NRL 2020
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
I should watch the Warriors tomorrow. But i just know that last week was an aberration, and they will stink the joint out, get flogged (by a desperately limited Penrith) and i would get more pissed than usual.
Luckily for me it's on Fox and they haven't confirmed whether they're playing the Aotearoa Super Rugby yet so if I do watch it will be delayed and I'll likely already know the score.
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
I should watch the Warriors tomorrow. But i just know that last week was an aberration, and they will stink the joint out, get flogged (by a desperately limited Penrith) and i would get more pissed than usual.
I didnt see the game so dont have an opinion on it.
But someone ( I think it was Brandy Alexander ) on one of the fox shows said , it was fantastic, but if you were nitpicking , with the amount of possession they had , you would think the elite sides would probably have piled a lot more points on a hapless dragons side who are struggling
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If you want to watch a ine-sided butt fucking, turn on the Roosters absolutely towelling the Broncos.
Brisbane have a couple of blokes who would be in contention for the worst players in the comp, in Darius Boyd and Anthony Milford.
Another disaster of a roster left behind by Wayne Bennett
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Broncos looking like a mediocre Qld Cup side.
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i really like the rule tweaks made. Th 6-again call is excellent, and having one ref definitely seems to bring more flow to the game (he even played advantage last night!).
There will be some lopsided games this year though. not every team is built for this pace. And there is nowhere to hide. You can't slow down the ruck. You can't keep giving away penalties. There are so few opportunities to reset.
Possession is everything. And footspeed through the middle. Those look to be the keys. The game is definitely better for these rule changes.
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@mariner4life Increasing the pace of the game might make for a better spectacle. What genius came up with that idea?
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
@mariner4life Increasing the pace of the game might make for a better spectacle. What genius came up with that idea?
pithy
But this bloke V'Landys has come in and just smashed everything. First game up and running. Better broadcast deal in the midst of a recession. Made the product a better spectacle. And he's done it in 2 months. All while keeping racing going in NSW.
By all accounts he's a total fluffybunny, but he's an effective fluffybunny (insert sex joke)
Now we wait for the coaches to adapt and fuck everything up again. Fatigue and chaos are the things coaches hate the most. So you arrive at where AFL and rugby are.
What quick changes could you make to rugby that would speed it up?
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Also, just seen the replay of Radley's elbow injury. That's a bit of a shit act by Milford actually. I get that it's tacklers that the "chicken wing" law is aimed at, but this was no different
If Milford didn't do that, or miss tackles, you wouldn't even know he was playing.
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I'm sure Vlandys is effective. As I understand it, it's a record deal in headline only. $1.8 for five seasons (2018-2022) is worth more than $2.3 for the last three and another four.
Everyone complained about the slowdown in the tackle and the stupidity of the two refs. Maybe it took someone like V'landys to make the simpletons running the game understand that.
Rugby is more difficult because it involves a contest. But not increasing the bench would be a good start, as would speeding up the time taken to restart the game.
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
Th 6-again call is excellent,
What's the 6 again call @mariner4life Google? I've only watched the Warriors and not sure it came up?
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:
Th 6-again call is excellent,
What's the 6 again call @mariner4life Google? I've only watched the Warriors and not sure it came up?
basically, ruck infringements (mainly laying on too long) instead of being a penalty, is just 6-again. No stoppage. No kick for touch. No chance for a team to hit the reset button on its defence. Just play on. It's allowing teams to get on a role, and to get long passages of possession if the other team doesn't keep the ruck quick.
Main outcome is the big boys in the middle are getting tired. And therefore you can either kill them through the middle with quick guys, or their defense has to compress to cover the middle, and you have the option of hitting them wide.
Thus far it's been brilliant
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@mariner4life Cheers. Yeah that does sound like a good way to speed up the game and tire the big boys out. Must have happened in the Warriors game but I must have been too dopey to click on to it happening.
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I think if there is a downside , and maybe it isnt a downside, depends how you look at it I guess ,
I think we may see more score blow outs like last night,
When a team gets on a roll, it seems the floodgates really open up more than they used to
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@Donsteppa said in NRL 2020:
The Warriors have returned...
Giving away dumb penalties, opposition making easy metres in the middle of the park, poor 5th tackle kicks and execution, soft tries let in. Nostalgia always gets me
