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remember in the final when we came 8th and brisbane were first and someone passed to rogers on the sideline and he dropped it back hit his heel went over his head and landed in his hands?
that was one of my favourite sharks moments
that was one of my favourite sharks moments
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sattler calling on the titans to keep him on the books, i think he is going out a year to early
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remember in the final when we came 8th and brisbane were first and someone passed to rogers on the sideline and he dropped it back hit his heel went over his head and landed in his hands?
that was one of my favourite sharks moments
The only thing i remember about that game is we lost.....again.
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just telling it as it is,thats all.
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Rogers confident of fitness
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Rogers confident of fitness
By Ben Horne
13:35 AEST Aug 29 2010
Gold Coast five-eighth Mat Rogers is confident he will be fit to take on Wests Tigers next week despite suffering a hip injury in the Titans' 30-16 NRL loss to Cronulla.
Rogers copped a hit with about 20 minutes to go on Saturday night but is hopeful of being right for Friday night's blockbuster against the Tigers at Skilled Park because it is an impact injury and not muscular.
The retiring veteran has been in outstanding form at pivot, and his absence could cause disruption to the strong momentum the Titans are carrying into the finals.
Gold Coast may have to win on Friday to secure a top four berth and a home final.
"I think I'm just getting every injury before I retire just to say I've had it but I'll be right," Rogers joked.
"It's a bit of a hip flexor, hip pointer, hip something.
"It's pretty sore but I think it'll be alright. It's just a little bit painful and I couldn't really run so not much point being out there if you can't run."
Saturday night's shock loss to the Sharks ended the Titans' five-match winning streak but Rogers wasn't overly concerned.
However, he was sorry that the team couldn't win for Greg Bird, who made his return to Toyota Stadium after being sacked by the Sharks in 2008.
Rogers, who also spent many years in the Shire earlier in his career, said the team was determined to make it a memorable night for second rower Bird - who will switch back to No.6 should Rogers be ruled out on Friday.
"He's doing everything right, he just adds some starch to our defensive line and it was a shame that we couldn't win for him more than anyone," he said.
"He sort of got driven out of town here and never mind he's playing semi-final football in a couple of weeks and hopefully we can get that elusive premiership that we never got at the Sharks together."
Titans coach John Cartwright is also confident welcoming back injured duo Anthony Laffranchi and Preston Campbell.
Should he have a full complement, Cartwright would have a tough decision as to whether he starts Bird in the back row or uses him as an impact player off the bench.
Bird isn't sure what his role will be.
"When you have a few weeks off the fitness is a little bit out so that was just a concern to make sure I played the full 80 and pulled out the other side without making too many errors," Bird said.
"... I'm happy to slip into the 17 wherever I can."
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Rogers confident of fitness
By Ben Horne
13:35 AEST Aug 29 2010
Gold Coast five-eighth Mat Rogers is confident he will be fit to take on Wests Tigers next week despite suffering a hip injury in the Titans' 30-16 NRL loss to Cronulla.
Rogers copped a hit with about 20 minutes to go on Saturday night but is hopeful of being right for Friday night's blockbuster against the Tigers at Skilled Park because it is an impact injury and not muscular.
The retiring veteran has been in outstanding form at pivot, and his absence could cause disruption to the strong momentum the Titans are carrying into the finals.
Gold Coast may have to win on Friday to secure a top four berth and a home final.
"I think I'm just getting every injury before I retire just to say I've had it but I'll be right," Rogers joked.
"It's a bit of a hip flexor, hip pointer, hip something.
"It's pretty sore but I think it'll be alright. It's just a little bit painful and I couldn't really run so not much point being out there if you can't run."
Saturday night's shock loss to the Sharks ended the Titans' five-match winning streak but Rogers wasn't overly concerned.
However, he was sorry that the team couldn't win for Greg Bird, who made his return to Toyota Stadium after being sacked by the Sharks in 2008.
Rogers, who also spent many years in the Shire earlier in his career, said the team was determined to make it a memorable night for second rower Bird - who will switch back to No.6 should Rogers be ruled out on Friday.
