2021 NRL Season

Not a fan of referees sending up a video ref review when they know it’s not a try just because they want to confirm their decision.

You can’t do it anywhere else on the field so you shouldn’t be allowed to do it just because the ball happened to be in the in-goal. Bad refereeing.

 

Grant Atkins is having a shocker.

Penalty for shoulder charging fresh air.

 

Braith Anasta trying to justify Souths decision to let an ageing Adam Reynolds go because they need to lock up Cody Walker who is “their future”. They’re literally born 6 months apart and Walker is the older of the two.

I assume Anasta must poll well with some part of the demographic who watch NRL to still be in a job, I imagine the pub locals who watch the game on mute.

Really hope Walker can transfer his club footy to origin level this year.

 

I always wonder what long term damage can be done to a youngster by giving them a role in a struggling side that is beyond their current ability and then proceeding with it failure after failure because as a team you just don't have a better option.

Dropping him may not improve the Broncos overall output but could be pivotal for his development. Even just dropping his minutes and demanding a higher standard in output rather than a higher quantity in output which seems to be what hes providing at the moment would surely be better for his development.

I've raised similar concerns about Haas's development in the past as well. I think high performance in role always has to come first before you can demand greater volume and responsibility i
in work. Yet both Haas and Carrigan seem to have been asked for both from day dot and will never get the opportunity to slow it down and develop because they're always in a constant state of having to lead and deliver there's almost no time to slow it down and learn from failure.

 

Keen for the Raiders/Titans tonight.

Feel like there's some value in the bookies odds around the Raiders, there's levels to this and tonight will be a bit of a wake up call for the Titans. No one does uncomfortable footy better than the Raiders and the Titans can be fragile at the best of times.

In the same breath would be great for the comp to see the Titans come of age tonight. But my money's on Canberra

 

Game pretty much played out how I thought. Titans weren't bad they created some really good opportunities just lacked the execution and composure at times to finish them off.

Raiders scramble in defence and ability to wrestle back momentum at key points was the difference.

Tino was absolutely massive and I thought Fifita was good too which is a really good sign moving forward knowing your big guns will fire against top opposition.

Really hope Titans push on with this and they're patient with Holbrook. They're comfortably the best run club in Queensland at the moment with plenty of Queensland talent for the locals to get behind which is a far cry from where they were just 24-36 months ago when lots including myself were talking about what a failure the expansion club had been.