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bowmore posted:No faith in the Knights this year it seems, no idea how we could go worse than last year and you all think we will. Obviously my top of the table prediction is full of starry-eyed bias but realistically I reckon they will make the finals at the very least.
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I think pure random selection would probably be better, but here goes: Storm Sharks Cowboys Rabbitohs Bulldogs Warriors Broncos Sea Eagles Titans Tigers Raiders Dragons Roosters Knights Panthers Eels
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 08:14 |
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Hyperriker posted:Ladder predictions don't incorporate a hilarious preliminary final capitulation! I'm pretty sure just making the prelims is considered a successful Sharks season!
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 08:54 |
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Bulldogs Storm Sharks Rabbitohs Sea Eagles Tigers Roosters Knights Raiders Dragons Eels Cowboys Panthers Titans Warriors Broncos
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 10:28 |
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That loving gif is in the OP jesus gently caress. Other than that it's dead on, although a bit too merciful towards the Roosters for my tastes.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 13:14 |
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There is a word that describes Billy Slaters face. Backpfeifengesicht(German). “A face badly in need of a fist.” Also, just for you rad.  
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 23:03 |
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Seeing that propunker has seemingly disappeared into the ether and that I watch the Super League out of necessity (it's not on at stupid o'clock in the States, and thus is easily watchable) I might be able to write a few words about the English comp. And no, there aren't currently dragons in the British league, although Cardiff once had a team called Blue Dragons if that counts.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 06:12 |
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Troy Queef posted:And no, there aren't currently dragons in the British league, although Cardiff once had a team called Blue Dragons if that counts. Catalans Dragons are playing 2013 though yeah?
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 07:42 |
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Dirty Frank posted:Catalans Dragons are playing 2013 though yeah? poo poo, forgot about them--they should actually be in with a shout to win the league, despite their head coach going to Easts. Speaking of former English coaches, I'd hate to have had Mick Potter's 2012: "So yeah, you were in charge a team that came within days of going bust, went without pay of your own free will to help out, and if not for the points penalty due to the aforementioned administration would have been in the playoffs for the first time in years! Congratulations, here's your pretty much unanimous Coach of the Year award, and by the way did we mention you get the privilege of having to work with Braith Anasta next season?"
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 07:52 |
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Poor bastard. Although he knew what he was signing up for. Can't blame the club for that one...
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 08:19 |
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Hey, guess what day tomorrow is! Or today, I guess, if you're in Australia. That's right. 
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| # ? Jan 13, 2013 16:02 |
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I still follow the thread, although I generally get too depressed with the inevitable performance of the London Harlequin Crusading Broncos from Fulham to be able to post anything intelligible after about mid-July. Didn't help that I heard from an impeccable source that there was a solid offer to move to Gillingham full-time after the road game (which is not nearly as stupid an idea as it sounds, they've got arguably the best-run amateur club in the South in Medway Dragons and the game last year doubled their usual attendance), they would have charged them peanuts compared to what they're paying to play in front of nobody at the Stoop, and the stupid bastards turned it down out of hand and pissed Gillingham off mightily in doing so.
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| # ? Jan 13, 2013 17:56 |
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Hunter stadium is getting three Toyota\NSWcup\first grade triple headers this year, pretty cool.
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| # ? Jan 14, 2013 06:56 |
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I have absolutely no idea how the Warriors will do this year. Obviously much will depend on the halves combination but last season we had a great pairing and look what happened there 
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 00:31 |
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Anyone have any word on where the Jennings merrygoround will stop?
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 02:37 |
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 New Tigers poster for the new year; is it just me or do several players appear tired/hungover? Braith also looks like his head is photoshopped onto the rest of him.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 03:42 |
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Dude on the far left clearly did not get the memo and is smiling too much
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 05:13 |
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iajanus posted:Anyone have any word on where the Jennings merrygoround will stop? Roosters have confirmed he has signed until 2016.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 05:31 |
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iajanus posted:Anyone have any word on where the Jennings merrygoround will stop? He's signed with the Cunts http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...0115-2cr7x.html  Lewis, Gordon & Jennings gone. That's probably a huge chunk of the salary cap freed up, so watch as we pull a Parramatta and buy some useless overrated tool on huge money.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 05:32 |
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Mootallica posted:He's signed with the Cunts How the hell did the Roosters manage that? With all the money spent on Maloney and SBW, and now Jennings they must have saddled themselves with a whole lot of backended contracts somewhere.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 05:58 |
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Penrith are going to throw so much money at Thurston 
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 06:09 |
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Smorgasbord posted:How the hell did the Roosters manage that? With all the money spent on Maloney and SBW, and now Jennings they must have saddled themselves with a whole lot of backended contracts somewhere. I'm wondering this myself. Anasta's the only obvious big salary coming off the books. Maloney's reason for leaving us was to get as much money as possible. Penrith has made it clear that they wouldn't be topping up Jennings's salary if he left.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 06:32 |
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Roosters going to end up stripped of their wooden spoon in the next cap rort affair - live on FOX.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 10:09 |
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I'm waiting for a mid season annoucement of "due to an ongoing police investigation, the roosters has been placed in adminstration, newtown jets promoted to NRL."
