'Confused' Smith brutally honest on 'poor' debut

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Roosters signing Brandon Smith has admitted helium was a "little shaky" successful his tricolours debut, and rated their show against Melbourne "pretty poor".

Playing successful dummy-half, Smith played astir 20 minutes of the Roosters' 32-24 triumph implicit the Storm successful Geelong, and acceptable up Victor Radley for his second-half try.

Speaking aft the game, Smith said facing his aged teammates for the archetypal clip was "a spot weird".

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"It was benignant of hard seeing each the aesculapian staff, and each the physios connected the sidelines - that was tough," helium told Fox Sports.

"It was weird proceeding each the names they were calling retired for each the plays, I knew precisely what they were doing which started confusing maine ... I started to hide what the Roosters plays were."

He said portion helium is starting to adapt, determination is inactive plentifulness of country for betterment pursuing his archetypal deed out.

He said the Roosters weren't taking the pre-season situation immoderate much earnestly than they mightiness person successful years past, contempt the carrot of $100,000 prizemoney.

"I don't deliberation the pre-season comp truly matters - I don't adjacent cognize however the points strategy works," helium said.

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"For Robbo (Roosters manager Trent Robinson) it's conscionable I conjecture taking what we've learned successful pre-season, going retired determination and trying to execute truthful we tin instrumentality it into the existent play wherever each the glitz and glamour is made.

"Hopefully we tin bash that successful the adjacent crippled - I deliberation we were beauteous mediocre tonight.

"We played against each the young fellas successful the Melbourne broadside and they truly gave it to us, truthful we've got a batch of country for improvement."

Smith said 1 of the cardinal differences betwixt Robinson and Storm manager Craig Bellamy pre-seasons was the monolithic magnitude of region moving successful Bondi.

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