Brent Naden #256

innsaneink said:
I dont think its woke and robots...is winning graciously not a thing anymore
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I agree with you, but also the Tigers were on point with emotion and aggression yesterday - the mindset that has them flipping the crowd and throwing gestures is the same that got them the W.

Winning graciously is a good ideal, but also the reality of smashing your opponent in the wet for 80 minutes, mud in your eyes, takes a certain level of emotional energy.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
I don't mind it ink. It is sport with emotions. As long as it doesn't cross the line, I love players releasing some emotion whether against players or fans. Builds for strong rivalries. Plenty of birds flicked by players to the crowd back in the day. But I guess we live in a woke society now where we just try to breed robots.
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I agree with you broadly, in that I don't mind it personally, but your end comment is silly and out of touch with reality. Any player who makes a rude gesture to the crowd, in any Aussie sport, will get in trouble, because the game needs to protect their brand as they try to expand viewership and participation to immigrants, women and kids.

NRL already has the boofhead bloke market cornered.

It's the same as you can't use a racial sledge, even though far worse is said and has been said on weekends and nobody was physically injured, but you can't do it as a professional footballer.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Which is a bit of a concern. You can’t rely on emotion every week.
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Not a concern for me when emotion is partnered with performance.

Tigers outperformed the Bulldogs yesterday. I would love for them to be coldly clinically about it, but even the Storm or Panthers get riled up with a good win.
 
jirskyr said:
I agree with you broadly, in that I don't mind it personally, but your end comment is silly and out of touch with reality. Any player who makes a rude gesture to the crowd, in any Aussie sport, will get in trouble, because the game needs to protect their brand as they try to expand viewership and participation to immigrants, women and kids.

NRL already has the boofhead bloke market cornered.

It's the same as you can't use a racial sledge, even though far worse is said and has been said on weekends and nobody was physically injured, but you can't do it as a professional footballer.
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I couldn't find anything regarding punishment for NRLW player Tazmin Rapana flipping the bird to NSW supporters last year during Origin. There may have been some sort of penalty, but I couldn't find anything. I don't care whether she was or wasn't punished, but surely a number of young kids and women would have seen it and I'm sure it wouldn't have damaged the brand as the NRL keeps telling us how much the womens game is growing.

Having said all that I expect nothing less than monetry fines for every player that did it yesterday because.....it's the NRL and consistency aint the name of the game.
 
innsaneink said:
I dont think its woke and robots...is winning graciously not a thing anymore
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We haven't carried on like that with our other wins - the media created this rubbish plus i think the players were a lot more hyped up than what was being said before the match. Also your post the other day about Joseph Tapine being a sore loser was interesting. I saw it in a different light - i thought how refreshing to see a player have the shits at losing. I'm over teams being beaten badly and then players standing around having a joke with the team that just gave it to them.
 
innsaneink said:
I dont think its woke and robots...is winning graciously not a thing anymore
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Yeah for sure but sometimes wins are more emotive than others. It's sport. Call me old fashioned and non-PC. Sport is too watered down these days due to PR.

Different circumstance I know but I find it funny that journos say the lead up to SOO was boring this year because no player or coach wanted to create anything that could motivate the other team. And our players give an alleged F U to fans who boo & jeer them and get called out for it.

Look if it's a discriminatory gesture, I'll take that back but from what I have read, it's simply F U or take that.

NRL should be thanking our boys for ensuring the next game between these clubs is a sell-out with huge pre-publicity.
 
Wonder if Naden would stick around as a cup contract player?

I doubt there's many options on the table.
- England
- Bush footy
- Cup somewhere else

He's gone grey since last time I saw him
 
Demps said:
Wonder if Naden would stick around as a cup contract player?

I doubt there's many options on the table.
- England
- Bush footy
- Cup somewhere else

He's gone grey since last time I saw him
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I know we need our top 30 roster spots to recruit a few new players, but I would not be discounting possibly re-signing Naden for another 12 months on a lower tier top 30 deal.
He has demonstrated he is a good leader and goes out of his way to help our younger players and games such as yesterday show he’s still got life in him as an NRL player when he turns up with the right attitude.
 
No issue with the try celebration, khod is very commonly used by lebanese fans (and some non lebanese fans lol) of all teams. Its just flipping the bird in the heat of the moment, but a little funnier because of the context. I'm sure I've been in the stands at Leichhardt and we've been flipped the bird by opposition players when they are binned and booed off for example . There's also a lot of emotion during the game.

After thr game is different.

Think Naden is a goose for his video and no issue if he gets sanctioned for it somehow. At the end of the day the standard for players has to be different to fans on social media.
 
Spartan117 said:
Typical mutts.

One sided, obfuscation
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They've been sticking it up other fans all year and they want to have a cry about it when they get the same back. The truth is, if they don't carry on that way in the first place, they don't get the behaviour back.

The stuff from our guys was anything but classy, but it must feel good to stick it back the other way. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.

The Dogs fans have been hideous all season, but of course, we can't criticise certain ethnic groups for fear of accusations of racism. But as they say, if they pay for a ticket, they can do or say whatever they want within the law, albeit very antagonistic. Culture is not universal and we are seeing 2 cultures collide. Whatever element has infiltrated the Bulldogs fanbase is universally hated. My uncle is a Dogs supporter and won't even take his son to the games because of it.

The issue is our team directed it at fans and I have not seen the Bulldogs players carry on like their fans at all. I don't think the players should engage that way with the crowd.

This is about behaviour. Not about anything else and when all is said and done, our guys should know better and the Bulldogs should also know better than to allow their fans to be so antagonistic at games. Both teams supporters have the right to enjoy the game.
 
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