2020 NRL Season

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Maroon_Faithful, Oct 7, 2019.

  1. Lukic L Popovic

    Nah it'd be hard to recover. Maybe not half but I certainly reckon 20%. I'd be happy to give up 15-20m on average for a 1/4-5 chance of getting the ball back.

    Them starting a set on the 35m line they should probably reach your 30m by tackle 5. That's not terrible field position. Whereas if you start at the 35m line, by tackle 3 you're around their 10 and in a genuine try scoring position.
     
  2. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Ipswich was gun at getting the ball back off kickoffs under the Walkers.
     
  3. Lukic L Popovic

    Why do the Dogs have 2 backs on the bench...
     
  4. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    Hmmmm not the week to take the captaincy off munster, I thought they were playing on the central coast for some reason in the rain, not sunny sunny coast
     
  5. Tartmaster AJ James

    Could you get a more blatant double movement than that?
     
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  6. Lukic L Popovic

    Honestly thought it was fine lol.
     
  7. Tartmaster AJ James

    Seriously?
    You whinge every week about the refs fucking you when they're not, and then an actual questionable call goes against you and you're fine?
     
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  8. Lukic L Popovic

    Because that was fair enough, he was dragged in by our guys.

    When we get no 6 agains or penalties every single week, that's us getting shafted.
     
  9. Alex AJ O'Driscoll

    A frightening glimpse into the future of the tigers without Harry Grant.
     
  10. Magic AJ Parker

    Raiders really need to think about dropping Williams, he plays some really good individual eyes up footy but his organisation for a halfback and ability to set up his outside men is almost non-existent.

    Panthers weakness all year has been their left edge defence with Stephen Crichton and I genuinely can't recall Canberra ever attacking that edge in good ball.
     
  11. Paddy P Orr

    Did it get referred or on the spot awarded? Unforgivable if the bunker got that wrong. Was so obvious.
     
  12. Tartmaster AJ James

    Got referred.
    Bunker said it was momentum.
     
  13. Paddy P Orr

    NQ is a complete rabble.
     
  14. Tartmaster AJ James

    Fuck I hate the obstruction rule sometimes.
     
  15. Tartmaster AJ James

    That Taylor no try is ridiculous.
    Proctor doesn't stop in the line, doesn't initiate contact, and actually tries to step Granville to avoid contact.

    Granville lazily throws an arm at Proctor and then just stops trying to do anything.

    He hasn't been obstructed, he just gave up
     
  16. Paddy P Orr

    That was a try. Should have been given. Defensively we shat the bed and should have been punished there for it.
     
  17. Magic AJ Parker

    Nah I agree with it, you can't stop the lateral movement of a player in the defensive line. At the moment when Granville needed to slide and slide hard he had to halt his run. I'm not disagreeing that it was still a lazy effort from Granville but you just can't take the opportunity away from a defensive player. At this level of the game, a stutter from a sliding defender can be all it takes to create a gap.
     
  18. Tartmaster AJ James

    Granville initiated the contact, it was a defensive decison.
    Proctor didn't take anything from him
     
  19. Magic AJ Parker

    Sure he did he took away the opportunity of Granville to slide when he needed to. There doesn't have to be contact for an obstruction to occur, as a game we are way too caught up on contact in obstruction rulings. If an offesnive player is in the line and even momentarily blocks the defenders ability to slide when they need to then it's an obstruction.

    It's was a classic Storm tactic for years. Doens't surprise me in the slightest that it was Proctor who ran the block.
     
  20. Tartmaster AJ James

    So if a decoy runner running through the defensive line, without stopping there or hitting a defender is an issue, the solution to that is to ban decoy runners.
     

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