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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 26, 2020 5:53:44 GMT
Newcastle pip Port Adelaide for most retarded loss of the weekend after goimg down 18-12 to the Bulldogs. While Port losing at home to St Kilda was bad, it cost them nothing. Knights have dropped out of the top 4 to 6th.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 26, 2020 8:52:10 GMT
While we were never going to win that game once Pendles pulled out about 20 seconds before the first bounce and Brown got injured early in the srcond quarter, disappointing that our much vaunted defence couldn't stop the bleeding. Nearly a very costly loss except somehow we still have a better percentage than Richmond and stay above them in seventh. Given their perpetusl home ground advantage for the rest of the season, if Brisbane and West Coast aren't equal premiership favourites by the end of this round then I've no idea what the punters are smoking.
Brings up an interesting whodathunkit. Go back 3 years and imagine someone telling you the entire NRL may be moved to Queensland in the second half if 2020 and no one would be worried about that giving an advantage to the Broncos or Cowboys.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 30, 2020 10:56:48 GMT
Bloody hell the Dragons are a frustrating team. Good enough to lead 16-0 in 20 minutes and bad enough to blow thst lead in about 10. It could well be an entertaining second half but you know what? I couldn't be bothered. I'll check out the highlights tomorrow.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 30, 2020 22:40:43 GMT
Well we lost. You want to see the Dragons problems encapsulated in one moment? Souths lose their half back during a big opening from St George. We score three tries on the right side where they look vulnerable every time we go there. Souths get a try against the run of play on their right side and look a lot more dangetous out there. We march straight down the field into scoring position.
Do you A) go where you've looked dangerous and scored three times or B) go where your opponents have looked dangerous and just scored?
As soon as they went left I shouted "WHY?" And sure enough. Interception. Souths behind but with all the momentum. How does a professional team make that decision? How do you not recognise your opponent's deficency and whip it like a dead horse?
Anyway that really pissed me off.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 31, 2020 17:45:00 GMT
That sounds like Wests Tigers’ playbook. On display again in another loss as favourites- this time to the New Zealand Warriors. Broncos lost again, but made the Sharks work for it. The Hawks defeated the Blues to continue the unpredictability of the AFL season, then the Lions smashed the Dons, predictably.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 31, 2020 17:51:26 GMT
I think in the AFL three teams at the top are about to become very predictable. Port just move the ball so quick. It's like watching the 90s Bombers. West Coast are playing like Port did in the early 00s. Precision kicking in the backline and then slice through once someone gets open long and Brisbane are just frenetic energy. And all 3 have a "hub" in their home city.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 31, 2020 17:53:56 GMT
In the league I didn't watch either game as I assumed they were both fait accomplis. When I checked the score in the Tigers game they were ahead. There was no way I was turning down the opportunity to watch Carlton and Essendon lose on the same night1
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 2, 2020 10:35:55 GMT
Eels just scrape past the Bulldogs. Weird round for that with Roosters just beating the Titans and Canberra just scraping past North QLD.
You can put a line through Collingwood this year. Frankly an inexcusable loss given the opponent.and what was on the line. Freo got a lot of home town calls late, but the Pies have only themselves to blame for being behind to start with. Might still play finals but who cares? With that list any year we're not genuine contenders is a wasted one.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 6, 2020 8:05:01 GMT
Wow. That was possibly the worst quarter of football I've ever seen. Collingwood had 15 inside 50s to 2. The score? Collingwood 0.6 (6) Swans 1.0 (6). Collingwood's kicking efficiency was 38%. Now I don't put too much stock in that stat but under 40% has got to be saying something.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 6, 2020 10:02:15 GMT
Well, my hate of that performance turned when we ended up with a one man bench and held on thanks to Josh Daicos kicking a goal his old man would have been proud of. So yeah, that was a cool game. Pies win 6.14 (50) to Sydney 6.5 (41).
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 6, 2020 10:45:37 GMT
Dragons making a game of it against the Roosters so far. 10-10 at hslf time.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 6, 2020 11:33:13 GMT
FFS catch the bloody ball! What an infuriating way to give up the game sealing try. Dufty's an exciting player to watch but he's got no future at fullback if he's going to let every high ball bounce. 4 or 5 times tonight and it was always going to cost us eventually.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 7, 2020 12:30:12 GMT
The Gints come from 30 behind to make my day by beating the Bombers. Really entertaining early game in the NRL. NZ beating Manly 26-22 after twice nearly squandering a 16 point lead.
Souths beat Brisbane. Only lost 28-10: they're getting better.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 7, 2020 13:45:15 GMT
Warriors doing the business against the Sea Eagles - poor old Manly couldn’t take a trick. Different night, different bounces and they might have won that one. Brisbane shows glimpses of what they could do, but they just don’t have the overall 17 and gameplan to beat decent sides with it. And when things don’t go their way, they get lapped by 40. Souths were poor, yet won comfortably. That Nicholls try sums up the Broncos season though. Hit up off a tap, and he scores over 4 defenders. WTF ?
