Pea-hearted capitulation #756 from the Warriors. Leaking points like a sieve in lead up to half time.
Maybe 2025 or 3025 will be our year...
Great first try by SJ and Metcalf, on the back of some great go forward. But as usual we're only good for about 20 minutes
Less than 10 minutes into the second half and I'm shutting it down. I'll watch the Paralympics instead. At least they've got heart
Typical Warriors... Sharks start the half with two disallowed tries, and then the Wahs remember how to play again for 20 mins or so.
22 - 14 to the Sharks at the 60 minute mark
12 man Cronulla outflank the Wahs to return to the lead... a closer than anticipated final 10 looms...
Thanks SJ.
You’ve been brilliant, you’ve been frustrating, you had a redemption tour last year, and then after an absolute stinker of a season early on, hey you pulled one out of the fire tonight against your other club.
Weird weekend and will have an impact on the finals..
St George throw away their good chance of making finals, but sets up Spoon bowl
SJ gets the send off he deserves for his career in a game that showed both the highs and lows that went with it. Sharks again showed why they are pretenders
Kevie we will make the finals, was routed by the Phins
Now here is were it gets interesting, Turbo injured (if doesn't play again), you would now suggest Manly gone. Roosters lose 3 key players, Walker the biggest impact of the three, can they win finals without them? You wouldn't think so
Knights, Raiders, Phins, Dragons all playing for their life this weekend. Phins v Knights probably decides the outcome. None likely to go deep into finals
Does anyone beat the Storm or Panthers in the finals? Unlikely
NRL Round 26: The Fumbling
Did your team need a win to cement something? Then they probably lost.
The Cowboys got their win against Melbourne B.
Cronulla needed a win to lock top 4 and even top 2, they lost.
The Dogs are pushing for a top 4 spot. They lost.
Thr Dragons needed a win to stay in the 8, they lost.
The Broncos could thrn have taken 8th, they got pumped.
The roosters could lock in 2nd, they lost to the Raiders, and lost 3 players to long term injuries.
And so to the final week, the winner of the Knights-phins game gets 8th.
The dragons play the Raiders, and the winner needs the knights and dolphins to draw (or alternatively win by a hundred).
But spoonbowl is the biggest game of the weekend
interesting news and rumours floating around today
James Maloney fired from Cowboys for drink driving..although seems like an overreaction to me (must be more to it)
First time a serial offender gets a downgrade (Kaufusi) although ban should have remained for that haircut and his origin input
Souths fail to get Latrell cleared for this round, so banned week 1 next year
Spoonbowl has the most bets of any game this weekend and although Parra favourites on the tote, two third of the money is on the Tigers
but the biggest rumour of the day (in my mind) is that apparently Moses Leo close to signing with one of 4 league clubs chasing him
Lol I just flicked over to the league
The Broncos are already in Bali.
Blowtorch on Kevvie hard
We've got this in the bag.
Imagine throwing an intercept to a bloke that had a leg transplant from a midget.
I blame Wests.
@Donsteppa said in NRL 2024:
Shipping 54 points in a battle for the spoon. With 9 minutes to go still... yikes!
Leaving nothing to chance.
Fucking hell. League players can tackle but they can't defend. Haven't watched more than a few minutes this year but nothing changes.
Crichton stands still, then runs thru a huge gap created by lazy rabbits who switch off once the ball gets 10 metres away from them. Wingers can't count.
This Va'a kid is monstrously big
At the risk of being that guy, I really do think that the Tigers aren't far away from being competitive again, and I hope they do. I think they have some good young kids coming through, and whether you like the guy or not, Jerome Luai will make a huge difference next year imo.
Never been the biggest fan of Benji, but I do think that they'd be better off sticking by him.
@African-Monkey the margins are pretty thin at this level. An extra year of experience together could be the difference.
I'm not convinced on Luai. Seems to benefit from Cleary and a good squad. Seems like a bit of a flog.
@African-Monkey the margins are pretty thin at this level. An extra year of experience together could be the difference.
I'm not convinced on Luai. Seems to benefit from Cleary and a good squad. Seems like a bit of a flog.
I'm probably the only Luai fan out there, but he guides Penrith around well to many victories when Cleary takes his usual 8-12 week injury break in the middle of every season.
Aren't Penrith at about an 80% win rate when Cleary doesn't play?
I think Penrith will find the going harder next season if Cleary takes large chunks of the season off.
Thank fuck the regular season is over. Everyone except Melbourne are limping in to finals. Ok, i guess the Sharks smoking Manly yesterday was something.
There are some deeply flawed teams in the finals, so it will be interesting to see who gets hot.
For the regular season, Brisbane far and away the most disappointing side this year. Losing a Grand Final to Penrith is club destroying apparently. And to right the ship they are bringing in (checks notes) T-Baz?? What the? So when you fire Kev 10-games in to next year you are giving one of the worst head coaches of all time the gig for 4 months? lol
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Penrith
Roosters
Brisbane
Melbourne
Warriors
Manly
Souths
Cronulla
Cowboys
Eels
Newcastle
Gold Coast
Raiders
Tigers
Bulldogs
Dolphins
St George
My ladder prediction
Well, in a tough one i had Penrith, Roosters and Melbourne in the top 4
lol @ Broncos
lol @ Warriors
Manly i at least had in the 8
lol @ Souths
Cronulla and the Cowboys and the Knights better than exptected
Big miss on the Dogs, and St George had a way better season than most thought.
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
Penrith
Brisbane
Cronulla
Melbourne
Roosters
Eels
Warriors
Newcastle
*Manly
Souths
Cowboys
Gold Coast
Bulldogs
Raiders
Dolphins
St George
Tigers
well at least I picked the threepeat spoon correctly, lol Brisbane and Eels
very little of any surprise this weekend.
The Panthers torched the Roosters early and then just went through the motions to keep themselves healthy.
Melbourne torched the Sharks who are massive pretenders.
The Cowboys got a bit lucky against the Knights.
Manly actually have a good enough team to make the GF. I expect them to beat the Roosters, and i reckon they'll give Melbourne a fright.
But, as we have known for a long long time, it's a Melbourne v Penrith GF.