Small is relative Stanny. Yeah they look small on telly next to the forwards, but they ain't small.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
For reference, google tells me Luka Modric weights 66kg. Kalyn Ponga weighs 92kg.
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Small is relative Stanny. Yeah they look small on telly next to the forwards, but they ain't small.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
For reference, google tells me Luka Modric weights 66kg. Kalyn Ponga weighs 92kg.
Blokes like Eric Grothe [The Guru] or Noel Cleal [Crusher] were a big deal in their day because they were relatively big men with a lot of pace.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Today, blokes their size that are fast are a dime a dozen. Not only that today's players have a lot less body fat so todays 100kg player is a machine in comparison to those of 30 years or more ago.
its like when people talk about basketball and how 'little guys' like Steph Curry are running the league.
Steph Curry is 6'3"
Its certainly Knights week at the Herald and NBN. They are soooo Jets.
With all the doom and gloom they still have room to interview one of the last Nannas.
Boofhead NRL player gets 10 in the bin, boofhead fan takes a swing at him on the way off.
Boofhead commentators have a giggle about the bloke 'having a few too many" then they laugh on camera to each other.
all good fun huh?
To be fair, he stuck his phone through and filmed himself mouthing off at Chambers, it wasn't that bad. He never took a swing, that was just some everyday media beat up. And now the league has come out and told Manly to fix the security issue or they'll lose home finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
NRL managed to monumentally cock up the entire grand final and can't even blame it on VAR. Good to see it happens to everyone at least.
you talking about them signing One Republic to play?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
canberra so angry they set fire to the trains...
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sto...ning/?cs=14225
Deliberately lit too. FMD some humans are pieces of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Must be some wanderers fans living down thereQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Don't really no what everyone is whining aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Reality is Canberra had more than enough opportunity to win that game
They just were not good enough to do so
Can focus on some BS calls going against them all you want but sport is about taking your opportunities when they come
Canberra didn't Roosters did
That the biggest problem with the sportsmedia these days
Always trying to find some ****ing refereeing conspiracy in all results
Nothing new - even 30 years ago a ref was dodgy if the penalty count wasn't even.
I watched the game, and note I only ever watch some SoO and maybe a final each year.
My view is in a game which was pretty difficult for either side to break thru the other, it has to be said that Canberra did not do well in the play following the #6again call and Roosters went thru relatively easily. It wasn't like that one call led directly to a try, there was still an entire set of play they had the chance to defend plus a breather break at the start of it to recover. But if I were Canberra I would feel really robbed there by that call. In a world where we are taught to play to the whistle, I don't see it fair for a signal to be given and then overturned without a whistle announcing this. It's not like the game is beautiful and free-flowing in basically any way, so my opinion is if you want to change a signalled call you should have to whistle the play to correct this. The Canberra guy went down far too easily and without a fight which proves he genuinely believed he had more tackles ahead of him. In a game with so few chances it isn't unreasonable to say that set of 6 Canberra were expecting to be given could have been huge.
I also see a lot of people complaining about the instance where the ball hit the trainer, I don't know enough about the game but if there isn't a review into why randoms are running the field while the game is still active I will be very surprised. If you want treatment, go off the field. If you can't get off the field, play needs to be stopped.
But on the game in general.. in my very uneducated opinion I felt Canberra really lost out when they had the extra man but never seemed to really try and exploit this. I would think you would try and spread the game and get 2 on 1 situations as much as possible in this scenario but I didn't really sense any conviction from Canberra to spray the ball during Tara Rushton's partners sendoff.
I also would like to point out that as a football fan, I get a lot of grief from Rugby League supporters about how footballers abuse refs and feign injury and it never happens in the NRL. I saw a lot of instances to argue that it happens in the NRL from that game to say that the issues are not isolated to just football, and I would like the record to show that. Lots of discussions and arguments with the refs, including the Roosters captain stating "you can't send him off" as if it were a demand.. and also someone received a tackle around the neck and went down holding his cheek to try and promote the idea to the ref that it was a penalty (which it was called as so). I just can't watch that game, and I safely assume these instances happen each week and not just in the Grand Final, and accept that these issues are isolated to football only.
Overall it wasn't the worst game I have watched, but if I'm watching sports other than football then Rugby Union, AFL and Netball are very easily ahead in my enjoyment before NRL. If SoO and Grand Finals are the pinnacle games of the sport, I don't get enough fun out of watching these to make me want to watch NRL more than the other great options we have available.
NRL = Manic desperation.
that V'landys really is a piece of shit isn't he?
in charge of horse racing when they stick electrodes up horses bums before slaughtering them - responds by trying to sue those reporting on him
in charge of the rugby league rape squad while theres a global pandemic - responds to chief medical officer who questions the timing of a restart by saying "we should start tomorrow"
really is the worst bloke - no wonder he's the head of rugby league
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Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Only thing missing from V'Landys CV is invading Poland.
apparently V'Landys laid in bed for twenty years, spending his family's pittance on tobacco for himself, only to jump out of bed and start dancing the moment Charlie won a golden ticket to tour the chocolate factory
so these idiots want to get all the teams and support staff together and isolate them to re-start their season
so about 500 rapists and their enablers, locked away
why not just film prison riots and show it on the telly?
and do they think that these idiots all together aren't just going to get on the piss and go off raping women they find on tinder?
