Mister Wright
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The worst call of the night was not sending Quinn off.
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**Official** NRL 2009 Thread
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Simon
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if he was 3 or 4 years younger, has always been a good tryscorer but his defence and reading of plays used to be ab abysmal, but he's improved a lot.
Simon
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LOL no Kyle it wasnt that bad, a penalty yes but you need to do something bad to get sent off these days.
Mister Wright
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Looked terrible from the other side of the stadium.
Simon
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on replay 8 or 9 times it was terrible.
Mister Wright
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Didn't look like a knock-on from the other side of the stadium.
Simon
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haha Kyle, no wonder Broncos fans have such a bad reputation of being biased.
chaminda_00
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Was this after the 10th, 12th or 15th beer?
Mister Wright
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Haha. Didn't drink mate. It was easy to see the forearm, but not so easy to see the knock-on from the other end. I mean, I was 100 metres away.
Craig
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I thought it looked dodgy but I was sitting right up in the 3rd tier, and even though I was right in line with the posts, I didn't get a clear view. That said I didn't think it was the best of games. I mean Brisbane should of killed Melbourne off in the first half but Melbourne should of won it with all the ball they had in the last 15-20 minutes.
Craig
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Great to see a Victorian who is into league. Your a good man, wish there was more of your kind
Trumpers_Ghost
U19 Cricketer
I think the above comment shows either that your seats are poor or your bias was too overpowering. Makes the below seem laughable
Dallas Johnson got knocked out twice last year for tackling very similar to what Thaiday did last night. No-one suggested that the ball running player was at fault on those occasions and rightly so. If a player wants to get their head down low in a tackle, it has to be at their risk. I also saw the replays and am almost positive that review commitee will toss this out, although Melb do seem to be the wipping boys for any contact (and I do think Smith got his right wack in the finals).
Trumpers_Ghost
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ThanksGreat to see a Victorian who is into league. Your a good man, wish there was more of your kind
First started watching the friday late night games back in early nineties. I'm a big sports fan and wanted to broaden my horizons. I could see that in the future both AFL and League would both be more national games and I wanted to my little bit to encourage this.
The main reason for watching was to answer this question: Aussie Rules is such a great, exciting game, why then does a portion of Australia play another sport instead?
I had previos to this seen mainly Union, so I didn't fully understand the differences, so understanably I thought, well League must be real **** as well. However I was pleasantly surprised. I found League to be a fast, hard sport, with enough skill and drama to keep me interested. In many ways it had a lot of similarities with the indiginous game and was also a modern entertaining sport (unlike a stodgy, stuck in another century game that I won't mention).
In fact I see at the pro level both the NRL and AFL becoming more and more similar all the time. This I don't neccesarily like, because I want some variety in my football.
When I first saw a young Darren Lockyer kick a ball, I was shocked, because he was the first player that I had seen to kick the ball what I considered to be properly. He had a fluent, faultless Aussie Rules Technique. I kinda shrugged it off thinking that, well he probably played both as a kid, and all the other League kickers still use that dodgy old school style. Shoot forward to now and EVERY NRL kickers now kicks Aussie Rules style. The other thing is probably the high catches, alla Falou. His leaping technique is straight out of an AFL manual and along with the kicking shows off the influence in specialist coaching from AFL types. The reverse is true also in that AFL clubs also employ specialist tackling coaches with league backgrounds and also employ some tactics more associated with League.
This year I'm actually really depressed as I don't have Foxtel anymore so I can't watch enough NRL as I would like.
For the Storm doubters, remember it is a team game and these boys do the team things better than the rest; All the Key players are still in place, the new boys will do a job (maybe not star but do the team things and as the season goes on maybe things will gell more attackingly) and even with the losses we had at the end of last year I'd still think we've got more star players than any other side. We may fall, but (apart from Manly) its a fair drop to the others and we'll land on a ledge above where these "improvers" can climb to.
Well there's my NRL story and a bit of a rant in one.
Go Storm
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