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 10:15 |
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BCR posted:I'm waiting for a mid season annoucement of "due to an ongoing police investigation, the roosters has been placed in adminstration, newtown jets promoted to NRL." Don't say that, I'll have to rewrite the OP again. The bears need to be promoted.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 11:52 |
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iajanus posted:The bears need to be promoted. I would happily give up the Eels if I could go back to my mighty BEARS. North Sydney 94 team represent: 1. Seers 2. Hoppe 3. Caruana 4. Cleary 5. Hall 6. Florimo 7. Taylor 8. Fenech 9. Soden 10. Jones 11. Larson 12. Fairleigh 13. Moore Now that was a team. Matty Seers was faster than Brett Mullins and Steve Renouf that year. Greg Florimo played his heart out every game. Jason Taylor had the deadshot accuracy for goals that I thought would be missing after Halligan left. Big Mario Fenech playing 20 minutes a game before being subbed off to the bloodbin. Maruana was in two kinds, I mean Caruana in two minds. Soden the pocket rocket who came out of nowhere in 94. And that awesome, awesome back row pack, workhorses who would slog to the bitter end. Ahh, those were the good old days. Before the dark times, before the... Northern Eagles.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 12:06 |
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Mick Potter joining twitter will be an interesting experiment.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 05:14 |
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So I think this is the year I will start following League, because it seems that watching literally every Super Rugby (Union) game in 2012 was not enough for me. What's the best way to watch NRL on tape-delay in the US? Waking up at 2am is not really an option for me most days. Super League has been great because the team I like (Leeds) keeps winning, but all the games are in super depressing Northern cities where it seems like every game may erupt into some kind of coal-mining fiasco. So I need an NRL team to follow now. Apollodorus fucked around with this message at Jan 16, 2013 around 05:44 |
| # ? Jan 16, 2013 05:40 |
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Follow the Newcastle Knights, you can rage with me. Check this out: http://www.nrl.livesport.tv/
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 05:43 |
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Apollodorus posted:So I need an NRL team to follow now. Go with the Warriors. We're young, talented, and play like a pack of retards. Brent Webb and Ali Lauitiiti made their names with us before heading north, so if you liked the cut of their jibs, you'd probably find our style fun.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 06:07 |
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Theres only one team really, and thats the Broncos. The rest are suburban clubs there to make up the numbers. So pick the club which Something Awful recognises
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 08:43 |
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Don't listen to the dude with the pony avatar
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 08:57 |
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Says the man with a roosters avatar.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 09:00 |
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That was forced upon me, plus who doesn't love a big willy?
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 09:05 |
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And I had future immortal Darren Lockyer. Such is SA.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 09:08 |
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Apollodorus posted:So I think this is the year I will start following League, because it seems that watching literally every Super Rugby (Union) game in 2012 was not enough for me. bowmore posted:Follow the Newcastle Knights, you can rage with me. I use this from France, its a decent service. Normally games are up about 12 hours after they aired in Aus (sometimes they take like 24 and a couple of times a season they take like 3-5 days for one game for some reason). Note that you can't watch a live game that is aired in your country but you get all of them on delay. Which doesn't sound like a big deal for you, but sucks for big matches like SoO and the finals. Also go and never look back!
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 09:17 |
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Fortunately, at least, the media penetration of rugby (both kinds) in the US is essentially nonexistent, so if I can't watch the game live it's not as though it will be spoiled for me before I can watch a replay.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 13:12 |
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Do not become a Broncos supporter.
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Saul Goode posted:Maruana was in two kinds, I mean Caruana in two minds.  Turn it up! TURN IT UP!!!
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Use Words Like Rad posted:Do not become a Broncos supporter.
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