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Nice first hit out Tim 👍 . To echo others on here, harsher penalties. If you hit someone high and they can’t come back on, neither can you; if you headslam someone, it’s a send off; couple that with harsher penalties at the judiciary. I love JWH but 3 weeks for a headslam is not coming across as “serious about head injuries”. A game that had 11 dangerous tackles occur (including repeat offenders) yet nobody sent off = ref lost control. It was lord of the flies out there.
Who needs to take responsibility for the state of rugby league?
Forget it Poss. Classical deflection from JD and now the SMH and all the other Souths sycophants in the media who are hopping on the JWH+NAS witch-hunt to take the heat off the blatant hit-job TB was put on (in the 17th minute) to execute. Happy to Les Boyd a team out of the game but at least we never head slam anyone 😂 like a concussed brain knows the difference.
Rise in foul play a result of feather touch judiciary: Head slams can only be eradicated with lengthy bans
Burgo comes on and Les Boyd’s your captain/fullback out of the game. Milne attacks your fill-in fulback’s head minutes later (not just once either). 7 high shots from Souths with a clear tactic to attack the heads of the Roosters and your response would be, “I know we’ve got no-one left on the bench but just run the ball harder fellas – we’ll beat them with good old fashioned hard running and strong legs tackles”. You’re the clueless one. That game got out of control and you, Jason Demetriou and all of Rusty’s Souths sycophants at the SMH can deflect all you want but us clueless Chook supporters know what happened and we would much rather have a grub like JWH that goes after the big men than a grub like Burgess that takes out a smaller backline player.
Chaos and carnage with SEVEN sin-binnings as Rabbitohs knock out Roosters in spiteful battle royale
😂 maybe you should watch a replay before continuing with the “ball first” line. And yeah, I’m sure Burgess’s tackle was a total “accident”. It had a very convenient result too. Les Boyd would be proud.
Chaos and carnage with SEVEN sin-binnings as Rabbitohs knock out Roosters in spiteful battle royale
Typical Souths logic 😂 , trying to portray a head-slam as somehow worse than a swinging arm to the head. JD getting all sanctimonious about it is hilarious. Which bench forward will he select next week to “accidentally” take off Nicho’s head?
Chaos and carnage with SEVEN sin-binnings as Rabbitohs knock out Roosters in spiteful battle royale
Pretty graceful GB gotta pay that
Chaos and carnage with SEVEN sin-binnings as Rabbitohs knock out Roosters in spiteful battle royale
Your name should be andynfi. He went after Burgess after he took Teddy and Lodge’s heads off
Chaos and carnage with SEVEN sin-binnings as Rabbitohs knock out Roosters in spiteful battle royale
I think there might have been a feeling that Raiders were just making up the numbers but they had one of the tougher draws from memory. I think they might have played this year’s top 8 teams 13 times and the top 4 twice each. 8th spot was only 2 wins apart from 4th too. They could be a real threat of doing some damage through this finals series.
Joseph and the finals-coloured dreamcoat: Tapine shines as Raiders end Storm's season
Thanks Mike. Missed tackle ratio wasn’t crazy high (around 1 miss per 5 made according to Fox). It just seemed like both teams iced their chances and the misses were crucial – hence the big score. That lazy A and B for Dearden’s run was a coach killer though.
Finals Five: Cowboys win, but the real winner might be the other five teams
Great stuff Mike. Arthur didn’t seem to have a good answer (or he didn’t want to give anything away) when pressed about their metres conceded in the post-match. The lower offload count I think is very telling also as I think that’s the key to breaking down Penrith’s D – their edge defence is far too good against set plays. I think next week they might need to throw caution to the wind and bring those offloads back up.
Finals Five: We need to talk about Parra's middle defence
They are going to take some beating that’s for sure
'Performance of the year': Immortals in awe of Cleary's five-star return to vanquish Eels as May cops ban
Wouldn’t this article be better suited to The Conversation or The Guardian? It can be filed in the “everything comes back to identity politics” section along with articles about how the cartoon Bluey perpetuates negative gender stereotypes and how Santa embodies the white patriarchy. Strewth. He gets booed because he threw his easts gear in a bin and uploaded a photo on insta, then proceeded to tell everyone how he always wanted to end up at Souths, then smashed Joey’s face in and showed little remorse. Simple.
Latrell’s Goodes comparison not entirely accurate but walk a mile in his shoes before rejecting complaints about booing
Great read, Mike. I really appreciate the technical analysis content (big fan of the RL Eye Test also). The breakdown of each attacking team’s style is gold. Keep em comin!
Everything is not what it seems: The tactical trends of the 2022 NRL
I don’t think it would change Gould’s mind or that it would change anything or make it better. I just personally think it would be refreshing and insightful to see some experts on concussion science discuss it rather than Gould et al.
A measured discussion about an important issue in NRL? Ha! Let's just scream about concussion!