In the AFL - Essendon coughed up a lead to the Giants. Apparently there was some controversy about a free kick late in the game - yeah it was milked for all its glory, but it’s still a free kick. That one the other day against Brisbane was far worse. Penalising players for attacking the ball in a contest is a bad idea IMHO......
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 7, 2020 20:27:57 GMT
Warriors doing the business against the Sea Eagles - poor old Manly couldn’t take a trick. Different night, different bounces and they might have won that one. Brisbane shows glimpses of what they could do, but they just don’t have the overall 17 and gameplan to beat decent sides with it. And when things don’t go their way, they get lapped by 40. Souths were poor, yet won comfortably. That Nicholls try sums up the Broncos season though. Hit up off a tap, and he scores over 4 defenders. WTF ? In the AFL - Essendon coughed up a lead to the Giants. Apparently there was some controversy about a free kick late in the game - yeah it was milked for all its glory, but it’s still a free kick. That one the other day against Brisbane was far worse. Penalising players for attacking the ball in a contest is a bad idea IMHO...... I was listening to the Giants game on radio and they kept blowing up over contentious free kicks against Essendon and then I get home and watch the second half and the "contentious" free kicks were: 1. An Essendon player kicking the ball directly over the boundary line for deliberate. 2. An Essendon defender hand balling 20m beside him out of bounds for deliberate. 3. Heath Shaw getting a 50m penalty after getting cleaned up after taking an uncontested mark and 4. Callum Ward putting some gravy on after getting a hip to the side of his head. Now to be fair, the 7 coverage saw all these very differently, but there are certain commentators in the Melbourne media who continue to fuel the preposterous idea that the AFL has instructed umpires to help the Giants late in games. Remember last year in the prelim when Collingwood had 14 or 15 free kicks to 2 in the last quarter and the media afterwards asserted that the Giants won because of umpires? That this is happening in main stream media organisations is absolutely ridiculous.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 8, 2020 4:03:14 GMT
I thought the “rigged” calls were bad in Sydney and RL. But jeez Melbourne is something else. I’ve heard so much BS about conspiracies against the establishment clubs. First it was West Coast. Then Adelaide (with Malcolm Blight). Then Sydney (with Ron Barassi) then Brisbane stole Fitzroy’s, err something, with Leigh Matthews. Now it’s GWS.
What makes me laugh is that the same fools that sprout the anti-Melbourne rubbish are the first to bag the NRL and RL for not being a ‘National Game’, despite clearly wanting a 12 team comp with the most distant club from Melbourne being Geelong.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 8, 2020 4:58:14 GMT
The Victorians tend to see the interstate teams as interlopers who are tolerated rather than wanted. Rohan was a classic example. Brisbane and Sydney didn't win 5 premierships, they were given them by the remarkable generosity of the VFL.to aloow them to compete and they should be grateful rather than taking Buddy Franklin from Victoria.
NRL just has the balance wrong. It seems obvious to me there should be 5 teams in QLD: two in Brisbane, one up north and one each in the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. Keep teams in Canberra, NZ and Melbourne. Add one to Perth (I do think you need a presence there not to mention an adfitionsl time zone) and that leaves 6 in Sydney plus 1 in Newcastle.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 8, 2020 7:45:21 GMT
Well, this is the best game of AFL this year so far. Port leading Richmond 54-45. Might be a lot further ahead if Dixon hadn't missed two sodas and a couple of bizarre umpiring decisions that led to Richmond goals.
If a player gets the ball, takes on a tackler, gets tackled and the ball gets knocked out of their hand that should be holding the ball every time. Dropping the ball is not a legal disposal.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 8, 2020 9:02:14 GMT
Port win an epic 93-72. Richmond trailed by 24 in the third and led at 3/4 time by a point. It started raining and you couldn't have put enough on the Tigers. But in the last Port just went into top gear and Richmond couldn't go with them. Port are officially the flag favourites, but they'll have to get through Richmond and West Coast to get there.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 8, 2020 23:48:17 GMT
Penrith dismisses Canberra in short fashion. Are we headed for 2003 revisited I wonder? Parra and Melbourne will have something to say about that but the Panthers are looking very good.
The Lions regain second place. That could be a costly loss for Richmond. West Coast will beat Carlton today and that knocks the Tigers down to 5th. If Geelong beat St Kilda, GWS beat Sydney and Collingwood smash Adelaide they will have dropped from 3rd to 8th! Essendon, Gold Coast, Bulldogs and Melbourne IMO can still play finals if they find some form. Dogs and Dees are better than their records, GC have a lot of home games and Essendon have a list that should be playing finals.
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