- The roosters are fighting a players drain for the 2025 season
- They were beaten by Newcastle Knights in the last trial game
- The loss could have a very heavy cost
Sydney's roosters will be forced to start the NRL season without more than half of last year's first option, after Spencer Leniu was beaten with the prohibition of two AA games for a high Tackle.
Leniu on Monday received a high careful Tackle position of grade two, discarding it from the opening clashes of the Gallos season with Brisbane and Penrith with an early guilty statement.
If the support chooses to fight the position at a pre -season judicial hearing, he would risk spending a third week on the sidelines if the challenge was unsuccessful.
Adding insult to the lesions for the roosters is the fact that Leniu would have only lost a game, if it were not for the load of last year's racial insult in Las Vegas.
The position of Leniu limited a weekend of horror for the roosters, which were defeated 48-10 by Newcastle on Sunday and made Mark Nawaqanitawase suffer a calf injury.
The defense of the Golos goal line was particularly poor, after a summer in which the roosters have emphasized their column with points.
Spencer Leniu faces a prohibition of two parties with an early guilty declaration or three weeks if the decision in the Judiciary NRL challenges and loses
The Sydney Roosters star recruits Mark Nawaqanitawase was taken from the field in agony with a calf injury during the club's great defeat against Newcastle
Considered the Premier League contestants in each of the last 12 seasons, the roosters face their most difficult challenge in more than a decade.
From the first election team last year, star players Joey Manu, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Luke Keary and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves have gone to rugby or English Super League.
It is anticipated that the mediobrak Sam Walker will miss the first half of the season that returns from an ACL rupture, as well as the contract prostitute Brandon Smith.
Sitili Tupouniu also went to Canterbury, while Terrell May was abruptly released in the low season and since then moved to Wests Tigers.
The May and Waerea-Hargreaves exits had left Leniu with a crucial job to do this year, with former Penrith Premiership winner who is expected to begin.
But while Leniu brought the aggression of Waerea-Hargreaves while starting on Sunday, he also had the mixture of chaos with his high shot in Phoenix Crossland.
The prohibition means that the roosters will be without nine of the first election team last year for the first round, with two centers, two halves, three accessories and a prostitute among the missing.
In other places, South Sydney has accepted a prohibition of a game for Lewis Dodd after his high shot in Sione Finau in the defeat of Carity 46-26 of Rabbitohs against St. George Illawarra.
The prohibition means that Dodd will not align at number 7 for the Rabbitoh in the first round against the Dolphins, with Jamie Humphreys now reaffirming to wear the shirt.
Its suspension occurs after an equally bad week for Souths, since Cameron Murray will lose most of the season with an Achilles break, and Latrell Mitchell the first six rounds through a breakage of the hamstrings.
Dodd had already suffered a difficult preseason, not adding any spark to the Rabbitoh attack upon arrival from England.
The Canterbury striker, Josh Curran, will also miss the clash of the Bulldogs opening round with St George Illawarra, after making a prohibition of a match for a high Tackle.