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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 26, 2020 22:30:55 GMT
Well both my teams lost, but I don't think either has much to worry about. Dragons were playing the team who will threepeat this and made a game of it for about the first 80% of it. Bring that effort every week and we'll win our share.
GWS showed again that they know how to get around the Collingwood defensive clamp, but they're the only team that does and they expended so much energy doing it they were lucky not to be over run.
Howe looks like he's out for the rest of the year with an ACL. The roosters mafe a complaint to ground staff who made a complaint to a jounalist over the Bankwest turf after two of their players suffered ACL tears against the Dragons.
NZ v Melbourne looks straight forward with the Storm winning 50-6, but NZ started really well. Dominated territory for the first 35 minutes but couldn't score. Melbourne scored their first two tries against the run and then won some ball to get in a third time and from there the Warriors packed it in.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 27, 2020 3:35:07 GMT
Dragons were unlucky - but in that second half they kept giving away soft six agains. Brett Morris proved once again that professional experience and nous works just as well as youthful exuberance and talent. Speaking of, that JWH try setup by Manu was brilliant rugby league. Pure talent right there.
Melbourne were just too good for the Warriors. Took every opportunity presented, while NZ butchered a couple.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 27, 2020 19:28:15 GMT
FFS Newcastle. That was poor. Parra and Canberra was a cracker, but the Raiders are not backing up well from their GF loss last year. They need to start winning some games.
Good to see the Titans compound Brisbane's misery while in the AFL perrenial strugglers Carlton and Gold Coast both won. GC starting to look like more than a fast starter and are playing some good footy. Fyfe did his hamstring and Freo are nothing without him. Drcent brawl on half time too.
Port, who I say every year do nothing with an elite list, are looking really good. Richmond continued their struggles going down to St Kilda. Needless to say something's wrong there, but at 1-1-2 they're hardly in an unsalvagable position. Riewoldt is the question for me. He's showing real signs that he could be done.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 28, 2020 6:42:21 GMT
Canberra are doing everything but winning games.
Parramatta impress me more everytime I see them, but without Moses it will be a real test.
The Broncos are comically bad now. They just don’t have any game outside of steamroll the opposition. If they encounter any resistance - they are done. It doesn’t help that their coach seems completely incompetent.
Good win for the Titans though. If Brimson and Cartwright come into that side and play near their potential, they’ll win a few more games than many will think they should.
I saw bits of the AFL - Port looked classy, I don’t think Essendon nor Carlton are finals bound, Saints might surprise a few more and Richmond will come good eventually.
In today’s games - Cronulla are ahead of Mnaly heading into halftime 12-6, the Demons lead the Cats 15-14 at HT in what must be a real dogged game at the ‘G, and the Lions have stolen all of the Broncos mojo and accounted for the Crows easily at the Gabba.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 1, 2020 3:15:43 GMT
Brisbane are the fun story this week. They've lost 5 in a row and were dumb enough to take pot shots at Wayne Bennett, who has now returned serve with interest. Personally, I'm loving the implosion.
In AFL Steele Sidebottom should get banned for a few games for breaching Covd restrictions twice while on the piss a few days ago. Idiot.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 1, 2020 7:50:41 GMT
Sidebottom gone for 4 games. That on top of Howe hurts.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 1, 2020 11:48:59 GMT
Sidebottom gone for 4 games. That on top of Howe hurts. Complete and utter moron. No more needs to be said. In a bit of difference from bashing the Broncos, Ricky Stuart has come out and given it to player managers over the whole John Bateman saga. I sort of get what he’s saying, but the club themselves have to apportion some of the blame for this current mess. And it’s an open secret that all of the agents that have been around a while have got both the clubs and the NRL by the balls with what they know about how clubs deliberately break the salary cap, and the NRL more or less turning a blind eye to appease the clubs and the RLPA. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 1, 2020 18:26:35 GMT
The salary cap in the NRL, while not a farce, simply isn't doing what it was designed to do. It presumes an even playing field with a player's ability to generate income and sponsorships, what a team can offer in the way of facilities and rep opportunities etc. If equalisation is the goal, more than a cap on legal salary is needed. In the absence of anything else how else can middle powers in smaller areas compete apart from cooking their books? Are we supposed to be pissed off at Cronulla or commend them for beating the system? I'm not sure. Onlybway Canberra can compete is to take a punt on guys like Bateman, pay unders, and hope you can keep your premiership window open before you need to start paying them. We both know this guy will end up at the Roosters or Souths or Parramatta or maybe Melbourne. No chance he goes to a struggling club to make them better which is the whole purpose of the cap to start with.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 1, 2020 18:32:48 GMT
