NRL 2022

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@paekakboyz said in NRL 2022:

@bayimports yeah it never seems like the dilution works. The 'cap' :winking_face: only goes so far to hit market forces and all that jazz. The new or low performing teams need a lot of luck on their side to see top value from their big purchases. Is that player or small group of players enough to lift the rest or not. So often you see flashes but think what a waste that talent in amongst the dross. Stink as!

Unless you really mess with rosters regularly, and trample over the club as a business model, you are always going to get a range. Reducing that range between top and bottom is hard - and if you end up with a whole bunch of average teams (even short term) that's worse than the current situation.

some of the clubs do not help themselves though. Band aid solutions are applied in an attempt to slightly improve rather than real revolution. The same crop of coaches are hired and fired. Any new job just goes to a guy who already failed simply on "experience". You wait until Maguire gets fired and who they line up to replace him.

And it's the same for recruitment. There is a revolving crop of not really good enough players who keep getting hired and clogging lists it appears for no other reason than they have played NRL before.

None of the shit clubs ever attempt to try anything different. Find a new coach from the NSW/Q Cup. Find young players and give them a shot. It's journeymen, has beens, or never will bes on a revolving basis.

So far no one has wanted to take a chance on the Walker brothers for example. They were very keen to come to the Warriors, but the club chose Brown

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@paekakboyz said in NRL 2022:

@bayimports yeah it never seems like the dilution works. The 'cap' :winking_face: only goes so far to hit market forces and all that jazz. The new or low performing teams need a lot of luck on their side to see top value from their big purchases. Is that player or small group of players enough to lift the rest or not. So often you see flashes but think what a waste that talent in amongst the dross. Stink as!

Unless you really mess with rosters regularly, and trample over the club as a business model, you are always going to get a range. Reducing that range between top and bottom is hard - and if you end up with a whole bunch of average teams (even short term) that's worse than the current situation.

some of the clubs do not help themselves though. Band aid solutions are applied in an attempt to slightly improve rather than real revolution. The same crop of coaches are hired and fired. Any new job just goes to a guy who already failed simply on "experience". You wait until Maguire gets fired and who they line up to replace him.

And it's the same for recruitment. There is a revolving crop of not really good enough players who keep getting hired and clogging lists it appears for no other reason than they have played NRL before.

None of the shit clubs ever attempt to try anything different. Find a new coach from the NSW/Q Cup. Find young players and give them a shot. It's journeymen, has beens, or never will bes on a revolving basis.

So far no one has wanted to take a chance on the Walker brothers for example. They were very keen to come to the Warriors, but the club chose Brown

absolutely, that was the closest I had seen to trying something completely new..but didnt get across the line obviously

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

How the NRL (and other sports media) in Australia works

Find rumour x player is possibly signing somewhere else next year. Print story after story about said possible move. As soon as players team loses, print story about how contract situation is providing distraction. Print more stories about transfer. Print more stories about how the distraction is affecting the team. Print stories about how contract system needs to change as it is not fair to clubs and fans to constantly hear speculation. Repeat repeat repeat.

Alternatively. Find battling club. Print a thousand stories about said club. Write stories about the stories. Sit on panel shows, talk about stories. Write story the next day about increased pressure which is nothing more than the same story now being told 3 times. Write stories about how doing nothing is the problem. When changes are made, write stories about how changes show coach is desperate. Repeat until coach fired. Start again.

There are about half a dozen NRL writers. They are all write in papers and appear on the same shows and talk the same shit and then use that as the basis for the next days bullshit. Over and over again.

and, to follow the point (why the fuck do i do this to myself)

The biggest dumb cunt in the small pool of NRL reporting dumb cunts James Hooper has today written his 25th Wests Tigers article of the week
Today's topic? The CEO taking a week's AL
The football team is losing, why is the CEO going on holiday? That's what the offseason is for?