"He's doing everything right, he just adds some starch to our defensive line and it was a shame that we couldn't win for him more than anyone," he said.
"He sort of got driven out of town here and never mind he's playing semi-final football in a couple of weeks and hopefully we can get that elusive premiership that we never got at the Sharks together."
Titans coach John Cartwright is also confident welcoming back injured duo Anthony Laffranchi and Preston Campbell.
Should he have a full complement, Cartwright would have a tough decision as to whether he starts Bird in the back row or uses him as an impact player off the bench.
Bird isn't sure what his role will be.
"When you have a few weeks off the fitness is a little bit out so that was just a concern to make sure I played the full 80 and pulled out the other side without making too many errors," Bird said.
"... I'm happy to slip into the 17 wherever I can."
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Rogers close to being a Bulldog
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Rogers close to being a Bulldog
By Josh Massoud
September 03, 2010 12:00AM
MAT Rogers can't help but ponder what might've been.
"Not many people know this, but Canterbury actually made me a much better offer than Cronulla to play rugby league [in 1994]," the retiring veteran revealed.
"The Sharks offered about $4000 and the Bulldogs something like $10,000."
With a surname synonymous with the Shire club, Rogers opted for the Sharks - but his reasons weren't purely sentimental.
"No mate," he said
"To tell you the truth I'm just no good with foreign places.
"I'd never lived around Canterbury, so I was bit worried about getting around.
"That's why I took less money and signed for the Sharks.
"But it was a bit hard to swallow when Canterbury won the comp the next year [in 1995] and I'm still searching for a premiership now."
In arguably the best form of his career on the Gold Coast, Rogers has a month left to avoid joining former Sharks teammate Andrew Ettingshausen as one of the true rugby league greats never to win a title.
He ranks Cronulla's preliminary final loss to St George Illawarra in 1999 as the hardest moment to swallow, after the minor premiers blew an 8-0 lead when they were just 40 minutes away from the decider.
"It took me years to get over that," Rogers confessed.
"But at least there was a funny aftermath.
"Back at Sharkies Leagues this car draped in Dragons gear was doing laps of the carpark abusing us.
"They were so busy yelling, they crashed straight into a fence. It lifted a few spirits."
With an injury toll longer than his tattooist's appointment list, there's been plenty of times Rogers has needed cheering up as well.
The 34-year-old guessed he's been under the knife no less than 15 times and rated his first shoulder reconstruction as a defining moment.
"I had it done after my first year in grade and it was agony," he recalled.
"I told my brother [Donny] that if I ever had to go through that again, then I'd retire.
"Funnily enough I had the same thing done seven years later and it didn't seem to hurt as much."
Ironically Rogers is in doubt for tonight's crucial clash against Wests Tigers at Skilled Park with a painful hip pointer injury.
"Probably the only injury I've never had until now."
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Rogers close to being a Bulldog
By Josh Massoud
September 03, 2010 12:00AM
MAT Rogers can't help but ponder what might've been.
"Not many people know this, but Canterbury actually made me a much better offer than Cronulla to play rugby league [in 1994]," the retiring veteran revealed.
"The Sharks offered about $4000 and the Bulldogs something like $10,000."
With a surname synonymous with the Shire club, Rogers opted for the Sharks - but his reasons weren't purely sentimental.
"No mate," he said
"To tell you the truth I'm just no good with foreign places.
"I'd never lived around Canterbury, so I was bit worried about getting around.
"That's why I took less money and signed for the Sharks.
"But it was a bit hard to swallow when Canterbury won the comp the next year [in 1995] and I'm still searching for a premiership now."
In arguably the best form of his career on the Gold Coast, Rogers has a month left to avoid joining former Sharks teammate Andrew Ettingshausen as one of the true rugby league greats never to win a title.
He ranks Cronulla's preliminary final loss to St George Illawarra in 1999 as the hardest moment to swallow, after the minor premiers blew an 8-0 lead when they were just 40 minutes away from the decider.