Ideas to help the AFL according to K Cornes, M Lloydd and G Healy
1. Limit the interchange to 32 including breaks in quarters
2. Get rid of the ruck nomination rule and just throw the ball up before 20 guys have run in.
3. Stricter interpretation of holding the ball.
4. Last team to touch the ball is penalised out of bounds.
5. Enforce 3 per team in the 50s at all times.
It's based on stoppages going from an average of 40 per game to 70 since 2005.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 2, 2020 12:33:06 GMT
Ideas to help the AFL according to K Cornes, M Lloydd and G Healy 1. Limit the interchange to 32 including breaks in quarters 2. Get rid of the ruck nomination rule and just throw the ball up before 20 guys have run in. 3. Stricter interpretation of holding the ball. 4. Last team to touch the ball is penalised out of bounds. 5. Enforce 3 per team in the 50s at all times. It's based on stoppages going from an average of 40 per game to 70 since 2005. Sounds like lipstick on a pig to be honest. Stricter holding the ball is a really bad idea - if it goes too far, players will just slap the ball on the boot or fist and hope for the best. What kind of game promotes that idea ? Added to that - free kicks for out of bounds means that teams have to look “inside” in their defensive half. I get the contested possession is good mantra - but large packs of players and a ball hopefully going in the right direction sounds a step backwards to me. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 2, 2020 12:37:35 GMT
Melbourne Storm defeat Sydney Roosters 27-25 in a Golden Point thriller in Brisbane. Fantastic game of football with an incredible final few minutes with 3 clutch kicks. To be fair, Melbourne deserved the win - made far fewer mistakes than the Chooks, although they never really looked like getting right over the top of the tri-colours. I don’t think Melbourne have another gear against a strong side, while the Roosters can easily improve on this performance.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 2, 2020 17:53:53 GMT
Ideas to help the AFL according to K Cornes, M Lloydd and G Healy 1. Limit the interchange to 32 including breaks in quarters 2. Get rid of the ruck nomination rule and just throw the ball up before 20 guys have run in. 3. Stricter interpretation of holding the ball. 4. Last team to touch the ball is penalised out of bounds. 5. Enforce 3 per team in the 50s at all times. It's based on stoppages going from an average of 40 per game to 70 since 2005. Sounds like lipstick on a pig to be honest. Stricter holding the ball is a really bad idea - if it goes too far, players will just slap the ball on the boot or fist and hope for the best. What kind of game promotes that idea ? Added to that - free kicks for out of bounds means that teams have to look “inside” in their defensive half. I get the contested possession is good mantra - but large packs of players and a ball hopefully going in the right direction sounds a step backwards to me. What they all.do is limit ball ups and throw ins which cause congestion. Only other option is wait for Port or Gold Coast, who do play exciting running football, to win the comp and have other teams copy their success formula. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 3, 2020 9:12:12 GMT
It was a great finish on Thursday night. 2 FGs in the last 40s. Doubt that's happened too many times.
Dragons have brought their useless game against Canberra and were 18-0 down when I decided I had better things to do...like pulling out my toe nails one by one.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 5, 2020 8:11:53 GMT
Good game this arvo. Newcastle holding on by 2. At least two Manly players were sent off for dissent after the final bell. I was kind of surprised that pushing a guy over from behind after he's kicked the ball doesn't constitute a penalty, but it certainly wasn't a penalty try.
And Jordan de Goey's been charged with indecent assualt: historical charge from 2015 to be fair but still the last thing the club needed. And some shithead fans decided to racially abuse Travis Varcoe on line. God I hate my fellow Collingwood fans at times.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 8, 2020 4:19:30 GMT
The whingeing wankers from Manly are still in the news: first up. It was a penalty. In my last post I said it was a penalty, but calling the on field ref an effing retard because of a decision made by the bunker doesn't seem very intelligent to me. He got 2 weeks, Comission wants 5 or 6. Ben Ikin was outraged, and when a guy who looks like a librarian gets outraged action is required.
The AFL season just got thrown into disarray by the Vic Covid spike. The border's shut and Melbourne is locked down for six weeks. Hawks mid Jaeger O'Meara said on Monday that he was told, in three consecutive hours, that the Hawks would be playing in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, and then Sydney again. This is going to be nuts.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 10, 2020 17:50:29 GMT
Well, that was more like it. Two.good tight games in the NRL last night. Dudn't know the Tirans had it in them to hold a team scoreless for the last entire second half, but they did it and got home 16-12. No disgrace in the Tigers losing to Souths 18-10.
On Thursday there was a forgettable blowout in the NRL, while in the AFL Brisbane continued the bizzarre trend of teams being unanimously declared the expert's favourites to win it all during the week and then getting handily beaten the next game. Collingwood returned to form, well winning form at least, with an emphatic win over Hawthorn. Makes Buckley's all time record against Clarko 2-12.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 10, 2020 19:45:01 GMT
Been a few dodgy calls in the NRL recently. That Manly kerfuffle was bad, (the video apology was worse) and I’m not liking this trend of players clocking blokes in the jaw and getting off with it lightly. BJ Leilua and Latrell Mitchell both deserved to be sent off. Good wins though for the Titans and Bunnies.
In the AFL - the tea ladies and the new kid from overseas would be leading the tipping comps at the moment. Form lines are completely irrelevant, except of course that the Dees, to paraphrase Bart Simpson, keep defying logic by both sucking and blowing at the same time.....
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 10, 2020 21:06:59 GMT
The Dees are a similar case study to the 00s Tigers. Richmond got carried away after a great year in 2001, over rated their list, signed everyone up to long term deals, topped up with past their prime veterans, and went straight back to mediocrity. Same rhetoric as well with "This is the best list we had in my lifetime." In Richmond's case, their best team (until the last 3 or 4 years) was in 1995, and they destroyed it by stupidly trading away Stuart Maxfield, Justin Murphy and Mark Merenda near the start of their careers to become champions at other clubs. In Melbourne's case, every team they put onto the paddock between 1987 and 2006 was superior to the 2018 team.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 11, 2020 3:12:11 GMT
FFS get out of Freo Nathan Fyfe, you are wasting your time. Down 44-8 at quarter time to St Kilda. This is like Garry Ablett at the Gold Coast or Brendan Goddard at Essendon futility now.
Speaking of Ablett. Best on ground in his 351st. Absolute freak.
Edit: Fyfe is ungodly great. He and Walters drag Freo to a pretty unbelievable win.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 11, 2020 22:13:53 GMT
Canberra at the moment are like one of those mid tier MMA fighters who always give the top contenders a good fight without ever getting the requisite Ws to contend themselves. Penrith flexed their muscles with a 56-24 win over the Sharks while the Broncos snapped their losing streak with a win over the Bulldogs.
And your one constant in the AFL is gone bob, Dees win over the Suns. But there is one constant left this year: Adelaide stink.
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