James, you stupid bald cunt, guess when the CEO is actually busy? Go on, guess! is it during the season, when the spotlight is on the football department. Or, and stay with me now, is it over the offseason, getting everything put in place for the Football team and the club to operate during the season?
Is the CEO being there over Easter going to help the footy team win on Monday? No, it most surely is not (and if it is, then there are bigger problems at Leichhardt than i thought)

Now, you'll notice i haven't said the CEO has done a good job, because i think it's fair to say he hasn't. But, him taking his family on a holiday they have had to cancel 3 times over Easter is not the story you seem to hope it is.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

How the NRL (and other sports media) in Australia works

Find rumour x player is possibly signing somewhere else next year. Print story after story about said possible move. As soon as players team loses, print story about how contract situation is providing distraction. Print more stories about transfer. Print more stories about how the distraction is affecting the team. Print stories about how contract system needs to change as it is not fair to clubs and fans to constantly hear speculation. Repeat repeat repeat.

Alternatively. Find battling club. Print a thousand stories about said club. Write stories about the stories. Sit on panel shows, talk about stories. Write story the next day about increased pressure which is nothing more than the same story now being told 3 times. Write stories about how doing nothing is the problem. When changes are made, write stories about how changes show coach is desperate. Repeat until coach fired. Start again.

There are about half a dozen NRL writers. They are all write in papers and appear on the same shows and talk the same shit and then use that as the basis for the next days bullshit. Over and over again.

and, to follow the point (why the fuck do i do this to myself)

The biggest dumb cunt in the small pool of NRL reporting dumb cunts James Hooper has today written his 25th Wests Tigers article of the week
Today's topic? The CEO taking a week's AL
The football team is losing, why is the CEO going on holiday? That's what the offseason is for?

James, you stupid bald cunt, guess when the CEO is actually busy? Go on, guess! is it during the season, when the spotlight is on the football department. Or, and stay with me now, is it over the offseason, getting everything put in place for the Football team and the club to operate during the season?
Is the CEO being there over Easter going to help the footy team win on Monday? No, it most surely is not (and if it is, then there are bigger problems at Leichhardt than i thought)

Now, you'll notice i haven't said the CEO has done a good job, because i think it's fair to say he hasn't. But, him taking his family on a holiday they have had to cancel 3 times over Easter is not the story you seem to hope it is.

Seriously you're getting worked up over the Hooper muppet? if ever there was a journo (and there a few) to ignore it would be that bottom feeder lol

@bayimports said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

How the NRL (and other sports media) in Australia works

Find rumour x player is possibly signing somewhere else next year. Print story after story about said possible move. As soon as players team loses, print story about how contract situation is providing distraction. Print more stories about transfer. Print more stories about how the distraction is affecting the team. Print stories about how contract system needs to change as it is not fair to clubs and fans to constantly hear speculation. Repeat repeat repeat.

Alternatively. Find battling club. Print a thousand stories about said club. Write stories about the stories. Sit on panel shows, talk about stories. Write story the next day about increased pressure which is nothing more than the same story now being told 3 times. Write stories about how doing nothing is the problem. When changes are made, write stories about how changes show coach is desperate. Repeat until coach fired. Start again.

There are about half a dozen NRL writers. They are all write in papers and appear on the same shows and talk the same shit and then use that as the basis for the next days bullshit. Over and over again.

and, to follow the point (why the fuck do i do this to myself)

The biggest dumb cunt in the small pool of NRL reporting dumb cunts James Hooper has today written his 25th Wests Tigers article of the week
Today's topic? The CEO taking a week's AL
The football team is losing, why is the CEO going on holiday? That's what the offseason is for?

James, you stupid bald cunt, guess when the CEO is actually busy? Go on, guess! is it during the season, when the spotlight is on the football department. Or, and stay with me now, is it over the offseason, getting everything put in place for the Football team and the club to operate during the season?
Is the CEO being there over Easter going to help the footy team win on Monday? No, it most surely is not (and if it is, then there are bigger problems at Leichhardt than i thought)

Now, you'll notice i haven't said the CEO has done a good job, because i think it's fair to say he hasn't. But, him taking his family on a holiday they have had to cancel 3 times over Easter is not the story you seem to hope it is.

