NRL 2020
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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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NRL Suspends 2020 Season Conveniently Around The Same Time They Close All The Pubs — The Betoota Advocate
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In absolutely fucking heartbreaking news out of NRL HQ today, it seems these gotdam coronavirus has finally succeeded in its efforts to take away the last good thing Australia had to look forward to this winter. The 2020 NRL season has been suspended amid the...
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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...
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@Bones and shit has gone as downhill for Locke as it has for the Warriors since then. He always lacked size (lol if they selected Tomkins to address that) but was electric in 2011. Must have been a real kick in the nuts, although it sounds like he took a while to mature.
