- Video
-
Club Roar
Captured a great grassroots sporting moment? We want to see it!Content Collections
The Roar Community
- Join
- Login
Roar Rookie
Joined June 2019
0
Views
0
Published
111
Comments
Published
Comments
All I can do is like your comment, since my last two on this subject have been rejected by the ultra woke monitor(s) on this site. This whole debacle just proves the demand for racism in the increasingly cringeworthy West far exceeds supply.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam
Robson AND Gutherson on the bench?
A team that was already too small, thanks to, “We must pick 2 hookers like QLD fad (even though Hunt’s a half)”, just got smaller.
The picking of Yeo AND Murray, both locks, continues. At least Murray is gone from 2nd row, where he is – again – too small, but would anyone swap Murray for Carrigan at lock anyway?
Why was Junior Paulo sacked?
Blues Origin III team: Fittler going down swinging the axe as besieged coach chops and changes in bid to save his skin
If the drubbing NSW copped in game 2 isn’t justification for wholesale changes on a dead rubber series, what is?
The constant need for NSW to pick “Origin Players(TM)” – as defined by Phil Gould and his acolytes – has served NSW poorly. NSW fans get served up the same “Origin Players(TM)”, while QLD blood new talent.
Case in point: Yeo and Murray are Origin Players(TM)”, so selection is mandatory even though neither have any real impact outside the lock position. Murray is small, even for an NRL lock, yet series after series is thrown in the 2nd row and gets steamrolled by the likes of Fifita and Nanai until he’s too tired to have impact.
Origin III predicted teams: Blues cop fresh hits on injury front, Slater coy over Maroons fullback options with Walsh out
Tired of this nonsense blaming Pangai Jr for the loss. He made 1 offload error, and otherwise had a very good game, and unlike Hudson Young, never lost his cool. The wrong player was punted, and now NSW have a lightweight back row.
Win or lose, why Fittler should walk away from NSW coach's gig after this Origin series
Flanagan already promised Hunt he’d play half for the next two years, what the hell? Yet another Dragons coach kowtowing to an inner playing group clique – before his 1st day on the job, mind you – is a really bad sign IMO.
Why Dragons' controversial call to put faith in Flanagan could turn fortunes around but also blow up in their faces
We keep hearing about Hook not liking players who ignore his “structure”. What structure are we talking about here? One out hit-ups? Apparently this “structure” – a relic from the 1980s – must be strictly followed even when the other side’s a man down in the sin bin like on Sunday.
Griffin hits new low with latest loss - and you know what comes next as Dragons reach untenable point
Not quite up there with Vaughn having an “illegal” home BBQ in terms of sanctimonious drivel from the 1950s housewives in the Roar comments section, but close. I’ll bet you all would have had Elvis banned from the waist down. Reg Regan is crying in his KB can.
Contract goes up in smoke: Proctor apologises after Titans sack him for 'half-time vape' incident
But is a dummy half run just a dummy half run in this stat?
I notice the Storm dummy half often scoots out past the markers and passes to a forward running alongside as they approach the defensive line. By the way, this is all a variation of the Chris Anderson flat pass on the ad-line with Storm version 1.0.
And while Cronulla often don’t have the dummy-half jump out pass the markers, the ball is passed to a runner right on the ad-line and often that runner does the same thing the Storm dummy half does to a 2nd runner.
Roosters, Panthers do it too. It’s all about advancing over the ad-line while splitting up gang tacklers, and not leaving the defense time to retreat and reset. A surrender monkey drop to the knees is usually involved, counter the spirit of rugby league.
The more tackles, and earlier, in a set of six, you can do this the farther you’ll march up field. More runners and passes make it devastating. It must require army-like drilling at training to achieve. Panthers are maestros at it.
What I don’t understand is why every coach isn’t doing this at this point. Hook, for example, still has one off passes to forward way back from the ad-line getting gang tackled and kicking from the 20m line.
I also don’t understand why the inevitable stream of forward passes from this tactic are basically let go by the refs, but that’s another story I guess.
Don't fall for the dummy: Storm's flashy attack a Bellamy smokescreen
I mark Bird’s move into the back row last year a fail. He was getting manhandled in there like Matt Dufty on a kick-chase return. Most backs that make the transition now need size. Might have worked in the 1980s.
All Dragons fans want is a team that can play football
Back when Bellamy introduced the coaching “innovation” of wrestling, ruining rugby league, Bennett fought against him the longest, publicly and on the field. Gresham’s dynamic cost his Broncos wins, but he knew Bellamy’s wrestle would change league forever for the worse, and refused to join in. The NRL is still trying to counter the wrestle with now constant brain-fart rule changes. For that last stand, Bennett wins my all time coach of the game formerly known as rugby league.
Wayne Bennett leaves clubs in tatters. Are Souths next?
I’m starting to think refs call crusher penalties solely on the basis of the tackled player exaggerratedly holding the back of his head like an old codger with a stiff neck. No on-field ref witnessed a crusher on Ferguson because there was none; they called the penalty in response to Ferguson’s histrionics. Players have the refs trained like Pavlov’s dogs at this point.
Gamesmanship, grace, humility and did the Eels get hosed? Talking points from NRL finals Week 2
Ha ha. Please. Keppie looked like he’d been swatted by a fly and was probably just pushing Radley’s buttons for a penalty. Radley’s starting to believe his own hype picking on much bigger men. In the era of the biff, he’d’ve been sorted out long ago.
