Finals series 2017 *Spoilers

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Don't understand why they had to… let the play go on and let Penrith put the ball on the goal line. 2 refs and an abundance of trainers on the field.. should be classed as just a normal knock on.

Yep, horrible decision, Penrith got dudded massively on that call it was a game-changer. The injured bloke was nowhere near where the ball was headed under the posts.
Broncs got looked after tonight, no surprises there.
Gonna be a titanic grub-off next week, no teams go the attacking cheap leg hit on a held attacker quite like Brisbane and Melbourne. Should be interesting, plenty of niggle and plenty of cowardly dog-shots.

The NRL need to protect the man carrying the footy- showing the real ticker, from weak blokes coming in long after they are held and wiping out their legs or slamming into their backs, there is nothing courageous about that. Seems to be the same players doing it week after week.

I have always hated that extra player coming in and just doing damage. That is why I have thought it should be a total of 2 players only can hold a person at simultaneously. I think it is the refs calling held much too late.

 

[stryker]

Don't understand why they had to… let the play go on and let Penrith put the ball on the goal line. 2 refs and an abundance of trainers on the field.. should be classed as just a normal knock on.

Yep, horrible decision, Penrith got dudded massively on that call it was a game-changer. The injured bloke was nowhere near where the ball was headed under the posts.
Broncs got looked after tonight, no surprises there.
Gonna be a titanic grub-off next week, no teams go the attacking cheap leg hit on a held attacker quite like Brisbane and Melbourne. Should be interesting, plenty of niggle and plenty of cowardly dog-shots.

The NRL need to protect the man carrying the footy- showing the real ticker, from weak blokes coming in long after they are held and wiping out their legs or slamming into their backs, there is nothing courageous about that. Seems to be the same players doing it week after week.

Itll be a great game full of Queensland heros. I can see FTB taping it, to watch again and again.

 

[snowleopard]

innsaneink wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 4:54 pm
Are we are to access Telstra Live Pass here in SE Asia?

I spend most of my time here Ink .. am here now..the only local Is Setana and can't access unless your have Sky cable and a subscription . Telstra Live Pass doesn't work even thru VPN as they block it. If you have FOXTEL Go you can get games if you use something like VPN Vanish but the problem is the cost of data …like A$150 to watch a game.. you can get data packages for P1000 but the problem is as soon as you start to stream live they slow it down..hopeless.

What I do is use NRL.Com on my mobile and listen to either ABC or 2GB and open twitter same time cause they show live tries etc.

When the game is over You can access replays of tries, game and pressers thru NRL.Com on mobile . They just won't let you access during live.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Harawira naiera has been astonishlingly poor tonight. Everytime an error is made he seems involved

Looked to have been carrying his dodgy knee right from the get go.
Havent understood the hype around him as yet. Campbell Gillard on the other hand is a machine, was still going as strong at the end as he was at kick-off. Great player.

 

[tig_prmz]

i was filthy when the play was called back, but in hindsight right decision was made.

if this was a spinal cord injury or anything more serious, people would've been filthy about player welfare. in fact, it's not just that the players around the injured player would be running but this also impedes the trainers early access to an injured player. the moment the collision happened, it was very obvious that this was very very serious and play should've been halted straight away to allow trainers to get there without endangering themselves

all that being said, that decision didn't cost penrith the game. two aweful aweful misses for the tries did.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Don't understand why they had to… let the play go on and let Penrith put the ball on the goal line. 2 refs and an abundance of trainers on the field.. should be classed as just a normal knock on.

Yep, horrible decision, Penrith got dudded massively on that call it was a game-changer. The injured bloke was nowhere near where the ball was headed under the posts.
Broncs got looked after tonight, no surprises there.
Gonna be a titanic grub-off next week, no teams go the attacking cheap leg hit on a held attacker quite like Brisbane and Melbourne. Should be interesting, plenty of niggle and plenty of cowardly dog-shots.

The NRL need to protect the man carrying the footy- showing the real ticker, from weak blokes coming in long after they are held and wiping out their legs or slamming into their backs, there is nothing courageous about that. Seems to be the same players doing it week after week.

Itll be a great game full of Queensland heros. I can see FTB taping it, to watch again and again.

Would only be watching more than once if Cammy cops a stiff-arm that knocks him rotten. Other than that it will be an interesting game of cheap shots without a doubt with the winner hopefully losing the GF.
Christ hope the Cows win tomorrow or else there is 4 maggot-ridden clubs left for season 2017\. Can't remember it ever being that dire.

 

[Tiger_Tim]

Watching Adam Blair makes me very happy he isn't a tiger anymore. He could get penalised every tackle he makes and is always going in low when his teammates have the opposition in an upright tackle. I wish Glenn Stewart had of connected a few more times when they had that blue a few years ago.

 

[upthetigers]

Gus had a 5-year plan with the Panthers. He is always so critical of others but I reckon he has underachieved. Yeah they got hard done by with that play that could have gone on but that was just benefiting from a freak incident. They were quite poor tonight in an elimination game. Only in the final 20 did they start playing some footy.

