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What’s your point?

I’m enjoy the World Cup – there has been some really great games. Quite frankly I don’t really care where the players come from.

I enjoyed the America’s Cup too. America won – without many Americans on the boat. This is the reality of international sport.

If you don’t like it – don’t watch it.

Is RLWC one of the biggest hoaxes in world sport?

“Give you another reason to hate the Chooks – after winning the GF Maloney and Pearce will be the NSW origin halves next year.”

That’s convulated logic. Pearce and Maloney were origin halves the year THEY WON THE PREMIERESHIP and they still couldn’t win Origin. That was with two NSW home games.

So by what twisted logic do the NSW selectors make the same mistake again?

Why your team will suck in 2014: Sydney Roosters

I don’t think the issue is with the Burgess boys ability – I mean George did win Rookie of the Year in the Dally M’s. But maybe all the celebrity stuff is distracting them – and that’s an issue that can be addressed next year. There’s only one star at the Rabbitohs – Russell Crowe.

No end in sight for South Sydney drought

On behalf of the vast majority of NRL fans can I say…. Buddy who?

Sorry Gynge, but the NRL does not 'need' SBW

How is the Sheens hoodoo just as bad when Sheens won a Premiereship with the Tigers in 2005?

Will the Roosters break the Brian Smith hoodoo?

I’m sorry…. “Trent Robinson is a creative coach, however, he also has the best players possible. He needs to prove himself in the future when he doesn’t have the luxury of so many greats in his squad.”

Greats? Plural? There’s only one Sonny Bill. I don’t remember the rest of the ‘greats’ in the Roosters squad playing so well last year. Maybe Mr BBQ Alone might (MIGHT) turn out to be a great but other than that I think the Roosters squad is made up of some talented players and some players who used to be great. What Robinson has done with this team is pretty impressive. This team has been winning because they have self belief and because they back each other up. Sounds exactly like Bennett’s philosophy to me.

Actually upon reading Craig Bellamy’s book it seems like a lot of what he was saying sounds exactly like what Bennett has been saying for years. But hey the Storm didn’t win either….

Wayne Bennett: great coach, better man manager

One simple reason why the best of 3 series won’t work – If one team wins the first two games then there is no point having the dead rubber. And who on earth wants the LAST game of the season to be a pointless exercise because the Premiereship has already been decided.

It’s not Origin. Won’t work.

Grand Finals: the cruelty of the big one

One thing to say…. can everyone please stop talking up the Rabbitohs… not because i’m not fan… but because you’re damn well going to jinx the thing! So from Phil Gould down…. can we all please SETTLE DOWN…. and wait till September.

Rabbitohs bandwagon of Olympic proportions

What a legendary win…. how the hell do these two teams keep doing this to each other???

Sydney Roosters vs South Sydney Rabbitohs: 2012 NRL live scores, blog

Yeah like I said in the other post I can’t seriously see the draws would be anything other than deeply unpopular with the audience. I went to two NRL games last week – spent upwads of a thousand dollars on train tickets, accommodation, food, game tickets etc… for myself and my family and I would have felt HUGELY ripped off if one of those games ended in a draw. As it was both the teams I was supoorting lost (Tigers and Eels) but it was still a great experience. A draw however would have left me with an empty ripped off feeling…

Golden point is the best format for rugby league

The ladder works fine as it is… that’s why for and against is important.

Not sure about this logic that a team that draws level after 80 minutes deserves something for it – I always thought it should be a team that WINS after however many minutes deserves something for it…. like competition points.

Draws make sense in low scoring sports like soccer. In games like Rugby League they should be avoided as much as possible….

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

Doesn’t that mean the Dragons (much like the Roosters and Sharks) just need to practice their field goals?

Surely if something was going to be removed from the game it would be something entirely useless like the scrum…. or Penrith….

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

See how that goes at the Olympics next week….

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

Great article – have been thinking about this comparison recently. The All Blacks are a good match with the Maroons… if the Maroons were to maintain their winning record for another 90 years 🙂 Ok so it’s not that bad but in truth the Maroons aren’t quite up there with the All Blacks. The Maroons may have a culture of winning for the past 7 years but the All Blacks have had a culture of winning for 100 years. The frustration NZ’ers felt about the World Cup wasn’t that we couldn’t quite get there (like the Blues) but that we were clearly the worlds best team for most of those years yet still couldn’t take home the damn trophy! It would be the same as the Storm coming top of the ladder in the NRL every season yet never managing to win a Grand Final….

And the Wallabies…. well…. I like to think NSW aren’t that bad…. 🙂

It's been a decade of Maroon and Black

Also…. I like Golden Point. I like a result. Monday night was the exception – not the rule. That Tigers/ Roosters semi a few years back was brilliant… absolutely amazing footy.

Would you have golden point in finals?

