NRL 2022
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Great game just before (Sharks v Rabits)
Sharks look very good this year, could be in with a chance at the finals.
Also Andrew Fifita is a beast
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Suck on it Brisbane!
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Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.
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@African-Monkey said in NRL 2022:
Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.
now THAT is foul play. dirty shot.
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Gold Coast now nailed on for the spoon.
Cowboys have seen the opportunity to nick first and pump the Dragon
Top 4 still wide open.
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@African-Monkey said in NRL 2022:
Tom Burgess to see an extended spell on the sidelines no doubt after his high shot.
Only got one week. That's poor from the NRL. That was a full speed clothesline.
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Carrigan gets 4 for the hip drop that breaks a leg
Fair result.
The NRL is now having to stamp out another wrestling style tackle brought about because of how disadvantageous a legs tackle is. A perfect snapping legs tackle only results in a quick play the ball and no marker. So it's two up top to slow everything down.
And so yards after contact becomes this big thing. Which in turn leads to the crusher (because guys were turning their back and driving the legs) and now these where the 3rd guy is trying to get a semi-stationary player to the ground (who has legs like tree trunks).
The rugby codes are definitely facing the same issue, how do we bring back the legs tackle? Rugby should be easy, if the guy is on the ground you can get at the ball. League? Fuck knows how they fix it
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and while we are on the subject of the judiciary
There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky
The giant cat JWH gave a not even subtle old-school "welcome to first grade" elbow to the face, just another in a long line of stupid niggly grubby acts, got fuck all (old JWH loves the niggle, but is prone to going missing when shit gets real tough. I will always remember him basically running away from Ben Teo a few years back)
But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.
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@mariner4life NAS, in true Storm grub tradition gets a free pass. It’s breathtakingly unsurprising….
Nothing ever surprises me when it comes to JWH. His legacy with reports and the judiciary is embarrassing to put it lightly.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NRL 2022:
It’s breathtakingly unsurprising
if i ever end up in court, i want their lawyers representing me
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
and while we are on the subject of the judiciary
There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky
But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.
The only thing good about the fall out from NAS is that its not just a kiwi thing, all scribes and forums are all scratching their head around how a guy can lose 6 teeth and the aggressor gets a warning because they could not supposedly find enough evidence. Interestingly if they did find enough evidence and inflicted any penalty then the resulting injury also gets taken into account. This was a terrible act poorly punished.
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in lighter news TMM becomes a warrior next year...signed
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
Carrigan gets 4 for the hip drop that breaks a leg
Fair result.
The NRL is now having to stamp out another wrestling style tackle brought about because of how disadvantageous a legs tackle is. A perfect snapping legs tackle only results in a quick play the ball and no marker. So it's two up top to slow everything down.
And so yards after contact becomes this big thing. Which in turn leads to the crusher (because guys were turning their back and driving the legs) and now these where the 3rd guy is trying to get a semi-stationary player to the ground (who has legs like tree trunks).
The rugby codes are definitely facing the same issue, how do we bring back the legs tackle? Rugby should be easy, if the guy is on the ground you can get at the ball. League? Fuck knows how they fix it
Yep this is clearly an issue that no one has an answer to yet, especially when teams with wrestling coaches invent new ways of taking someone down
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@bayimports said in NRL 2022:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
and while we are on the subject of the judiciary
There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky
But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.
The only thing good about the fall out from NAS is that its not just a kiwi thing, all scribes and forums are all scratching their head around how a guy can lose 6 teeth and the aggressor gets a warning because they could not supposedly find enough evidence. Interestingly if they did find enough evidence and inflicted any penalty then the resulting injury also gets taken into account. This was a terrible act poorly punished.
read this shit
"We identified that Nelson creates space so there is no crusher and no force applied to Egan's neck. There was a couple of other things we had to clear - first the head slam; we see there was clear separation from Nelson's right arm as player Egan gets thrown to the ground. Nelson has a good grip with his left arm but there is clear separation, whereas in a head slam you would see that arm isolate the head and really slam it into the ground, so we cleared that. "Secondly was the dangerous contact aspect... in one of the back angles you can see Nelson gets a grip under Egan's left arm, and we believe Nelson's right arm was diagonal from that grip, across his chest. "There might be possibly minor contact at the end of the tackle with Nelson's forearm to the neck and chin area, but that was a minor contact. It was a forceful tackle which unfortunately results in Egan's head going into the ground." NRL's head of football Graham Annesley was at pains to reiterate the MRC acts independently from the governing body, and so the finger can't be pointed at his department.