Let's be honest - this is about money and saving their competition - it's not for the players, not for the fans - it's for the NRL to get their TV money. Sounds like it could go belly up if it doesn't start soon.
The amount of pointless NRL "stories" coming through each day is ridiculous and looks like desperation just to keep relevant. Even the EPL has less stories! So far the other codes have kept fairly quiet, though rugger is under strain as well.
Hypothetically, if the NRL does start up whilst we're still in this pandemic. What happens if an NRL player get injured and needs to be taken to Hospital for medical treatment? Will that NRL players treatment be priority over COVID patients? Will there be an adequate amount of paramedics available to attend these games.
Seems like it's a cocktail to put more pressure on our health system that is stretched already.
There's no way that they'll be allowed to play if we are still in lockdown. All of this is a giant act.
A) they just want to stay relevant and their motto for the last decade has been that any news is good news. So they're happy to air dirty laundry, attack each other, attack politicians, or anything else that gets them onto the TV and into papers.
B) the NRL is using this whole thing to put the blame onto anyone but themselves as the league is one missed season away from collapse. They have clubs riddled with massive debt, they haven't been paying the correct money into the player retirement fund they setup many years ago, they have been paying players and backers of the game in brown paper bags for years and now the war chest that everyone assumed they had is more like a small savings account.
This is all just posturing without any actual plan to get the season going again. They haven't agreed on where they'll play the games, how many games they'll play, whether the first two rounds will be counted or a full restart, the Warriors aren't even allowed back into the country, etc. They haven't even spoken to the refs who are about to stop being paid within the next fortnight and won't have contracts anymore.
I can't believe that somehow the NRL is already in a worse position than the A League. They had to go get a $250 mllion loan within a month of games stopping to save themselves. What a joke.
I grew up loving RL, I played it till I was 18. However, it's been on a slow decline to irrelevancy for years. I remember the family struggling to get tickets to Knights games in the mid 90's.
Less kids are playing it, less people are turning up to games or watching on TV. It'll continue to get worse as the years go on.
All the effort going to cleaning up the game is for nothing, let the game be what it needs to be. Bonehead vs Bonehead with all the biff and roughness it needs to be entertaining.
I don't know where to start.....
https://coupler.foxsports.com.au/api...d36ed6a056c719
Peter Fitzsimons taking the piss out of league wanting to return
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/is-...29-p54oc2.html
mild humour
so ti add to the litany of crimes, it turns out rugby league is full of anti vax ****ing morons as well
how much worse can these people get?
scared of needles are they, but love a good old finger in the bum.Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Yesterday:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...h68i7yQhlPqQ40
Today:Quote:
Xerri to return faster than ever after teaming up with renowned sprint trainer
One of the NRL’s fastest men will return to rugby league even quicker with Cronulla centre Bronson Xerri claiming he’s shaved down his sprint times.
The centre believes he is faster than he was when he last played in September, after training during lockdown working with sprint coach Roger Fabri.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...bbb157b8d28b09
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Bronson Xerri fails ASADA drug test, doping ban:
Cronulla Sharks centre Bronson Xerri, one of the brightest young stars in the NRL, is facing a four-year doping ban for failing an ASADA drug test.
Xerri reportedly had his phone seized by ASADA officials on Tuesday as the news broke and sent shockwaves around the league little more than 48 hours prior to the game’s relaunch.
The NRL confirmed the news in a release.
I always wonder why rugbeh league and AFL worry about joining anti-doping things
it's not like they have any serious international competition so theres no way they can be expelled from anything
M8, have you herd ov the World Cup?
Where the entire Lebanese squad lives in Western Sydney?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
The best assumption I've seen is that it is linked with government funding.Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Where international eligibility is basically if your great great grandfathers cousins best mate went to Dublin once you can play for Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBtLPWeKbUQuote:
Originally Posted by evolution
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...harold-shipman
so it didn't take long for rugby league to take something nice and fun like cardboard cutouts in the stands and ruin it
the thing is, Hitler would actually be a better person than your average NRL player
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/s...ersey/?cs=9676
putting rainbows on a bunch of neanderthal homophobe rapist boofheads won't bring them up to 21st century standards of human decency
Geez Mr Boz dont you know anything?Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
Over 37% of people who turn gay said they caught it from wearing rainbows.
hashtagbealertnotalarmed
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Originally Posted by boz-monaut
7 first team players are now refusing to play.
Their PR move has backfired.
The club are standing firm...I suggest it possibly hasn't. They're playing on despite the players standing down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
League players are the gift that keep on giving
The only heads that will roll are the morons who put this idea up without asking the stakeholders.
Like it or not NRL players by and large (especially the polynesian folk) are hugely religious and this was never going to fly.
There was a way better way to do this but when you leave out your most vital component (the highly paid front facing labour) then youve made a massive mistake.
and us sockah folk better not be too loud about it, there are a lot of clubs in certain demographics that aint wearing those colours either. We (so far) have been smart enough to read the tea leaves before opening our traps.