Roosters put North Tamworth to the sword in stunning performance

The Kootingal-Moonbi Roosters might have ended North Tamworth's finals hopes in a stunning performance.

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00:00Oh yeah, that was a tough battle. We knew we were up for it. A lot to play for today.

00:04Coming here to North Tamworth, some of it's had a lot of glory the last few years.

00:10We're a quality side, we're quality players. Old boys day as well, so we knew we were up for it.

00:16What I said to the guys at the start of the game, for us it's a big moment, an opportunity for us as well if we win.

00:24Today we could have dropped out of the race for the finals. We put ourselves in a position where we can still come second.

00:32An opportunity to go out and play glory and host a home game, that's as big as it can be if you get everything right.

00:41It's a tough one for us, I couldn't even look the old boys in the eye to walk behind the old boys.

00:46It's our boys day today and we've got a pretty proud and passionate club.

00:50We obviously wanted to get the win for them and I think they might have got to us at the start.

00:54I think we had in our minds that we were going to play good and we forgot the basics of it.

00:58But at the end of the day, too many errors, too many mistakes, too many penalties.

01:02They're simple ones, we didn't kick out for touch three or four times.

01:05I think we had four forward passes off our arc, simple drop balls, but they just picked the ball up and scored.

01:11At the end of the day, you can't take anything away from the crew.

01:14They come out firing, they play well the whole game.

01:16They're a young side, they're an energetic side and they give it to us for the whole 80.

01:20That's what we didn't do, we didn't play for 80.

01:22Played good in patches like we usually do, but we're probably lucky that was the scoreline to be honest.