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BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Wouldn't there also be an issue in regards to visas etc.?

Coz do the Tongans, (and non Australian/NZers), playing in the NRL would still need to apply for an exemption to be able to leave Australia? Would they be granted one? Also, would they, or their clubs, pay for the 14 day quarantine upon their return? Would that be reason enough for their club to not grant leave?

Does the tournament require vaccination? Coz a whole bunch of League players are weirdo religious fundies, (hello Mr. Folau et al), who probably have bullshit religious objections to the vaccine. That could be another reason stopping them going.

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bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Abalone Malone posted:

footy players are the dumbest people on earth
then you have footy players that are also anti vaxxers

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Jono C posted:

Technically they can still make their own way over, it's just the ARL and NZRL that won't be sending teams. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of players withdraw because of the added time and money it'll take to travel- it isn't a sure thing that the IRL or national teams will pay for quarantine etc. Right now Tonga's rugby union team is in NZ and they're struggling to field a squad because they expected a lot of the players to pay their own way to NZ. They're scrounging around club teams trying to find eligible players because players are injured or having to go back to day jobs.

I look forward to the poms trying to run a tournament so they can declare themselves world champions only to lose to a random Pacific Island team.

Is the thinking that Tonga and Samoa will send teams?

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL

bessantj posted:

Is the thinking that Tonga and Samoa will send teams?

I haven't heard anything. The rumour mill suggests this has been a play by the NRL clubs to keep their players fresh for next season. They can't directly stop anyone from playing a test match for Tonga/Samoa/Fiji/PNG etc but the clubs will probably pressure players not to go (e.g. if you go look forward to spending half of next year in reserve grade or don't expect a new contract).

BrigadierSensible posted:

Wouldn't there also be an issue in regards to visas etc.?

Coz do the Tongans, (and non Australian/NZers), playing in the NRL would still need to apply for an exemption to be able to leave Australia? Would they be granted one? Also, would they, or their clubs, pay for the 14 day quarantine upon their return? Would that be reason enough for their club to not grant leave?

Does the tournament require vaccination? Coz a whole bunch of League players are weirdo religious fundies, (hello Mr. Folau et al), who probably have bullshit religious objections to the vaccine. That could be another reason stopping them going.

Someone from Australia might be better placed to answer this, but if I were to try to leave Australia with my NZ passport then I don't think they can stop me. However, if I'm on a foreign passport it's a lot harder to get into Australia. It could be done (right now) by quarantining in NZ for two weeks then going over. It may not be so easy for someone without an Australian or NZ passport. It should be the national teams paying for quarantine (I see it as being part of the return ticket from the world cup).

I doubt that the tournament will require vaccination. The NRL had enough trouble trying to mandate the flu vaccine last year, all the hardcore anti vaxxers ended up using the religious beliefs loophole.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Jono C posted:

I haven't heard anything. The rumour mill suggests this has been a play by the NRL clubs to keep their players fresh for next season. They can't directly stop anyone from playing a test match for Tonga/Samoa/Fiji/PNG etc but the clubs will probably pressure players not to go (e.g. if you go look forward to spending half of next year in reserve grade or don't expect a new contract).

I know you're not saying that is happening but if it is those teams should be heavily, heavily fined.

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:
Just got another update about the RLWC:

quote:

The Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) Board held their scheduled meeting earlier today. While the Board reiterated the determination to deliver the biggest and best ever Rugby League World Cup in history, they are also realistic about the significant challenges that threaten that ambition.

In light of the decision by the ARLC and NZRL to withdraw from the event this year, the Board have asked that the RLWC2021 team continue to hold further urgent discussions with all stakeholders, particularly the players, aimed at correcting misinformation as well as measuring the sentiment on proceeding with the tournament this year.

The RLWC2021 Board recognise the need to bring clarity and certainty to the situation. They have also underlined the relentless collaborative work that has been ongoing since the beginning of the pandemic to establish the most safe and secure environment for all involved - in line with other world class major events that have taken place successfully in the UK in 2021.

We want to thank you for your continued support and patience and we will communicate any further developments as soon as possible.

Thank you again for your support,

RLWC2021 Team

It sounds as though there's a possibility of cancelling the tournament. That seems more likely than postponing to 2022, since it doesn't have the draw of the Olympics.

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL
Misinformation? Australia and New Zealand aren't competing. There's no way to hold a credible World Cup without them.

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:
I think it’s COVID-related misinformation they’re referring to.

But, yes, it’s not really a World Cup if 2 of the top 3 teams aren’t there. Clearly.