"It took me years to get over that," Rogers confessed.
"But at least there was a funny aftermath.
"Back at Sharkies Leagues this car draped in Dragons gear was doing laps of the carpark abusing us.
"They were so busy yelling, they crashed straight into a fence. It lifted a few spirits."
With an injury toll longer than his tattooist's appointment list, there's been plenty of times Rogers has needed cheering up as well.
The 34-year-old guessed he's been under the knife no less than 15 times and rated his first shoulder reconstruction as a defining moment.
"I had it done after my first year in grade and it was agony," he recalled.
"I told my brother [Donny] that if I ever had to go through that again, then I'd retire.
"Funnily enough I had the same thing done seven years later and it didn't seem to hurt as much."
Ironically Rogers is in doubt for tonight's crucial clash against Wests Tigers at Skilled Park with a painful hip pointer injury.
"Probably the only injury I've never had until now."
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Fond farewell as World Cup winners will all leave on a high note
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Fond farewell as World Cup winners will all leave on a high note
September 3, 2010
Brad Walter
Between them, Mat Rogers, Trent Barrett and Brett Kimmorley have won a premiership, officially launched an NRL season, set points-scoring records and played for the Wallabies as well as the Kangaroos.
Collectively, the trio, who will all retire when their teams bow out of the premiership race, also have the rare distinction of playing together in Australia's last World Cup-winning team in 2000.
''We haven't got a lot of senior players as role models so it is a pity that we lose three good ones all at once,'' said former Kangaroos coach Chris Anderson, who has enjoyed a long relationship with each of them.
'''Noddy', Trent and Mat have all been good for the game, at every level they played. Everywhere they have gone they have done their best and been good role models for the blokes coming through. I think the game is better off for the three of them. They have all been good students of the game.''
So much so that Barrett and Kimmorley will take on specialist halves coaching roles with Cronulla and Canterbury respectively after playing their final games this weekend.
Rogers is also planning to undergo a coaching course, but only so he can help his son's under-15s team at Burleigh Bears next year. The dual international will continue to work for Gold Coast in a sponsorship and hospitality job after the Titans' finals campaign ends, hopefully with a premiership.
''There's been times, like with the Sharks in 1999, where we should have won, and that still haunts me,'' Rogers said. ''There is the potential for this year to haunt me too because I think we've got the team to do it so let's hope it doesn't.''
Of the trio, only Kimmorley has won a premiership - steering Melbourne to grand final glory in 1999 against Barrett's St George Illawarra side. But they have each left their mark on the game in other ways, with Rogers's 24-point haul against New Zealand in 2000 still the record for the most points scored in a trans-Tasman Test, and Barrett winning the 2000 Dally M award, captaining NSW in this year's final Origin match and launching the 2001 season with a speech at the Olympic Stadium before the opening game. ''I was pretty nervous doing that,'' Barrett recalled yesterday. ''There's been so many highlights over the years, I couldn't pick one.''
Barrett and Kimmorley were still playing well enough to be chosen for NSW this season. ''He stood up on some big occasions,'' Kimmorley said of Barrett. ''He was in and out of Origin, [it was] unknown when he was going to get picked again but every time he got to play, the calibre of the player he is showed.
''Especially coming back from England and playing well … the competitiveness of the bloke shows that he wasn't ready to be finished. He came back and played great for Cronulla.''
Unlike fellow former representative teammates Steve Price and Steve Simpson, who have had decisions about their futures determined by injuries, Kimmorley, Barrett and Rogers needed some convincing that the time was right to retire now, and all are happy to be able to stay involved with the game through their off-field roles.
''I played a lot of footy with Noddy and 'Rat' [Rogers], and it's good that we are still able to have some involvement in the game,'' said Barrett, who also has arranged work with the NRL and Country Rugby League. ''I think we've all been blokes who have tried to do the right thing, and I think that comes from the guys we were surrounded by when we came into grade.''
