Chicken_Faced_Killa
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One thing the NRL try and push is how even the comp is. If they were rigging it you wouldn’t have teams missing the finals for years in end. Everyone would get a turn every couple of years.
innsaneink
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The irony
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Kerry_Cogger
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If you ae a team with money and the whole of QLD behind you.
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Kerry_Cogger
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Really,How on earth could that be legit?
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It's a phenomenon you will see across just about every sporting league; i.e. fans claiming the competition is rigged to favour a few teams… e.g.
NFL - Pats, Cowboys
NRL - Broncos, Roosters
NBA - Lebron, Warriors etc.
It's a universal reaction for fans to whinge when things don't go their way. If you truly think your beloved competition is rigged (it's not, by the way), then I suggest allocating more of your time to follow other sports.
gallagher
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Correct.
The NRL is just poorly run, they are totally incompetent.
Red Hot.
jirskyr
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Was going to say the same thing
XL February 5, 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers over Seattle Seahawks
XLI February 4, 2007 Indianapolis Colts over Chicago Bears
XLII February 3, 2008 New York Giants over New England Patriots
XLIII February 1, 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers over Arizona Cardinals
XLIV February 7, 2010 New Orleans Saints over Indianapolis Colts
XLV February 6, 2011 Green Bay Packers over Pittsburgh Steelers
XLVI February 5, 2012 New York Giants over New England Patriots
XLVII February 3, 2013 Baltimore Ravens over San Francisco 49ers
XLVIII February 2, 2014 Seattle Seahawks over Denver Broncos
XLIX February 1, 2015 New England Patriots over Seattle Seahawks
50 February 7, 2016 Denver Broncos over Carolina Panthers
LI February 5, 2017 New England Patriots over Atlanta Falcons
LII February 4, 2018 Philadelphia Eagles over New England Patriots
Certainly lots of Super Bowl appearances for Patriots, Steelers and Seahawks… must be rigged! Patriots have won 5, lost 3 of the last 18 Super Bowls.
Fade_To_Black
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If the whinging upsets you so much i am curious to why you would look in this thread and then bother to post in it? Seems strange to me.
GNR4LIFE
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The irony.
Fade_To_Black
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The Patriots (as much as I dislike them) are regularly successful due to the fact that they are in a really weak division which means they are nearly assured of a playoff spot and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. They also have the best player in the history of the game who regularly wins games off his own mastery.
The NFL divisions are assigned purely by geography, the Pats are blessed to be bordered by underachieving cities. This could change in time.
Referees in the NFL virtually have zero influence on the outcome of games, they couldn't be accused of bias IMO.
The NRL on the other hand is butchered every single week by biased refereeing, massive bias towards certain clubs to ensure maximum exposure/revenue and unmatched incompetency by its administration. It has a huge stink around it on many levels.
Fade_To_Black
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Excellent response.
I post on Cammy threads because I hate the bloke. I don't go into those threads and state "all this talk about Smith is turning me away from the game".
Not sure why someone would purposely open threads just to post "this topic turns me away from the game". I cant understand that logic.
happy_tiger
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Amazingly for once FTB is actually right :astonished: 😱pen_mouth:
I love my Fins , but us and the rest of our division are softer than Mitch Moses
GNR4LIFE
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I don’t really lose sleep over what you find illogical
Fade_To_Black
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Just don't let the whinging turn you away from the game OK ? Sleep well…...
cochise
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He was drafted in the 6th round, that's how rigged the NFL is, they turned a 6th round pick into a hall of famer just so the Patriots could have a dynasty.
In all serious though anyone who believes that any major sporting competition is rigged is not thinking straight.
Fade_To_Black
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The NRL may not be "rigged" as in the result of a game is pre-determined but games/results are without question manipulated by referees to get a desired outcome. That is not far off being genuinely rigged IMO.
There are just too many horrendous stuff-ups every single week for it simply to be written off as incompetence or honest mistakes.
You could easily write a 10 000 word essay on examples of bias, favouritism etc in just the last 10 years of the NRL alone.
You only have to look at how many "fairytales" have occurred within the NRL comp over the last 10 years or so. If it is all just coincidence it would be astonishing to say the least.
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Kerry_Cogger
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Ok now in just one of those years now show me the Patriots getting every MNF game like the Brisbane Broncos get Friday nights in our comp for YHE LAST 20 years.P.S You wont and therein lies the difference.We have two states(3 Vics)playing league and half the games administrators are from north of the border where it is Broncos first daylight second for boardroom power.To use an NFL COMPARISON it is like saying the eastern states make up 31 teams while the whole western half of the USA is New England.