How can finals be played under different rules to the rest of the comp?

Maybe it needs to be looked at in terms of reffing and the way penalties can be awarded but it definitely needs to stay – regardless of how the coaches rant on…

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

Fixed season scheduling

Don’t understand yet how this can work…. for instance fixed scheduling would have seen almost no Sharks games played on Friday nights this year… yet they’re a champion team. How can you resolve this?

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

Can I suggest too – Rugby League is not Soccer. We don’t like or need draws in our game. Look at how ridiculous that drawn AFL GF a few years ago was… what an absolute fiasco….

No kneejerk reactions to the golden point debate

I think Stuart should definitely stay on as the ‘mentor coach’ and father figure that was spoken about earlier. What we need to look at is the way Origin is coached – there is simply not the time there is at club level to finess the tactics and get five or six attacking plays memorised and rehearsed. Origin is more about finding the players, instilling them with the passion and then unleashing them on the opposition. That’s what Mal does tremendously well and that is what Ricky has bought to NSW as well. The difference between the two? Well quite simply the players that Mal unleashes are the best in the world. The players Ricky unleashes are (with apologies to Paul Gallen and Todd Carney when he hits Dally M form) simply not.

For this reason the NSW bosses would be incredibly stupid to sack the coach. But then as they have proved numerous times in the past – stupidity is their forte.

So we can hope.

With regard to what Ricky does now? I would love to see the full time Origin Coach running development camps in the 2nd half of the season and the off season. Not development camps for emerging Origin players in the NRL – development camps for emerging NSW players in county towns and cities all over the State. Have the coach as the face of the NSW Blues full time and watch as the NSW Blues stop being a punchline and start becoming a team the whole state is behind.

With regard to players like Matty Johns having a role – i think that’s a fantastic idea. Bringing in specialists to work with particular players can only help. Mitchell Pearce for example is crying out for a decent halfback coach. Andrew Johns are you listening?

Sticky subject: Should Stuart coach the Blues in 2013?

Not sure if you can claim NSW having a much larger talent pool anymore – certanly the number of players who ‘qualify’ for either state (by whatever dubious means both sides use to find players) would be fairly equal by now?

It is interesting that the Maroon’s streak of 7 series wins is lauded like it has never happened before… when as some responders have rightly pointed out St George with their ten premiereships in the 1950’s – 60’s is an obvious comparison… But what about the Bledesloe Cup? The All Blacks will have TEN straight series if they win this year – surely that is an obvious comparison considering it is a two team competition played over a handful of games each year? When the Maroons catch up to the All Blacks then let’s start talking ‘greatest team of all time’.

Where do Maroons sit in sport's best-ever teams?

Yeah we’ll see you there – after we strip mine it and sell it to the Japanese… 🙂

Why Blues fans should feel sorry for Queenslanders

You get that this whole article is tongue in cheek – don’t you?

Why Blues fans should feel sorry for Queenslanders

Actually I do believe in 104 years of professional Rugby League in Australia Sydney based teams have won 91 times… no too bad for a bunch of park footballers….

Why Blues fans should feel sorry for Queenslanders

I’ll admit you’re right in a couple of points – although I couldn’t tell if you were arguing in support of QLD, Vic or WA….?

A lot of NSW people do move up to Queensland – a few immediately spring to mind like Greg Inglis, Sam Thaiday, Israel Folou etc…

As for the Sydney NRL teams – yes crowd numbers are pathetic at times… unlike say Skilled Park which I’m sure is sold out every time the Titans play…. But i don’t think it’s necessarily fair to label the Sydney teams as ‘profitless wastelands that are only fit to play park football’- for teams that can only play park football they seem to be doing fairly well – number 2,3,5,6 and 8 on the ladder this year. Last years Premiers, 2010’s Premiers, 2008’s Premiers, 2005 Premiers, 2004 Premiers, 2003 Premiers, 2002 Premiers…. noticing a pattern yet?

As for Sydney peoples support of their teams… well I’d be interested to see what crowd numbers at the Broncos would be like if there were 8 other NRL teams based in Brisbane too….

As for the mining boom – well doesn’t it just show you that NSW people are smart enough to make OTHER states turn their countryside into a giant quarry and THEN share the profits with the rest of the country… sounds pretty clever to me. 🙂

Why Blues fans should feel sorry for Queenslanders

Interesting stats you mention – Queensland earning 6 repeat sets in front of NSW in-goal? I seem to remember NSW successfully defending their line despite the blitz of Queensland posession in the second half of game 2 – and inglis as the most devistating centre in the game was simply unable to break through. Seems to say more about NSW than QLD doesn’t it?

Why the Maroons will win State of Origin III

Oh yeah and I’ll pay out on the Stadium bit – any chance of loading Suncorp on a truck and shipping it South?

Why Blues fans should feel sorry for Queenslanders

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