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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 25, 2018 10:32:16 GMT
If you had a win at two up Hosko sounds like a perfect ANZAC Day for you !
St George Illawarra were ultra impressive in my eyes. The Roosters threw plenty at them and they still won handsomely.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 25, 2018 10:52:02 GMT
Melbourne are making a big statement of their own right now. I still expect the Roosters to gel as the year goes on. For now I'm saying the Dragons are a top 4 chance, nothing more extravagant. Let's see how we look after Origin. Hopefully the selectors leave us alone. I don't want to get mid season injuries for that glorified dog and pony show. Bad enough watching NSW futility every year, without seeing key dragons get injured in the process.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 27, 2018 12:30:37 GMT
Good round of league so far. Rabbits had a wasteful first half to thank for a 4 point loss to Brisbane. Newcastle inched out Manly in a tight 18-12 win and Penrith came from 12-2 down to beat the Bulldogs 22-14. I wonder if a side has given up double digit leads and won as often as Penrith have this year. That's 4 already by my count.
Pointless Who Cares Cup in the AFL. Bulldogs beat Carlton in an awful game. First time ever Carlton have started a season 0-6. What they were thinking when they scheduled this as a marquee Friday night game, I have no idea.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 29, 2018 9:44:57 GMT
A short turnaround and a 2 man bench had the final say as Collingwood lost to Richmond. West Coast beat Freo in a thriller and Essendon continued their poir form with a 36 point loss to Melbourne.
In NRL Canberra beat a really struggling Cowboys outfit. Cronulla outscrapped the Titans 10-9 on the Gold Coast and Parra beat the Tigers in a ripper.
Now to the real news: I actually watched an A-League game and saw Sydney FC lose after Melbourne scored 2 own goals. Then the guy who scored the second own goal ran around two defenders to kick the winner in OT. If you're going to be low quality, you can compensate at times by being batshit crazy.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 3, 2018 11:53:18 GMT
Well, the finish to the Bulldogs/ Broncos game was a pile of shite. I had a friend who told me he barracks for the refs. He'd be loving this season so far.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 3, 2018 12:15:08 GMT
Well, the finish to the Bulldogs/ Broncos game was a pile of shite. I had a friend who told me he barracks for the refs. He'd be loving this season so far. I thought the Tigers got triggered against the Broncos, I feel for Doggies fans in a big way. Ive seen Pakistani umpires with more impartiality. But, I’ll guarantee you that Broncos fans and hangers on will say it’s all legit, and that they got no favours, and they deserved it after all the shit that heaped on them by the NRL, and NSW, and Non-Broncos in general. Im fucking angry. I’m sick of the fucking Broncos and the Shit referees.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 6, 2018 0:33:49 GMT
Underwhelming conclusion to, from what I've read and been told, was an underwhelming A-League season. Melbourne won 1-0 with the game's only goal coming in the first 10 minutes. Difficult to think of a worse advertisement for soccer, apart from 0-0 and penalties.
In the league, Parra's winning streak was halted by Cronulla (Sharks starting to gel), Canberra beat GC, and the Warriors were well rested after 2 weeks off and smashed the Tigers.
Nothing round in the AFL for mine. Swans losing at home to an under rated Kangas side the only real surprise. West Coast and Richmond are pulling away from the pack, which sets up a frightfully dull September given how bad the Eagles play at the MCG. Plenty of time for other teams to step up, but Tigers back to back looking better than 50% atm.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 6, 2018 9:28:43 GMT
Collingwood and Brisbane played out one of the highest quality home and away games I can remember (80% goal conversion and end to end running from both teams all day) with the pies winning 19.7 121 to 18.6 114. Other two matches were predictably blah.
No keeping a lid on it now: Dragons are the premiership favourites, though the 20 point margin was flattering and who knows how the game pans out if the ref doesn't pay a penalty in the play the ball to erase a Storm try that would have made it 10-8. Roosters and Manly was entertaining for what it was: two teams not going that well trying to collect a win.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 7, 2018 3:00:46 GMT
NRL : 🔹 Dragons legit premiership favourites 🔹 Warriors still looking good 🔹 Melbourne are still in it up to their ears, as are the Panthers. 🔹 Souths and Cowboys now heading in the right direction. Tigers, after a bright start, are not. 🔹 The rest are making up the numbers at this stage, including many peoples pre season favourites Eels and Roosters.
AFL : 🔹 I agree - at this stage it’s Richmond’s to lose. They look a class above. 🔹 I feel desperately sorry for the Lions. They’ve played some really good footy and are better than 0 - 7 🔹 Aside from Richmond, I think only Adelaide are a genuine shot. 🔹 This weeks game between Hawthorn and Sydney will sift out a contender and a pretender for mine. GWS, Geelong, North are pretenders ATM. WCE as Hosko says, cant win big games in Melbourne.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 7, 2018 3:04:40 GMT
I was pretty gung ho on the Crows all last year, and they let me down in the final. Still a great list. IMO the best in the comp with height and speed forward and back and absolute gyns in the mid field.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 7, 2018 3:10:54 GMT
A league Grand Final - yeah, a bit of a snooze fest. Worse thing that could have happened was Melbourne getting an early lead, then looking comfortable for the next 10 minutes. After that, they can defend their way to the win. Victory are a professional outfit that knows how to grind out victories. Newcastle’s attack was built around youngsters and streaky players. The only way they were winning against Victory (or Sydney FC for that matter) was to be ‘on’ and score some spectacular goals.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 11, 2018 12:26:18 GMT
Well, things are beginning to crystalise in both comps now.
