I'm feeling confident about next week. This Brisbane side looks like a team that will get seriously confused when confronted with big gaps opening up in our defence for 5-10 minute periods.
Other Games - Round 24, 2018
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yokahontas
Bencher
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t mind the big stick myself
He'll have to jostle for position with Darius.
yokahontas
Bencher
I got that from an old NZ cartoon - Bro Town. Come to think of it, that’s how I learned to speak fluent Kiwi as well. That, and a couple of years sailing with a NZ Navy officer named Bic, who I was always asking to go below dick to get stuff for me while I steered the boat.
yokahontas
Bencher
It’s pretty variable anyway. Depends on the situation, and the stick, and stuff!
Class of 96
Bencher
The Who
Journey Man
The NSW and the NRL need to take a look at tonight's matches at side-by-side Sydney venues. The SCG was full, showing the popularity of Aussie Rules. Next door the Football Stadium was 3/4 empty for a match between two of the leading teams in the NRL.
Memo NRL. Your sport is getting slaughtered by Aussie Rules.
Memo NSW Government: Why spend $700-m building a bigger stadium on the same site when it will only mean more empty seats?
Memo NRL. Your sport is getting slaughtered by Aussie Rules.
Memo NSW Government: Why spend $700-m building a bigger stadium on the same site when it will only mean more empty seats?
HK_Eagle
First Grader
How farking great was that!!!!
HK_Eagle
First Grader
I tell you what... I wish Manly was as professionally run from top to bottom, on and off the field as that mighty club.
Class of 96
Bencher
Spot on but they won’t. Delusional and think they are on the level of world soccer. The AFL guys just get it right. And they are about to hit a record 8 million attendance for the year. The NRL will probably get about 2.5 million for the year with an extra round than the AFL. Dimwitted dickheads!
yokahontas
Bencher
Two friends of mine decided to take their families to the AFL match last night (separate groups, they don’t know each other) - first live Swans game for both. One’s a Sharks fan, so in fairness probably had bugger all interest in the NRL game, but the other is a Brisbane fan who only moved to Sydney a couple of weeks ago. Surely that should be a worry for the NRL, that he chose to take the kids to the SCG instead of watching his own team playing next door?
yokahontas
Bencher
If only the NRL were run with half the professionalism of the AFL! That’d be a good start, too.
Poos & wees isn’t a judgement on the quality of Hawthorn, by the way (or any other club, in any sport, that wears those colours). It’s just gotta be the worst colour combo out there!
HoldenV8
Journey Man
Hypothetical on the Napa hit.
You get confronted by someone on the street and in the process of either trying to get past them or if you actually started fighting, the other person did to you what Napa has now done twice this season. What would be the first thing you told the cops when you were able?
You'd tell them you got headbutted.
So what makes Napa's hit any different?
The only accident in it was I don't think there was an intent to injure. But given his form with this type of tackling, I have to conclude that the hit, especially the way he hit leading with his head, was intentional. He didn't just fall into it by accident.
You get confronted by someone on the street and in the process of either trying to get past them or if you actually started fighting, the other person did to you what Napa has now done twice this season. What would be the first thing you told the cops when you were able?
You'd tell them you got headbutted.
So what makes Napa's hit any different?
The only accident in it was I don't think there was an intent to injure. But given his form with this type of tackling, I have to conclude that the hit, especially the way he hit leading with his head, was intentional. He didn't just fall into it by accident.
Brissie Kid
Bencher
Napa needs to look at his own technique to prevent being so reckless and dangerous, but he shouldn't be 100% accountable for ball carriers who don't watch where they are going. The thing is McCulloch was completely indifferent to where Napa was. McCulloch wasn't even looking. Same as Dean Young when he got smashed by Inglis, but the media turned on Inglis. If you're carrying the ball you have to show some personal responsibility too. You can bet when Terry Randall or Ron Gibbs were playing the ball carriers were fully aware of where they were.
HappilyManly
Journey Man
Dylan Napa charged. Facing three to four match ban
sharks v knights on now.
like everyone go watch as toddy says the nrl is super duper uber awesome!
as does beattie.... if he knows what it is
like everyone go watch as toddy says the nrl is super duper uber awesome!
as does beattie.... if he knows what it is
HappilyManly
Journey Man
Drags must beat the Dogs , the other games results don't help Manly 
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