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Fond farewell as World Cup winners will all leave on a high note
September 3, 2010
Brad Walter
Between them, Mat Rogers, Trent Barrett and Brett Kimmorley have won a premiership, officially launched an NRL season, set points-scoring records and played for the Wallabies as well as the Kangaroos.
Collectively, the trio, who will all retire when their teams bow out of the premiership race, also have the rare distinction of playing together in Australia's last World Cup-winning team in 2000.
''We haven't got a lot of senior players as role models so it is a pity that we lose three good ones all at once,'' said former Kangaroos coach Chris Anderson, who has enjoyed a long relationship with each of them.
'''Noddy', Trent and Mat have all been good for the game, at every level they played. Everywhere they have gone they have done their best and been good role models for the blokes coming through. I think the game is better off for the three of them. They have all been good students of the game.''
So much so that Barrett and Kimmorley will take on specialist halves coaching roles with Cronulla and Canterbury respectively after playing their final games this weekend.
Rogers is also planning to undergo a coaching course, but only so he can help his son's under-15s team at Burleigh Bears next year. The dual international will continue to work for Gold Coast in a sponsorship and hospitality job after the Titans' finals campaign ends, hopefully with a premiership.
''There's been times, like with the Sharks in 1999, where we should have won, and that still haunts me,'' Rogers said. ''There is the potential for this year to haunt me too because I think we've got the team to do it so let's hope it doesn't.''
Of the trio, only Kimmorley has won a premiership - steering Melbourne to grand final glory in 1999 against Barrett's St George Illawarra side. But they have each left their mark on the game in other ways, with Rogers's 24-point haul against New Zealand in 2000 still the record for the most points scored in a trans-Tasman Test, and Barrett winning the 2000 Dally M award, captaining NSW in this year's final Origin match and launching the 2001 season with a speech at the Olympic Stadium before the opening game. ''I was pretty nervous doing that,'' Barrett recalled yesterday. ''There's been so many highlights over the years, I couldn't pick one.''
Barrett and Kimmorley were still playing well enough to be chosen for NSW this season. ''He stood up on some big occasions,'' Kimmorley said of Barrett. ''He was in and out of Origin, [it was] unknown when he was going to get picked again but every time he got to play, the calibre of the player he is showed.
''Especially coming back from England and playing well … the competitiveness of the bloke shows that he wasn't ready to be finished. He came back and played great for Cronulla.''
Unlike fellow former representative teammates Steve Price and Steve Simpson, who have had decisions about their futures determined by injuries, Kimmorley, Barrett and Rogers needed some convincing that the time was right to retire now, and all are happy to be able to stay involved with the game through their off-field roles.
''I played a lot of footy with Noddy and 'Rat' [Rogers], and it's good that we are still able to have some involvement in the game,'' said Barrett, who also has arranged work with the NRL and Country Rugby League. ''I think we've all been blokes who have tried to do the right thing, and I think that comes from the guys we were surrounded by when we came into grade.''
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Three words turned Rogers around
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Three words turned Rogers around
Pat McLeod
September 6th, 2010
'COME home Matty'. Almost five years ago, those three words drew troubled soul Mat Rogers out of his own personal wilderness.
Last Friday night, free and happy of spirit, Rogers truly was home playing the NRL game he loves in front of thousands of people who are more than adoring fans.
They are now his family who have welcomed the champion into their hearts.
Skilled Park was a celebration, a cheering mass of Titans fans focused as much on helping their team to a sterling victory against the Tigers as showing Rogers how much he means to this city.
The 34-year-old dual international has announced this will be his last season in rugby league. His body has finally said 'enough'. Hopefully he will leave the game on a sporting high.
Hopefully the Titans can keep on winning and take out their inaugural NRL premiership in just their fourth season in the national competition.
Rogers will certainly leave the game on a personal high. On the field and off it, 2010 has been a stellar year.
He has defied age with some of the best form of his career and, with wife Chloe and their children Max and Phoenix, he is an extremely happy family man.
So different from 2006 when Titans boss Michael Searle happened across Rogers at a cafe on Cronulla Beach.
Searle believes Rogers was close to walking away from sport.