Gamesmanship, grace, humility and did the Eels get hosed? Talking points from NRL finals Week 2
Exhaustion? It was a bad pass way out in front from a fill-in hooker. I too was amazed by both starting props for Parra not to mention Niukore – this guy looks like he’s carved out of a block of granite, one scary hombre.
Gamesmanship, grace, humility and did the Eels get hosed? Talking points from NRL finals Week 2
In my opinion on those two occasions, the six again call aided the Panthers! They got to slow the play and set their defence with virtually zero downside.
Interchange controversy sours defensive performances for the ages: Talking points from the NRL semi
Yep. Should be an instant penalty. No, scratch that. Six-again should be relegated to the garbage dump of history in the off-season. It sucks, and games like this show why. There’s no need to speed up the game to make basketball scores for it to be exciting.
Interchange controversy sours defensive performances for the ages: Talking points from the NRL semi
I can’t believe the author wrote off Penesini being tackled without the ball feet from the line as a nothingburger. He clearly was going to pick up the ball. In my opinion, the only thing stopping that from being a huge controversy is the play didn’t stop and in the helter skelter last 10 minutes it was quickly forgotten. I don’t know about 9 but Fox had one replay from a distance and even that looked bad. Gordon Tallis on the sideline got it and interrupted Voss to say Penesini was taken out. It should have been a sin bin at the very least.
BTW, people should stop blaming the Eels halves for non-involvement. Coach Cleary clearly (tongue twister) watched last weeks game and noticed Ray Stone was never going to scoot out from dummy half. All the defenders at marker and either side had a free run to beeline it straight to 1st and 2nd receiver. Not Stone’s fault, Arthur’s. If there really were no hookers, he should have got a back in there and ordered him to run occasionally to take the heat off the halves.
Interchange controversy sours defensive performances for the ages: Talking points from the NRL semi
Just watched the first 15 minutes – Stevens taken off after 14.
– 5 hit ups for 50M.
– 6 tackles including smashed Shane Webcke.
– O missed tackles.
All in the softening up period. NSW were leading 4-zip. You’re talking out your proverbial.
NRL finals sliding door moments: Bennett-Gordie feud, Wok's Blocker shocker, Bellamy's rookie error
It wasn’t a final, but Phil Gould foolishly benched starting prop Jason Stevens for the entire game after about 10 minutes in SOO 2004(Game 2), apparently copying Wayne Bennett who subbed a prop for a mobile forward too. Gould got played like a violin by Bennett, NSW got flogged, and being Phil Gould, insisted he’d made the right decision because, well, because Phil Gould is always right, about everything.
NRL finals sliding door moments: Bennett-Gordie feud, Wok's Blocker shocker, Bellamy's rookie error
My favourite Eastlake/Gibson moment was in the 2nd test at Lang Park in 1988. Eastlake and Gibson spent the entire game complaining to pommie sideline commentator Ray French about Great Britain’s cheap shot tactics, so when Sam Backo dropped one of the pommies with a straight left, French laid into Backo. In the interests of fairness, Eastlake agreed, Backo had gone too far. Then Gibson pointed out the pommie had kicked Backo first, and as the replay came on, Eastlake described the incident with the immortal lines:
“There was a kick. There was a punch.”
Here it is.
The good, the bad and the Blocker: who are the best and worst of NRL's TV callers?
As an added bonus, Brandy has the most Aussie accent in the history of Australia!
The good, the bad and the Blocker: who are the best and worst of NRL's TV callers?
Was that my imagination? Well, I’ve never been one to let facts get in the way of a good story. Anyhow, the guy is turning into a 1st class finisher, is Usain Bolt fast and twenty feet high, I mean my god what more is there to say. He has class written all over him. Wait till he starts to fill out from weight training.
'Momentously bad': Dragons' call on Sims is outrageous
Sims has been a good forward but a clear trend across the league is using giant, young Polynesians in both front and second rows, and The Dragons pack is too small (including Sims, and Ford ) and dare I see it, oh alright, they’re too damn white! Run over the top of week in & out. As Scottie used to say on Star Trek, you cannae change the laws of physics.
'Momentously bad': Dragons' call on Sims is outrageous
He was locked out of 1st grade for years by Mary for Jordan bloody Pereira. He has speed to burn and is killing it for Manly – ran down the hammer on a length of the field try easily – looked like hammer was running in slow motion, oh and he’s twenty feet tall and took a blinder bomb over the pack to score. In short, you’re kidding.
'Momentously bad': Dragons' call on Sims is outrageous
Larry, the broncos will rue the day they let Tom Deardon go – another victim of Kevvie rotating the halves like a merry go round. He’s killing it for the cowboys who put faith in him. They screwed up paying Milford – who’s not a bad half, but not THAT good – overs, and just made the same mistake with Reynolds.
'Momentously bad': Dragons' call on Sims is outrageous
“White has never been used as a derogatory term.”
Complete nonsense, and beside the point.
Leniu gave evidence last night that he & POC NRL teammates, i.e friends, exchanged such pleasantries and worse to each other with no racial intent whatsoever. Considering he played at the Panthers (who have both Islanders and indigenous players) just months ago, that’s contemporaneous evidence the Mam sledge wasn’t racist, at all.
Anthony Mundine, who experienced actual racism in his career, not this trumped up nonsense, is laughing out loud at this farce.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam