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I don’t know about you, but I often get a bit frustrated watching players who previously played for my team running around killing it…
Moneyball analytics originated in American baseball and was made famous in the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt. Moneyball Pythagorean expectation uses mathematical formulae to…
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A history of hip-drops: What Super Rugby can learn from NRL & NFL to stamp out footy's most dangerous tackle
The May incident was a red card every day of the week in rugby, and they still have have a long way to go in head injury prevention (just not as far as RL!).
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Broncos won their first 6 without losing one 😛
You have to lose a GF to win one but salary cap squeeze means Broncos simply don't have the cattle to go all the way
“At least Root didn’t claim England had a moral right to be in the finals.” I’d say that’s what he really thinks though 😂
How about no, Joe: Any way you look at it, this all talk, no action England team not ‘man for man’ better than Aussies
No one is saying “it’s all just fine”, just saying refereeing mistakes will always happen, sometimes in your favour and sometimes to your detriment. Just like players will also make mistakes. Why is it that a touchy mistake off a Walsh pass is given so much more importance to “momentum” than Walsh’s own mistake throwing an intercept a little earlier?
What is really flawed is the idea that the outcome of whole game is determined by 1 or 2 mistakes by an official.
ANALYSIS: Walsh puts Panthers on notice as Broncos crush Warriors to deliver first Grand Final since 2015
Except for the 7-2 penalty counts to the wahs at half time 😂
ANALYSIS: Walsh puts Panthers on notice as Broncos crush Warriors to deliver first Grand Final since 2015
Plenty of whingers who blow up deluxe when a ref makes a mistake, but somehow not notice the 15 major errors their side made in the same game 😂
“It was the ref’s fault we lost” 😡
Refs not the riff-raff some critics claim - human error means there'll always be dud calls but standards have never been higher
Would you rather the Broncos-Warriors was at Homebush and you play the Storm at Suncorp?
Maybe the gf should be played in Townsville if it’s Penrith-Broncos so no team has a home city advantage either?
Prelim Final Teams Late Mail: Panthers make call on Luai's shoulder injury, Storm confident on Hughes, Johnson on track
😂
Centre of attention: With Latrell, Wighton and Holmes all out, Mal has a major Kangaroos conundrum
Might have to do a NSW and stick a fullback or 2 in there. Walsh, Ponga, Drinkwater, Meanie? Or Teddy to the centres and Walsh to fullback?
Centre of attention: With Latrell, Wighton and Holmes all out, Mal has a major Kangaroos conundrum
Yeah, what’s the story on Mariner?
Round 27 Team Lists Late Mail: Manu hamstrung, long list of stars resting, Papa's year over, Ponga races clock for finals
Don’t think it would made much of a difference to the Brisbane-Melbourne game anyway. No real bearing on final places and it’s not like Broncos need the cash from the minor premiership.
NRL week 27 preview talking points: Although we've come to the end of the road… still, I can't let go
Need to be careful about more rule changes – it could still easily have been a penalty for dangerous contact without an outright ban on the practice. A bouncing ball will usually mean more players around/ competing for it with less time to make decisions or pull out of contact altogether. Smart players will likely have a field day exploiting it too.
NRL week 26 preview talking points: CNK gets lucky, it’s miracle time for Eels and do you really like what you do for a living?
How can the bunnies be dropping? They’ve got so much potential 😂
NRL Power Rankings: Up up Cronulla, down, down the Bunnies and bye, bye Parramatta for another year
Happy with the send off as a neutral. Absolutely no mitigating factors other than the player on the end of it was miraculously not knocked out. Previous similar were generally against falling players but Brown had launched himself. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it graded deliberate.
'In that other code, it would have been sent off': Robinson compares decision to rugby union as Brown ban revealed
Paul Gallen having a go at the Storm about their dodginess on channel 9 😂 😂 😂
NRL week 23 preview talking points: Time's running out for finals dreamers, the game heads west and we celebrate some cheating
“Among all teams in the NRL, they have the biggest gap between their best and worst. ”
I would have thought the Cowboys own that title this year.
ANALYSIS: Titans throw finals race into chaos with huge boilover - and Cowboys lose Robson and potentially Holmes
Don’t think Arthars will have a problem. Tapaua wasn’t intentional I don’t feel, an attempted goose step gone wrong, might get some time but not a vital cog for Brisbane.
ANALYSIS: Demetriou slams 'embarrassing' Souths as Walsh runs riot - but Taupau might be in big trouble after knee raise
Settle down champ, I’m no Roosters hater and not even from Sydney. More a dig at the underlying silliness that you can make judgments about how well supported a team is based on some sort of relationship between the population of historical and/or arbitrary geographic areas and game attendances/membership numbers.
Plenty of other clubs have also dropped geographic references from their names because they know their supporters no longer all (or even mainly) come from that area, which invalidates the underlying premise of the article.
The data deep dive: who is actually the NRL's most supported club?
I guess that is why this analysis is fatally flawed. Dolphins never said they were Redcliffe; if there is another Brisbane team does that automatically mean Broncos double their support (assuming crowd numbers and memberships stay the same)?; did the numbers for Brisbane population include Logan, Ipswich and Redland areas?; do we adjust for supporters who live outside the traditional geographical boundaries (I wonder how many Rabbits supporters actually live in traditional Souths territory?, in statistics you really should adjust both sides of the equation if you are making assumptions); Warriors just Auckland or all of NZ?; Cowboys really just Townsville or all of FNQ?
The data deep dive: who is actually the NRL's most supported club?
The “Sydney” roosters are no longer Eastern suburbs so theoretically all their stats should be divided by the population of Sydney, which would definitely put them near the bottom of the supporters pile.
The data deep dive: who is actually the NRL's most supported club?
Flawed by the assumption you attend games or are a member to “support” a club (as per the title of the article}.
Broncos don’t get Friday night games constantly because they have the most memberships.
The data deep dive: who is actually the NRL's most supported club?
Except Hammer usually plays at fullback, as a Queenslander happy for them to pick him. Staggs has been having a good year but that right side defense for the Broncs looked very shaky on the weekend and that mainly seemed to be because Kotoni was worried about Hammers pace.
Blues Origin III team: Fittler going down swinging the axe as besieged coach chops and changes in bid to save his skin
The Hammer gave Kotoni absolute nightmares in the centres on Saturday night 😂
Blues Origin III team: Fittler going down swinging the axe as besieged coach chops and changes in bid to save his skin
Yeah, not sure you can claim “their defence is excellent ” when they just had 32 points put on them by a side missing 3 of their best players.
Five and a kick: Manly hates you, but should you love them? And are Ricky's Raiders fun now too?