Johnners
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
awta
So glad the dogs didn't get up, seeing Ennis win would've been terrible.
Hopefully Graham gets a proper suspension too, dog.
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*Official* NRL 2012 Season thread
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So glad the dogs didn't get up, seeing Ennis win would've been terrible.
Hopefully Graham gets a proper suspension too, dog.
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
It's a bit weird but it does mean you can take little ones to the game. A lot of people go on about the day grand final (OMG THE AFL DOES IT) but I like the 3 games in one day which wouldn't be possible if first grade kicked off at 2. Not enough promotion of the NSW cup as it is.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
They had three GFs before when they had 4pm GF.
10am first game
1am second game
4pm third game
The only reason for night/twilight GF is for TV ratings. But seriously how many extra people are really going to not watch the GF is it starts at 4 not 5:30.
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
But what's actually wrong with 530? The transition from light to dark? Game falls during "dinner time"? (only people I've known to have set times for dinner are my grandparents) Both issues are so minor it's barely worth mentioning.
Just seems to be the biggest non issue for me.
It's easy to deride television ratings but what's wrong with maximizing them if there's virtually no inconvenience for the attending fan?
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
So many FB statuses from my mates who are Storm fans saying "FU NRL" and "FU Gallop" and "Take this one off us ****s" etc.
Didn't these fellas blatantly cheat, don't get it. Good on them for winning the title and coming back after such a huge hit to the club, but aim your hate at the administrators of the club surely?
Didn't these fellas blatantly cheat, don't get it. Good on them for winning the title and coming back after such a huge hit to the club, but aim your hate at the administrators of the club surely?
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
Completely AWTA.
Furthermore there'd be no way they'd have kept Smith, Slater and Cronk (the key to their victory) without cheating. Probably why they're not flinging hate at Waldron etc.
Mister Wright
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lol! First good laugh I've had all day.
Had a pretty good win yesterday, picked Melbourne by 6.5 & Cronk as Clive Churchill medalist.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
So why have they now when they are under the cap? Clearly they can keep them all, it's Inglis who got squeezed.
Mister Wright
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, there's a lot more movement at the Storm since the salary cap issue. Not only did Melbourne have the big 4, they had some very handy players around them. Now they have the big 3 and they players around them aren't of such high quality, but Bellamy gets the best out of them anyway. There's a few players moving on next year like Nielsen & Lowrie and a few others. When they were cheating the cap, they rarely lost players.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
It's easier to keep players for less money when they're already established halfway across the country from the competition, have "unfinished business" etc.
Truly believe if they hadn't cheated one of the big 3 would have been gone years ago. Why did they have second contracts if they would have stayed for less money? It's crazy to imagine that cheating had nothing to do with obtaining and therefore keeping the 3 best players in the game.
speirz
State Vice-Captain
The biggest invonvenience I've had is definitely the food issue. It's not a major thing by any means, but once you've spent a full day on the drink and all you've been eating is horrible stadium food, it'd definitely be better to be done earlier. We ended up having dinner around 9:30 or 10, which isn't that late, but I imagine it'd be more of an issue for people travelling further or with small children.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
I don't see how the cheating had anything to do with obtaining them, none of them played for another NRL team before the Storm.
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
If they could have been kept for legal money why did they need second contracts?
There's a whole bunch of difficult to quantify benefits that come with assembling a squad like that too. The building of a "winning culture". Allowing management to choose what parts of the illegally assembled machine to shed. As mentioned early the "unfinished business" factor encouraging key players to stick around for less money.
Not wanting to take away what the Storm have gotten out of nobodies like Lowe, Proctor, Norrie and so forth. Just feel that anything this Storm team achieve will always have a question mark against it because of how it was put together.
There's a whole bunch of difficult to quantify benefits that come with assembling a squad like that too. The building of a "winning culture". Allowing management to choose what parts of the illegally assembled machine to shed. As mentioned early the "unfinished business" factor encouraging key players to stick around for less money.
Not wanting to take away what the Storm have gotten out of nobodies like Lowe, Proctor, Norrie and so forth. Just feel that anything this Storm team achieve will always have a question mark against it because of how it was put together.
