NRL 2017

[Donsteppa]

It’s like watching a much more energetic version of the Warriors. More effort, but equally error prone.

[Gunner]

@donsteppa bang on.

Aussie will hump us if we make this many errors against them.

[Gunner]

Try Maumalo.

10-4

Samoa will get a couple more chances before the half coz the Kiwis will make an error

[Donsteppa]

This tournament is a really long winded way of awarding the title to Australia.

[Higgins]

Tough call there, it looked like the black player knocked the ball forwards out of the blue players grasp thus a knock on and not a try.

[Gunner]

@higgins nah, any other part of the field that’s a loose carry. No issues with that.

[Gunner]

Good try that one.

Have to laugh how the ref asks the TMO to look at the offside, but they look at the whole thing.

Happens every time too, why does the ref even bother telling them what to look at?

[Gunner]

Beale gets shot by a sniper in the crowd.

Doesn’t look too flash for the Warriors new signing, he’s on the gas.
Archilles maybe?

[Sneakdefreak]

@gunner Looks like it. Kiwis have a back up in Dean Whare and Warriors will have a back up in Blake Ayshford.

[Sneakdefreak]

Double fracture of Tibia and Fibula.

[Gunner]

@sneakdefreak broken tibia and fibula.
Freakish shot by the sniper to get both bones.

Edit: snap!

[mikedogz]

Geez, My sister who works for Auckland Stadiums will be going crook at the security company.

[canefan]

@donsteppa said in NRL 2017:

This tournament is a really long winded way of awarding the title to Australia.

They want to press the myth that loigue is a world game

[canefan]

@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2017:

Double fracture of Tibia and Fibula.

Warriors' curse

[Nepia]

@gunner said in NRL 2017:

Love the Kiwis haka, they all looked like they literally wanted to kill someone by the end of it.

Samoa’s was pretty good too.

Yeah, it was a good haka-boogie off!

@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2017:

@gunner Looks like it. Kiwis have a back up in Dean Whare and Warriors will have a back up in Blake Ayshford.

I'm pretty sure that Beale was the back up to Whare and you know the Warriors will go with Kata instead of Ayshford.

Turned into an easy win in the end, but the fat Samoan forwards were always going to tire.

The Kiwis error rate was nuts. For 20 minutes Johnson looked like he was doing a Ben Blair, but thankfully he turned it around.

[Bovidae]

Beale was hobbling just before he went down so the trainers should have got him off then.

Asofa-Solomona, Levi and Lui were good off the bench.

[Siam]

Anyone know where to see highlights of this world cup?

No video section of the official website as far as I can tell and that's just about as shitty as the chances of anyone other than Australia of winning it

Be nice to see some of it though

[antipodean]

@siam Highlights: https://www.foxsports.com.au/video/league/rlwc

[Rapido]

Watched sky highlights this morning.
Great crowd (noise) in Port Moresby. Although not 100% full, which is surprising to me as it is their national sport.

It's been a long, long time time I've seen any televised league test out of PNG. I remember a few in the 80s & early 90s, when it was crowd hanging from trees and roofs cliche, and (nz) players reporting in the size of the rocks in the playing field.

Flash stadium now, there was a Fifa U20 (or U17?) women's World Cup there a year or 2 ago, I think they built stadiums for (which played to empty crowds).

The PNG govt pledged to fund Tonga's stadium redevelopment until the ass fell out of whatever mineral price they are reliant on and they reneged (hence Tonga playing Wales at Eden Park earlier this year)

[Rapido]

Now watching USA v Fiji. All Blacks v Scotland 2007 levels of kit clash.