Are the Cowboys and Eels going to rally? No. Teams about to rally don't drop games to a Tigers team coming off 3 losses and a Bulldogs team who ain't that good. I've no idea how the Panthers will go at the pointy end, but they will be there.
Swans are a class team in the AFL. Won a thriller against the Hawks. Some kid named Ben Ronke who looks like he's just started High School bobbed up and kicked 7 goals. I think the Swans will be a handful for anyone at the MCG. The SCG's a different matter thus far.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 13, 2018 8:05:26 GMT
Collingwood and St George both lost following poor performances against good teams. Richmond just held on to beat North in a thriller and Port and Adelaide played arguably one of the best 4 or 5 games ever outside Melbourne. Port goaling with 21 seconds left to win by 5. Incredibly the win squared the all time ledger at 22 a piece.
Storm were very lucky to beat GC. Titans players just dropped like flies in the second half and thankfully Brisbane's luck ran out.
But the real story this weekend is 3 teams who embarrassed themselves. Essendon lost to Carlton (lololololol...) the Waratahs blew a 29 point lead against the Crusaders to make it 39 losses in a row by Aussie teams to kiwis. But the funniest of all: Qld Reds 28: Sunwolves: 63.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 13, 2018 9:58:21 GMT
Qld Reds 28 Sunwolves 63
If ever proof was needed that Australian Rugby is in dire straits - that’s it, nevermind the 39 losses in a row.
Didn’t see much of the AFL over the past few days, but I’m thinking that Adelaide derby must have been a cracker.
Watched the Souths v Saints game. High quality game IMHO. The Dragons threw plenty at the Rabbitohs in the first hour - but the last 20 they struggled with an injured Hunt. Canberra coughed up another lead. I’m convinced Cronulla would be a much better side with a different coach.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 15, 2018 6:35:03 GMT
Well, this year's SoO just became something of a redundancy with Cameron Smith retiring. NSW on a hiding to nothing. They win "well of course they did with Smith, Cronk and Thurston gone." Lose and "couldn't even beat the weakest team QLD have fielded in a decade."
NSW winning one series means almost nothing at this point. The goalposts have moved. Will need to string together 2 or 3 before anyone takes them seriously.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 15, 2018 8:25:57 GMT
Well, this year's SoO just became something of a redundancy with Cameron Smith retiring. NSW on a hiding to nothing. They win "well of course they did with Smith, Cronk and Thurston gone." Lose and "couldn't even beat the weakest team QLD have fielded in a decade." NSW winning one series means almost nothing at this point. The goalposts have moved. Will need to string together 2 or 3 before anyone takes them seriously. Agree 100%.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 19, 2018 14:02:40 GMT
Well, dull round exploded on Saturday. With the Storm and Manly playing an horrendous spectacle in the first 50 minutes there then occurred a fair dinkum dust up which resulted in Curtis Scott getting sent off for punching, Korisau sin binned for the same offence and Dylan Walker sin binned for getting a black eye apparently. All up there were 4 sin bins and a send off.
In other games GC beat the Knights 33-26 in a pretty entertaining game. South Sydney were lucky to win 20-19 on a posthumous penalty in a game they hadn't looked limely to lose until tbe last 5 minutes. Brisbane again benefited from a favourable refereeing decision, but it was agaibst the Roosters so lol. Warriors beat Parra in a game tbey always looked in control of while Penrith downed the Tigers in a poor gane.
In AFL no good games so far: Crows beat the Bulldogs in difficult conditions on Friday. North and Essendon both had upsey wins over the Giants and Cats respectively. Tben it was all big wins to favourites as Port beat GC by 50, Swams downed Freo by 59 and Collingwood beat St Kilda by 28.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 24, 2018 8:38:52 GMT
So Craig Bellamy possibly (probably I'd say) going to coach the Broncos. Only complication is Bennett having a year on his contract so they'd have to pay both guys next year. Whether that's paying Bellamy to take a gap year or paying Bennett to coach in the Super League is neither here nor there. Melbourne's offer is slightly better in pure money, and I think the relative anonymity could be an advantage in staying south. Ultimately, if he stays it will be for lifestyle reasons. Whether ho goes or stays, Bennett won't be there after 2019 so they need to find a big name by then.
Bennett's Broncos in action tonight against Parra.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 24, 2018 8:53:12 GMT
So Craig Bellamy possibly (probably I'd say) going to coach the Broncos. Only complication is Bennett having a year on his contract so they'd have to pay both guys next year. Whether that's paying Bellamy to take a gap year or paying Bennett to coach in the Super League is neither here nor there. Melbourne's offer is slightly better in pure money, and I think the relative anonymity could be an advantage in staying south. Ultimately, if he stays it will be for lifestyle reasons. Whether ho goes or stays, Bennett won't be there after 2019 so they need to find a big name by then. Bennett's Broncos in action tonight against Parra. There is so much smoke and mirrors around this it isn’t funny. What many in the media haven’t said (and the rumours I’m hearing say it’s true) is that the management and board at the Broncos think Bennett has completely lost it. He happily let Ben Hunt walk; offered Ash Taylor a lukewarm offer that he easily rebuffed to stay at GCT; is convinced that Bird at 6, Milford at 7 and Nikorima at 14 is a viable halves combination; and worst of all, cannot attract any new talent to the Broncos aside from Bird. When Newcastle, Cronulla and the Warriors beat the Broncos to sign players, there’s something wrong.....
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 24, 2018 23:20:41 GMT
While a win's a win, I don't think last night helped his cause much. Dire game.
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