Seriously you're getting worked up over the Hooper muppet? if ever there was a journo (and there a few) to ignore it would be that bottom feeder lol

I'm not worked up, it's just been rammed home to me over the past week what a circuit the NRL media is (not a typo, i mean a circuit). They just spout deadshit opinions, get their mates to agree, and then write articles that about that, and so on.

I don't actually watch it, but there is a case to be made that NRL360 is at the same time the dumbest, and most poisonous show on TV.

At least when Lara Pitt was there after Ikin had to go she tried hard to reign in the deadshits. So of course she was rissoled for the slightly retarded Braith Anasta

look what we used to have. look at it.
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
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Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
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Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
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Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

That's probably what it was then. That was the one that hurt. We had a generational team and soon after it all fell apart

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

That's probably what it was then. That was the one that hurt. We had a generational team and soon after it all fell apart

we were in it. The hit and headbutt on Fittler fires them up, Morley smashes Villasanti, and they smashed us in the last quarter.
At least, that's how i remember a 20 year old game i have seen once.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

That's probably what it was then. That was the one that hurt. We had a generational team and soon after it all fell apart

we were in it. The hit and headbutt on Fittler fires them up, Morley smashes Villasanti, and they smashed us in the last quarter.
At least, that's how i remember a 20 year old game i have seen once.

That pretty much sums it up. I remember watching the Keep the Faith doco. The boys didn't focus on the prize, I saw a lot of regret there

Cowboys go to Canberra and win

Are the drums beating for Ricky? Are they fuck. Ricky is mates with the right people.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

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look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

That's probably what it was then. That was the one that hurt. We had a generational team and soon after it all fell apart

we were in it. The hit and headbutt on Fittler fires them up, Morley smashes Villasanti, and they smashed us in the last quarter.
At least, that's how i remember a 20 year old game i have seen once.

We were definitely in it. That penalty against us (hit on Fitler) did turn the game.

Stacey struggled in the 2nd half and we couldn’t get any width in our play.

But what a team we had. Workhorses in the middle, ball players and footwork on the edges, a very good spine up there with the best of them and try scoring power out wide.

@act-crusader said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

@canefan said in NRL 2022:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

View image

look what we used to have. look at it.
sobs

Is that the team that got beat in the final by the Roosters who rorted the salary cap?

every team that wins is rorting the salary cap.

It was made official IIRC. But because they are the darlings of Sydney nothing happened

i haven't heard that at all.

a quick google has them getting fined for some 3rd party shit yes. seems on a par with teh rest of the sanctions for similar.

That's probably what it was then. That was the one that hurt. We had a generational team and soon after it all fell apart

we were in it. The hit and headbutt on Fittler fires them up, Morley smashes Villasanti, and they smashed us in the last quarter.
At least, that's how i remember a 20 year old game i have seen once.

We were definitely in it. That penalty against us (hit on Fitler) did turn the game.

Stacey struggled in the 2nd half and we couldn’t get any width in our play.

But what a team we had. Workhorses in the middle, ball players and footwork on the edges, a very good spine up there with the best of them and try scoring power out wide.

So many were homegrown too. A waste that we never won it all

This Melbourne v Cronulla is incredible. Two great teams going try for try.

Why do teams bomb to Daniel Tupou

Also that was a fucking sin bin. If that had been Walsh he would have gone

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

Why do teams bomb to Daniel Tupou

Also that was a fucking sin bin. If that had been Walsh he would have gone

As Payten said, if that was a bottom team sin bin for sure.

Mistakes from both teams so far, hopefully Curran comes back soon. Looking slightly better than the roosters so far on attack though in red zone

Might just be me but god do Walsh & Harris tavita look like long lost brothers