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL
Oh, if it's COVID misinformation they're worried about, from this part of the world we've watched the poms bungle the pandemic for 18 months or so and want no part of that. Factor in the low vaccination rates around here along with squads which will have a high proportion of vaccine hesitant players and it's an easily justified decision to stay away.

Smorgasbord
Jun 18, 2004

Our review identified changes needed to be made and, in Stephen, we have a coach who has a reputation for demanding the highest standards.
I think it's really more about quarantine fatigue and inability to do a proper preseason with the mandatory break for the players on the back of another quarantine on the way home.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
MAROONS 2023 STATE OF ORIGIN CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE



Is this the vent thread?

Yeah, this is the vent thread.

gently caress THE loving TIGERS ARE THE loving STUPIDEST loving TEAM IN THE loving UNIVERSE. WHY CAN YOU NOT TACKLE OR MAKE SENSIBLE ATTACKING DECISIONS WHEN YOU'RE EASILY BREAKING THE LINE. TWO POINT FIELD GOALS SHOULD BE AN EMERGENCY OPTION, NOT ATTEMPTED MULTIPLE TIMES. WHY WOULD YOU NOT CHALLENGE OBVIOUS CALLS AND THEN CHALLENGE THE 50/50 ONES.

Smorgasbord
Jun 18, 2004

Our review identified changes needed to be made and, in Stephen, we have a coach who has a reputation for demanding the highest standards.

iajanus posted:

Is this the vent thread?

Yeah, this is the vent thread.

gently caress THE loving TIGERS ARE THE loving STUPIDEST loving TEAM IN THE loving UNIVERSE. WHY CAN YOU NOT TACKLE OR MAKE SENSIBLE ATTACKING DECISIONS WHEN YOU'RE EASILY BREAKING THE LINE. TWO POINT FIELD GOALS SHOULD BE AN EMERGENCY OPTION, NOT ATTEMPTED MULTIPLE TIMES. WHY WOULD YOU NOT CHALLENGE OBVIOUS CALLS AND THEN CHALLENGE THE 50/50 ONES.

Tigers gonna Tige

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:

Smorgasbord posted:

I think it's really more about quarantine fatigue and inability to do a proper preseason with the mandatory break for the players on the back of another quarantine on the way home.

Yeah it’s definitely this.

Should have done what we in the US did, and have a country with 300m people play a version of football so dumb no one else in the world gives a poo poo about it.

Really solved our World Cup problem.

ili
Jul 26, 2003

Jesus Madge looked half dead at the presser.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
i cannee blame him

Abalone Malone
Jul 26, 2002

...
tigers wouldn't beat most reserve grade teams

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


loving Tallis on the radio trolling saying the Grand Final should be played in NZ.

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL
There was an SMH article suggesting that the NRL were considering doing that.

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:
Hey so the RLWC has been officially postponed to 2022 and now my wife and I have to cancel our travel from the US to Manchester for the GF and hope our travel insurance doesn’t weasel out of reimbursing us.

gently caress Boris Johnson. Of course that elitist nitwit Tory’s policies would screw over the working man’s code. I’d expect nothing less from the guy who likes to full-contact tackle Japanese children playing touch rugby.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
good result

Hammond Egger
Feb 20, 2011

by the sex ghost
Should be a good GF.

Kinda wanted Storm to win the premiership despite my natural hatred of them just so the Rooters couldn't crow about being the only team in the modern era to win back to back. I guess I'll be barracking for Penrith because it's been longer since they've won anything? But Rabbits look pretty good and they've been playing some quality football. The coach battle is going to be hilarious again no doubt, whiny little bitch Cleary vs grumpy old bastard Bennett. Who gets to complain about things being unfair first?!

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
I want Penrith to win because it’s been ages since they’ve won one, I don’t want that old gently caress Wayne to win another one and we won’t have to hear about this particular Penrith team as much as we do now.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
MAROONS 2023 STATE OF ORIGIN CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE



bowmore posted:

I want Penrith to win because it’s been ages since they’ve won one, I don’t want that old gently caress Wayne to win another one and we won’t have to hear about this particular Penrith team as much as we do now.

Pretty much my position. Only problem is having to see smug Ivan but I can grit my teeth through that.

Hammond Egger
Feb 20, 2011

by the sex ghost
I'm doing some data study at the moment, and using NRL 2021 stats to play around with... thought all the tippers out there might be interested to know that the Rabbits, Roosters and Bulldogs were most likely to conform to the pre-game betting odds in ~88% of their games, whereas the Raiders and Warriors were most likely to frustrate tippers, only playing to the odds on ~58% of their games.

