Rapana is a certainty for the wing and if Vunivalu is eligible (which he probably is since he played schoolboy rugby here) I could see Jason Nightingale being the fullback (because every Kiwis team needs Nightingale in there somewhere).
Grand Final day and a good (but not great) player is calling it a career after the final whistle.
isnt it like 9 or 9.30?
Grand Finals when they were on a late Sunday arvo were much better!
7:28PM Sydney time. We started DST today so we're back to 2 hours' difference.
NOTE: it was 7:18PM but they added Gould minutes.
I think it's a stupid time to kickoff on a Sunday. 5pm Local time is much better for a Sunday night.
@Damo said in The NRL Season of 2016:
I think it's a stupid time to kickoff on a Sunday. 5pm Local time is much better for a Sunday night.
27 degrees here today. Know what I'd prefer
Ennis straight into the grub work
Barba in off the base of the scrum.
I'm liking the work of the two Sharks wingers, Sosaia Feki and Valentine Holmes.
Maloney has exposed Tohu Harris twice
@Damo said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Storm doing bloody well to only be 8 behind. They look fúcked.
Not surprising though, because the Sharks playmakers are rubbish. Maloney is damn good in broken play situations, but other than that the 6, 7 and 9 aren't much chop.
Sharks playing much better. Very low error and missed tackle rates, plus they're just too big and too strong with ball in hand. It's like watching a club's senior team playing the U18s.
@NTA said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Also noting: public holiday here tomorrow (not all States)
I didn't know that. Makes more sense.
@ACT-Crusader said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@Damo said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Storm doing bloody well to only be 8 behind. They look fúcked.
Not surprising though, because the Sharks playmakers are rubbish. Maloney is damn good in broken play situations, but other than that the 6, 7 and 9 aren't much chop.
Yeah but this can't carry on. Storm will need to get some Ball in the second half or they'll be buggered.
Only one team playing. I hate these fucking grubs, but they're playing awesome and deserve this game so far. Amazing performance so far
Storm are playing like the Warriors right now. It appears Cronulla is going to win its first title in a romp.
Sharks have now lost their best player - Feki - to injury. Was an ugly tackle by McLean and Chambers.
Storm are back
Some dirty shit going on in the contract zone. Wonder how long it will take until someone sues the NRL for letting this stuff go. There was a chicken wing tackle earlier that looked fairly shit.
Ennis' grubbers have shit on some good work by the Sharks
Sharks are now losing guys - Bukuya got fucked up by Tohu Harris's knee. Bad tackle made by Bukuya.
Sharks going to run out of fresh bodies. Storm will win this just through experience in the playmaking positions
@ACT-Crusader said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Shocking kicking from the Sharks again.
Storm not really creating much in attack though.
Yep. But get one offload away....
Haha, just like that from an offload and Storm are in.
Sharks look out on their feet now.
Apparently stripping the ball isn't a penalty anymore. Sharks holding on by two right now.
Melbourne try and do a Warriors at the end but they've never been able to do that. Cronulla are champs with a 14-12 win.
Break out the coke and hookers boys, you earned it.
On that last set the $torm shot themselves in the foot. Trying to keep it alive instead of hit it up and set a last play...
The best team won, no doubt about that, but fuck it would have been funny if Melbourne scored on one of those last two sets and won it all.
How hilarious. Storm would've won if Chambers knew how to pass. No wonder he didn't last long in rugby.
Chambers is a grub (along with the rest of them) so I'm loving the fact he cost it for them.
Shit game. Best last play in a final ever.
Best team won though, with half decent playmakers they win by 14.
Pity. I don't give a shit about the Storm, but I did want to see that useless fluffybunny Gallen lose again.
And I'll reiterate a point I've made countless times before; the skill level in league is fucking shite. The passing is crap. The backline moves are entirely predictable and telegraphed. And yet the donkeys still can't defend.