2012 Sydney Roosters season

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2012 Sydney Roosters season
NRL Rank13th
2012 recordWins: 8; draws: 1; losses: 15
Team information
CEOSteve Noyce
Head Coach Brian Smith
Captain
Stadium Allianz Stadium, Sydney
Avg. attendance12,707
Top scorers
Tries10-Mitchell Pearce
Goals62-Braith Anasta
Points140-Braith Anasta
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The 2012 Sydney Roosters season was the 105th in the club's history. Coached by Brian Smith and captained by Braith Anasta, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2012 Telstra Premiership. The Roosters finished the regular season 13th (out of 16), failing to reach the finals for the second consecutive year.

Contents

Pre-season

Results

The Sydney Roosters will play 2 Trial games in 2012. The first game will be against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the second against the Wests Tigers. In the Roosters' first trial game of the year they went up against the Bulldogs at Belmore Sports Ground which was attended by around 12,000 fans, the game ended with the Roosters winning 28–16. In the second trial match they went up against the Wests Tigers at Campbelltown Stadium which was attended by 7,426 fans, The game ended with the roosters rallying from behind to win 28–24.

DateRoundOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGame Report
12 FebruaryTrial 1 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Belmore Sports Ground 16–2812,000 Game Report
18 FebruaryTrial 2 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Campbelltown Stadium 24–287,426 Game Report
Legend:   Win  Loss  Draw

Regular season

Results

These are the results and fixtures of the Sydney Roosters 2012 Season. They started their 2012 season well against their longtime rivals the South Sydney Rabbitohs, with a comeback with the clock showing two and a half minutes.

DateRoundOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGame Report
5 MarchRound 1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs ANZ Stadium 20–24 [1] [2]
11 MarchRound 2 Penrith colours.svg Penrith Panthers Sydney Football Stadium 18-0
18 MarchRound 3 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders Sydney Football Stadium 14-8
25 MarchRound 4 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm AAMI Park 44-4
31 MarchRound 5 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Sydney Football Stadium 26-8
7 AprilRound 6 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Skilled Park 12–18
14 AprilRound 7 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys TIO Stadium 12–50
Rep WeekendBYE
25 AprilRound 8 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons Sydney Football Stadium 28-24
6 MayRound 9 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights Sydney Football Stadium 24-6
12 MayRound 10 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Mount Smart Stadium 30-26
20 MayRound 11 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Brookvale Oval 18-10
28 MayRound 12 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Sydney Football Stadium 30-12
Round 13BYE
10 JuneRound 14 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Sydney Football Stadium 40-22
17 JuneRound 15 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Leichhardt Oval 42-28
24 JuneRound 16 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Football Stadium 52-14
Round 17BYE
9 JulyRound 18 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Toyota Stadium 14-14
16 JulyRound 19 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs Sydney Cricket Ground -
22 JulyRound 20 Penrith colours.svg Penrith Panthers Centrebet Stadium 28-16
27 JulyRound 21 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Allianz Stadium 36-16
3 AugustRound 22 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons Allianz Stadium 26-10
11 AugustRound 23 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Parramatta Stadium 36-22
18 AugustRound 24 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders Canberra Stadium 20–24
26 AugustRound 25 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Allianz Stadium 44-20
1 SeptemberRound 26 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs ANZ Stadium 10–42
Legend:   Win  Loss  Draw  Bye

Ladder

2012 NRL season
PosTeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2418062568369+19940
2 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm (P)2417072579361+21838
3 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 2416082559438+12136
4 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 2416082497403+9436
5 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 2415092597445+15234
6 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 24130112545536+930
7 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 24121112445441+429
8 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 24120122481447+3428
9 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 24110132405438-3326
10 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 24110132506551-4526
11 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 24100142449477-2824
12 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 24100142448488-4024
13 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 2481152462626-16421
14 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 2480162497609-11220
15 Panthers colours.svg Penrith Panthers 2480162409575-16620
16 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 2460182431674-24316

Squad

2012 NRL Sydney Roosters Team

Sydney Roosters
2011 National Rugby League squad – 26 PlayersCoaching staff

Head coach


Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)
  • (gk) Goal kicker

Updated: 22 October 2011
Source(s): Sydney Roosters Squad

Player Summary

Sydney Roosters 2012AppearanceInterchangeTriesGoalsF/GPoints
Braith Anasta 22–462–140
Tinirau Arona 4163––12
Mitchell Aubusson 2223––12
Jack Bosden 131––4
Justin Carney 5––––0
Boyd Cordner 1574––16
Jake Friend 2042––8
Aidan Guerra 1815––20
Adam Henry 4–1––4
Martin Kennedy 1771––4
Shaun Kenny-Dowall 17–8––32
Joseph Leilua 19–6––24
Mose Masoe 113–––0
Anthony Minichiello 24–9––36
Anthony Mitchell 421––4
Tautau Moga 14–7––28
Daniel Mortimer 4425–18
Frank-Paul Nuuausala 1812––8
Mitchell Pearce 22–10––40
Sam Perrett 15–3––12
Nafe Seluini –7–––0
Tom Symonds 111––4
Peni Tagive 5––––0
Brad Takairangi 5111––4
Lama Tasi 3162––8
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 6––––0
Daniel Tupou 3–3––12
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 23–3––4012
Total3129682670462

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References

  1. ↑ "Game Report | Roosters beat Rabbitohs". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Draw Results – 2012 Roosters Draw". Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
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