@kiwiinmelb said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@booboo said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Say the Poms beat Aus what's the tie breaker?
Points diff?
i think so , what is in our favor there , Mal and Bennet are in a public feud , Bennet tried to undermine Mal and pinch his job as Aussie coach ,
Mal will have them fired up, its personal
Which could possibly throw the Kangaroos off their game.
@ACT-Crusader said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@kiwiinmelb said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@booboo said in The NRL Season of 2016:
Say the Poms beat Aus what's the tie breaker?
Points diff?
i think so , what is in our favor there , Mal and Bennet are in a public feud , Bennet tried to undermine Mal and pinch his job as Aussie coach ,
Mal will have them fired up, its personal
Which could possibly throw the Kangaroos off their game.
possibly , i was just thinking what wouldve been a dead rubber game for them, now has some spice
surprised no chat around the "rugby league player banned and sacked after acting like rugby league player who just won a GF"
Ben Barba tested positive for cocaine after the GF. The NRL of course suspended him for 12 games, and the Sharks released him.
And the response-by-numbers clicked in to gear
Barba fucked off to Thailand to go to "rehab"
The whole thing was blamed on "personal issues" ex-team mates came out and said they saw no visible signs of his "problems"
Rival clubs immediately started circling to sign him up.
Seriously, i wish, just once, they would all cut the crap. Admit you got caught; you did it because it's fun, not because you are battling demons; not have your team mates come out and pretend it could have been any one of them unlucky enough to get tested at the wrong time; not fuck off to some overseas "rehab" joint. And have the club keep you, and say we would rather have him than play against him next year.
"Yea mate, look, i was in to the marching powder pretty hard after the granny, the Sharks hadn't won in like a hundred years mate, so the shire was going off, and it was just getting thrown at us. I mean, who is turning down free rails? But i pushed it a bit hard, and the fucking testers got me before i could get it all out. My PR guy reckons i need to get out of the spotlight for a bit, so i am off to Thailand to drink cocktails on the beach for a couple of weeks until someone else takes the heat off me. I'll be turning out for the Sharkies again next year because the thought of me playing for St George is worse than the heat from the sponsors' missus apparently".
@mariner4life no doubt the tell all in a slightly dimmed room with hard hitting questions from the Footy Show will be on the cards for the week before round 1....
@kiwiinmelb said in The NRL Season of 2016:
And the kiwis draw with that super power of rugby league , Scotland .
I didnt watch but was following online, it sounded like they were lucky to nab a draw (Kiwis, not Scotland/England B )
David Kidwell won't be coach of the Kiwis for the RLWC next year and his two assistants shouldn't be there right now.
@Sneakdefreak said in The NRL Season of 2016:
David Kidwell won't be coach of the Kiwis for the RLWC next year and his two assistants shouldn't be there right now.
@Sneakdefreak said in The NRL Season of 2016:
David Kidwell won't be coach of the Kiwis for the RLWC next year and his two assistants shouldn't be there right now.
Aren't these the same assistants 'let go' by the Warriors just a few weeks ago?
apparently Kearney offered kidwell his assistance and he knocked it back .
Can't help but think kidwell needed experienced people around him to ease him in , like Kearney had with Bennett .
Looking a bit out of his depth ATM.
It was a poor performance and against a better side we would've got 40 put on us. Kicking game still a massive concern.
@Virgil said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@Sneakdefreak said in The NRL Season of 2016:
David Kidwell won't be coach of the Kiwis for the RLWC next year and his two assistants shouldn't be there right now.
@Sneakdefreak said in The NRL Season of 2016:
David Kidwell won't be coach of the Kiwis for the RLWC next year and his two assistants shouldn't be there right now.
Aren't these the same assistants 'let go' by the Warriors just a few weeks ago?
One of them was - Justin Murphy aka the worst defensive skills coach known to mankind. Shame the NZRL couldn't maybe get Ivan Cleary or even someone like Tim Sheens to take on an advisor role for this tour.
As long as the other game goes to plan we will limp into the final where we only need to play 80 minutes of champagne footy
I watched that scotland (the only one I have watched of the 3.5N) game and thought it was hilarious.
So badly played was that game by us that I will probably not bother wirh the final.
Thurston will run a muck and theyll score at will.
@raznomore not saying it's going to happen but these are the times when the Kiwis and the Warriors pull an effort out of thier arse and surprise everyone. That's what I am telling myself anyway.
@Crazy-Horse said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@raznomore not saying it's going to happen but these are the times when the Kiwis and the Warriors pull an effort out of thier arse and surprise everyone. That's what I am telling myself anyway.
I know what you mean but i cant see it. This team is too disjointed. They need a leader in the backs and Johnson doesnt appear to be that guy.
Add to that Bromwich probs not vocal enough to be captain. Id probably throw the armband to Luke and see how he goes. Hes out of form but I think hed grow about a foot and actually lead this rabble.
@infidel said in The NRL Season of 2016:
https://twitter.com/LFC/status/799346409120104450)
Klopp is wondering who the hell these guys are.
And they're probably wondering who the hell is Klopp (I take it he's the coach of the club)
@raznomore I can't see the Kiwis getting the W. Kidwell appears to think if they defend a lot they might get the win. Also seems intent on playing the Australian "structured" style instead of the Kiwi "up the guts" style that benefits our forward pack (smash it up, dummy half run, dummy half run, adlib etc).
@Sneakdefreak there are always going to coaches coming in thinking they can fix the Kiwis/warriors. But indidnt expect it to be Kidwell.
Whats the thinking behind putting the final on at Sunday afternoon UK time - which is overnight aus/nz. If the game was Saturday night UK time it would be breakfast time in Aus/NZ Sunday and at least one of them were going to make the final.
@raznomore It's been amateur hour at the NZRL throughout much of it's history. For a while we got it together but we seem to be reverting back
Looks like I'm the only idiot who stayed up to watch this absolute train wreck. Kidwell is clueless and has to go. How a guy like that is going to inspire anybody is beyond me, and his ultra conservative selections have obviously put a heap of pressure on Johnson to do everything on his own. I wouldn't have minded a loss or even a heavy loss if they had given a bunch of exciting youngsters some game time with a mindset to attack and with a view to development for the wc next year, instead of selecting some of the players who are well past their used by date and are clearly there to contain rather than attack. They couldn't even contain. Embarrassing.
I didnt sit up because of work on Monday , thought I would tape and watch before work without knowing the result,
made the mistake of looking at my phone when I got up and there was a text, "just like the bad old days, fuckin useless "
So went online for a look , apparently we were completing around 38 per cent the aussies around 98 , dont think I need to watch it , probably says enough
I didn't watch the game and knew Kidwell's silly game (re: delayed team announcement) wouldn't matter and the Kiwis would still get thrashed. Normal service has resumed.
@Sneakdefreak said in The NRL Season of 2016:
@raznomore I can't see the Kiwis getting the W. Kidwell appears to think if they defend a lot they might get the win. Also seems intent on playing the Australian "structured" style instead of the Kiwi "up the guts" style that benefits our forward pack (smash it up, dummy half run, dummy half run, adlib etc).
Nail on the head , I think he is trying to mimic what he sees Bellamy doing but he has different personal .
I remember when Cleary was at the Warriors and he used to trouble the storm , break up their liking for a structured game with that play what's in front of you type game game with lots of big boppas who can step and offload , and little fellas scooting out from dummy half . Kearney was assistant at the storm at the time and I believe he recognised that and replicated it at the kiwis hence his success .