This big fucking grub actually jumped to make sure he smashed Egan as hard as he could in the face. It's fucking astounding.
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@bayimports said in NRL 2022:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
Carrigan gets 4 for the hip drop that breaks a leg
Fair result.
The NRL is now having to stamp out another wrestling style tackle brought about because of how disadvantageous a legs tackle is. A perfect snapping legs tackle only results in a quick play the ball and no marker. So it's two up top to slow everything down.
And so yards after contact becomes this big thing. Which in turn leads to the crusher (because guys were turning their back and driving the legs) and now these where the 3rd guy is trying to get a semi-stationary player to the ground (who has legs like tree trunks).
The rugby codes are definitely facing the same issue, how do we bring back the legs tackle? Rugby should be easy, if the guy is on the ground you can get at the ball. League? Fuck knows how they fix it
Yep this is clearly an issue that no one has an answer to yet, especially when teams with wrestling coaches invent new ways of taking someone down
I found it quite sickening to watch. It wasn’t a play to deliberately hurt (like NAS and JWH), but it has always been a very high risk play. No doubt it’s coached and practiced, but it wouldn’t be practiced with the force and scenario like it played out.
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"There might be possibly minor contact at the end of the tackle with Nelson's forearm to the neck and chin area, but that was a minor contact. It was a forceful tackle which unfortunately results in Egan's head going into the ground."
Absolutely laughable.
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@mariner4life yep its complete bollocks and I also agree he jumped and he didn't miss either...and to top things off this bit
NRL's head of football Graham Annesley was at pains to reiterate the MRC acts independently from the governing body, and so the finger can't be pointed at his department. >>
So I will stand here and defend it, but you cant blame me..!!
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
@bayimports said in NRL 2022:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:
and while we are on the subject of the judiciary
There a couple of absolute grub kiwi props running around this weekend who can consider themselves very very fucking lucky
But he's got nothing on big Nelson at Melbourne. NAS got fined for the 22nd time this season for smashing Egan's teeth out. The bloke must have 85,000 carry-over points, but can't get suspended. The mental gymnastics the NRL had to use not to suspend him were a sight to behold. Absolutely disgraceful decision.
The only thing good about the fall out from NAS is that its not just a kiwi thing, all scribes and forums are all scratching their head around how a guy can lose 6 teeth and the aggressor gets a warning because they could not supposedly find enough evidence. Interestingly if they did find enough evidence and inflicted any penalty then the resulting injury also gets taken into account. This was a terrible act poorly punished.
read this shit
"We identified that Nelson creates space so there is no crusher and no force applied to Egan's neck. There was a couple of other things we had to clear - first the head slam; we see there was clear separation from Nelson's right arm as player Egan gets thrown to the ground. Nelson has a good grip with his left arm but there is clear separation, whereas in a head slam you would see that arm isolate the head and really slam it into the ground, so we cleared that. "Secondly was the dangerous contact aspect... in one of the back angles you can see Nelson gets a grip under Egan's left arm, and we believe Nelson's right arm was diagonal from that grip, across his chest. "There might be possibly minor contact at the end of the tackle with Nelson's forearm to the neck and chin area, but that was a minor contact. It was a forceful tackle which unfortunately results in Egan's head going into the ground." NRL's head of football Graham Annesley was at pains to reiterate the MRC acts independently from the governing body, and so the finger can't be pointed at his department.This big fucking grub actually jumped to make sure he smashed Egan as hard as he could in the face. It's fucking astounding.
It's amazing the lengths they'll go to to deny what everyone can see. It's as if the judiciary forgets the rest of us have eyes.
In rugby that act would have him rubbed out for a month or more. Well, until SANZAAR stepped in...
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I’m not a big fan, but I thought Kent’s rant on NRL 360 last night on the NAS incident was very good.
I liked Luke Paton as a player but that was a disgraceful readout of the situation and justification
