Masked Eagle
Bencher
A few bad elements in the RBB but they create an atmosphere which would be the envy of every NRL club.
Mals said:MadMarcus said:globaleagle said:Red and black are the teams colours.
It would have to be a loser team to have those colours.
By winning the Premiership Plate last season it could be argued that WSW achieved more in 1 year than the North Sydney Bears achieved in 7 decades following their most "recent" GF win in 1922 😉
HappilyManly said:Central Coast won 2-0 last year.
The WSW have serious issues with a small group of their Fans. Every game has seats broken, stabbings/fights after the game and the dangerous flares :s
The Media haven't started to disect the Soccer like they do the League, but it will happen.
Townsville Eagle said:She probably gets her inspiration from the label of the grog she is drinking at the time.
Ralphie said:I'm a huge fan of making negative gross generalisations about soccer. It's a rubbish game with a limited future in this country. For all their over the top talk of dominating Australian sport their TV ratings are an embarrassment and their crowds not a lot better.
jabroni said:Ralphie said:I'm a huge fan of making negative gross generalisations about soccer. It's a rubbish game with a limited future in this country. For all their over the top talk of dominating Australian sport their TV ratings are an embarrassment and their crowds not a lot better.
A bit of a falacy re: the crowds, NRL last year average was 15,940, A-League season to date is 13,962. Not bad considering the clubs have only been around for 9 years... Considering the wanderers can't seem to find a stadium big enough, i daresay that average will increase next year when they've got an extra 4,000 seats each game, that will, just like this year, be a sell out each week.
I'm a member at Manly and at WSW, 2 different sports played at 2 different times of year. The way the media carry on, you'd think there wa riot every game. There's more arrests and ejections at NRL games over the course of the year, by far. A much bigger percentage than the increased average crowd.
There has been 1 stabbing in the history of the competition, 9 years of games. Seats were broken by wanderers supporters at the SFS this year, and last year, and seats were broken at the melbourne derby. 3 games in a year when seats are broken...
Jethro said:Mals said:MadMarcus said:globaleagle said:Red and black are the teams colours.
It would have to be a loser team to have those colours.
By winning the Premiership Plate last season it could be argued that WSW achieved more in 1 year than the North Sydney Bears achieved in 7 decades following their most "recent" GF win in 1922 😉
@Mals
Please don't give the North Sydney Bears and their fans any glory or accolades as they have never actually won a grand final in their entire existence when they were included in the major competition.
Between 1912 and 1925 there was no semi-final system and a final was only played if two clubs finished level at the conclusion of the Minor Premiership. Mandatory grand finals and a finals series were first introduced in 1954.
jabroni said:No doubt the tv ratings were poor, actual season average is 108,631, which is a 31% increase on the previous year. It's a bit hard to compare to NRL and AFL, and recently, even the big bash, as they're all on commercial networks. What was the big bash's ratings the previous year when it was just on fox? A miniscule amount compared to current amounts.
As i said, i appreciate both games, and am a season ticket holder at both for a reason. Some of the soccer people think NRL is a game played by boofheads with no skill, just meat heads running at eachother 200+ times each game. Some think that one out running is boring. They don't appreciate the skill in players like DCE and Snake.
On the flipside, seems you don't appreciate the skill in kicking a moving ball off the ground 50m to land at the feet of a running attacker and putting him into space away from a defender. Billions of people however do, and it's only a matter of time till the rest of Australia does.
But that's not what this is about. We've complained about Bourbon Beccy and her biased reporting for years and done bugger all about it, yet these guys jump on the front foot the week after she tried to drag them through the mud. To me, that's very interesting. Why haven't we, or any other NRL club for that matter had the guts, or brains, to give it back to her publicly?
Mals said:Ah ok I stand corrected the Bears didn't win a GF (although according to wiki they won a final [premiership play off] against Glebe in 1922)
Team | P | W | D | L | PD | Pts | |
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1 | Bulldogs | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 14 |
2 | Storm | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 70 | 10 |
3 | Raiders | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 46 | 10 |
4 | Warriors | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | -18 | 10 |
5 | Broncos | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 54 | 8 |
6 | Sharks | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 41 | 8 |
7 | Dragons | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 8 |
8 | Rabbitohs | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | -36 | 8 |
9 | Cowboys | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -42 | 8 |
10 | Dolphins | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 6 |
11 | Sea Eagles | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 6 |
12 | Tigers | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 6 |
13 | Titans | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -36 | 6 |
14 | Knights | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -60 | 6 |
15 | Panthers | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -10 | 4 |
16 | Roosters | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -80 | 4 |
17 | Eels | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -107 | 4 |