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I wonder whether at the time the Cows were the only option at the money for JT13.
What if the salary cap really was just a brown paper sombrero?
Yep, the the biggest problem in NRL today, with daylight second, is the quality of refereeing. When do we ever see a big game where its not glaring at us all? The blokes running the show need to start coming up with some left field solutions to this; whether it means more refs looking at it in real time although placed off the field or whatever it is. Its a well known problem. You can’t have errors these days, its just too amateurish to have a place in elite, professional sport in which a lot of people have a lot invested. I don’t know what referees get paid, but given that they are so integral to the success of the game; they ought to be training and paying to get the best there can be. And the best should be earning what the best of the players earn.
Five talking points from State of Origin I
Tooves is a contender as well. If we don’t put him up there with the best then, unless I’m blind, there’s got to be an investigation into this. Someone has to be accountable for this.
Coaches who break things
Remember Jarrod McCracken? He was playing for West Tigers in May 2002 against – oh the Storm again, when he had his career finished by a lifting tackle. That’s 12 years ago! The NRL think that the judiciary process is enough to monitor injurious play, but there is one problem. Everyone learned their lesson when the Storm players pleaded guilty in the judiciary over the McCracken incident, because that guilty plea was found in separate court proceedings that McCracken bought – and won – against the players and the Storm club – to be evidence that the players intended or could have expected the tackle to injure him.
So we will never see anybody plead guilty in the judiciary again when serious injury has resulted from a tackle because of the consequences that it will have for the clubs’ insurers. Which makes the judiciary charges a joke really.
Maybe the fact that the game is a team sport involving all the players and coaches etc ought to be faced up to and rather than having a couple of players sidelined for a few weeks, sideline the coach for a few weeks and take some competition points off the offending team – don’t bury it with an individual player who is easily replaced and who is likely working as directed by the coaching staff anyway.
Lets face it: how many Clubs have pulled a player from the field when he has executed dangerous play and told him to play in the minor grade for the rest of the season? None of them.
The NRL’s handling of this issue is gauche and maladroit
PRICHARD: NRL refuses to tackle lifting
You know, Manly remind us more and more of the teams of Islanders that play out in the countries of the Pacific. When you watch those blokes; you can see some really inventive, exotic and exuberant plays that literally create tries out of nothing. Brilliant and creative ball movement, passing and running that just explode against the run of play to come up with points.
But the other side of the coin to this is that we see those guys, when there have been a few dropped balls; a few missed tackles; a few dumb plays, just collapse and throw in the towel with a sort of shrug of the shoulders which says; ‘ oh well, we don’t have our muse with us today, don’t worry about it, we’ll write this one off and play another day’.
Manly strike me as sort of like creative artists. Manly the Michelangelos (TM). When they haven’t tapped into their creative muse, or when they begin to doubt the creative muse will be with them that day, the other sides – sides we would never expect, can just run over the top of them. They are not at all a team that plays percentage football; grinding away with a relatively consistent game plan each week.
Their game plan, such as it is, really seems to me to be one which sets a platform which then allows the creative muse to stir, and when stirred, for the artists to interpret the run of play and just explode into being with exotic, creative and exhilarating play.
Or we get days like yesterday, where the Tigers led them 26-0 at one point; or days like a couple of weeks ago when a last minute creativity got them out of gaol on the 79th minute against Parra at Brookie, or where the creative muse deserted them after leading Melbourne by 20 points at half time, only to lose by a field goal in golden point.
One thing we must say about Manly – we can never expect any particular outcome from week to week with them, we really just have to watch to see what they happen to come up on the day, whether they are inspired to create something astonishing, or to stand there shrugging their shoulders and saying ‘ We don’t feel the vibe today, there is always next week’.
This is probably what makes Manly such a compelling team for all NRL fans to watch. Are they going to produce a masterpiece or a finger painting? We just don’t know until the day of play.
Tigers smash Manly in the Leichhardt wet
Now that’s a man who takes his sport seriously. Good Job.
Wests Tigers vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
Yep, I think there are wheels within wheels as far as the sentimental favorite is concerned
Souths stop the rot with win over Dragons
Ha Ha. PNG. that’s a top solution – but I’d put the PNG boys into the Warrior jumper
Cronulla Sharks vs New Zealand Warriors: NRL live scores, blog
Good to see the poor old Sharkies have win. Still going to be a long season for em.
Fifita stars as Sharks romp home
Or….the bulldogs are watching the drama with the fullback Hayne over at Parra and might be keeping their fiscal powder dry in the event that Hayne pulls the pin on them because the third party payments arranged for him are in default. They might snare a disaffected player who would fit in as a good fullback
What we learned from the Andrew Fifita debacle
My computer has been invaded by a poltergeist. I have no idea….don’t even know what the initials means – apart from soup legend perhaps. Can’t get email or zoom either. A mobile geek is coming this arvo.
What if the salary cap really was just a brown paper sombrero?