2021 NRL Season

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Maroon_Faithful, Feb 5, 2021.

  1. Paddy P Orr

    Loved Payten's presser brutal honesty. Glad he called out the senior players in the Cows for their sloppy efforts in areas like marker defence and line speed. Ball security rightly got roasted too. Being kept to 0 sucks but I actually think they needed to be kept to 0 for once.
     
  2. Magic AJ Parker

    I may be missing something but I didn’t interpret his comments as a shot at Taumalolo like so much of the media are carrying on about. I just thought it was a general statement that if you play middle forwards long minutes they are going to have to cut corners somewhere defensively and Taumalolo was just an example of that.
     
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  3. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    I thought exactly the same as you, it's been the biggest beat up.



    Tigers looked a much more frustrated side than I expected. Laurie looked sharp, but there wasnt much elses doing, I'd be giving brooks and Leilua some Reggie's time.
     
  4. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    All teams need to do to get BJ worked up is some slight grub work on HJ. He is so sensitive to his lil brother being touched.
     
  5. Paddy P Orr

    It really wasn't what the media made it out to be. Payten's just said what needed to be said for a long time. I do think Taumalolo should stop being used solely as a battering ram and actually let him be more of a ball player. I think there's more creatively to his game than just being used for the middle third battering ram stuff.
     
  6. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    See Rudolph getting in trouble? They asked him what his plans are for after the game. he said "Sink a 1000 beers, go to northies and try and pull anything"
     
  7. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Was a hilarious interview, and you can tell that's the kind of answer that show is looking for. I've been going through comments on socials, and the comments would be close to 95% positive. DCE coming out defending him after he defended Folau is really making DCE look good.
     
  8. Paddy P Orr

    Even now still seeing people rag on Payten when in all honesty it's a good message to send to the rest of the team to put your main guy on blast if he plays poorly. Pretty sure he did the same at the Warriors before they started winning some games. I'm just fucking happy to see him not sugar coat a bad performance like Paul Green used to. To a point I thought Green was too coddling of players after a shit performance.
     
  9. AVA T Delonge

    Fuck what an effort.
     
  10. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    Outstanding win for Parra. Storm got a metric shit ton of calls go their way in the first half.

    Thought Shaun Lane was looking softer than ever and Opacic is just so meh. Wonder how many weeks Kaufusi will get.
     
  11. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    Oh and Papalli'i is a jet
     
  12. Magic AJ Parker

    Kafusi's elbow was deliberate IMO. That's about as bad as it gets these days given we don't see vicious head high tackles any more.

    Wouldn't be surprised if he gets hit with 6-8 weeks
     
  13. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Get rid of the slow mo replay, doesn't look deliberate in normal speed.
     
  14. Magic AJ Parker

    He looks straight at the touchie as soon as he does it. 100% intentional, you don't wrestle as much as these guys do and not understand what's about to happen with your arm in the kind of position with the force you're about to push him to the ground with.
     
  15. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Players look at referees all the time when in the tackle. Watching it in full speed I can't say it's intentional, and I fucking hate Kaufusi.
     
  16. AVA T Delonge

    Yeah I feel like it's in a position where it looks accidental, but as Magic said, because they are so aware of their bodies, I have a sneaking suspicion it was a deliberate act made to look like an accident.
    Having an excuse to have your arm in that position, whilst also delivering an 'accidental' elbow directly to your opponents head/face is very convenient.
     
  17. Magic AJ Parker

    Broncos at 2.90 is very good odds IMO.

    Both sides struggled last week but I thought the Titans still looked well underdone.
     
  18. Tartmaster AJ James

    While it wouldn't surprise me if it was deliberate, it didn't look it to me.
     
  19. Tartmaster AJ James

    Probably Titans bias talking here, but surely that's penalty/penalty try
     
  20. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    It was 50/50, absolute split second on him touching him and him touching the ball.

    I don't who who is worse at their job, Niu at centre or Isucko at fullback. Kevvie needs to do some sacking.
     

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