 

[Nucky_Thompson]

Watching Adam Blair makes me very happy he isn't a tiger anymore. He could get penalised every tackle he makes and is always going in low when his teammates have the opposition in an upright tackle. I wish Glenn Stewart had of connected a few more times when they had that blue a few years ago.

Blaire is a shadow of a man that he was at Melbourne punching on with stweart. He was better with more weight on and the style they had him playing at. He would of been a world beater if stayed at Melbourne. His pretty poor now being the super fit front rower what ever his trying to play now.

 

[gallagher]

I think when a player loses the ball due to concussion its time off and a scrum upon resumption.
Wasmt that the reason when Dwyer flattened JWH in that semi that it was a scrum and not a play the ball?
Bloody Heighno.

Mmmm I remember Edwards being knocked out cold in a good tackle on our line and someone scoring off it early on in the year…

Yeah. Something like that happened didn't it.
I just remember Sheens asking why it was a scrum ( that we lost somehow) and that was the reason given.
Good few years ago now so could be wrong.

When JWH lost the ball it hit Dwyer and back onto JWH so Double Knock on ..Scrum..

Edwards was definitely knocked out and play was allowed to continue Melbourne scoring but it was like 8m out from the line..

It's a tough one tonight…the Broncos didn't regather the ball nor did Penrith knock it on so you could say play on but player welfare should take priority...

Funny though the game was stopped twice after that for Arrow and Thaiday but only after several tackles later...

Cheers Geo.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I have a feeling the Cows will get up tonight.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Watching Adam Blair makes me very happy he isn't a tiger anymore. He could get penalised every tackle he makes and is always going in low when his teammates have the opposition in an upright tackle. I wish Glenn Stewart had of connected a few more times when they had that blue a few years ago.

Blaire is a shadow of a man that he was at Melbourne punching on with stweart. He was better with more weight on and the style they had him playing at. He would of been a world beater if stayed at Melbourne. His pretty poor now being the super fit front rower what ever his trying to play now.

He ain't captain material either, too ill-disciplined. I'm surprised he was given the captaincy with Boyd out, I would've given it to either Gillett or Thaiday.

 

[Tigerdon]

I have a feeling the Cows will get up tonight.

I hope so. I like the way they are playing Morgan and Taumalolo have been immense. I think Parra will have them covered.

 

[upthetigers]

I have a feeling the Cows will get up tonight.

Not a chance. Melbourne will in all likelihood win it but if there is a smokey it's Parra.

 

[Harvey]

Talking about the Oates collision and call

SMH September 15 2017 - 10:01PM
Did the referees make the right call? Safety first denies certain Panthers try
Michael Chammas

"There was a similar incident earlier in the year when Wests Tigers forward Joel Edwards was concussed in a tackle against the Storm at Leichhardt Oval back in round four.
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On that afternoon, with the Tigers leading 14-0 on the stroke of half-time, Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona was allowed to pick up the spoils and score under the posts with a try that changed the momentum of a game Melbourne went on to win."

The decisions are completely at odds with each other in very similar situations, but sure Tony Archer can find a way to justify that both are correct. It is further evidence that some teams are refereed differently to others.

I also thought the Shoncos had players constantly breaking early in defence and were not penalised at all. I think it is time for 2 divisions. Melbourne, Brisbane, Roosters and a couple of other clubs can play in one and the rest in 2nd. The league is basically willing to change interpretations (ruck) and fail to calculate the value of players at these clubs to ensure that they finish top of the tree most years. Other clubs are playing to make up the numbers and possibly pull off an upset.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

The SMH is spot on with this snippet of the article that you posted. It was the wrong call last night that completely changed the momentum of the contest, what should of been 6-6 was quickly 12-0 and the Broncos had the leg-up they would have wanted. Could understand the ref pulling it up if Oates was in danger of being trampled but he wasn't, the ball was already 10-15 metres down field by the time the play was stopped.

The case of the Have's and Have-not's in the NRL yet again. It's bloody poor.

 

[Nelson]

It was the wrong call to stop play when Oates went down but to be fair I think it was just an instinctive reaction to seeing such a brutal impact. I don't have a problem with that sort of call being made in the moment, although I'm sure if it was the Tigers being dudded out of a try I would feel differently…

 

[Fade_To_Black]

I have a feeling the Cows will get up tonight.

Certainly hope so. Have a feeling Parra will be well looked after by the refs tonight though so it will be a monumental effort for the Cows to get a victory.
The NRL would be hoping for Parra to make the GF, would generate plenty of interest in an otherwise ho-hum preliminary finals and GF contest.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I have a feeling the Cows will get up tonight.

Certainly hope so. Have a feeling Parra will be well looked after by the refs tonight though so it will be a monumental effort for the Cows to get a victory.
The NRL would be hoping for Parra to make the GF, would generate plenty of interest in an otherwise ho-hum preliminary finals and GF contest.

Why watch the game if it's so corrupt?

 

[WT2K]

Gus sacked Ivan but Griffin hasnt done any better. Pretty sure Ivan got the Panthers to the preliminary final… Gus must be on a 10 year plan instead of 5...