NRL 2022

mariner4life

Yeah yeah warriors

Turn on Parramatta v Penrith. Crowd is big and loud. First 15 minutes has been fucking good too

Ex-warriors with the first 2 tries (including one of our worst ever)

mariner4life

Oh and cleary a red card!!!

mariner4life

Panthers reliant on SOS to win them the game

Looool

ACT Crusader

Far out, if we had a decent goal kicker out there, we may have been a proper chance.

Storm playing their best grub footy tonight.

bayimports

Haven’t checked the points gap, but I would have thought cows now a good chance at minor prem?. No Cleary, luai or potentially Falls for at least three weeks would be my guess. SOS won’t lead them through that, could be 0-3 next few weeks

mariner4life

5 games for the poster child for HGH

Great game just before (Sharks v Rabits)

Sharks look very good this year, could be in with a chance at the finals.

Also Andrew Fifita is a beast

antipodean

Suck on it Brisbane!

ARHS

Great round of matches tonite! Good karma for Tigers and Adam Doueih. Enjoyed the Wighton and Tapine show earlier.

African Monkey

Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.

mariner4life

@African-Monkey said in NRL 2022:

Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.

now THAT is foul play. dirty shot.

mariner4life

Gold Coast now nailed on for the spoon.

Cowboys have seen the opportunity to nick first and pump the Dragon

Top 4 still wide open.

Dice

@African-Monkey said in NRL 2022:

Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.

Only got one week. That's poor from the NRL. That was a full speed clothesline.

mariner4life

Carrigan gets 4 for the hip drop that breaks a leg

Fair result.

The NRL is now having to stamp out another wrestling style tackle brought about because of how disadvantageous a legs tackle is. A perfect snapping legs tackle only results in a quick play the ball and no marker. So it's two up top to slow everything down.

And so yards after contact becomes this big thing. Which in turn leads to the crusher (because guys were turning their back and driving the legs) and now these where the 3rd guy is trying to get a semi-stationary player to the ground (who has legs like tree trunks).

The rugby codes are definitely facing the same issue, how do we bring back the legs tackle? Rugby should be easy, if the guy is on the ground you can get at the ball. League? Fuck knows how they fix it

mariner4life

and while we are on the subject of the judiciary

There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky

The giant cat JWH gave a not even subtle old-school "welcome to first grade" elbow to the face, just another in a long line of stupid niggly grubby acts, got fuck all (old JWH loves the niggle, but is prone to going missing when shit gets real tough. I will always remember him basically running away from Ben Teo a few years back)

But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.

ACT Crusader

@mariner4life NAS, in true Storm grub tradition gets a free pass. It’s breathtakingly unsurprising….

Nothing ever surprises me when it comes to JWH. His legacy with reports and the judiciary is embarrassing to put it lightly.

mariner4life

@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2022:

It’s breathtakingly unsurprising

if i ever end up in court, i want their lawyers representing me

bayimports

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

and while we are on the subject of the judiciary

There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky

But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.

The only thing good about the fall out from NAS is that its not just a kiwi thing, all scribes and forums are all scratching their head around how a guy can lose 6 teeth and the aggressor gets a warning because they could not supposedly find enough evidence. Interestingly if they did find enough evidence and inflicted any penalty then the resulting injury also gets taken into account. This was a terrible act poorly punished.

bayimports

in lighter news TMM becomes a warrior next year...signed

bayimports

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

Carrigan gets 4 for the hip drop that breaks a leg

Fair result.

The NRL is now having to stamp out another wrestling style tackle brought about because of how disadvantageous a legs tackle is. A perfect snapping legs tackle only results in a quick play the ball and no marker. So it's two up top to slow everything down.

And so yards after contact becomes this big thing. Which in turn leads to the crusher (because guys were turning their back and driving the legs) and now these where the 3rd guy is trying to get a semi-stationary player to the ground (who has legs like tree trunks).

The rugby codes are definitely facing the same issue, how do we bring back the legs tackle? Rugby should be easy, if the guy is on the ground you can get at the ball. League? Fuck knows how they fix it

Yep this is clearly an issue that no one has an answer to yet, especially when teams with wrestling coaches invent new ways of taking someone down