NRL 2020

@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:

@Donsteppa more so the players are just shit!!! I would only pick ah mai, Harris, green, fusitua, mamalo and rts as first class players... nz league development is crap and has been for a long time

In the old days the Warriors had access to most of the emerging talent in NZ. These days they compete with all the teams in the league

I had ticket for the double header at Eden Park to watch the Raiders who I have supported avidly for 30 years. So glad to see this game today and well done warriors for your efforts and sacrifices. I just love live sport to take my mind off other things.

@canefan being involved in secondary sport and league I would say the level has dropped dramatically in the last 10 years. U look at a nz u18/17/15 team and only a handful have made nrl. Can’t rely on local talent. Harsh but true

@shark they had a outrageous rule back in the day when I played a year at Shirley. If you could suck yourself off you didn’t have to do court session. Obviously not thinking anyone could do it. Up steps a guy Barry Baxter. Boom. Not something I want to see again.

@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:

@canefan being involved in secondary sport and league I would say the level has dropped dramatically in the last 10 years. U look at a nz u18/17/15 team and only a handful have made nrl. Can’t rely on local talent. Harsh but true

Most of that team weren't really local talent. Even a bunch of the NZers in the team came through pathways other than the Warriors. I think only Fus, Ken, Harris-Tevita and Papali'i are actual "locals".

It's just a poorly assembled squad.

Keary with an in-goal clanger thanks to never say die defence from Manly

@Nepia more when you go back to hay days of toopi. Jones, lauatitii etc the NZ guys weren’t shit they were amazing plus adding in your campions, lucks, marsh, price etc. now look, Pappalii was meant to be next big NZ thing but he is terrible modern day back rower. Only Harris, Ah Mau, RTS, moemalo and fusitua are NZ players who would make 17 every week of most teams.

@Siam said in NRL 2020:

@shark said in NRL 2020:

Actually, we could have a thread on gross shit we've seen (done!?) in a court session or on an end of season trip.

We could call it the hypocrites thread.

You really don't get the distinction at all, do you? That's rhetorical by the way. In case you don't get that, either.

@chchfanatic Yuck.

@shark you would if u could though.

@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:

@Nepia more when you go back to hay days of toopi. Jones, lauatitii etc the NZ guys weren’t shit they were amazing plus adding in your campions, lucks, marsh, price etc. now look, Pappalii was meant to be next big NZ thing but he is terrible modern day back rower. Only Harris, Ah Mau, RTS, moemalo and fusitua are NZ players who would make 17 every week of most teams.

Your mention of the Aussies feeds into my point, we had good and sometimes great Ockers filling the spots we had gaps in back then, now we don't. Green was a great player, his body simply can not keep up with his brain so far, Egan might be good but we haven't seen evidence of it so far, Burr is a plodder whose only talent seems to be he's a white Australian dude.

Our squad is dud, our two best players came from the Storm and Chocks despite the fact they're Kiwis. It's not a local talent issue, there's enough young Kiwis running around in the NRL but the Warriors just can't seem to access that talent.

After watching the shit show from the Warriors last night I kind of wish the NRL got canned as well. I kind of thought the Warriors might adopt a siege mentality due to the circumstances and put in some good performances, but they don't have the right leaders to enable that.

I saw Steve Price at the Bulldogs game and got sad.

The coaches are shit. The players are not top 8 standard. Mentally they are as resilient as a wet news paper.

I blame Tony Iro the most.

The Warriors won't last the season and the opposition might as well have a bye and bank the 2 pts rather than playing for 80 mins.

@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD word doing the rounds over this side of the ditch, now that AFL has decided to pull the plug is that the NRL will pull the plug at the conclusion of this weekend round..common sense prevails..!

Tigers humiliated at the hands of the Knights. This season needs to end immediately.

Adam Blair should take a pay cut, like a 99% pay cut. So bad.

DUMB ARSES. Quite likely Aussie/Queensland will go in lockdown.

Uncrediballistict!!!! Surely this is just someone trying to make news that isn't really there (I didn't bother clicking on the link)

@mikedogz How stoopid do these guys look? Talk about not reading the temperature in the room

V'landys' decisions are all about the NRL's bank balance.

Just seen on FB NRL is done now too

@taniwharugby Yes. From Tigers on FB:

OFFICIAL – The NRL is taking the unprecedented step of suspending the season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

OFFICIAL – The NRL is taking the unprecedented step of suspending the season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

hardly unprecedented when everyone else has already done it!

@taniwharugby I did admire their blind gumption for a while there. They had a crack !

You get the impression they really did not want to do it ,

But the pressure coming from outside forced their hand

So while the NRL is frantically trying to come up with a solution and everyone's taken a pay cut of 71%, apparently the FTA broadcaster (Channel 9) thinks the solution isn't worth as much...

The proposal to have a rebooted competition up and running again without crowds in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, however, has not won the support of the game’s long-time free-to-air broadcaster Nine.

Nine chief executive Hugh Marks has told the NRL there is less value attached to the game being played behind closed doors and under a different structure and the media company wants to negotiate a new contract with the code.

Channel 9 basically calling for heads to roll...

@Bones and shit has gone as downhill for Locke as it has for the Warriors since then. He always lacked size (lol if they selected Tomkins to address that) but was electric in 2011. Must have been a real kick in the nuts, although it sounds like he took a while to mature.

Queensland have just announce they will open their borders for NRL starting on May 28th

Not sure if this is welcome news....

@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2020:

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Not sure if this is welcome news....

At least I'll get to have my weekly anger release!

The Australia based NRL fans now kindly vowing to adopt the Warriors as their second favourite team are in for a rude shock.

@Donsteppa said in NRL 2020:

The Australia based NRL fans now kindly vowing to adopt the Warriors as their second favourite team are in for a rude shock.

Suckers for punishment are league fans

Displaying the effects of accumulated head injuries, Souths captain Adam Reynolds compares Latrell Mitchell to Michael Jordan.

@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2020:

@Donsteppa said in NRL 2020:

The Australia based NRL fans now kindly vowing to adopt the Warriors as their second favourite team are in for a rude shock.

Suckers for punishment are league fans

I think the generic term is "morans" but I watch the warriors on occasion when I need to feel superior about picking a sports result correctly. So I fit in as both a sucker and moran.

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

Displaying the effects of accumulated head injuries, Souths captain Adam Reynolds compares Latrell Mitchell to Michael Jordan.

well, kinda

still moranic

Latrell is copping shit because he's a dumb fluffybunny doing dumb shit at a time when there is nothing else to talk about.

NRL back next Thursday.

Home grounds have been allocated

Bankwest Stadium: Eels, Bulldogs, Rabbitohs, Sharks, Roosters

Campbelltown Stadium: Dragons, Tigers, Panthers, Raiders

Central Coast Stadium: Knights, Warriors, Sea Eagles

Suncorp Stadium: Broncos and Titans

QCB Stadium (North QLD): Cowboys

AAMI Park (Melbourne): Storm