"There was no doubt Matty was a troubled soul back then," recalls Searle.
He was in his fifth season in rugby union since swapping codes in 2002.
He had certainly scaled the heights in rugby, playing 46 Tests with the Wallabies, but the fit still wasn't right.
Rogers was still grieving the loss of his father, rugby league great Steve Rogers, who had passed away that January.
During that '06 meeting, Searle simply asked his friend, 'Come home Matty'.
It was a plea to not only return to the game he loved, league, but also to the city where he belonged -- the Gold Coast.
Both Steve and Mat are synonymous with Cronulla and their football team, the Sharks, but the Rogers family has long and close links with the Gold Coast.
Steve came here with his parents in the early '70s and began his senior rugby league career on the tourist strip.
As a 17-year-old he starred for the Southport Tigers when they won the local premiership against a Seagulls team captain-coached by Searle's father Tom.
After a brilliant Sydney-based playing career, Steve Rogers returned to the Gold Coast with his family in the late 1980s.
Mat attended TSS and played Australian schoolboys rugby union before returning to Sydney and the Sharks.
The '06 meeting proved fateful. Within 24 hours Mat had agreed to 'come home'. It was as if the call he didn't even realise he was waiting for had finally come.
In putting together his squad to debut in 2007, Searle had emphasised that he was buying the 'person before the player'.
Rogers appeared to be the exception.
His years in rugby had not been without controversy and even his introduction to the Gold Coast had all the trappings of a rock star reception.
Covered in 'ink' and sporting a diamond in both ears, he appeared before the media here late in 2006 through a thick pall of stage smoke, loud music and flashing lights.
But as Titans skipper Scott Prince points out, Rogers is 'very normal'.
"It took a while for the layers to peel back," says Prince.
"But as they did and the more you got to know 'The Rat' the more you realise what a great, down-to-Earth bloke he is."
That's also the person Sam Stewart has come to know.
Stewart, the former Kiwi and Newcastle Knights enforcer, now coaches juniors at the Burleigh Bears. One of his young players is Rogers' son Jack, 14, from his first marriage.
"Mat comes down twice a week for training," says Stewart.
"I give all the parents a job, Mat as well. His forte obviously is his knowledge of the game so he helps me out on the ground, holding the pads.
"He complains the kids hit too hard.
"Mat just wants to be the best Dad he can be and I think that is a major reason why he is retiring.
"We are in the grand final on Saturday and Mat will be there.
"He was there when we had our pre-grand final dinner on Thursday night.
"Jack presented him with a club shirt as a thank you.
"Mat came up, accepted it and then gave his boy a big kiss and cuddle."
Much the same as the people of the Gold Coast did to one to their favourite sons last Friday night at Skilled.
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Three words turned Rogers around
Pat McLeod
September 6th, 2010
'COME home Matty'. Almost five years ago, those three words drew troubled soul Mat Rogers out of his own personal wilderness.
Last Friday night, free and happy of spirit, Rogers truly was home playing the NRL game he loves in front of thousands of people who are more than adoring fans.
They are now his family who have welcomed the champion into their hearts.
Skilled Park was a celebration, a cheering mass of Titans fans focused as much on helping their team to a sterling victory against the Tigers as showing Rogers how much he means to this city.
The 34-year-old dual international has announced this will be his last season in rugby league. His body has finally said 'enough'. Hopefully he will leave the game on a sporting high.
Hopefully the Titans can keep on winning and take out their inaugural NRL premiership in just their fourth season in the national competition.
Rogers will certainly leave the game on a personal high. On the field and off it, 2010 has been a stellar year.
He has defied age with some of the best form of his career and, with wife Chloe and their children Max and Phoenix, he is an extremely happy family man.
So different from 2006 when Titans boss Michael Searle happened across Rogers at a cafe on Cronulla Beach.
Searle believes Rogers was close to walking away from sport.
"There was no doubt Matty was a troubled soul back then," recalls Searle.
He was in his fifth season in rugby union since swapping codes in 2002.
