Why Roosters players are raving about the ‘desperational’ play of Brandon Smith

Looming on Mulitalo’s inside shoulder was the runaway freight train otherwise known as Siosifa Talakai.

But hold the frikkin’ phone! Here comes Brandon Smith, the block of Kraft Cheddar Cheese himself, shadowing — stalking — Talakai the entire way.

Multialo takes the tackle, the Sharks don’t score, Tedesco returns, and the Roosters end up finding the try and the field goal that secures victory.

“Biggest play of the game,” one senior Roosters player told me this week.

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