Official 2024 NRL General Discussion

[BurgoShark]

Just realised that Uncle Wayne has swung the axe. SOS gooone.

Plath named in 13. My mate Kurt Donoghoe #18.

 

[Sevshark]

Just realised that Uncle Wayne has swung the axe. SOS gooone.

Plath named in 13. My mate Kurt Donoghoe #18.

Yeah.. weird nikorima was the survivor

 

[Thresher]

I'm not very good at morse code but I'm sure he knows what he's doing

 

[BurgoShark]

Yeah.. weird nikorima was the survivor

That edge was pretty awful in defence.

Bostock was the survivor. Lemuelu injured but missed a few before that.

 

[BurgoShark]

Have this from a mate who is in the rugby league circle. Not gospel but I trust him.

Ezra Mamm was baiting/versbally attacking half the roosters players for most of the match. Apparently a lot of it was targeted at people’s looks etc..

Leniu had basically had enough after Mamm called him a stupid coconut. His reply was **** off you monkey.

Ezra Mamm then has a sook and makes a formal complaint when no roosters players including Leniu followed suit.

Good fuel for the fire. Let’s just keep things civil

 

[BurgoShark]

@HaroldBishop journo audibility in pressers this round was fkn awful.

Vegas games were embarrassing.

Bordering on $2Bn sport and we can’t hear the questions they are asking. WTF PVL?

 

[Gumby]

Good fuel for the fire. Let’s just keep things civil

Might delete this. Not looking to start arguments etc..

 

[bort]

Might delete this. Not looking to start arguments etc..

Don’t think it needs to be an argument, it’s just something you’ve heard

Not an indictment of your mate but I find it very hard to believe someone would try and bait out a racist remark to report but making a racist remark. Seems very high risk.

Maybe he was doing a lot of **** talking, that seems very realistic. I’ve also seen a handful of things where people say Leniu has been called a coconut by someone in broncos, although the when has changed between stories.

It’s not impossible Mam called him a coconut and then made a complaint but it just really seems like an unlikely tactic to me.

Josh Papali’i reported himself for drink driving though so the NRL has seen dumb **** before

 

[Gumby]

Don’t think it needs to be an argument, it’s just something you’ve heard

Not an indictment of your mate but I find it very hard to believe someone would try and bait out a racist remark to report but making a racist remark. Seems very high risk.

Maybe he was doing a lot of **** talking, that seems very realistic. I’ve also seen a handful of things where people say Leniu has been called a coconut by someone in broncos, although the when has changed between stories.

It’s not impossible Mam called him a coconut and then made a complaint but it just really seems like an unlikely tactic to me.

Josh Papali’i reported himself for drink driving though so the NRL has seen dumb **** before

Wasn’t baiting to get a racist response. Was baiting them to try get under their skin by commenting on appearance and other stupid ****.

The last sentence about Papali’i FMD

 

[Western Sharkie]

@HaroldBishop journo audibility in pressers this round was fkn awful.

Vegas games were embarrassing.

Bordering on $2Bn sport and we can’t hear the questions they are asking. WTF PVL?

This has always been a bugbear for me.

 

[Western Sharkie]

Tragic!
Thoughts go out to Billy and the family.

Billy Slater rocked by family tragedy as relative dies trying to save daughter’s life

Billy Slater rocked by family tragedy as brother in law dies trying to save daughter’s life

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[HaroldBishop]

@HaroldBishop journo audibility in pressers this round was fkn awful.

Vegas games were embarrassing.

Bordering on $2Bn sport and we can’t hear the questions they are asking. WTF PVL?

So amateurish, drives me nuts.

 

[BurgoShark]

Cooper Cronk on the Marty Johns podcast raised something that we spoke about on here a while ago. Rule change to encourage short dropouts is done in the name of ball in play, but compared to long dropouts we are going to see a massive increase in captain’s challenges, penalties, scrums and injury stoppages.

