Sydney Roosters odds

With more than 100 years of history behind them, the Sydney Roosters are one of the powerhouse teams of the National Rugby League.

That legacy was underlined in 2018 when the Tricolours jumped a heavily fancied Melbourne Storm side in the NRL Grand Final to win their 15th premiership.

Can the Chooks go all the way to the big dance again? Let’s see how the odds are shaping up for 2019.

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Best Sydney Roosters bets for NRL 2018

There are dozens of NRL futures markets for the Roosters, but where are they likely to return some real value?

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• Roosters 2018 premiership betting
  There is a lot of support for Sydney in the early betting. Much of that has to do with the acquisition of Cooper Cronk, whose move from Melbourne has had the serendipitous side-effect of weakening a chief rival. Barring any unforeseen crises, the Chooks will most certainly be in the mix.
  
• Top 4 betting
  Unsurprisingly, the premiership favourites are very well backed for a top-four finish. The Roosters wound up second to the Storm last season and should be around the top two again.
  
• Dally M Medal betting
  James Tedesco racked up 18 Dally M votes last year in a Wests Tigers team that finished at the wrong end of the table. The question is: will more wins mean more votes, or will the NSW fullback have to share them with Cronk, Keary, et al? We reckon Tedesco is Sydney’s best bet anyway.
  
• Top tryscorer betting
  Bookies have Daniel Tupou pegged as Sydney’s best tryscoring option, but have they got things mixed up? Latrell Mitchell made a few costly gaffes in last year’s finals, but the 20-year-old winger is an awesome talent who will only be better with another season under his belt.
  

2018 Sydney Roosters draw

Roosters players to watch in 2018

Cooper Cronk
Born: 5/12/1983
Games: 323
Tries: 92
Position: Halfback

Is this the move that will bring premiership glory back to the Eastern Suburbs? The Chooks shifted Mitchell Pearce to make space for 34-year-old Cronk, whose ratio of accolades to hot dinners stands at around 1:1. An injury-free run for the former Queensland star could be the difference between a good year and a great year at the Allianz.

James Tedesco
Born: 8/1/1993
Games: 90
Tries: 50
Position: Fullback

Cronk is not Sydney’s only big signing for 2018. Tedesco was outstanding in his final year at the Tigers and was among NSW’s best in State of Origin, setting the early pace with a MOTM display in game one. He arrives at the Allianz at the peak of his game and should make an immediate impact.

Latrell Mitchell
Born: 16/6/1997
Games: 47
Tries: 29
Position: Winger

Mitchell endured a tough end to an otherwise excellent second season in the NRL. At only 20 years of age, he has already scored over 150 points by hand and foot. The Cronk-Keary halves pairing can only be good for the young winger’s development, while other list changes should see him take on more kicking duties.

Melbourne Storm records, stats and history

• Player records
  Most games: 302 – Anthony Minichello
  Most career points: 1454 – Craig Fitzgibbon
  Most points in a season: 284 – Ivan Cleary (1998)
  Most career tries: 139 – Anthony Minichello
  Most tries in a season: 38 – David Brown (1935)
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: 19 (1975)
  Highest score in a match: 70 (vs. Dragons, 2000)
  Biggest winning margin: 87-7 (vs. Bulldogs, 1935)
  Largest home attendance: 62,255 (vs. Eels at Stadium Australia, 2000)
  
• Sydney Roosters history
  The Sydney Roosters began life as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club in January 1908. Designed to represent the municipalities of Darlinghurst, Paddington, Randwick, Vaucluse, Waverley and Woollahra, the team’s traditional zone also includes the entirety of postcode 2000 – the Sydney city centre.

  Success came early for the Tricolours. Led by legends like Dally Messenger, Jersey Flegg and Sandy Pearce, the club won three premierships in a row from 1911 to 1913. Another hat-trick arrived in the 1930s, along with two more flags at either end of World War II.

  Although Eastern Suburbs entered the second half of the 20th century as one of rugby league’s power clubs, on-field success proved scarce from that point on. A three-decade drought was broken with back-to-back triumphs in 1974 and ’75, but the Chooks would not add to their tally of 11 flags until after the turn of the millennium.

  Despite their ordinary returns on the field, Easts survived the financial hardships of the 1980s and the Super League wars of the ’90s. By the time of the NRL’s inauguration in 1998, the rebranded Sydney City Roosters were again a force to be reckoned with. Their 27-year dry spell came to an end in 2002, when Phil Gould engineered the club’s 12th first-grade premiership.

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