NRL 2020
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@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:
@Nepia more when you go back to hay days of toopi. Jones, lauatitii etc the NZ guys weren’t shit they were amazing plus adding in your campions, lucks, marsh, price etc. now look, Pappalii was meant to be next big NZ thing but he is terrible modern day back rower. Only Harris, Ah Mau, RTS, moemalo and fusitua are NZ players who would make 17 every week of most teams.
Your mention of the Aussies feeds into my point, we had good and sometimes great Ockers filling the spots we had gaps in back then, now we don't. Green was a great player, his body simply can not keep up with his brain so far, Egan might be good but we haven't seen evidence of it so far, Burr is a plodder whose only talent seems to be he's a white Australian dude.
Our squad is dud, our two best players came from the Storm and Chocks despite the fact they're Kiwis. It's not a local talent issue, there's enough young Kiwis running around in the NRL but the Warriors just can't seem to access that talent.
After watching the shit show from the Warriors last night I kind of wish the NRL got canned as well. I kind of thought the Warriors might adopt a siege mentality due to the circumstances and put in some good performances, but they don't have the right leaders to enable that.
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I saw Steve Price at the Bulldogs game and got sad.
The coaches are shit. The players are not top 8 standard. Mentally they are as resilient as a wet news paper.
I blame Tony Iro the most.
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@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD word doing the rounds over this side of the ditch, now that AFL has decided to pull the plug is that the NRL will pull the plug at the conclusion of this weekend round..common sense prevails..!
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Tigers humiliated at the hands of the Knights. This season needs to end immediately.
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DUMB ARSES. Quite likely Aussie/Queensland will go in lockdown.
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Just seen on FB NRL is done now too
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@taniwharugby Yes. From Tigers on FB:
OFFICIAL – The NRL is taking the unprecedented step of suspending the season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
OFFICIAL – The NRL is taking the unprecedented step of suspending the season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
hardly unprecedented when everyone else has already done it!
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@taniwharugby I did admire their blind gumption for a while there. They had a crack !😄
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You get the impression they really did not want to do it ,
But the pressure coming from outside forced their hand
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So while the NRL is frantically trying to come up with a solution and everyone's taken a pay cut of 71%, apparently the FTA broadcaster (Channel 9) thinks the solution isn't worth as much...
The proposal to have a rebooted competition up and running again without crowds in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, however, has not won the support of the game’s long-time free-to-air broadcaster Nine. Nine chief executive Hugh Marks has told the NRL there is less value attached to the game being played behind closed doors and under a different structure and the media company wants to negotiate a new contract with the code. -
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12323868
Channel 9 basically calling for heads to roll...
