NRL 2018

@mn5 said in NRL 2018:

@nepia said in NRL 2018:

So, after watching the glorious Warriors win on the tv I wandered down with my mate to Brookvale to watch Manly v Raiders - he lives 5 minutes away and is a season ticket holder.

Now, lets set aside for a minute this idiot thought the Warriors game was in NZ otherwise he would have ditched Manly and gone to the SFS.

Anyway, man that was interesting, I thought the northern beaches were quite hoity toity, they call Manly the silvertails, but sheesh the crowd in the members is pretty feral. It's just constant running commentary/abuse of the ref, the Canberra players, the Manly players. I thought a match thread on TSF was parochial but we don't come close to the Manly members. They never see anything wrong with anything Manly do, every knock on is not a knock on, they're never off side, they don't ever deserve a penalty and it's always the opposite for the opposition. And when Manly let in a few tries in the second half they turned on their players worse than NZ turned on John Hart in 1999. I had as much enjoyment from listening to the crowd as I did watching the game although I must admit I went full feral booing BJ Leilua with the rest of the crowd. I really can't stand that guy.

Brookvale reminded me of McLean Park a bit, the main stand and ugly joining end stand look to be like they copied each other.

It took you awhile but you got a Hawkes Bay reference in right there at the end. Well done.

I like to build my stories to reach a peak, TBF, I could have started with "my mate from school in HB"

@godder said in NRL 2018:

Is there still room on the bandwagon for one more?

Just let me shuffle over a bit.( I’m keeping my seat near the door )

@snowy said in NRL 2018:

@godder said in NRL 2018:

Is there still room on the bandwagon for one more?

Have you seen how often the wheels fall off that thing?

All part of the ride!

@jegga this bandwagon is as big as they come (in NZ) so no rush for seats just yet.

@nepia said in NRL 2018:

So, after watching the glorious Warriors win on the tv I wandered down with my mate to Brookvale to watch Manly v Raiders - he lives 5 minutes away and is a season ticket holder.

Now, lets set aside for a minute this idiot thought the Warriors game was in NZ otherwise he would have ditched Manly and gone to the SFS.

Anyway, man that was interesting, I thought the northern beaches were quite hoity toity, they call Manly the silvertails, but sheesh the crowd in the members is pretty feral. It's just constant running commentary/abuse of the ref, the Canberra players, the Manly players. I thought a match thread on TSF was parochial but we don't come close to the Manly members. They never see anything wrong with anything Manly do, every knock on is not a knock on, they're never off side, they don't ever deserve a penalty and it's always the opposite for the opposition. And when Manly let in a few tries in the second half they turned on their players worse than NZ turned on John Hart in 1999. I had as much enjoyment from listening to the crowd as I did watching the game although I must admit I went full feral booing BJ Leilua with the rest of the crowd. I really can't stand that guy.

Brookvale reminded me of McLean Park a bit, the main stand and ugly joining end stand look to be like they copied each other.

Mate Ive had to go to and from Manly for the last 2 years for work and I can tell you two things. The hottest women in Australia all congregate in Manly(and I live on the GC) and the hoity toity crowd are just a bunch of rich as fuck bogans.

@raznomore said in NRL 2018:

@nepia said in NRL 2018:

So, after watching the glorious Warriors win on the tv I wandered down with my mate to Brookvale to watch Manly v Raiders - he lives 5 minutes away and is a season ticket holder.

Now, lets set aside for a minute this idiot thought the Warriors game was in NZ otherwise he would have ditched Manly and gone to the SFS.

Anyway, man that was interesting, I thought the northern beaches were quite hoity toity, they call Manly the silvertails, but sheesh the crowd in the members is pretty feral. It's just constant running commentary/abuse of the ref, the Canberra players, the Manly players. I thought a match thread on TSF was parochial but we don't come close to the Manly members. They never see anything wrong with anything Manly do, every knock on is not a knock on, they're never off side, they don't ever deserve a penalty and it's always the opposite for the opposition. And when Manly let in a few tries in the second half they turned on their players worse than NZ turned on John Hart in 1999. I had as much enjoyment from listening to the crowd as I did watching the game although I must admit I went full feral booing BJ Leilua with the rest of the crowd. I really can't stand that guy.

