Re: Rugby League 2023

by JGK Sat 16 Sep 2023, 04:23

Penrith by 20+ next week.

by Nath Sat 16 Sep 2023, 10:13

Warriors too good.

by skully Sat 16 Sep 2023, 12:15

Aye. On that form the Nags might be nervous.

by skully Tue 19 Sep 2023, 09:04

Looks like Shane Flanagan has talked Ben Hunt into staying at the Dragons for the final 2 years of his current contract.

by lardbucket Tue 19 Sep 2023, 12:53

skully wrote:Exciting but very error-prone game tonight between Storm and R00ters.

R00ters made far too many errors to win but almost did. Leading by a point thanks to a Sam Walker Field Goal, they just had 2 mins to survive, with "The Grub" Munster twice stuffing FG chances, when Mr Dogshit came good, dropping a pin-point bomb in the right corner for the opposing wingers to contest.

Find of the season, Will Warbrick, won the AFL marking contest and slammed the winning try down for the Storm.

Oh, and Ashley Kline missed a stone-cold knock-on by Harry Grant at 6-0. Shortly after, Melbourne scored to go 10-0 up.

It's hard to see Melbourne troubling the Panthers on the Storm's form of the past 2 weeks, but in a knockout match anything's possible.

This was shown on the National news tonight, as was a separate and quite horrific straight-arm head-high contact that Kline also missed - he should probably look for a new job.

by skully Tue 19 Sep 2023, 15:29

No argument, but by then the damage was done.

Yes, he had a poor game.

by skully Fri 22 Sep 2023, 13:24

Very dominant Panthers played almost the perfect game of Rugby League tonight v Storm.

Forwards were brutal, defence was almost perfect, and the attack was unstoppable. They were running at 100% completions until very late in the game.

Penrith beat their previous highest margin v Melbourne.

Onto GF no. 4 in a row.

by Nath Sat 23 Sep 2023, 13:42

where's skully with the stats to tell me the last time the AFL & NRL GF had teams that finished 1st and 2nd playing off in the same year...?

by lardbucket Sat 23 Sep 2023, 13:44

Those pages of SBBOT would be firmly stuck together, I imagine.

by skully Sun 24 Sep 2023, 08:42

Nath wrote:where's skully with the stats to tell me the last time the AFL & NRL GF had teams that finished 1st and 2nd playing off in the same year...?

2008.

NRL - 1st Melbourne 2nd Manly. Manly won GF v Melbourne 40-0.

AFL - 1st Geelong 2nd Hawthorn. Hawthorn won GF v Geelong 115-89.

by Nath Sun 24 Sep 2023, 09:27

thanks skully, knew you were up to the task and like a challenge.

by lardbucket Sun 24 Sep 2023, 09:56

pages prised open

by skully Sun 24 Sep 2023, 12:34

Nath wrote:thanks skully, knew you were up to the task and like a challenge.

by skully Tue 26 Sep 2023, 09:52

lardbucket wrote:pages prised open

No Rugby League stats in SBBOCT. Cool

by Nath Thu 28 Sep 2023, 07:37

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/state-of-origin/state-of-origin-2023-brad-fittler-resigns-as-nsw-blues-coach-next-coach-contenders-reaction-details-contract-phil-gould/news-story/f2a9fa60b86e23a22b9a9b46c9765290

no more Freddy

by skully Thu 28 Sep 2023, 23:35

Ugh, wouldn't want to be players in the State Championship (NSW State Cup champs Souths v Qld State Cup Champs Brisbane Tigers) which kicks off at 1.20 pm, or the players in the NRLW (Knights v Titans) on Sunday. Peak temperature of 36C forecast.

heat

by Nath Sun 01 Oct 2023, 11:30

wow, Broncos choke/Panthers epic win

by skully Sun 01 Oct 2023, 12:27

Fantastic record-breaking comeback by Penrith.

The Nags were killing them at 24-8 with 20 mins to go, then Nathan Cleary said "gimme the ball' and lifted them to the win.

by lardbucket Wed 04 Oct 2023, 02:02

A match in 3 phases. of which Penrith one two and lost one convincingly. Cleary’s 40-20 early in the tackle count was the strategic moment that turned the game.

by skully Wed 04 Oct 2023, 09:46

While it was a high-skill moment from Cleary, I think he had already turned the game minutes before with his line break and inside pass to Moses Leota that got Penrith back to 24-14.

The 40-20 cemented Penrith's resurgence and they had all the momentum for the remainder of the game, culminating in Cleary's brilliant solo effort under the posts (he beat 4 Nag defenders) with 4 minutes on the clock. I know our house was cheering loudly.

by Nath Sat 07 Oct 2023, 01:55

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/rabbitohs-cult-hero-rushed-to-hospital-put-on-life-support/news-story/dafc8a798073eeebf842ac7d5c4edd85

yikes! Shocked

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