LIVE GAME 2026 NRL Grand Final discussion

[Tucker]

Exactly. You are proving my point. Teddy was a workhorse, nothing more. Knights scored 3 tries with no field position and the Roosters defence was unbelievable. Ponga puts at least 30 on them with the same ball. Teddy couldnt.

I’m not proving anything. These are opinions.
Do you want facts?
Teddy just won his 3rd premiership and a Clive Churchill Medal along with it. He was judged the best on ground and none of your bellyaching will change that.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Gee did the same thing last week compared to blowing hell.out of the whistle week one and.two...as.soon as.klein was punted he changed drastically
Probanly for the better but there was a few occaions both teams.players seemed.confused on some.incidents what was expected and what he reffed

There was a blatant hip drop from a roosters player on a knights player that would normally yield a penalty....blind eye by Gee and the touchies

 

[hank37w]

Trouble is we go shopping at Aldi but Roosters Storm Broncos go to Myers and David Jones 😝

The problem is that Roosters Storm and Broncos pay Aldi prices, we pay Myer and David Jones prices.

 

[TigerBurnsy]

No way he takes Tom Wright's spot at fullback for world cup.
Mark is a deadset winger and will kill it in union

Actually you’re probably right Tom wright has been killing it, wallabies have an interesting backline for the wc, I wonder is Joseph suaalii will go back to 13 with mark and Jorgensen as the wingers

 

[Chunk]

Much prefer games like last night than 20+ pens a game

Yeah you're right but more balance for the attacking team, it was all about defence.

This GF type of game doesn't help the Tigers, we'd be stuck in our half the whole game, we need a piggy back or two, not many but I think a few would have been fairer

 

[Flippedy]

First time since Canberra seven years ago ive felt tough for the losing fans.
Knights fans have.been huge this whole series and it would be tough for them today.
Everyone bar the few true Roosters fans were riding the knights home it got a but much at the end the level of bandwagonness

If it weren’t for their own silly mistakes the Knights would’ve won comfortably imo. Two dropped balls in their own 40 metres after scoring points and two ridiculous short kick offs to Tupou giving the Roosters great field position on all occasions resulted in tries and kept Newcastle camped in their own end for back to back sets. If Ponga kicked long, I doubt whether we’d have seen at least one of those Roosters’ tries. They had all the possession and field position and only won by a point. The Roosters weren’t really that good.

 

[Chunk]

I think the slow ruck helped Knights with their goal line D.

Two quick PTBs and knights would have been toast.

We really need some consistency with the ruck speed tbh..

Yeah true but the Knights were stuck in their own half the whole game because of the 'amazing' line speed of the Roosters, I think they deserved a few 6 agains

 

[king_sirro]

I’m not proving anything. These are opinions.
Do you want facts?
Teddy just won his 3rd premiership and a Clive Churchill Medal along with it. He was judged the best on ground and none of your bellyaching will change that.

I didnt say anything of that wasnt true. You lose yet another debate and just change what yiu wanna say. Can i ask why yiu do that constantly? Maybe I can help ya brother

 

[tigertragic]

Yeah true but the Knights were stuck in their own half the whole game because of the 'amazing' line speed of the Roosters, I think they deserved a few 6 agains

Amazingly the roosters got 2 six again in the first half to the knights 0, despite their ‘line speed’

 

[Tucker]

I didnt say anything of that wasnt true. You lose yet another debate and just change what yiu wanna say. Can i ask why yiu do that constantly? Maybe I can help ya brother

Mate we were all talking about the GF and you came in here ranting like a drunken idiot putting shit on the Roosters victory, their coach, their captain, their attack, their fans….they won the title, deal with it.

 

[Lestronge]

They spent the whole game in Newcastle's half of the field but threw very little at them. It was all setting up for the next play and the inevitable kick on the 6th.
If our attack was that insipid the forum would be in uproar.

The hardest place in the field to score is the final 20 . Why ? Because there’s usually 2m between the attack and the defence , the fullback defends in the line , and nearly always most teams jump offside the whole time .
Usually there’s only 3 ways to score 1. Around the ruck , so short balls , dummy and go etc. , kick in behind usually in the space behind the 3 and 4 man either side , or kick to the edges . And defence as good as the knights . Literally they’re game plan would have been to invite them into the red zone and just smother them .
My guess was they were hoping to force errors like 7 tackle sets , and get a roll on . But the roosters didn’t play isopod attack. But rather constant barrage. constant car crashes . Over and over and over . Kicking to corners . Then hammering them in defence . To constantly have the knights rucking it out . Eventually the inevitable happens, and attrition takes over . It’s an ugly gameplan , and almost didn’t work because Ponga was on skates all game , but that was the gameplan.
AtTacK wAs ShIt. No ! It was brutal. And what I imagine watching some waterboarding another human would be like . Eventually breaking them

 

[Lestronge]

They didn’t throw much at them. More more slick in the second half.

Because they drove them into the ground the first half . That was the point mate .

 

[cktiger]

They spent the whole game in Newcastle's half of the field but threw very little at them. It was all setting up for the next play and the inevitable kick on the 6th.
If our attack was that insipid the forum would be in uproar.

Not if it got us a premiership.

 

[innsaneink]

The hardest place in the field to score is the final 20 . Why ? Because there’s usually 2m between the attack and the defence , the fullback defends in the line , and nearly always most teams jump offside the whole time .
Usually there’s only 3 ways to score 1. Around the ruck , so short balls , dummy and go etc. , kick in behind usually in the space behind the 3 and 4 man either side , or kick to the edges . And defence as good as the knights . Literally they’re game plan would have been to invite them into the red zone and just smother them .
My guess was they were hoping to force errors like 7 tackle sets , and get a roll on . But the roosters didn’t play isopod attack. But rather constant barrage. constant car crashes . Over and over and over . Kicking to corners . Then hammering them in defence . To constantly have the knights rucking it out . Eventually the inevitable happens, and attrition takes over . It’s an ugly gameplan , and almost didn’t work because Ponga was on skates all game , but that was the gameplan.
AtTacK wAs ShIt. No ! It was brutal. And what I imagine watching some waterboarding another human would be like . Eventually breaking them

They played the long game...won ugly.
They dis it however it needed to be done because its not rd 14 and were looking to.improve in rd 15