JAC Koori knockout

[innsaneink]

They dont seem to like him for some reason….. 😱pen_mouth:
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WE saw some great football across the weekend in the Koori Knockout but acts of thuggery unfortunately dominated the final.
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New Storm recruit Josh Addo-Carr, representing the Redfern All Blacks, was clearly targeted and bore the brunt of some incredibly high contact from opponents the Newcastle All Blacks.
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The game featured a host of current and former NRL players including, Leilani Latu, Jonathan Wright, Travis Robinson and Nathan Merrit to name a few.
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The Redfern side eventually claimed the title with a convincing 42-12 win.

https://youtu.be/YbZVbdpCwH4

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I don't think JAC got it any worse than anyone else on the field. Definitely bad blood between those 2 sides. There were 3 or 4 send off offences at NRL level by my count. How bout the tank at 1:46\. Is that Mark Tookey?

 

[Sabre]

He was pretty bloody ordinary during the tournament too.

 

[stryker]

Good hard defense. Great to see.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Good hard defense. Great to see.

Are you sure you would not like knuckle dusters thrown in as well?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

They certainly don't take a step back.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

If this game had been promoted properly it would have been a sell out crowd - how the game was played in the old days.

 

[Tigertigertiger]

If this game had been promoted properly it would have been a sell out crowd - how the game was played in the old days.

Miss the old days, players these days are skirts, only a couple would be able to handle it

Great defence, hard run ups and hard hitting

 

[tsjonathan]

If this game had been promoted properly it would have been a sell out crowd - how the game was played in the old days.

Miss the old days, players these days are skirts, only a couple would be able to handle it

Great defence, hard run ups and hard hitting

Exactly why I don't mind League season being over. It's not the same anymore.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Was this game televised on NITV or anything? Wouldn't mind seeing a replay of it.

 

[2041]

If this game had been promoted properly it would have been a sell out crowd - how the game was played in the old days.

Miss the old days, players these days are skirts, only a couple would be able to handle it

Great defence, hard run ups and hard hitting

…for the first 10 minutes, after which the 80s players would be puking up their pies and beer having been run into the dust by the properly trained and conditioned professionals.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

^It's the athletes vs footballers debate. I'd much rather watch genuine footballers play RL compared to watching blokes who are honed and trained into robots TBH.

 

[Yossarian]

Was this game televised on NITV or anything? Wouldn't mind seeing a replay of it.

I haven't looked for it this year but normally NITV televise it and show replays on high rotation over the break.

 

[Sabre]

This big guy on the middle left isn't a coach, or a fan who's jumped the fence, he was actually playing (in Daine Laurie's team). Check out this size of him!


And here on the right:


 

[Fade_To_Black]

Was this game televised on NITV or anything? Wouldn't mind seeing a replay of it.

I haven't looked for it this year but normally NITV televise it and show replays on high rotation over the break.

Thanks mate. I had a look on the Foxtel program guide and it says the highlights of the tournament are on next Tues at 1-30 or something in the afternoon.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

This big guy on the middle left isn't a coach, or a fan who's jumped the fence, he was actually playing (in Daine Laurie's team). Check out this size of him!


And here on the right:


Georgie Rose's slimmer brother?

I reckon the days of unlimited interchange would have been more that fella's cup of tea (or slab of cake).

 

[Sabre]

This big guy on the middle left isn't a coach, or a fan who's jumped the fence, he was actually playing (in Daine Laurie's team). Check out this size of him!


And here on the right:


Georgie Rose's slimmer brother?

I reckon the days of unlimited interchange would have been more that fella's cup of tea (or slab of cake).

Haha if you saw him running around he made George Rose look like Nathan Merritt in the weight department.

 

[jirskyr]

If this game had been promoted properly it would have been a sell out crowd - how the game was played in the old days.

Miss the old days, players these days are skirts, only a couple would be able to handle it

Great defence, hard run ups and hard hitting

…for the first 10 minutes, after which the 80s players would be puking up their pies and beer having been run into the dust by the properly trained and conditioned professionals.

Too right.

Nostalgia is terrific, but seriously try and sit through 5 or 6 full-length 1980s games and tell me that the skill or ability level consistently matches the modern game. It's like revisiting those old cartoons from your childhood, when you realise how the He-Man and Thundercats TV shows are actually quite bad.

I also firmly believe, that whilst I have one foot in the camp of "want to see good honest hard bash-em footy", there is a large component of the general public that are not interested in the more brutal side of the game, the same people who have no interest at all in things like boxing or MMA. NRL might be alienating some old-school followers by becoming more of a slick and TV-friendly spectacle, but they are trying to tap a much larger section of society that aren't into sport for the pure physicality.

Indeed, most popular sports lack the physicality of league.

 

[2041]

^It's the athletes vs footballers debate. I'd much rather watch genuine footballers play RL compared to watching blokes who are honed and trained into robots TBH.

Nah, that's a false comparison. It's not footballers versus athletes, it's footballers versus footballers who are also athletes. You might prefer 80s football but objectively the players now are better. To argue otherwise you have to believe that talent doesn’t exist in the same quantity as it did 30 years ago, which is palpably nonsense since talest is largely something one is born with.