NRL 2024
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Warriors of old have definitely turned up tonight.
ANOTHER soft penalty to let the Dragons out of their own end, followed up by a set re start… Dragons score again.
They must be 3 tries from 3 times inside the 20.
This is just an utter garbage last 20 minutes from the Warriors.
Penalties, soft defense, poor attack inside the 20, it’s all a bit concerning.
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Worst performance of the Webster era.
After 12 minutes it looked like one team was going to get done by 20, and it wasn't the warriors.
But just like every week we don't score enough when we are on top, but this week or defence also fell apart.Awful all round really. I would like to say flush it and move on, but a few things that have bugged us all year became big issues tonight.
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Yeah errors amongst back three were huge, Shaun either was instructed or attacked only one side. Bench offered little which didn’t surprise me given injuries but disappointing nonetheless. Some worrying signs for sure, hoping flush it…
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Dolphins wow! Trai Fuller where have you been?!?!
Jack Bostock and Isaiya Katoa are also future stars of the game, and how good is Jeremy Marshall King going?! Might have to find a way to get him into the Kiwis lineup.
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remmeber the first year of the 6-again rules, and it turned out half the comp had teams fundamentally unsuited to that game style, and lopsided scores abound? Well this weekend reminded me of that, lots of teams got flogged.
We've already discussed Thursday, and the fact the Roosters are frauds
THe Warriors slipped on that banana skin
Then the dolphins buttfucked the Eels in Darwin. Fuck the Eels, and fuck "King" Gutho. Brad Arthur chucked his players under the bus afterwards, but that can't hide the fact he's probably sitting in the hottest seat in town. The Eels just got flogged by a Q-Cup team
Penrith of course beat the Tigers. Benji is a real coach now because he had a quick bunker whinge in the pressor.
Neither GC or Manly could be bothered tackling.
Brisbane put Canberra in their place.
The Bulldogs of all teams flogged the Knights who are in real trouble. Heaps of their players are out of form, they are reliant on Ponga who is hurt and tired. AOB back in the gun.
Then the Sharks showed the Cowboys exactly where they really are. Payton is now under pressure as well. Continuing to pick absolute spuds like Townsend, Feldt, Granville, while there has been a huge regression in Taumalolo's game as well. The Sharkies look like they did at this time last year though. They'll be hoping they've learned some lessons. -
Tough week watching league, I saw enough fight even in the Gold Coast to make me nervous after our poor effort last week, combined with a short turnaround and a massive injury list of middles.
I have thought for a while that performance from the Dogs was coming. Its funny how the season progresses and when injuries to many teams start occuring, the teams who bought players who can play in multiple positions rather than specialists, start having a greater impact! But seriously, I know they say, Ponga's injury couldnt get worse and was just pain management, but AOB playing him was the worst decision of the weekend, it led to another subsequent injury and likely out longer..
Cowboys have the worst away record at Shark Park of all teams in the modern era (dont know why, but they didnt turn up again)..flush it
Very even comp, only really Penrith and Melbourne showing any consistency. Everyone else is capable of brilliance and crap, the difference being the previous teams teams are also the same, but still find a way to win.
Origin 1 just around the corner, so a lot of these teams will lose players soon, traditionally this is where we make our move (and usually fall away at the end), hoping that loss last week lights a fire from our guys.
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Early team lists show last weekend's results haven't cost many their job
We're getting Walker back, the only casualty is injury enforced to Capewell.
For the Roosters Tedesco keeps his spot after mystifyingly avoiding suspension
The Eels dropped a nobody half for another nobody half
The Cowboys swapped Taumalolo to the bench for the similarly poor performing Neame.There are a few guys stealing a pay cheque in the NRL at the moment.
The Broncos get a heap of high end talent back to play the Tigers.
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We have a stack of forwards out still, Niukore, Bunty and Jazz probably the biggest impact for middles rotation. Hope Laban isn't defending Fifita, but gets a good chance to show his talent eitherway. SJ carrying injury but expect a strong hit back from the Warriors.
Unfortunately Tedesco only got a fine which Im surprised with, but sort of not..
As for the Eels, Sanders is actually a young halfback and Im surprised he hasnt been played so far, rather than stuffing Brown around. Doesn't help the lack of talent in their centres or their edge forwards. Interestingly hearing that Gutho's knees are completely shot but keeps playing, reminds me of Brett Stewart for Manly near the end of his career. BA on deaths door
If Melbourne rout Souths, which they should.. is JD back out the door?
The only team that didn't really need calvary thanks to a stack of talented juniors in Brisbane ..gets the big guns back lol.. poor tigers, however on ex-union watch Alaimalo gets his first run
Surely the Cowboys bounce back..
