@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
16 days later
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...
7 days later
14 days later
Not sure if this is welcome news....
@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2020:
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.
13 days later
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
@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
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
So are the Cowboys, Broncos and Titans just playing each other or has that halfwit Palaszczuk opened the border for league players?
@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
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
So are the Cowboys, Broncos and Titans just playing each other or has that halfwit Palaszczuk opened the border for league players?
if she was the one that blocked the footy, she wouldn't get the chance to get voted out...
@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
So her protestations about keeping Queenslanders safe is clearly bullshit.
you're surprised? it's a chance for potshots at NSW (her bitchy comment about the NSW Premier's trip to the Far North i found particularly fucking stupid)
@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
How would we feel about Gallen in a Warriors jersey?
yeah that's a hard no from me
It's hard enough being a Warriors fan as it is.
Don't shoot the messenger, it's just what I heard on the radio (he might help out the Warriors with their injury crisis).
Don't shoot the messenger, it's just what I heard on the radio (he might help out the Warriors with their injury crisis).
I'd sooner my team took the field short than have that clown wear the jersey.
@raznomore I had a headline pop up on my Google feed. Someone actually wrote an article saying Gallen might answer a warriors SOS and save them.
What kind of a fucken state are they in? Sounds like it's gotten horrifying.
Recently retired players we could be talking to - strikethrough for players retired through injury or out of Australia...maybe some I have missed
Paul Gallen (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Greg Inglis (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Robbie Farah (Wests Tigers)
John Sutton (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Tim Mannah (Parramatta Eels)
James Maloney (Penrith Panthers)
Cooper Cronk (Sydney Roosters)
Jeremy Latimore (St George Illawarra Dragons)
Sam Tagataese (Brisbane Broncos)
Michael Gordon (Gold Coast Titans)
Shaun Fensom (Brisbane Broncos)
Blake Ayshford (Warriors)
Will Matthews (Gold Coast Titans)
Robbie Rochow (Wests Tigers)
Trent Hodkinson (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
Nathan Ross (Newcastle Knights)
Kaysa Pritchard (Parramatta Eels)
Greg Eastwood (Bulldogs)
Greg Bird (Gold Coast Titans)
George Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Sosaia Feki (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Manu Vatuvei (Warriors)
Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Newcastle Knights)
@raznomore I think some of those players are up in the UK with the Superleague - SKD and Feki are two definites.
@raznomore Yeah but you have the return of Beale so not as bad as losing 3 props.
i can't believe how much i am looking forward to the start of the NRL tomorrow night. I fucking hate the Broncos and the Eels, and yet i can't frikken wait
And of course it wouldn't be the NRL if there wasn't a bad news story on the eve of the season starting. Bronson Xerri has been done for drugs. Of course, proven shit fluffybunny Paul Gallen blames ASADA because he is a horrible human being.
Also, have you seen the Warriors team? That forward pack would get towelled up at state league level. Nailed on for the spoon. Shit coach. Shit squad. No home games.
@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
i can't believe how much i am looking forward to the start of the NRL tomorrow night. I fucking hate the Broncos and the Eels, and yet i can't frikken wait
And of course it wouldn't be the NRL if there wasn't a bad news story on the eve of the season starting. Bronson Xerri has been done for drugs. Of course, proven shit fluffybunny Paul Gallen blames ASADA because he is a horrible human being.
Also, have you seen the Warriors team? That forward pack would get towelled up at state league level. Nailed on for the spoon. Shit coach. Shit squad. No home games.
Clearly when you slap a team with a wet bus ticket for doing dodgy shit it has little effect on them. You'd think that of all teams Cronulla would be the one wanting its players to be clean as fudge.
Along with Gallen, Gould is saying "he feels shattered" for Xerri. You should feel angry at him you dick head.
I don't understand why Xerri went down this path, he was likely going to make it on talent anyway.
The worst thing about the Warriors this year is the coach and management have a get out of jail free card.
If the pre-game promo is anything to go by, the broadcaster is on board with my idea to make league brutal again. I lost count of the blokes they showed getting sparked right the fuck out