I’ve also seen several sources now crediting Nicho for his great short dropout (pretty sure it was Trindall).

 

[HaroldBishop]

Cooper Cronk on the Marty Johns podcast raised something that we spoke about on here a while ago. Rule change to encourage short dropouts is done in the name of ball in play, but compared to long dropouts we are going to see a massive increase in captain’s challenges, penalties, scrums and injury stoppages.

Just on this one, I thought it was meant to be play on these days unless a serious injury? The Egan one in our game for example, he could have easily been treated out of the way, like behind the dead ball line, but instead the game stopped for what seemed like 2-3 minutes.

 

[Proud Shark]

Cooper Cronk on the Marty Johns podcast raised something that we spoke about on here a while ago. Rule change to encourage short dropouts is done in the name of ball in play, but compared to long dropouts we are going to see a massive increase in captain’s challenges, penalties, scrums and injury stoppages.

Yeah it's created a high likelihood of back to back stoppages, giving the defensive team a massive breather even if they don't get the ball back. There is almost no point forcing drop outs anymore.

Apparently 80% of the 20 forced drop outs were short last week. Pretty sure we kicked the 4 long ones.

 

[BurgoShark]

Just on this one, I thought it was meant to be play on these days unless a serious injury? The Egan one in our game for example, he could have easily been treated out of the way, like behind the dead ball line, but instead the game stopped for what seemed like 2-3 minutes.

I don’t know what the policy is, but every year we are seeing more and more “stand around doing nothing” time in the NRL. The Egan one is a really good example.

Annesley keeps spruiking stats about more ball in play and reduced game duration, but they are only counting when the clock is running.

Sharks game round 1 duration:

First half 47 minutes
Half time 14 minutes
Second half 52 minutes

Ball was in play for 54 minutes.

So…

54mins ball in play
26 minutes clock running but no footy
33 minutes of nothing

People who came to the game spent more time watching nothing (59min) than watching football (54min).

 

[Western Sharkie]

Cooper Cronk on the Marty Johns podcast raised something that we spoke about on here a while ago. Rule change to encourage short dropouts is done in the name of ball in play, but compared to long dropouts we are going to see a massive increase in captain’s challenges, penalties, scrums and injury stoppages.

I’ve also seen several sources now crediting Nicho for his great short dropout (pretty sure it was Trindall).

So Trindall deserved the 6 Daly M votes?
Seeing They mistook Trindall for Nicho

 

[HaroldBishop]

I don’t know what the policy is, but every year we are seeing more and more “stand around doing nothing” time in the NRL. The Egan one is a really good example.

Annesley keeps spruiking stats about more ball in play and reduced game duration, but they are only counting when the clock is running.

Sharks game round 1 duration:

First half 47 minutes
Half time 14 minutes
Second half 52 minutes

Ball was in play for 54 minutes.

So…

54mins ball in play
26 minutes clock running but no footy
33 minutes of nothing

People who came to the game spent more time watching nothing (59min) than watching football (54min).

Yeah I noticed that when looking at the stats after the game, it's pretty ****. I really prefer how the AFL does it, clock stops whenever the ball isn't in play. Each quarter has the ball in play for 20 minutes. If anyone is wasting time they get pinged 50 metres.

They really need to adress the downtime but of course, they won't.

 

[Western Sharkie]

Yeah I noticed that when looking at the stats after the game, it's pretty ****. I really prefer how the AFL does it, clock stops whenever the ball isn't in play. Each quarter has the ball in play for 20 minutes. If anyone is wasting time they get pinged 50 metres.

They really need to adress the downtime but of course, they won't.

Is that really HB?

I thought he didn’t like THAT game…

 

[BurgoShark]

So Trindall deserved the 6 Daly M votes?
Seeing They mistook Trindall for Nicho

Just re-watched it. Was Trindall.

Even the nrl.com play by play stats list Nicho as the player who took the kick