Brookvale reminded me of McLean Park a bit, the main stand and ugly joining end stand look to be like they copied each other.

Mate Ive had to go to and from Manly for the last 2 years for work and I can tell you two things. The hottest women in Australia all congregate in Manly(and I live on the GC) and the hoity toity crowd are just a bunch of rich as fuck bogans.

Hahaha,, I did live their a couple of years. The hottest women who congegrate are often South American/Europeans IMHO - well the ones that looked hottest to me.

TBF, Oz is the land of cashed up bogans - I assume in your line of work you come across lots of them.

@nepia I'm always shocked that the insanely wealthy, that I have met, are mostly bogan as fuck and will say things you would not believe.

It really is a crazy ladder. Dragons, who had big question marks over them preseason, are flying. The fucking Warriors are 4-0. The Tigers were a few seconds from being 4-0, but are still going good at 3-1 (Benji is killing it by the way). Fucking Penrith are 3-1.

Melbourne have lost twice. The Cowboys have lost 3 times. The Roosters have lost twice.

Parra, who were a lot of people's smokeys for the season, are not only winless, but awful. It's always a joy to see a Ricky Stuart side struggling, and the Raiders really are.

In Kiwis news, Mr "The Key is the We" has decided not to reapply for the head coach position. Good decision.

@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:

In Kiwis news, Mr "The Key is the We" has decided not to reapply for the head coach position. Good decision.

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Not his fault that he was chosen despite not being up to it. Now some of our guys like playing for Tonga so much they will stay away. The board who appointed him should leave too

Shaun Johnson to return to the Warriors line up for the double-header clash at Mt Smart on Saturday night (Wests V Storm, Warriors V Cowboys). Also returning to the line up is Simon Mannering who will start from the bench (but I think that bench will change come kick off).

VODAFONE WARRIORS

1 ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)
2 DAVID FUSITU’A
3 PETA HIKU
4 SOLOMONE KATA
5 KEN MAUMALO
6 BLAKE GREEN
7 SHAUN JOHNSON
8 BUNTY AFOA
9 ISSAC LUKE
10 AGNATIUS PAASI
11 LEIVAHA PULU
12 TOHU HARRIS
13 ADAM BLAIR
Interchange:
14 JAZZ TEVAGA
15 SAM LISONE
16 SIMON MANNERING
17 ANTHONY GELLING
18 LIGI SAO
20 MASON LINO
21 CHRIS SATAE
22 CHARNZE NICOLL-KLOKSTAD

It's strange seeing the Warriors near the front of the sports news on TV these days. For the last few years, they've been pushed right to the back, even behind some of the really small sports that barely anyone follows.

League in NZ really needed this by the Warriors after what went down last year. It seemed like the sport was on a long road to recovery not too long ago.

Good article.
I especially liked the bit about the player who was late to pre season training having to watch his team mates be put through a 2x tougher than normal training session as punishment.

@gunner I'm astonished that's note worthy. It was the first lesson I can remember joining the military; you fuck up, everyone else suffers. Small wonder the club was a laughing stock last year.

@antipodean in an age where the players have the power, at least more so than they used to, it does come as a surprise that this type of thing still goes on in a professional sport. Happy that it does but I can see the Eels team all being seen to early grave having to account for the lack of effort Hayne was putting in preseason.

@antipodean said in NRL 2018:

@gunner I'm astonished that's note worthy. It was the first lesson I can remember joining the military; you fuck up, everyone else suffers. Small wonder the club was a laughing stock last year.

If anyone is wanting to join the bandwagon, move quick coz the wagon is filling fast.

Tonight’s double header at Mt Smart is going to be a sell out. Over 22,000 tickets sold already.

@gunner said in NRL 2018:

If anyone is wanting to join the bandwagon, move quick coz the wagon is filling fast.

Tonight’s double header at Mt Smart is going to be a sell out. Over 22,000 tickets sold already.

That's a bloody great result. I don't follow much league any more, but amazing how people come out of the woodwork when there is League success, and a shambles over at Eden Park. Good for teh Warriors, adn I hope they do well tonight

At the double header, great atmosphere. Benji and the Tigers edge the storm in a defensive dominated game in greasy conditions after a rainy pregame. Now for the Warriors!

Looks like Carlaw park back in the day.