He had certainly scaled the heights in rugby, playing 46 Tests with the Wallabies, but the fit still wasn't right.
Rogers was still grieving the loss of his father, rugby league great Steve Rogers, who had passed away that January.
During that '06 meeting, Searle simply asked his friend, 'Come home Matty'.
It was a plea to not only return to the game he loved, league, but also to the city where he belonged -- the Gold Coast.
Both Steve and Mat are synonymous with Cronulla and their football team, the Sharks, but the Rogers family has long and close links with the Gold Coast.
Steve came here with his parents in the early '70s and began his senior rugby league career on the tourist strip.
As a 17-year-old he starred for the Southport Tigers when they won the local premiership against a Seagulls team captain-coached by Searle's father Tom.
After a brilliant Sydney-based playing career, Steve Rogers returned to the Gold Coast with his family in the late 1980s.
Mat attended TSS and played Australian schoolboys rugby union before returning to Sydney and the Sharks.
The '06 meeting proved fateful. Within 24 hours Mat had agreed to 'come home'. It was as if the call he didn't even realise he was waiting for had finally come.
In putting together his squad to debut in 2007, Searle had emphasised that he was buying the 'person before the player'.
Rogers appeared to be the exception.
His years in rugby had not been without controversy and even his introduction to the Gold Coast had all the trappings of a rock star reception.
Covered in 'ink' and sporting a diamond in both ears, he appeared before the media here late in 2006 through a thick pall of stage smoke, loud music and flashing lights.
But as Titans skipper Scott Prince points out, Rogers is 'very normal'.
"It took a while for the layers to peel back," says Prince.
"But as they did and the more you got to know 'The Rat' the more you realise what a great, down-to-Earth bloke he is."
That's also the person Sam Stewart has come to know.
Stewart, the former Kiwi and Newcastle Knights enforcer, now coaches juniors at the Burleigh Bears. One of his young players is Rogers' son Jack, 14, from his first marriage.
"Mat comes down twice a week for training," says Stewart.
"I give all the parents a job, Mat as well. His forte obviously is his knowledge of the game so he helps me out on the ground, holding the pads.
"He complains the kids hit too hard.
"Mat just wants to be the best Dad he can be and I think that is a major reason why he is retiring.
"We are in the grand final on Saturday and Mat will be there.
"He was there when we had our pre-grand final dinner on Thursday night.
"Jack presented him with a club shirt as a thank you.
"Mat came up, accepted it and then gave his boy a big kiss and cuddle."
Much the same as the people of the Gold Coast did to one to their favourite sons last Friday night at Skilled.
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Over and out for devastated Rogers
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Over and out for devastated Rogers
Chris Barrett
September 25, 2010
FOR Mat Rogers, it was not the farewell a player of his stature warranted. At 34, the dual international had announced this would be his last season of a decorated career. Having not won a premiership in his first incarnation as an NRL player with Cronulla, this was his big opportunity.
The pain of defeat last night, and its implications for their oldest player, was written all over the Titans' faces as they came to terms with the fact that their season - and a chance at grand final glory - was over.
''I'm not getting any younger,'' a shattered captain Scott Prince said. ''You've got a guy in there that is retiring at the end of the year. I made it my personal goal to send him off in the way he deserved. That's life.''
That the preliminary final was Rogers's 199th outing in this competition only made the sense of lost opportunity among John Cartwright's side sink in deeper.
''It just feels surreal,'' Prince said. ''It just feels like it wasn't supposed to happen like that. I was very confident with our preparation leading into the week. Even at half-time, six points behind, we've been six points behind in most games this year. I guess you have to pay credit to the Roosters - they played well.''
Cartwright was also bitterly disappointed with the result, having guided the young franchise to the brink of a first-ever grand final. ''No words are going to soothe them at the moment,'' the coach said when asked what he had said to his players after the game. ''It's just time, that's all.''
''The scoreboard says we got outplayed. There was a couple of defining moments there that determined the course of that game. It probably wasn't a game that suited us, the speed that it was played at.''
