Origin Squads

[GNR4LIFE]

I know Qld thrive on being underdogs but this is ridiculous.

 

[jirskyr]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

 

[jirskyr]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

Mate, Storm have been a hugely successful side for 23 seasons and their penetration in Melbourne has plateaued. They get about 20K average home game and 25K members per year. Government built a brand new rectangular stadium for league, union and soccer.

By contrast Swans have 62K members. Yes they've been in Sydney longer than Storm existed, but they were in the GF within 14 seasons of the relocation. In the same period Storm had already made 4 GFs (yes they cheated for a few of those).

The only thing a Storm premiership does for NRL is boost the GF viewership, because more Mexicans tune in out of curiosity if Storm are in the final.

Not a single player in the Storm side is actually from Victoria. In fact I'm not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

NRL doesn't need ANOTHER Melbourne victory, they need it to be shared around, so each fan group gets a taste of winning. For example, it would be advantageous for the Tigers to get up within the next few years, because Tigers have a large supporter base that never buys finals tickets.

If there was a rort to be had, it would be Broncos, because they are by far the codes' most profitable outfit, not just for themselves, but for the NRL as well. Broncos and Titans.

Roosters, the other highly successful club of the past decade, also don't do much for NRL because the supporter base is so small.

So an occasional Storm victory is good and yes NRL will continue to commit to a presence in Melbourne, but the game is not growing down there and there's no need for a rort to get Melbourne across the line every year - they are good enough at doing it themselves over 20 years.

 

[twentyforty]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Something I haven’t heard said when people describe Nofo’s play.. “he knows where the try line is” lol

 

[twentyforty]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

Mate, Storm have been a hugely successful side for 23 seasons and their penetration in Melbourne has plateaued. They get about 20K average home game and 25K members per year. Government built a brand new rectangular stadium for league, union and soccer.

By contrast Swans have 62K members. Yes they've been in Sydney longer than Storm existed, but they were in the GF within 14 seasons of the relocation. In the same period Storm had already made 4 GFs (yes they cheated for a few of those).

The only thing a Storm premiership does for NRL is boost the GF viewership, because more Mexicans tune in out of curiosity if Storm are in the final.

Not a single player in the Storm side is actually from Victoria. In fact I'm not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

NRL doesn't need ANOTHER Melbourne victory, they need it to be shared around, so each fan group gets a taste of winning. For example, it would be advantageous for the Tigers to get up within the next few years, because Tigers have a large supporter base that never buys finals tickets.

If there was a rort to be had, it would be Broncos, because they are by far the codes' most profitable outfit, not just for themselves, but for the NRL as well. Broncos and Titans.

Roosters, the other highly successful club of the past decade, also don't do much for NRL because the supporter base is so small.

So an occasional Storm victory is good and yes NRL will continue to commit to a presence in Melbourne, but the game is not growing down there and there's no need for a rort to get Melbourne across the line every year - they are good enough at doing it themselves over 20 years.

Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:

Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

 

[mike]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

Mate, Storm have been a hugely successful side for 23 seasons and their penetration in Melbourne has plateaued. They get about 20K average home game and 25K members per year. Government built a brand new rectangular stadium for league, union and soccer.

By contrast Swans have 62K members. Yes they've been in Sydney longer than Storm existed, but they were in the GF within 14 seasons of the relocation. In the same period Storm had already made 4 GFs (yes they cheated for a few of those).

The only thing a Storm premiership does for NRL is boost the GF viewership, because more Mexicans tune in out of curiosity if Storm are in the final.

Not a single player in the Storm side is actually from Victoria. In fact I'm not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

NRL doesn't need ANOTHER Melbourne victory, they need it to be shared around, so each fan group gets a taste of winning. For example, it would be advantageous for the Tigers to get up within the next few years, because Tigers have a large supporter base that never buys finals tickets.

If there was a rort to be had, it would be Broncos, because they are by far the codes' most profitable outfit, not just for themselves, but for the NRL as well. Broncos and Titans.

Roosters, the other highly successful club of the past decade, also don't do much for NRL because the supporter base is so small.

So an occasional Storm victory is good and yes NRL will continue to commit to a presence in Melbourne, but the game is not growing down there and there's no need for a rort to get Melbourne across the line every year - they are good enough at doing it themselves over 20 years.


Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:

Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

Not a great endorsement for supporting another Melbourne victory.

 

[twentyforty]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

Mate, Storm have been a hugely successful side for 23 seasons and their penetration in Melbourne has plateaued. They get about 20K average home game and 25K members per year. Government built a brand new rectangular stadium for league, union and soccer.

By contrast Swans have 62K members. Yes they've been in Sydney longer than Storm existed, but they were in the GF within 14 seasons of the relocation. In the same period Storm had already made 4 GFs (yes they cheated for a few of those).

The only thing a Storm premiership does for NRL is boost the GF viewership, because more Mexicans tune in out of curiosity if Storm are in the final.

Not a single player in the Storm side is actually from Victoria. In fact I'm not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

NRL doesn't need ANOTHER Melbourne victory, they need it to be shared around, so each fan group gets a taste of winning. For example, it would be advantageous for the Tigers to get up within the next few years, because Tigers have a large supporter base that never buys finals tickets.

If there was a rort to be had, it would be Broncos, because they are by far the codes' most profitable outfit, not just for themselves, but for the NRL as well. Broncos and Titans.

Roosters, the other highly successful club of the past decade, also don't do much for NRL because the supporter base is so small.

So an occasional Storm victory is good and yes NRL will continue to commit to a presence in Melbourne, but the game is not growing down there and there's no need for a rort to get Melbourne across the line every year - they are good enough at doing it themselves over 20 years.


Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:

Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

Not a great endorsement for supporting another Melbourne victory.

They have an amateur competition now but the quality must be low if their players like Grant play in QLD?

 

[twentyforty]

Dally M winger of the year gets snubbed. WTF. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Freddy’s Rorters and Riff biased glasses in use.

Freddy can't be biased its origin everyone deserves a go. Nofa is dally M winger of the year what else does he have to do.

Nofo is a good player and he had a great season, but in all honesty Tupou and JAC are much better wingers and deserve to be there.

Only tiger fans think otherwise. I shudder at the thought of Nofo in origin.

Up against those outside backs lineup QLD have named Nofo would have a field day.

In just saw the two teams, not a great series coming is it.

The whole season has been a bit of a joke with the horrendous 6-again rule etc. Grateful to have had a comp to watch at all this year I guess but no doubt the shifty 6-again rule will be used extensively by the refs in the Origin series this year to ensure it goes to a game 3 with the series tied. 6-again is pretty much cloaked cheating by the refs to manipulate results.

I gotta admit, I liked it to start with but some games looked manipulated or managed.
Origin will be close for sure, one way or the other

Yep it started off promisingly enough re:the 6-again but by season's end it was a rort....like Test match cricket being officiated to backyard tip-n-run rules. No accountability with the new Mickey Mouse rules.

What r u blokes on about. A rort to, what, get Melbourne to the win? Doesn't suit NRL at all to have Storm keep winning.

Yeah righto. It doesn't suit the NRL to have a premiership winning team in the heartland of its major rival code? Not sure what you are on about, you couldn't be any further from the truth if you tried TBH.
Why do you reckon the AFL threw good money after bad at the Sydney Swans?

Mate, Storm have been a hugely successful side for 23 seasons and their penetration in Melbourne has plateaued. They get about 20K average home game and 25K members per year. Government built a brand new rectangular stadium for league, union and soccer.

By contrast Swans have 62K members. Yes they've been in Sydney longer than Storm existed, but they were in the GF within 14 seasons of the relocation. In the same period Storm had already made 4 GFs (yes they cheated for a few of those).

The only thing a Storm premiership does for NRL is boost the GF viewership, because more Mexicans tune in out of curiosity if Storm are in the final.

Not a single player in the Storm side is actually from Victoria. In fact I'm not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

NRL doesn't need ANOTHER Melbourne victory, they need it to be shared around, so each fan group gets a taste of winning. For example, it would be advantageous for the Tigers to get up within the next few years, because Tigers have a large supporter base that never buys finals tickets.

If there was a rort to be had, it would be Broncos, because they are by far the codes' most profitable outfit, not just for themselves, but for the NRL as well. Broncos and Titans.

Roosters, the other highly successful club of the past decade, also don't do much for NRL because the supporter base is so small.

So an occasional Storm victory is good and yes NRL will continue to commit to a presence in Melbourne, but the game is not growing down there and there's no need for a rort to get Melbourne across the line every year - they are good enough at doing it themselves over 20 years.


Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:

Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

Not a great endorsement for supporting another Melbourne victory.


They have an amateur competition now but the quality must be low if their players like Grant play in QLD?

It’s the Victorian spectator numbers which gets the NRL excited during a Melbourne SoO. I’m guessing it swells because of northern attendance ? Don’t know if as many Victorians would travel to Sydney for the same game, even if Bellamy was coaching the Blues and the Storm team were selected for QLD. Don’t know if it’s too late now but there was a window of opportunity open to have Victoria included in SoO and belt QLD. Can you imagine the outcry from the north?!

 

[jirskyr]

Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:
Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

Right but can I re-quote myself?
In fact I’m not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

Those footballers are long-gone, and even then the links are tenuous at best. Peter Wallace born in Melbourne but raised in Sydney. Craig PM was raised in Ipswich. Tahu left Melbourne at age 12. Jake Webster grew up in Brisbane.

I believe Mahe Fonua may be the only legitimate Melbourne-raised, Melbourne-based footballer to enter NRL and play first grade. Even then he spent Years 11 and 12 in Canberra.

Why do you think these boys ended up playing rugby league and not AFL? Because 95% of them moved to NSW or QLD.

 

[twentyforty]

Among the Victorian-born players to play in the NRL have included:
Mahe Fonua: (Melbourne Storm & Hull F.C.)
Jake Webster: (Melbourne Storm, Gold Coast Titans & Hull Kingston Rovers)
Timana Tahu: (Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels & NSW Waratahs).
Craig Polla-Mounter: (Canterbury).
Peter Wallace (Penrith Panthers & Brisbane Broncos)

Right but can I re-quote myself?
In fact I’m not aware of a single Victorian-raised NRL footballer going around in 2020 or 2021.

Those footballers are long-gone, and even then the links are tenuous at best. Peter Wallace born in Melbourne but raised in Sydney. Craig PM was raised in Ipswich. Tahu left Melbourne at age 12. Jake Webster grew up in Brisbane.

I believe Mahe Fonua may be the only legitimate Melbourne-raised, Melbourne-based footballer to enter NRL and play first grade. Even then he spent Years 11 and 12 in Canberra.

Why do you think these boys ended up playing rugby league and not AFL? Because 95% of them moved to NSW or QLD.

Yes you can requote, but not necessary due to that meagrely list I posted. Mahe Fonua was the first in 2012.

 

[Tigerbuck63]

Well the better Team won tonight never under estimate a QLD team to come from behind and win.
NSW there half combination with Keary in particular did not measure up unsure how he got the Nod over Jack WIGHTON.

Game 2 interesting at least will be a good close series.

Don't mind seeing Fittler lose after bagging the WT although am a QLD Supporter.