The Warriors won 5 out of 16 games where they were underdogs and lost 5 out of 8 where they were favourites.

The Raiders won 3 out of 10 games where they were underdogs and lost 7 out of 14 where they were favourites.

The Bulldogs were the only team not to lose when they were favourites all season. Mostly because they were never favourites in any of their 24 games, but hey... keep your chins up boys!

The Titans had the least ability to cause an upset, winning only 1 out of 11 games they went into as underdogs.

The Rabbitohs were least likely to be caught with their pants down, losing only 1 out of 21 games they went into as favourites.

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:
Wow this thread was really dead for like 4 weeks lol.

anyway Penrith deserve the GF shot and I’m glad the Storm are out.

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL
All the chat is in the Discord now.

https://discord.gg/KndEcWzf

Wizard Master
Mar 25, 2008

I am the Wizard Master
A grim sight indeed when the SAS NRL thread has not a single post on grand final night.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Wizard Master posted:

A grim sight indeed when the SAS NRL thread has not a single post on grand final night.

https://discord.gg/DhxMbtvv

Resident Idiot
May 11, 2007

Maxine13
Grimey Drawer
Forums >> Discord, and on this hill I will die.

That said, it's side that betrayed the Tigers in 1909 against the coach who betrayed them in 2018, so a pox on both their houses.

Resident Idiot
May 11, 2007

Maxine13
Grimey Drawer
Also, I will not be sad when the NRL is free of Burgesses.

Hammond Egger
Feb 20, 2011

by the sex ghost
Decent game.

ili
Jul 26, 2003

Resident Idiot posted:

Forums >> Discord, and on this hill I will die.

Fucken oath mate.

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

This is a very silly pointless question/thought.

But you know "the Barassi line"? The fictional geographical divide between AFL country and Rugbly League country? And how it was so named in the 60s because on one side of the line that, even if you didn't follow footy at all, you would know who Ron Barassi was.

Well I was thinking, who would the line be named after if it was named today. Also who would the line be named after if it was named after a Rugby League person instead of AFL Legend Ron Barassi?

I was also thinking that, despite how both competitions are nominally national, how deeply and rigidly the Barassi line still divides the country. Yeah sure, Brisbane won 3 premierships in a row 20 odd years ago, and that participation rates for women are skyrocketing in Qld. (if the AFL statisticians are to be believed). Just as the Storm are a powerhouse team on the park, that sell out their little stadium most times they play there. But in terms of deep social impact, nobody here gives a gently caress, and wouldn't be able to pick Johnathon Thurston out of a line up, just as I assume nobody up there gives a rats arse about Joel Selwood much less that he is a cheating bastard who ducks his head into every contest.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I think my mass effect is broken
Wayne Bennett?

Pocket Billiards
Aug 29, 2007
.
My family in WA say that the Honey Badger is the Rugby League they know of.

BuckyDoneGun
Nov 30, 2004
fat drunk
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300423561/former-warriors-rugby-icon-manu-vatuvei-admits-importing-methamphetamine

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
MAROONS 2023 STATE OF ORIGIN CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE



Impressive backflip

Finally listened to his lawyer

Resident Idiot
May 11, 2007

Maxine13
Grimey Drawer
https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2021/10/06/benji-marshall-announces-retirement

I'm a little saddened South Sydney got to say goodbye to him, and he deserved another premiership if he didn't have such terrible taste in clubs.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I think my mass effect is broken
In RTS-watch news, the games he played for the Warriors this year will be the last actual games he's played at all until next year, as all Auckland-based teams have officially been withdrawn from the NPC.



Meanwhile, after being dumped by the Sea Eagles, Tevita Funa's switched codes as well, and has landed at the Waratahs, to play rugby for them after signing a 1-year deal. Considering how he could play just about anywhere in the backline, he'd be a handy guy to have around.

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MiniSune
Sep 16, 2003

Smart like Dodo!

BrigadierSensible posted:

But in terms of deep social impact, nobody here gives a gently caress, and wouldn't be able to pick Johnathon Thurston out of a line up, just as I assume nobody up there gives a rats arse about Joel Selwood much less that he is a cheating bastard who ducks his head into every contest.

Pretty well much. For all the cash the AFL has sunk into Western Sydney and Gold Coast, they really have got sweet gently caress all to show for it.

As for the line...The (Laurie) Daley Line? he was born in Junee and the AFL and League lines sorta merge in that part of the state.

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