Interesting link, thanks Ad-O. It would be refreshing and insightful to have an expert panel discuss this in a science-based way on TV or whatever rather than the current emotionally charged back and forth between different points of view that goes on.
A measured discussion about an important issue in NRL? Ha! Let's just scream about concussion!
😂 I’ll pay that
Robbo praises 'down and dirty' Jared after Roosters send out Premiership warning with fiery win over Storm
How ironic to say that the Roosters are the grubbiest team in the comp when they are playing the Storm. Do you know which team graced us with the chicken wing, the alligator roll, the rolling pin, the chin strap and the spine lock, or did you just start watching rugby league last night?
Robbo praises 'down and dirty' Jared after Roosters send out Premiership warning with fiery win over Storm
Hyperbole much? Initial contact was cleared by bunker and MRC, so no, not high.
Munster elbows walker in the face while he’s laying on his back (65th minute) and NAS cocks his elbow and tries to crush Sua’ali’i’s face in but you want JWH sent for the game and promptly removed from the streets for a facial and a love peck on a bigger man than him? If that’s the case you have to be happy when the ref sends Munster and NAS off too.
Parents don’t want their children to play league because of the concussions and risk of long term brain injury. Victor Radley’s attempted legs tackle that went wrong and had him convulsing had more impact on parents than anything JWH did last night, no matter how much you dislike him.
Robbo praises 'down and dirty' Jared after Roosters send out Premiership warning with fiery win over Storm
Well executed a#rse ball for mine. If Graham stays out on Edwards the pass goes short to Tago (he’s behind the ball when the pass goes to Edwards and a legitimate pass option at this point) and he’s one on one with Ilias. Sucked him in a beauty.
Grey areas should be avoided: Bunker's ‘commonsense’ switch in obstruction rulings opens can of worms
I think they probably got it right. The chest/outside shoulder contact rule is only an indicator for obstruction if the block runner runs at the chest or shoulder of a defender and also initiates contact. He was running to a gap initially, then Ilias and Graham close the gap and initiate contact. He also doesn’t really stop in the line, he gets clipped on his way through which stops him. His only real option was to pull out of the lead run before the line and avoid contact completely, but then he wouldn’t be a pass option or a legitimate threat to the defense – the whole point of running that unders/block line in the first place.
NRL News: O'Brien tells Knights players to grow up, Demetriou gives up on Bunker, Sharks face 25-year first
And yet they do. Referees don’t go into a game with the intention of pulling up every single infringement. If they did that they could find a penalty on most plays. Annesley has openly stated that he wants the referees to use discretion on a number of occasions and he even reaffirmed that position as recently as his July 4 Monday press conference:
Annesley said allowing referees to use their discretion on advantage and six-again calls allows the game to flow. “I think it’s been a massive bonus for the game in terms of continuity. The whole objective that we have is to try and have the referees interfering with the game as little as possible,”
So it should come as no surprise to a coach such as Freddy that his team could potentially enter a game where the referee intends to have minimal intervention – particularly given he complained about the very same thing as recently as game 1.
What’s ridiculous in my opinion is NSW’s lack of plan B or counter-play when faced with this (likely) scenario.
Origin 3 match report: Fists fly in brutal decider as Maroons upset Blues - 'as good as it gets', says Slater
Ref puts whistle away in big game and lets players decide result 😱
When will some of these coaches learn that if you condition your players to expect piggy-back penalties and set-restarts for any go-forward, your team will be lost without them. There’s plenty of teams who have scored prolifically through the regular season off piggy-backs and 6-agains only to be completely lost come finals time.
Freddy should know better. This is an origin decider. The ref (rightly) isn’t going to mar the spectacle by getting overly involved in the contest. You want to get out of your own half? I have a crazy idea: run harder, include more lateral ball movement (rather than one-out hit-ups) and changes in angles, kick early in the set to space and then tackle hard. Lather-rinse-repeat. Back in the old days of rugby league we used to call it the grind. Pretty much what Queensland did last night.
Origin 3 match report: Fists fly in brutal decider as Maroons upset Blues - 'as good as it gets', says Slater
You are out to ruffle some feathers here (or warts as we’re talking cane toads) Tim and I love it.
The Maroons selection that killed Origin's soul and made it a joke
Great read Mary. I personally have no issue with Brian’s choice. As others have said, he meets the criteria for Origin selection. I think his critics might be showing a bit of old fashioned nationalism too.
Brian To’o's Samoa call is everything that's great about rugby league
Not to mention they watch video on individual players and how best to tackle them. These players would know full well James Tedesco drops into contact. 10 in the bin (mitigating circumstances), Teddy can’t come back on. In chess it’s called “The Exchange” (sacrifice a pawn to take out a rook)
'I was expecting a send-off': Robbo 'ropeable' as Tedesco suffers EIGHTH concussion but Parra winger escapes send-off