NRL 2024

@bayimports said in NRL 2024:

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

@bayimports said in NRL 2024:

confirmed he will stay for 2024...

This will go tits up, he'll be a mid season departure and George and Robinson will go about how tough they were to keep him, but now it's time to show compassion.

could be right, but at least we can start planning now..tend to think he will last the year if we are winning though

TBH, we should have some props in mind because we should have already been searching for some outside of whatever AFB was planning on doing.

Embarrassing crowd in Hamilton. Where the fuck are all the stupid "Wahs" bandwagoners?

Tickets weren't cheap for the Huntly and Ngāruawāhia bros.

@Bovidae said in NRL 2024:

Tickets weren't cheap for the Huntly and Ngāruawāhia bros.

No excuses for the big city Aucklanders though, if they can drive as far as South Auckland they can carry on down to the Tron.

Might put some of the Warriors bumper crowds in perspective, my mate who went to a bunch of games was paying between $10 - $30 a ticket.

12-0 to the Kiwis at half time.

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

Embarrassing crowd in Hamilton. Where the fuck are all the stupid "Wahs" bandwagoners?

Was just gonna say where the fuck is the crowd

@KiwiMurph said in NRL 2024:

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

Embarrassing crowd in Hamilton. Where the fuck are all the stupid "Wahs" bandwagoners?

Was just gonna say where the fuck is the crowd

It's hard enough for NZ to get to play the Aussies at home as it is. This will not be helping the cause.

Missing a good Kiwis performance too.

I guess league taking over in NZ, as the media and social media has been telling me, is a bit premature?

Kiwis up 22-0 with 18 mins to go.

Leo Thompson has had a great game, must be the best recent rugby to league convert. From club rugby to test league.

Where is this ref from?

Fat lady warming up. I'm not familiar with most of these boys. But they are playing huge

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

Where is this ref from?

Australia.

Great try to one of our quota players.

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

Where is this ref from?

Australia.

Great try to one of our quota players.

He's actually calling stuff. We are bossing this

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I'm not familiar with most of these boys.

Have you not watched much league this year? The 18-20 men in the team are unknowns but the starting team are all decent names.

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I'm not familiar with most of these boys.

Have you not watched much league this year? The 18-20 men in the team are unknowns but the starting team are all decent names.

Not much apart from the Wahs. They look great! Hughes is influential

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test. Real danger of that now

What a smashing. Silverware for the Kiwis!

30-0 to the Kiwis. Whoop whoop.

Great result for Kiwis.

Some non calls from ref and missed forward passes by Kangaroos were dreadful. But no impact on game.

A Kiwis win against Aussie is such a rarity. Opportunity missed for lots of people in the Tron. Perhaps they should have played at Mt Smart?

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test.

When did any team do that?

Fortress FMG eh!

@Bovidae said in NRL 2024:

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test.

When did any team do that?

Fortress FMG eh!

Small sample size, but yeah!

40 odd missed tackles by the kangaroos!

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test. Real danger of that now

We did it in 2005. 24-0. I knew in the back of my mind there was one, glad that wiki exists.

I didn't know CNK was god squad.

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test. Real danger of that now

I remember we blanked the Aussies 24-0 over in England one year - 2005 Tri Nations final perhaps?

JFH's speech wasn't too bad, brevity is a good thing.

@KiwiMurph Correct, and we beat them 18-0 in 1985.

Fun game from a NZ perspective. Our forwards were dominant and our back three made a lot of metres. Guessing biggest winning margin over Australia? and blanking them in a final just makes it better.

Pity about turn out, but awesome for those who did!

Really enjoyed that game. Thought that was a lovely speech from the amazing CNK.
I have been a Matt Timoko fan for a couple of years now. I suspect there will be thousands more of us after today!

Tapine was massive for us. Brown’s best game since forever.

Our two wingers just have pace and in fact our back 5 ran any Aussie kicks back with some real venom.

Aussies looked second rate today.

I wasn’t able to watch it live had something on, but somehow without really trying managed to avoid the result, and watched a replay last night .

We were very up and full of energy , it was a bit odd , you see it sometimes in nrl but you don’t expect it from the Aussie team . Where the opposition almost concede defeat and say , I don’t think we can match this level of intensity today, and then roll over .

It’s a great kiwi team , it’s rare to have so many difficult players to tackle one on one in the same side .

Great win for the Kiwis!

To confirm, it was the third time the Kiwis have blanked the Kangaroos.

The biggest winning margin for the Kiwis over the Kangaroos, and their largest ever test loss.

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

Missing a good Kiwis performance too.

I guess league taking over in NZ, as the media and social media has been telling me, is a bit premature?

Whilst this is probably true I just don't think Kiwis do live sport anymore.

Apart from the All Blacks and the Wahs bandwagon there's been no crowds since forever (and I suspect the latter will falter if the cop a couple of early losses).

@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:

@KiwiMurph Correct, and we beat them 18-0 in 1985.

Was that Clayton Friend?

In other news the Tongans were shown up to be the pretenders they are on their NH tour getting whipped by England. I'm kind of disappointed we didn't get the chance to play them as we would have run up 50+ against them.

Konrad Hurrell is so fat I thought he was Ben Tamiefuna's slightly lighter skinned brother.

Not quite a blackout but in the days of 3 point trys and all our players playing in nz we beat them 24-3 in 1971 , was massive at the time . I think it was over another 10 years ( Lowe years ) when we beat them again.

Was that expected in any way? Saw the highlights, nice trys