Round 1: Las Vegas Discussion / *Spoilers*

[hank37w]

I think hes playing decent today. A couple of plays showed to me what they are trying to build and hes doing ok. However, like Braith said at haltime, he doesn't play soft hand and he premeditates everything he does.

The guy is a good footballer with a huge will to succeed. But I just dont see that class in him the top playmates have

Yeah, he's not as classy as these playmates.

 

[hank37w]

They have good defence which as we know means they have the right attitude.
They get their attack flowing, they’ll do ok.

Just a little bit of discipline and a tiny rub of the green and Dragons win that game.

Don't know if I would be handing the Dragons the spoon just yet like many are suggesting, Dragons showed a bit of steel, but then the Dogs were not all that impressive and the gushing over Galvin is sickening.

 

[hank37w]

Crichton is an unlikeable sort of prick to me.
Good player but a flog nonetheless

Jeez, he carries on a bit and gets away with a lot of shit with the referees.

Was waiting for him to stick his filthy nose in someones mouth to milk a penalty.

Flanno, anyone?

 

[shiretiger]

You'd have sworn blue that Atkins had a lazy rock lobster on the Dogs.

 

[hank37w]

It's time to clean up the BS that goes on sixth tackles with the ball not being released, rolled away or thrown out back. We need to introduce, like AFL, 50 m penalty if ball is not given to opposition immediately on sixth tackle.

Maybe make it a 7 tackle set to make up for the delay in allowing the team to go on the attack.

 

[hank37w]

Sorry mate but you’re wrong about this . AFL wishes it could get a 45k crowd in Las Vegas. Not to mention there’s no stadiums outside of cricket playing nations that can even accommodate it.
International round is a good thing . NRL is a 100 times better product than RU , and only because of the royal family in ww2 was RL squashed. It was by far the bigger sport in many British empire countries , and was gaining real traction as being the alternate the elitism of RU in Britain . Especially in France , huge steps were made by the nazis (through the royal family ) to squash the game and outlaw it.
Really as people start to wake up and realise how much of a chore RU is as a spectacle , and NRL globalises , with a hint of NFL razzmatazz , then hopefully the order corrects itself .

Would love to see a game of AFL on a rectangular field.

That would be hilarious, I'm going to get the pop corn.

 

[hank37w]

Wasn’t keen on the colour rinsed through PVL's hair, think I would of preferred blue.

Jeez with the weight he has lost I hardly recognised him.

He looked fully sick but not in a good way.

 

[twentyforty]

Just a little bit of discipline and a tiny rub of the green and Dragons win that game.

Don't know if I would be handing the Dragons the spoon just yet like many are suggesting, Dragons showed a bit of steel, but then the Dogs were not all that impressive and the gushing over Galvin is sickening.

During the last 10min I thought the Dragons showed too much respect for the ball. Would have liked to see the back rowers supporting the middles running to gaps with an interchange of passing.

 

[innsaneink]

Yeah, he's not as classy as these playmates.

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Haha i thought that was a forum ad

 

[innsaneink]

Would love to see a game of AFL on a rectangular field.

That would be hilarious, I'm going to get the pop corn.

Itd be even more boring

 

[weststigers]

Rugby League fans are a miserable lot.
Never happy, always have to dig the knife in. The closest they come to content is when sooking about the refs.
PVL is out there promoting the bejesus out of the game. He isn’t on tv every week running the game into the ground like the journos do or publicly criticising every aspect of it like the ex players do. He is boldly telling the world THIS is the best sport played on the planet.
NFL, NBA, MLB and any type of Soccer…..spare me / wake me up when it’s over. They are garbage sports.
Yes the American market is a pipe dream, but for one week every year RL takes over the entertainment capital and has a crack.
It is a professionally run excercise that presents a slick image on the box.
Those scenes in the crowd when the Poms were playing were excellent. NZ home games are similar. Party atmosphere, beers flowing and cheering on young blokes belting each other. Now compare that to Australian crowds. Tribalistic dickheads sulking about everything. They just want to go down to the local on a Saturday arvo and support their team. They couldn’t give 2 shits about the actual code and it’s successs.
Luckily we have blokes like PVL and Abdo in charge. They are having a go.

Well said.

Many don't understand that the revenue opportunity for the NRL in the US isn't crowds. It's content. Currently delivered via WatchNRL of which I am a subscriber.

Many people dismissing this are already paying to watch EPL, NBA or NFL on a league subscription or streaming service from abroad. That infrastructure didn't exist 15 years ago. Now those leagues collect millions from fans who may never attend a match in their lives. Attendance is a distant second when it comes to revenue generation.

