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MiniSune
Sep 16, 2003

Smart like Dodo!
England with the patented "How do I hold ball?" Tigers attack.

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iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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Australia trying that too

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


England doing their best to gently caress this up when in the 10m zone.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

gonna win by about 6 at a guess

definitely not 50

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Puckish Rogue posted:

gonna win by about 6 at a guess

definitely not 50

Yeah Oz look knackered.

Fanatic
Mar 9, 2006

:eyepop:
Tom Burgess just handed us the game lol can't hold the ball.

Edit: p good game, much closer than expected.

Fanatic fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Dec 2, 2017

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747
quality game of league

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Australia worth their win, they looked very composed under pressure.

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
I was mostly watching the cricket but it looked like a good game at least.

Kaglicious
Mar 31, 2011
I'm happy we didn't get battered like I expected we would :unsmith:

I guess the world wasn't ready for (garbage man) Kevin Brown - World Champion.

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.
Surprisingly close, but at no stage did it appear England were any chance to score a try.

Kaglicious
Mar 31, 2011

Smorgasbord posted:

Surprisingly close, but at no stage did it appear England were any chance to score a try.

If Widdop wasn't creating anything we were done for, our last tackle plays often boil down to 'kick and hope the defence makes a gently caress up' and it's a problem pretty much every super league team has.

Jono C
Mar 28, 2007

Adam is a wonderful example of how a player should go about his business in the NRL
Apart from the margin of victory in the final, everything went as expected in the World Cup. Tonga was the highlight of the tournament for me. They deserve more test matches, if they got a match against the Kiwis at Mt Smart it would be a guaranteed sellout.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
Apparently Sisa Waqa has fled the country because he owes some people over 10K from gambling debts

isn't he still contracted the Canberra?

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
Oh wait he is playing french rugby or something similar

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

bowmore posted:

Apparently Sisa Waqa has fled the country because he owes some people over 10K from gambling debts

isn't he still contracted the Canberra?

We released him because he got a contract with french rugby and he was broke as gently caress because he is a gambling addict so the club let him leave his contract early. This was a while ago.

He had fallen behind rapana anyway so it wasnt a big deal

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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Sea Eagles charged with big breaches of the cap

My vote for punishment is having to take Foran back

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
ahaha gently caress you Manly

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
they better start the season with minus points per salary cap breach precedents

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.

bowmore posted:

they better start the season with minus points per salary cap breach precedents

They're talking about just a fine and a 2018 cap impact which probably means nothing to them considering Matai and Stewart both just came off the books.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
cheated the cap for five years with nothing to show for it

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

bowmore posted:

cheated the cap for five years with nothing to show for it

Imagine risking losing premierships to cheat the cap but it avails you nothing because your star players are involved in match fixing

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

gently caress you Manly.

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
So paulo, bj and papalii rocked up from the world cup fatter than they left. They were already fat enough. So we lose hodgson thats football but what the gently caress was going on in that Samoa camp ? How is it possible to get fatter during a world cup ?

The world cup has put us behind by so much. We might challenge for the spoon. Last season we were way too fat and any hope of the squad shedding some weight for next season has been set back because three of the worst offenders have rocked up from the samoa buffet tour with occasionally footy games overwieght.

the world cup has been a disaster for the raiders really. Say what you want for kidwell at least tapine and rapana came back in decent shape. Tapine minor knee injury withstanding.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Burn Down Canberra posted:

So paulo, bj and papalii rocked up from the world cup fatter than they left. They were already fat enough. So we lose hodgson thats football but what the gently caress was going on in that Samoa camp ? How is it possible to get fatter during a world cup ?
That's called Samoan training

BJ did the same thing every season at the Knights except for one (2012 I think), and his toxic attitude got him axed

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 mean you could've hoped for some professionalism from Papalii, but what did you seriously expect of Leilua and Paulo in a Samoan camp?

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Thinking
Jan 22, 2009

Roosters have now signed Cronk, Tedesco and Angus Crichton. Absurd

ili
Jul 26, 2003


There was an article in the fairfax papers that claimed the Roosters' magically finding out that Jayden Nikorima failed a drug test, getting them out of having to pay him $375k, meant they were a million under the cap. After signing Cronk and Tedesco.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
Third Party Agreements are a cancer on the game

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
The Raiders are struggling to keep our no hopers

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.
Crichton's for 2019 onwards but yeah still makes me sick. Even with their salary sombrero they're gonna feel the squeeze with Cordner, Friend, Taukieaho and others due large upgrades end of next season.

ili
Jul 26, 2003


Upgrades? Uncle Nick will buy video footage of them acting up and re-sign them for 200k each. Except the ones he doesn't want, they'll all mysteriously fail drug tests coincidentally at the same time the club is trying to move them on.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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Not even close to believable.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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Not even close to believable.

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.
The Rooster fan argument is all about how they lost Pearce, Nikorima, the guys who went to Newcastle and 'only' bought in Tedesco and Cronk. They posit that more salary has gone out than come in so it's perfectly reasonable that they have millions of cap space. The rest of us don't believe their starting point was below the cap let alone after all their wheeling and dealing to get 2 absolute top tier elite players in and then wrap up the hottest young prospect for 2019 onwards given the supposed salary cap environment of an equal playing field with 15 other teams.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Looking forward to the roosters signing Greg Inglis who attends the signing media scrum dressed entirely in a suit made of diamonds and the silk of unicorns whilst he starts blowing up speedboats for fun as the NRL assures us that the salary cap is not being broken by Sydney.

Abalone Malone
Jul 26, 2002

...
why are they spending so much money on a club no one gives a gently caress about?
no oval office goes to the home games, even when they are winning
no oval office watches them on telly
their merchandise sells as well as condoms in nigeria

a bunch of poo poo cunts spending a lot of money to maybe win a comp every decade.
good business model

at least Brisbane puts bums on seats
Melbourne produce talent

Roosters are blight on the modern game.

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Abalone Malone posted:

why are they spending so much money on a club no one gives a gently caress about?
no oval office goes to the home games, even when they are winning
no oval office watches them on telly
their merchandise sells as well as condoms in nigeria

a bunch of poo poo cunts spending a lot of money to maybe win a comp every decade.
good business model

at least Brisbane puts bums on seats
Melbourne produce talent

Roosters are blight on the modern game.

Marsden State High produces more talent than Melbourne

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bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
I knew we wouldn't have to wait much longer until we had an offseason drama

Hayne accused of raping a women while he was playing NFL

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