Other NRL games round 1

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Papenhuyzen 91 in the 1st half

 

[HoldenV8]

As a cricket purist I’d agree BUT it’s enormously popular with the younger fans which is who it’s aimed at.

Rugba Leeg is going down this same track.

Unfortunately yes.

To me cricket is like a game of chess. Move and counter move. T20 is like the home run derby at the Major League Baseball All Star Game.

League, the NRL version of it, has become a slogfest for the athlete.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Very quick game, storm very good on the edges.

 

[HK_Eagle]

Hmm... shades of B. Stewart in young Paps? Watching him accelerate through that half gap for his try in the corner got me thinking of our great BS.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Hmm... shades of B. Stewart in young Paps? Watching him accelerate through that half gap for his try in the corner got me thinking of our great BS.

Pre ACL’s!!!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Anyone thinking our team are all sitting at home watching this thinking “ oh ****ity ****ity ****”!!

 

[dowdz]

The big thing I notice. Is how Storm come up and slide in defence. We seem to back peddle.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

And here comes the set restarts to even the game up , we can’t have the Premiership favourites getting smashed can we ???

 

[dowdz]

And here comes the set restarts to even the game up , we can’t have the Premiership favourites getting smashed can we ???

I just went off about that! You don't even know why! I hate that rule.

 

[HK_Eagle]

Why are Souths allowed to have a goal kicker who can kick goals from out wide? Surely that's against the rules? If it was Manly, we'd be penalised surely...

 

[HK_Eagle]

Anyone thinking our team are all sitting at home watching this thinking “ oh *ity ****ity *”!!

I reckon they're at home playing Sonic Hedgehog

 

[AlxFromNthNarra]

OK for Storm......

Try 1 was legit. Munster is a fine player in every sense. If Manly had him with DCE...Origin last year showed what can happen.

Try 2 - pass to Addo-Carr on Storm 10m Def line to open up break downfield was blatantly forward - based on the Manly v Pmatta turbo pass last year that we lost the game on. Then, Pap-sonic pass infield to Olam on Bunnies 10m was fwd too by same definition. 2 Fwd passes missed in 1 set.

Try 3 - pass from Pap-sonic again to open up bunnies Def - fwd (by same definition). Then infield pass back to Paps even MORE fwd - which is EASILY seen by the horitonzal grading of the turf about 3-4m from the 10m line - you can see lighter coloured turf - pass is thrown in lighter coloured turf, caught in darker coloured turf in front of Pap-sonic - he caught it about 2m in front of where pass happened.

Try 4 - legit speed from Pap-sonic.

So Riddle me this - Manly got done twice in first half of Trial vs Tigers for a fwd pass from Dummy Half. (I haven't reviewed 2nd half in as much detail, but plan to over weekend) - and neither of those 2 passes had the same source/recipient differential when it comes to where passer/receiver had ball in this game. Will the fwd pass be as 'liberal' if a team is not a contender? Sure Melb were moving (fast) when they let their passes out, but consistency if the issue here.

I don't give a hoot about either team - but given how subjective the rulings have become with 6-agains, and the power bestowed on Refs with those same 6-again rulings, i'll be fkd if i'm not going to use games with 2 teams I don't give a flying Fk about, to judge the consistency of the refereeing - because in my mind, it has become far too obvious that a Ref has greater power to decide an outcome of a game than ever before.

If I were a Souths fan - I'd be pisssssssed right now. I actually dislike the vermin a lot, special treatment from NRL hierarchy and all with Burgess/Inglis vs Matai/Snake sitch.

Just don't expect Manly to get the same benefit of the doubt as the 'expected' top-4 the NRL wants (ie Rooters/Storm/Rabbits/Eels), and the Refs seem intent on giving the hoi-polloi the result NewsCorp has told us is forthcoming.

Watch the replay - tell me i'm dreaming....please

 

[pjayz]

NRL season can't even get to halftime without being absolute junk. The game is rubbish. One sided touch footy. Harlem Globetrotters vs Washington Generals. I'm done with it.

But Fox and the NRL tell us we fans love it. Nobody I know does.

 

[pjayz]

This is what the NRL want , think of it like T20 cricket.

It’s entertainment, welcome to Rugba Leeg circa 2021.

Circus 2021 more like it

 

[AlxFromNthNarra]

And now 2nd half in full swing, Refs will use their power to make the game look closer than it deserves to be, like 2020 GF.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

And now 2nd half in full swing, Refs will use their power to make the game look closer than it deserves to be, like 2020 GF.

Nostradamus!!

 

[HK_Eagle]

Olum was so embarrassed that the ref didn't call that knock on that he gave it back to the bunnies

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Here we go!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Yes we can’t have the favourites being smashed can we??

@Clint your tip is still alive mate

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Do it Latrine! For my SC