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Dan Didio posted:Deeply funny that they kicked McGregor and then the Dragons won a huge upset. Not sure if you would feel happy or sad as Mary. Whilst it's a nice sendoff, it's a bit insulting that they had that in them and only bothered to pull it out when you were gone.
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Aug 14, 2020 13:43
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i feel happy for him, not having to coach that basket case any more
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Aug 14, 2020 13:51
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Jono C posted:Feel free to stick around and ask questions. We're a bunch of suicicidal alcoholics so we constantly need to build our numbers. Have you seen Midsommar? We're a bit like that. The Warriors and Tigers fans here are like the guy that jumps off the cliff and fucks it up. Grand Final was so late here last year that I stayed up drinking all night and by the end I was sending facebook messages to Latrell Mitchell's official account calling him a fat oval office. Now he's fatter and on Souths. My only real question that I ask over and over again is how come teams don't take the 2 more on penalties? They are so overly confident every time and almost never turn it into a try. And even when they do they miss the kick anyway, so it's only 4.
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Nimmy posted:Grand Final was so late here last year that I stayed up drinking all night and by the end I was sending facebook messages to Latrell Mitchell's official account calling him a fat oval office. Now he's fatter and on Souths. You're pretty much one of us already. quote:My only real question that I ask over and over again is how come teams don't take the 2 more on penalties? They are so overly confident every time and almost never turn it into a try. And even when they do they miss the kick anyway, so it's only 4. League is a bit behind the rest of the sports world when it comes to advanced statistics, but most teams believe that their probability of scoring a try on a repeat set in the red zone gives a better weighted outcome than taking the two points. It also helps that a penalty goal is worth only half of a try (or a third of a converted try), whereas in rugby union a penalty is worth three points, which as a percentage is worth more than five points for a try or seven for a converted try. From the persepective of a fan, it means more running footy with ball in hand, which is what we're there to see. Meanwhile if you watch a game of union, you'll see goal kickers taking penalty shots anywhere in the attacking half and lose way too many minutes of your life watching them set up for those kicks, or setting up scrums or lineouts.
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Aug 15, 2020 01:29
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Jono C posted:League is a bit behind the rest of the sports world when it comes to advanced statistics, but most teams believe that their probability of scoring a try on a repeat set in the red zone gives a better weighted outcome than taking the two points. It also helps that a penalty goal is worth only half of a try (or a third of a converted try), whereas in rugby union a penalty is worth three points, which as a percentage is worth more than five points for a try or seven for a converted try. From the persepective of a fan, it means more running footy with ball in hand, which is what we're there to see. Meanwhile if you watch a game of union, you'll see goal kickers taking penalty shots anywhere in the attacking half and lose way too many minutes of your life watching them set up for those kicks, or setting up scrums or lineouts. That makes sense. I was a "I hate all rugby" person who had only been introduced to Rugby Union, so certainly I wouldn't want to turn League into that other esoteric version of the sport. But it really seems like teams are leaving points on the table. At least for Souths, there's no way we converted even 1/3 of those new sets into trys and we were pretty good last year. Especially because Reynolds can kick; if we were relying on someone poo poo I could understand. But it just seems to me like the whole culture is "we are men, we don't kick!" and from a pure scoring the most points perspective it's probably wrong.
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All of the above is true and very well put, but I think it misses one point that you might have trouble believing: league players are ridiculously stupid and have almost no ability to engage their brains on any task that isn't criminal.
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Aug 15, 2020 03:57
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iajanus posted:All of the above is true and very well put, but I think it misses one point that you might have trouble believing: league players are ridiculously stupid and have almost no ability to engage their brains on any task that isn't criminal. HAHAHA, this is what my friend who introduced me to Rugby League says all the time. Always remember, the players are the dumbest people on the planet. I was hoping his answer (which is the same as the one you guys have given me!) was maybe not fully informed.
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Aug 15, 2020 04:39
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Rugby League players aren't Dutch Kickboxing level criminals, not yet, but I have every faith that someday there will be a Sharks or Bulldogs player smart enough to reach such lofty heights.
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iajanus posted:All of the above is true and very well put, but I think it misses one point that you might have trouble believing: league players are ridiculously stupid and have almost no ability to engage their brains on any task that isn't criminal. This can't be emphasised enough. Dear god is this game full of dumbasses.
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I remember hearing a report on the news about how the Storm have been “ravaged by injuries” this year, so that’s handy information to have.
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Nimmy posted:HAHAHA, this is what my friend who introduced me to Rugby League says all the time. Always remember, the players are the dumbest people on the planet. I was hoping his answer (which is the same as the one you guys have given me!) was maybe not fully informed. We're not saying they're bad people (although there's definitely the usual number of scumbags in there), they're just on the whole the most profoundly stupid people imaginable, and can be counted on to do the absolutely worst thing at every opportunity. At some point they're literally beyond parody. They're pretty entertaining, though.
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Sharks looking like they want to continue the trend of upsets this week
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iajanus posted:We're not saying they're bad people (although there's definitely the usual number of scumbags in there), they're just on the whole the most profoundly stupid people imaginable, and can be counted on to do the absolutely worst thing at every opportunity. At some point they're literally beyond parody. Nah not bad people. Just get into tag team prostitute scandals during pandemics and like to leave explicit voicemails to women in taxi cabs. Anyway, very glad I have an extended WatchNRL subscription for this year because of COVID-19 haha! E: this game is at 2:30am my time, I'm going to be absolutely obnoxious if Souths are rampant... and won't make a post for a week if they are trash.