Despite the defeat, Cartwright was able to reflect on a positive season as a whole. ''I'm not going to let the disappointment of tonight take away from the effort that these fellas put in,'' he said. ''We were written off at some stages through the year and we kept bouncing back … we got to within one game of the ultimate. [It] depends which way [you look at it] glass half full, glass half empty.''
On Rogers's final game, he said: ''It probably won't sink in for Matty for a while, it's a lot to take in. He'll have to deal with one blow at a time. It's a big thing to take - when your whole life as it was is no more.'' Said Rogers: ''It never once went through my mind that this was going to be my last week of football.''
Fullback Preston Campbell, who has also indicated he may retire, said he was yet to make a final decision on his playing future.
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Over and out for devastated Rogers
Chris Barrett
September 25, 2010
FOR Mat Rogers, it was not the farewell a player of his stature warranted. At 34, the dual international had announced this would be his last season of a decorated career. Having not won a premiership in his first incarnation as an NRL player with Cronulla, this was his big opportunity.
The pain of defeat last night, and its implications for their oldest player, was written all over the Titans' faces as they came to terms with the fact that their season - and a chance at grand final glory - was over.
''I'm not getting any younger,'' a shattered captain Scott Prince said. ''You've got a guy in there that is retiring at the end of the year. I made it my personal goal to send him off in the way he deserved. That's life.''
That the preliminary final was Rogers's 199th outing in this competition only made the sense of lost opportunity among John Cartwright's side sink in deeper.
''It just feels surreal,'' Prince said. ''It just feels like it wasn't supposed to happen like that. I was very confident with our preparation leading into the week. Even at half-time, six points behind, we've been six points behind in most games this year. I guess you have to pay credit to the Roosters - they played well.''
Cartwright was also bitterly disappointed with the result, having guided the young franchise to the brink of a first-ever grand final. ''No words are going to soothe them at the moment,'' the coach said when asked what he had said to his players after the game. ''It's just time, that's all.''
''The scoreboard says we got outplayed. There was a couple of defining moments there that determined the course of that game. It probably wasn't a game that suited us, the speed that it was played at.''
Despite the defeat, Cartwright was able to reflect on a positive season as a whole. ''I'm not going to let the disappointment of tonight take away from the effort that these fellas put in,'' he said. ''We were written off at some stages through the year and we kept bouncing back … we got to within one game of the ultimate. [It] depends which way [you look at it] glass half full, glass half empty.''
On Rogers's final game, he said: ''It probably won't sink in for Matty for a while, it's a lot to take in. He'll have to deal with one blow at a time. It's a big thing to take - when your whole life as it was is no more.'' Said Rogers: ''It never once went through my mind that this was going to be my last week of football.''
Fullback Preston Campbell, who has also indicated he may retire, said he was yet to make a final decision on his playing future.
snowman
Total gronk
too bad you played like ****ing **** scott.
great career rat. should of finished a shark
Well done done on a great career Matty. So many things you have accomplished well done.
As to Prince "thats what you get for refusing to sign my sons Titans flag" you **** wit.
I call it KARMA
And before anyone starts, my kids do support a second team, it helps keep the peace.
There main team is of coarse the Sharks otherwise they would be out on the streets
As to Prince "thats what you get for refusing to sign my sons Titans flag" you **** wit.
I call it KARMA
And before anyone starts
, my kids do support a second team, it helps keep the peace.There main team is of coarse the Sharks otherwise they would be out on the streets
snowman
Total gronk
ahem, why does your son have a titans flag
He enjoys watching Prince, I let the kids follow a second team not as much as the Sharks mind you.
If it keeps them happy then it's got to be good. There only young too, so there brains haven't developed properly as yet. Hence the confusion
At the end of the day they all support the SHARKS.........
snowman
Total gronk
good man
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Thanks for the memories Matt - you're one of the reasons I started following the Sharks. Your speed and agilty got the heart pumping and lungs screaming more than once. Was shattered when you left for Union. Wish you got a premiership in your career... Enjoy life mate.