2020 NRL Season

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Maroon_Faithful, Oct 7, 2019.

  1. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Havili looks like a pretty solid hooker. Shouldn't play long minutes though.
     
  2. Lukic L Popovic

    I like Wighton as a footy player but you have to laugh at Joey saying he's one of 7 players he'd give a million a year.
     
  3. Julian BJ Taylor

    It was Canberra’s fault that they didn’t win considering the Whitehead drop and the CNK mistake.

    But Grant Atkins last 2 games have been possible the worst 2 games of officiating I’ve seen in a very long time. He has no control over the game. His use of the 6 again calls is astonishingly bad and he got scores of calls blatantly wrong across the two games.

    The call on the buzzer last week and the call against Simonsson tonight are 2 of the
    Most cut and dry incorrect bunker calls you will ever see as well. The Simonsson call wasn’t even a penalty yet he was sin binned. Ugh. And last week literally cost Manly the game for missing the blatant reversal of the same call.

    It’s incredibly disheartening to watch a game with such interest and have zero faith in anyone in any decision making position to make a correct call.
     
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  4. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Bunker is fucked. No idea how they can get it so wrong with the amount of replays/angles they have.
     
  5. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    So in your mind attacking someone physically who is innocent is no worse than attacking someone who just kicked your teammate, inadvertently but nonetheless dangerously and carelessly in the head? Are you some sort of halfwit? I guarantee if Koroisau had kicked Luciano Leilua in the head as he went to ground, I would not have called Joey Leilua an idiot for retaliating against Koroisau.

    Fonua-Blake abused Atkins for a decision that was not his. Are you starting to see a trend here, Magic?

    It's not excusable what Mitchell did, hence I said he should've been binned. But it's at least intelligible.

    Fuck me.
     
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  6. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    They're not contenders, Hodgson or no Hodgson. They've been incredibly disappointing this year. A shadow of what they were in 2019.

    There's no team outside the top 4 capable of winning it.
     
  7. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    I find it very, very hard to watch NRL any more because the officiating, I watched all of Tigers-Rabbitohs on the weekend which must have been the first full game outside of GF's for 2-3 years. So many tight games decided by wrong calls. Mistakes in general play I can handle, everythings moving at a million miles an hour, but how thye fuck up video replays so often is beyond me.
     
  8. Lukic L Popovic

    Leilua basically pushed Edwards with his forearm and then dragged him to the ground. It was harmless. Edwards went down and was back up 5 seconds later with no issues at all.

    Latrell king hit Reynolds in the head from behind and then tried to slam his head on the ground. Could've broken his jaw if he connected cleanly and concussed him.

    Context does matter but the more dangerous act should always get a harsher punishment. Latrell's was an objectively dangerous dog act, Leilua's was stupid as fuck but hardly dangerous.
     
  9. Cribbage RG Cribb

    I definitely think hitting someone in the context of.. I'm not going to call it a fight, but there was a scuffle already.. should be given more leniency than just taking someone out high without the ball after a grubber like that. BJ's was definitely more a dog act.

    I'm not a player safety Nazi so I absolutely care more about the dog-ness of the shot than the injury risk assessment or whatever else they're gonna factor in though.
     
  10. Julian BJ Taylor

    Cody Walker looked keen to get into the dog shot act punsurprisingly too.
     
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  11. AVA T Delonge

    I understand you can wrestle to put the ball down but deadset at what point are they held up?
     
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  12. AVA T Delonge

    'Game of the round'
     
  13. Magic AJ Parker

    Yeh I thought there was a clear period in time where all momentum had come to a hold and then he just started twisting his body again.
     
  14. Lukic L Popovic

    Fuck its taken 7 years but finally Brooks is getting dropped.
     
  15. Lukic L Popovic

    Brisbane 2.50 are great odds imo.
     
  16. Magic AJ Parker

    Has Walters played much in the halves?
     
  17. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Yeah pretty much exclusively tbh. Wests decided he might be an interesting hooker option but he'd never really played there.
     
  18. Lukic L Popovic

    Chris Lawrence v Darius Boyd has the potential to be an all-time showdown in the centres.
     
  19. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Battle of the round if you ask some people.
     
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  20. Paddy P Orr

    With Dean Pay gone I expect Paul Green to be the next one gone. He's been a good title winning coach but not a good rebuilding one tactically. Most teams rebuilding show some signs of getting better because they adapt to a faster game. We've failed to and Green keeps thinking his plays and defensive tactics are actually good.
     

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