NRL 2020

[mikedogz]

DUMB ARSES. Quite likely Aussie/Queensland will go in lockdown.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120496959/coronavirus-nrl-considering-moving-entire-competition-to-queensland-mining-facility?%3Fcid=facebook.post&cid=facebook.post.sport&fbclid=IwAR12p9KIMic1djLvXqpqmywsWQg-qoqSaSQ8hiFjEan_qWn-teC_PR-aQ58

[Hooroo]

Uncrediballistict!!!! Surely this is just someone trying to make news that isn't really there (I didn't bother clicking on the link)

[canefan]

@mikedogz How stoopid do these guys look? Talk about not reading the temperature in the room

[Bovidae]

V'landys' decisions are all about the NRL's bank balance.

[taniwharugby]

Just seen on FB NRL is done now too

[antipodean]

@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.

[taniwharugby]

@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!

[Siam]

@taniwharugby I did admire their blind gumption for a while there. They had a crack !😄

[mikedogz]

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/sports/nrl-suspends-2020-season-conveniently-around-the-same-time-they-close-all-the-pubs/?fbclid=IwAR1YdkHyzkyZ09cNFZHfOMzbxOJ4c-IyChUM90l1P6_P53w-H3hDC4BwX_Y

[kiwiinmelb]

You get the impression they really did not want to do it ,

But the pressure coming from outside forced their hand

[antipodean]

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.

[Godder]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12323868

Channel 9 basically calling for heads to roll...

[Bones]

https://m.facebook.com/Thelockerroomnetwork/photos/a.574637499342780/1714293288710523/?type=3

[Paekakboyz]

@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.

[Chris]

Queensland have just announce they will open their borders for NRL starting on May 28th

[ACT Crusader]

May 1, 2020  /  Warriors

We're cleared for take-off

Vodafone Warriors CEO Cameron George has today confirmed the club’s NRL squad and football staff will fly to Australia tomorrow to prepare for the scheduled resumption of the 2020 season on May 28.

Not sure if this is welcome news....

[Nepia]

@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2020:

May 1, 2020  /  Warriors

We're cleared for take-off

Vodafone Warriors CEO Cameron George has today confirmed the club’s NRL squad and football staff will fly to Australia tomorrow to prepare for the scheduled resumption of the 2020 season on May 28.

Not sure if this is welcome news....

At least I'll get to have my weekly anger release!

[Donsteppa]

The Australia based NRL fans now kindly vowing to adopt the Warriors as their second favourite team are in for a rude shock.

[ACT Crusader]

@Donsteppa said in NRL 2020:

The Australia based NRL fans now kindly vowing to adopt the Warriors as their second favourite team are in for a rude shock.

Suckers for punishment are league fans

[antipodean]

Displaying the effects of accumulated head injuries, Souths captain Adam Reynolds compares Latrell Mitchell to Michael Jordan.