A few blokes in the twilight of their careers in that team. Guessing Mal isn't worried about a youth policy.
@mariner4life said in The NRL Season of 2016:
i like a lot of our match ups, but their 9/7/6 shits on ours so hard.
Who is our 6?
9 and 7 are ok.
@Bones said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@booboo This kinda gave it away...
That would require effort from me. Much easier to get tou guys to tell me.
@mariner4life said in The NRL Season of 2016:
how does square wheels Nightingale keep getting picked?
Would have been a great opportunity to cap former Blues development squad player, Suliasi Vunivalu who made the NRL team of the year and prevent the Aussies from picking him down the track. This guy is already far superior to Nightingale.
Ref fucking us as well, should have been a repeat set to us. Now the kangas score down the other end. Reaching for the remote.....
Why has our Dally M player of the year only touched the ball twice in the first 20?
Weird.
@mariner4life said in The NRL Season of 2016:
We're going to get fingered like drunk school girls
DonDon would abide!
@SammyC said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Is there a stupider team in world sport than the kiwis.
Possibly the warriors
The Kentucky Colonels
That starting front rower for the Aussies is just a big fat fuck. How can a professional footy player have a gut like that?
Thought we worked our way back into the game well considering the shaky start ,
We can win this if we get our share of the ball and complete our sets
@canefan said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Is that Sam Thaiday's fat brother playing for oz?
It's a functional gut
the positive is , we are not playing well , and the aussies are struggling to put us away
Obvious lessons. Storm forwards are better being guided by Smith and Cronk. And the Warriors spine not good enough for the NRL can't win test matches.
Fuck why were these in doubt?
i dont think its a great aussie team , its there for the taking for us or the poms if we can get our shit together , big if though
@ACT-Crusader said in The NRL Season of 2016:
How rubbish has SKD been tonight. Drag him.
Because he's a shit player who is dumb as a sack of hammers
yeah , been ordinary , we should get better in the 4 nations , we usually do
missing another ball player though , foran is a big loss
Hey Shaun Johnson, learn to tackle and kick you fucking princess. How long are we going to hear about this potential of yours
This proves gow much better cronk Smith and JT are at making half decent better players look good
Slow starts and shit fifth tackle options meant the Roos were always going to break away in the home straight.
Some thoughts:
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Fly me over to Perth and I can give the Kiwis the winning formula. If you have a great forward pack and a weak playmaking unit, don't try and play structured football like you have a great playmaking unit. Power running up the middle of the park, with runners following closely for the offload. Little guys (SJ, Leuluai, Luke, Brown, Kahu, Nightingale, Kata) dummyhalf run every second & fourth. Aussie forwards won't be able to stop it.
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I don't get the point in JWH. Makes dumb mistakes (although that was a fun closeline of JT which Boyd Cordner followed up with the people's elbow). Mannering comes into the secondrow, Blair to prop and Harris to the bench.
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Speaking of the bench, Brown/Taupau/Mau'u/Blair really got things going for the Kiwis after a slow start.
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SKD was rusty the commentators said. I'll let that pass for now.
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I get it is a warm-up game but was odd that both Luke and Taumalolo spent long stints on the sideline.
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Shaun Johnson has regressed as a player. Doesn't want to run, doesn't want to kick, doesn't want to take command. If Foran gets things right again in 2017 the Warriors should throw all the money at him and trade SJ to a Sydney club.
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Reffing was suss in this game and the bunker was worse, but finally they're making players be held responsible for dropping the pill intently whenever a defender's hand is on it.
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Best defender in the game was Thomas Leuluai - for both sides. Dude was shutting down Dugan and Ferguson like they were the ones who were 5'8. He would have made a great safety in the NFL.
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Rapana and Kata had good debuts. So did Valentine Holmes for Aussie. I really hate Valentine Holmes. Dunno why, but every time he plays I hope he snaps a leg or contracts something from the Shire. The latter is a real possibility.
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To beat Aussie you need to harrass Cam Smith. Have a crack at JT, for sure, and maybe Cronk (but he's the Maurice Gibb of the trio).
How many times did we see Tupou looking for an offload and there was none there running off him. This just shows how clueless the coaching is. When you have a beast of a player like him, instruct your support players to stick with him. And what's the deal with not playing your most destructive forward in Taumalolo for the first 20 minutes of the 2nd half? Kidwell really seems to be out of his depth..