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Not-So-Great White
Jeez, Matty Johns urks me! Where did this massive ego come from?
2013 NRL General Discussion Thread
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sharks2010
Dribbler
being able to choreograph a orgy
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Not-So-Great White
Good insight to how JT directs his side around on 501
sharks2010
Dribbler
that was very good to watch, great piece
evertonshark
Jaws
How much does the dole pay ? You've got foxtel and bidding $500 on sharks jerseys...
sharks2010
Dribbler
Brett finch had some very nice words to say about our reserve grade side
sharks2010
Dribbler
silly pricks think I'm a single mum with 5 kids
djhabib
Jaws
you're the one that got her pregnant and did a runner
Yeah just watching the sterlo show now.
And him saying something like he sold out the et stand for all his girlfriends.
HAHAHAHA *breaths* HAHAHAHAHAHAA
evertonshark
Jaws
My thoughts exactly
Sir Chadley
Jaws
Well, it makes sense. That is from someone outside looking in. You look at all we've had to deal with and if we finish fifth or sixth, then you could argue he has done a great job. It's only us Sharks fans that watch every game religiously week in week out, those in the media only see our results and judge that only.
Sharky Pete
Great White
English rugby league players have always played dirty
Phil Rothfield
The Daily Telegraph
August 16, 2013 12:00AM
WHY were we all that surprised when South Sydney forward Sam Burgess put a squirrel grip on Melbourne Storm centre Will Chambers last Friday night?
After all, he is an English rugby league player.
Remember last year’s grand final when Bulldogs forward James Graham took a chunk out of Billy Slater’s ear?
He was a Pom, too.
And before them, Adrian Morley.
Remember him? He played six seasons for the Roosters between 2001 and 2006 for 11 foul-play offences and 26 weeks of suspensions.
The biggest was his last, a seven-week ban for a striking charge in 2006.
Colleague Dean Ritchie was on the sideline for 2GB that day at ANZ Stadium.
“He kneed Corey Hughes at the play-the ball - it was one of the most reckless and dirtiest acts I’ve seen on a football field,” Ritchie recalled.
The Roosters' English import Adrian Morley knees Canterbury's Corey Hughes. Picture: Fox Sports
“That was the last we saw of him.”
Headbutting, grabbing testicles, biting, kneeing, kicking and king hits - you name it, the Poms have been doing it for more than 50 years.
Former Manly forward Peter Peters tells a fabulous story about Malcolm Reilly’s debut for the Sea Eagles in 1971 against Souths at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
He’d been in the country only two days.
When they arrive at the SCG, Reilly starts asking about their opponents and according to Peters, the conversation went like this:
Reilly: Who’s their best player?
Peters: Where do you want me to start? Coote, McCarthy, Sait, Pittard, Simms, Branighan …
Reilly: Cmon, who’s their best?
Peters: Probably McCarthy.
Reilly: What’s his number?
Peters: 10
Reilly: Who kicks off for us?
Peters: Denis Ward.
Reilly: Make sure he kicks it into touch on the full.
And so he did. In those days it meant at scrum back at halfway and Peters takes up the story.
“The touch judges and the refs were watching the ball sail into touch,” Peters said.
“As it was happening, Malcolm has elbowed Macca in the head.
“He’s face down in the Bulli soil on the cricket pitch and got carted off.
“And that was Malcolm’s Reilly’s first 30 seconds in the Sydney premiership.”
James Graham gives Billy Slater his best Mike Tyson impression. Source: Channel 9
Reilly’s fight with South Sydney’s George Piggins on the same ground a few years later is often spoken about as the most brutal one-on-one exchange in rugby league history.
Even decades later the Poms were still getting up to their old tricks.
In a story that’s never been told from a Test match in 1992 at the Sydney Football Stadium, Australia’s champion lock Bradely Clyde copped a "John Hopoate finger" in the backside from Great Britain centre Garry Schofield.
“Yes, it happened,” Clyde confirmed Thursday. “I don’t know if he was trying to put me off my game or get me to react and draw a penalty.
“I didn’t bother retaliating. I was one of those players that if my mind wandered off the actual footy, my game suffered.
“But I’ll never forget Bozo (coach Bob Fulton) flagged the incident at a team video session before the next Test.”
Cliff Watson was one of the original English hard heads to come to these shores.
He announced himself in the "Battle of Brisbane" Test in 1970, when he and Jim Morgan infamously engaged in a headbutting competition that left the Kangaroos prop with a nose so badly broken his son didn’t recognise him in the dressing room after the game.
He is credited for bringing the “Liverpool kiss” to Australia.
The giant prop joined Cronulla and was a central figure in the most brutal grand final ever played in 1973, when the Sharks narrowly went down to Manly.
In a chat with current Sharks captain Paul Gallen this year, Watson gave a blunt assessment of his playing style in relation to the modern game.
“I wouldn’t be on the field with my style of play,” he said.
The NRL has revealed Burgess came within a just a centimetre of getting a six-week dangerous contact charge rather than two weeks for contrary conduct.
“It was minor contact,” said Greg McCallum, the head of the match review panel.
“If he’d got a handful and squeezed, it would have been grade-three dangerous contact.
“We looked at extra angles from Channel Nine and it was more the image of what he did - it looked terrible.”
Burgess has apologised to his South Sydney teammates over the incident.
But there’s been no word of an apology to the player who really deserved one … Will Chambers.
Typical bloody Pommy.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/ph...ays-played-dirty/story-fndujljl-1226697993681
Sharky Pete
Great White
Parramatta Eels sign four-year deal to take NRL to Darwin and Alice Springs
AAP
August 15, 2013 1:54PM
Parramatta superstar Jarryd Hayne will be getting some northern exposure from next year. Source: Getty Images
PARRAMATTA are hoping to play one of their NRL glamour fixtures in Darwin next year after the club announced details of a four-year agreement with the Northern Territory government on Thursday.
The club signed a deal that will see them play a trial match in Alice Springs each year in addition to an NRL home fixture in Darwin.
It will also take in a number of programs within local communities to help promote healthy lifestyles and help combat anti-social behaviour.
"It's not just about playing a game, making a few dollars and getting out, we're going up there for a seven or eight day stint,'' Eels chairman Steve Sharp said.
"We'd love to get a team like Melbourne up there. The likes of Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk and Cameron Smith are great for our game.''
Parramatta took a game to Mudgee this season and spent the week in the NSW town, but will now concentrate the attention on making Darwin a Parramatta stronghold over the next four years.
"This is a great day for the sport of rugby league and the Territory,'' Northern Territory Minister for Sport Matt Conlan said. "Today's announcement is the first time the Northern Territory has partnered with an NRL club to deliver a long-term future of premiership NRL games in the NT.
"While these games are important to the Territory, this agreement goes much further than just NRL games and will also deliver significant benefits to our community over the next four seasons, all year long.''
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/pa...nd-alice-springs/story-fndv34of-1226697806000
djhabib
Jaws
Lol rothfield I think he needs another 2010 spray
Sharky Pete
Great White
I agree, I thought that was a rather racist article tbh.
It was a generalisation of epic proportions.
Tommy Bishop our star halfback of the 70's is English and he wasn't a dirty player, same goes for Ellery Hanley and Martin Offiah at Easts and Wests respectively.
I don't believe Garry Schofield was a dirty player for Wests either, although now he is the most outspoken former player over there.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
Thank Christ all us Aussies are angels.
sharks2010
Dribbler
hahahaha, this time it won't be a PG rated spray
Bundy Shark
Jaws
Geez Pete, I know Tommy was a Shark but he was no angel, some people might confuse Tommy's tactics as cheeky at best.