The US strategy doesn't need mass adoption - they have a population of 350 million people. The average viewership of an NRL game is around 550,000 viewers in Australia. The US viewership for free-to-air Raiders v Warriors clash last year was 370,000 viewers. So +67% on our average viewership in a brand new market with virtually zero participation. The US could easily eclipse our viewer numbers given enough time.

There is also a push for the US national team to become stronger. For sheer economic power, a strong US team will help to increase adoption.

 

[Tiger-ferret]

Maybe make it a 7 tackle set to make up for the delay in allowing the team to go on the attack.

Don’t mind that. I was thinking advancing it 10 and a penalty if it’s a repeat infrigement. Vlandys wants a quick free flowing game doesn’t he?

 

[Betterdays22]

Rugby League fans are a miserable lot.
Never happy, always have to dig the knife in. The closest they come to content is when sooking about the refs.
PVL is out there promoting the bejesus out of the game. He isn’t on tv every week running the game into the ground like the journos do or publicly criticising every aspect of it like the ex players do. He is boldly telling the world THIS is the best sport played on the planet.
NFL, NBA, MLB and any type of Soccer…..spare me / wake me up when it’s over. They are garbage sports.
Yes the American market is a pipe dream, but for one week every year RL takes over the entertainment capital and has a crack.
It is a professionally run excercise that presents a slick image on the box.
Those scenes in the crowd when the Poms were playing were excellent. NZ home games are similar. Party atmosphere, beers flowing and cheering on young blokes belting each other. Now compare that to Australian crowds. Tribalistic dickheads sulking about everything. They just want to go down to the local on a Saturday arvo and support their team. They couldn’t give 2 shits about the actual code and it’s successs.
Luckily we have blokes like PVL and Abdo in charge. They are having a go.

As a sports administrator he is phenomenal. I don't think anyone could argue against that.

Call me a bedwetting woke lefty but i've got issues with how dependent the league is now on gambling revenue and the way PVL uses his connections in the media and politics to push back against any reform to gambling advertising. Vlandys control over the media is pretty well known:

Ep 11 - Reins of power - Media Watch

Racing industry criticism curiously goes missing.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Milky]

Just a little bit of discipline and a tiny rub of the green and Dragons win that game.

Don't know if I would be handing the Dragons the spoon just yet like many are suggesting, Dragons showed a bit of steel, but then the Dogs were not all that impressive and the gushing over Galvin is sickening.

They both looked shiet

Dragons halves need a lot of work

Dogs got all the calls and barely got the win

Both have very lacking spines

Unless something drastically changes, they both miss the 8 IMO

 

[TheEnz]

They both looked shiet

Dragons halves need a lot of work

Dogs got all the calls and barely got the win

Both have very lacking spines

Unless something drastically changes, they both miss the 8 IMO

thats the feeling i got after watching that game, both sides were woeful in attack. Dogs 9 has zero creativity and their 7 and 6 look disconnected from the team, and more importantly from each other. Only so many games Critta can carry them to a win...last year it broke him. I think he was moved to the left because he burnt so much energy covering for galvin in defense on the right. Dragons were running at him and Kikau for most of that first half...it was a game plan from Flanno/Ennis and it almost worked.

 

[Bubba]

What do people think, was it a strip in golden point on Xerri?

Commentators never really mentioned it and it was not raised by the commentary team post match.

Flanagan mentioned it in his presser.

He thought it was a loose carry.

 

[gregjm87]

What do people think, was it a strip in golden point on Xerri?

Commentators never really mentioned it and it was not raised by the commentary team post match.

Flanagan mentioned it in his presser.

He thought it was a loose carry.

I personally thought it was a loose carry but we see the arm come back from behind Xerri and dislodge the ball. In my opinion he was not playing at the ball in a stripping motion and this should not be penalized but we will see another 30 this season with it being about a 50/50 split on the rulings. I don't agree with the call but if it wasn't in golden point it wouldn't be considered the howler it is being made out to be.

 

[weststigers]

What do people think, was it a strip in golden point on Xerri?

Commentators never really mentioned it and it was not raised by the commentary team post match.

Flanagan mentioned it in his presser.

He thought it was a loose carry.

Atkins is a hen pecker referee. That was not a strip at all. Klein in the same basket.

 

[Tiger-ferret]

What do people think, was it a strip in golden point on Xerri?

Commentators never really mentioned it and it was not raised by the commentary team post match.

Flanagan mentioned it in his presser.

He thought it was a loose carry.

Lose carry IMO
Also based on current standards. Critter to bin even though player was falling.
The escort penalty was 5050 too.

 

[gallagher]

Definitely a loose carry, they wasted their challenge earlier in the game on something that was never gone be over turned.
Maybe teams should get another challenge in extra time?