NRL 2024
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Did i just miss the news we released Volkman? anyway he landed at the Dragons
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Did i just miss the news we released Volkman? anyway he landed at the Dragons
I think it's a few weeks old?
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Did i just miss the news we released Volkman? anyway he landed at the Dragons
Set to be cut by dragons already due to previous injury
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Was a little worried when I first saw pictures in the moonboot.
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what a difference 12 months makes. this time last year we would have almost been hoping he was out to force the selectors hand...
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I'm worried about the Warrior's prospects this year. I have yet to read about them being the fittest they have ever been. There's no way they will last 80 minutes.
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@Crazy-Horse said in NRL 2024:
I'm worried about the Warrior's prospects this year. I have yet to read about them being the fittest they have ever been. There's no way they will last 80 minutes.
ask and you shall receive
“The way they’ve trained has been unbelievable,” Warriors coach Andrew Webster said.
“We’re fitter, faster, stronger, that’s the truth,” Webster said.
“We’ve got to ask ourselves if we’re executing things better and that’s what we’re about to find out."
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Goddam it Andrew....
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This kicks off soon and since I haven’t seen the build up don’t really know how this has been played out this year.
I expect fox would be in overdrive as the season begins with the NRL trying to get more gambling pie by playing 2 games in Vegas.First bet should be who goes to morgue first(looks fun for diving wingers)
Followed by who goes to jail post game
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And that’s with the smaller field size
It is 94.5 metres from goalpost to goalpost and 64 metres wide as opposed to 100 metres by 68 metres. The in-goals have also been cut down from eight metres to six-and-half. As for where the length has come off from, foxsports.com.au confirmed with NRL officials that each 10-metre block on the field is instead 9.45 metres — and the referees will adjust the defensive line’s position to ensure it is still at 10 metres. -
NRL in Vegas crowd making rugby crowd in Victoria look like 3rd grade Park football
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
NRL in Vegas crowd making rugby crowd in Victoria look like 3rd grade Park football
Is that really all that relevant? A one off special event from a hugely wealthy organisation against a round that most rugby fans agree shouldn't happen, in an area about to lose their team, and in a country that doesn't give a shit about rugby.
Anyway round 1 doesn't kick off properly until 6pm Friday.
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Lol what?
One off? It's locked in for 5 years
Super Round should exist It's an awesome concept
In a country that doesn't give a shit about rugby? Unlike the huge rugby league community of the USFact is people will travel for hours to watch the NRL in the states but won't fly for 3 hours to watch their team play rugby.
It's totally relevant. Rugby as a public drawer in australasia is fucked. No one can be fucked.
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Anyway the game is turning it on, bunnies v manly is high quality for round 1.
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Just rereading my post, I'm not down on Super Rugby, it's been really good to watch. But people just will not go and watch live.
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Luke Brookes loving life
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Sitting in LAX, if they were hoping for an impact, they may have wished for local coverage. Nothing going around here. Still at least vpn working
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Just rereading my post, I'm not down on Super Rugby, it's been really good to watch. But people just will not go and watch live.
The Chiefs v Brumbies game is a good watch, your home team are playing some nice rugby ... you're watching two Sydney teams playing each other in the states.
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Lol what?
One off? It's locked in for 5 years
Super Round should exist It's an awesome concept
In a country that doesn't give a shit about rugby? Unlike the huge rugby league community of the USFact is people will travel for hours to watch the NRL in the states but won't fly for 3 hours to watch their team play rugby.
It's totally relevant. Rugby as a public drawer in australasia is fucked. No one can be fucked.
I didn't know it was locked in for 5 years, until a few days before the All Stars game I genuinely thought it was that game being played up there (I tend to switch off league news when the Warriors are out or the Kiwis aren't playing). Anyway, it's a one off until it's run again next year.
Either way I still don't think the crowd in a exhibition match in the US is hugely relevant to the malaise that Super rugby is in in Australia (especially). As you acknowledge the rugby is good, but the crowds are fucked (NZ has good ratings though despite all the Warriors hype we've been smacked over the head with for the past year).
(By exhibition I mean for the US fans, not the level of competition).
