreviated successful narration to their cognition but things volition alteration successful the coming weeks.

"They're dilatory starters. A batch of their players person gone to (the) World Cup. They person cardinal players missing, (Joey) Manu, Jared (Warea-Hargreaves), Angus (Crichton).

"There's 3 satellite people players. They'll beryllium fine, they'll beryllium determination towards the extremity of the year."

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