and the Chiefs trade up to get a freak speedster receiver for Mahomes to play with
fuck
and the Chiefs trade up to get a freak speedster receiver for Mahomes to play with
fuck
some defensive steals going now.
Draft just showing what we already knew about the most important pieces in constructing a team
QB play
O-line to protect them
Difference making receivers.
Then edge rushers and smothering corners.
biggest story so far
The Falcons trading for Kirk Cousins
The Falcons drafting a QB in the first round.
Vijay was #1 more than once? that's pretty cool.
The Warriors need a hard reset.
Our attack has gone to shit. Linebreaks are non-existent, but our completion rates are awesome. We're back to that shit we played under Nathan Brown. Last year a strength was the complete faith in the process. This year it's a weakness because when it's not working, we're not trying anything else until we are chasing the game.
SJ isn't challenging the line enough, our sweep plays involve too much lateral running, and teams are just sliding. I am not sure of the stats, but i feel like our wingers score the smallest percentage of our tries in the league.
We're rubbishing Montoya, but he gets no ball in attack, gets no balls kicked to his wing, he's basically there to cart the ball out of our own end. We have no plan to get Roger in space, and to be fair, he doesn't look like taking the outside shoulder and putting a winger away.
Dallin is Dallin, rocks and diamonds. But there aren't many diamonds as he is starved of opportunity.
TMM is a waste of space. Harris is digging in to the line, but too often his pass is too deep, and the opposition knows it's coming.
I am fucking sick of the same set being played over and over for no result. Great plan if you have Penrith's defence and discipline. You get rewards. We can't force errors or jam a team in their own end. And then we'll give away a late penalty.
Webster needs to take a step back and have a look, i reckon we need the bye desperately for a reset. If every game looks exactly the same, it has to be by design.
well, i for one would like to thank both the Dragons and the Bunnies for taking the spotlight off that shithouse Warriors performance. The story today could easily be how we folded at home and gave the Titans their first win.
But no, today it will be that the Roosters are back, and the fact that the Dragons had 60 put on them, and how the Bunnies were eliminated from premiership contention because Melbourne put 50 past them.
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ok so who was good then for a bit, but would be a surprising choice.
Vijay?
Some rando who i remember having an awesome run like Davis Love III?
wait, no it won't, he would have been before that 99-04 stint
One will be David Duval
Every warriors game looks exactly the same. Start well, be on top, score early. Then every set is good metres followed by a bomb to our right. Set after set. No contesting. No variations. Give away penalties. Other team gets in to their rhythm. The lead evaporates.
Sometimes we come back. Sometimes we don't.
We are very predictable and not exciting to watch in this mode.
@Dan54 said in Super Rugby 2024:
you (like a fair few) a star follower perhaps and not a team one
no, not even remotely the case
but if i am forking out what they are charging for a fucking ticket to a game these days, i want to see elite talent, not reserve graders.
(as an aside, i was talking to Dad about why i just cared so little about the Chiefs now. It's because i left the Chiefs region 22 years ago. Being from BOP I fucking hate Waikato so why support a team based there? There is nothing tying me to them other than nostalgia for $10 tickets to Rugby Park including a jug at the Outback. They are not my home team, a fact that has never been hidden. So why care?)
do you think that is a likely opinion to be held by his managers (ie coaches) and employers?
Surely the deadshit opinions of the dumbest fluffybunnies in the stands will not matter.
I absolutely think that opinion existed 15 years ago. Shit, i heard it at every club i played at. But these days?
The best club side possibly ever is loaded with polynesians who are absolute specimens. People hate Penrith because they are so good, but you never hear disparaging comments about their players. In fact, clubs play overs for their polynesian players to come and set standards.
On the flip side is Josh Schuster, who never looks in shape, is widely reported to be an actual lazy trainer, and no one wants to talk to him.
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
@mariner4life you're probably right, im just concerned that if you're not looking to grow...then your begging to actually fail....i dont think keeping the status quo is possible
as long as the ABs continue to win more than they lose, and the kiwi teams keep winning Super rugby, then i don't think most will give a shit. And until the mythical explosion of basketball and league actually happens, i can't see that changing. so muddle along we will.
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2024:
as much as we may want to.
this, to me is the point. If you break it down, most don't actually want to. Mainly because change may negatively impact something they like now.
the implication this is because he is a pacific islander
not that he is at a club that had fallen in a heap, and a new coach was trying to set standards to lift them out of that hole.
you can argue the merit of those methods for sure, but to say this happened to him because he's a pacific islander, not a Bulldogs player, seems a stretch to me.
can you, for once, just spell out what your fucking point is so i can see whether i agree or disagree, rather than trying to work out what the fuck you are trying to say from one sentence vague posts, and then attempting to discuss that?
And if you are talking about specifics in your article, remember you linked to a paywalled article.
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2024:
Comparing rugby to NRL is apples and oranges too, but you do you too.
not when they are directly competing for the same eye balls it's not.
If i buy a ticket to watch say the Panthers v the Titans, i can be assured that, barring injury, i am watching Edwards, To'o, Cleary, Yeo, and JFH. So i will go
If i was thinking about buying a ticket to say, the Chiefs v the Crusaders, and the team was named without DMac and Finau, i'm saving my money. To me that is the difference.
SO a Lebanese guy making a Polynesian guy do extra is racist now?
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2024:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Nepia i think there is a middle ground too be found, international and Franchise/club are different things and should be markets as such, one doesnt need to be subservient to the other. if we can make the franchise game as popular as NRL and then the international game set in where we have State of Origin then we'd be onto something
Yeah, but many players often sit out club games during SoO season and this seems to be the main issue that people complain about when talking about the test player breaks in Super Rugby.
come on you're better than that
Nathan Cleary isn't taking games off in April for SoO, he's taking the game off on the weekend after playing on Wednesday night. Actually the number of guys that front up on the weekend surprises me every year.
The point is that big name players don't play all games, yet I'm constantly hearing complaints that one of the problems with SR is the big name players don't play all games.
Where they take a break really doesn't matter, they're still not playing all games.
apples and oranges but you do you