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Nimmy posted:Nah not bad people. Just get into tag team prostitute scandals during pandemics and like to leave explicit voicemails to women in taxi cabs. Anyway, very glad I have an extended WatchNRL subscription for this year because of COVID-19 haha! Yeah those are pretty tame compared to some of the previous fun Someone post Gower.txt please
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Yeah you're going to fit right in here Come join the discord if you haven't already, it's more real-time gnashing of teeth and alcoholism
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iajanus posted:Yeah you're going to fit right in here Link isn't in the first post of the thread. Also never registered for Discord. I think I would be extremely, extremely obnoxious because the time difference basically guarantees I'm going to be about 15 whiskeys deep. But as a concession, I saw Matty Johns at the Manly Wharf when I was there (didn't know who he was), but he was kind of trying to be recognized... so it was apparently a fantastic standoff of him thinking a 35 year old sporty man must recognize him, and me the American treating him like some weird rear end in a top hat trying to make conversation with a stranger.
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Nimmy posted:Link isn't in the first post of the thread. Also never registered for Discord. I think I would be extremely, extremely obnoxious because the time difference basically guarantees I'm going to be about 15 whiskeys deep. But as a concession, I saw Matty Johns at the Manly Wharf when I was there (didn't know who he was), but he was kind of trying to be recognized... so it was apparently a fantastic standoff of him thinking a 35 year old sporty man must recognize him, and me the American treating him like some weird rear end in a top hat trying to make conversation with a stranger. Yeah I should probably remember to do that https://discord.gg/bqxDStt And we value obnoxious posting, it makes everything better
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Aug 15, 2020 07:12
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Umm great work Proctor, maybe go for a bite after the game
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iajanus posted:Yeah I should probably remember to do that I'll be all over this in an hour. But for the rest of the league, my only opinions are that Cleary is a Neanderthal and Latrell is the fattest professional athlete in history. Oh, sorry, the Latrell opinion was a Souths opinion. So I only have one opinion.
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The Tigers are remarkably bad at the whole "playing football" thing.
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It's not fair to blame the Tigers, there's people all over the inner west that have encouraged this sort of thing for far too long.
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That or this is an incredible false flag effort to keep Brisbane in line for the wooden spoon.
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his excuse for the golf course incdient was that it was his " Bucks Week" Bucks Week what a oval office
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Jesus Christ why does this team hate me and want my son to grow up without a father
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on the biting incident i don’t think KP was trying to bit SJ, I think it was just an accident with shaun holding his arm in proctors mouth and KP went to close his jaw when getting up
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The real judiciary story this week should be Luai stomping on Nikorima's head. edit: also Proctor's defense of "I didn't bite him" is not credible when his initial response to the accusation was "well you were choking me". Smorgasbord fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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So what the gently caress happened today with the Warriors and sponsorship? Supposedly Telstra was going to force Vodafone out as the club's major sponsor, but all of a sudden backed down.
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Jono C posted:So what the gently caress happened today with the Warriors and sponsorship? Supposedly Telstra was going to force Vodafone out as the club's major sponsor, but all of a sudden backed down. Telstra and V'Landys decided that there was no room in RUGBAH LEEG for any telco sponsor other than Telstra, so they demanded that the Warriors sever their 20+year relationship with Vodafone, trying to make them Vodagone from TELSTRA RUGBAH TELSTRA TELSTRA LEEG TELSTRA. Basically, the overwhelming response was Vlandys can go eat a gently caress and Telstra can join him.
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Situation normal, all hosed up. Speaking of which, four weeks for Proctor for biting is a relative slap on the wrist.
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Jono C posted:Situation normal, all hosed up. Reminds me of the Wade McKinnon suspension for spitting - mild suspension because they're not actually sure he even did it.
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Do we want to do odds on who was behind the Seibold rumours? The idea that he's got hot poo poo European investigators on the case seems laughable, but hey let's go with it for a laugh. I'm kind of hoping it's Bennett.
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Jono C posted:Do we want to do odds on who was behind the Seibold rumours? The idea that he's got hot poo poo European investigators on the case seems laughable, but hey let's go with it for a laugh. I'm kind of hoping it's Bennett. sensible choice , Bennett via Darius white ant option, Kevvy Walters and Andrew Gee comedy option, Fletch and Hindy
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Abalone Malone posted:comedy option, Fletch and Hindy There's a 5% chance this is a Matty Johns show sketch gone horribly wrong.
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Jono C posted:Do we want to do odds on who was behind the Seibold rumours? The idea that he's got hot poo poo European investigators on the case seems laughable, but hey let's go with it for a laugh. I'm kind of hoping it's Bennett. I think he's being milked by some "cybercrime experts" happily playing into whatever paranoid conspiracies he's telling them. "Mr Seibold it turns out you were right, all along it's that dastardly Wayne Bennett and that no good Darius Boyd we just need another $20,000 to hack into the mainframe"
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Jono C posted:There's a 5% chance this is a Matty Johns show sketch gone horribly wrong. So, same as any other Matty Johns sketch?
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