NRL 2025
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Geez you go away for a few days and the Courier mail takes over the thread.
Great game last night even if the conditions were awful. Capewell wound back the clock for sure, Munster looked inspired and even Grant had arguably his best game of the year.
Tino versus Martin was fun to watch, as was Spencer vs Collins
Hammy plagued Too was a beast
Hudson Young showed why he deserved to be at that level with some great effort and minutes.
Some really great performances from both sides as well as mixed efforts from others.
Cleary hardly a Myth, playing with a groin strain that even his club were unaware of (dumb from Laurie) almost single handedly brought them back into the game with his no try (Stephano) . Technically correct call but on a very wet ground would have loved to see how close Pat would have got to stopping chasing from behind where momentum often carries players. Will never know but either way showed why he is dangerous even on one leg. As for last 5 minutes according to interviews they were trying to pull Toia out of the line again, which was the play that had brought them back into this game, but with the linespeed and accuracy this time well executed from Qld, the dump was a get out clause. Personally thought Stephen Chricton under used and they should have gone right but never did.
Interestingly Lomax, Critta and Latrell kick at just over 80% for the season, Cleary has 90% accuracy. Could have been the difference....It wasnt
and Im hardly going to complain about a tied series for the spectacle.Lastly NRL reviewers saw Luai incident as a facial not a eye gouge (I dont like either one personally, will be happy when even facials eventually get ruled out of the game), both received fines only
No one except the media cares about the penalty count, yeah rub of the green but didn't change any outcome and the six agains quite rightly pointed out came back to haunt Qld in second half.
Just a great origin battle regardless in awful conditions
@bayimports said in NRL 2025:
Cleary hardly a Myth, playing with a groin strain that even his club were unaware of
Is that from his publicist or manager?
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Mick Ennis, who is the national expert on Nathan's groin
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well, @booboo doing a sparky on a game thread he didn't even like was a waste of 25 posts.
Incredible game of league. Conditions were absolutely shithouse weren't they? The quintessential game of two halves. In the first half Qld didn't make errors, and played on the front foot, allowing their halves to dominate. In the 2nd NSW minimised the errors, stopped giving away thuggy penalties, while Qld made error after error. And so we end up with a close game.
First half started weirdly, with a couple of errors each, but NSW on the board with a bit of a lucky try. After that Qld took over. They ran hard, hit really hard, and that allowed Munster and Dearden to play down hill. NSW were very lucky not to get two guys in the bin, and i imagine at least Luia will get a stint on the sidelines. Lomax whacking Loiero was a double bonus, as it gave a penalty and took Trent out of the game. 26-6 was an amazing half time score.
2nd half was the complete opposite, NSW tidied their discipline up, played to their strengths and really got stuck in, while Qld went completely to pieces. Error after error, 6-agains, stupid short drop outs, bad reads on defense over and over again. The 2nd half was how i (and possibly NSW) expected the whole game to go.
In the end there was no sense of joy, either on my couch, or in the Qld camp. They probably should have lost that given the goal kicking woes. Still, we get an unexpected decider, and there were serious signs of life out of Qld.
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Our left edge defence got to be close to worst in the competition. DWZ injury allows an upgrade in winger for next week but today even those covering were just as poor.
As soon as Metcalf was injured attack also stalled. Hopefully not serious and hopefully Marata has no further issues after failing the cat 1 .
Penrith were good for a change today but we still should have put them away. Missed opportunity -
Our left edge defence got to be close to worst in the competition. DWZ injury allows an upgrade in winger for next week but today even those covering were just as poor.
As soon as Metcalf was injured attack also stalled. Hopefully not serious and hopefully Marata has no further issues after failing the cat 1 .
Penrith were good for a change today but we still should have put them away. Missed opportunity@bayimports said in NRL 2025:
Our left edge defence got to be close to worst in the competition. DWZ injury allows an upgrade in winger for next week but today even those covering were just as poor.
As soon as Metcalf was injured attack also stalled. Hopefully not serious and hopefully Marata has no further issues after failing the cat 1 .
Penrith were good for a change today but we still should have put them away. Missed opportunityYeah especially that Penrith side they sent over......
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I'm going to the Roosters v Cowboys game tomorrow ... I was planning to take an Irish and English mate of mine to a Warriors game but none of their Sydney matches have worked out (first one we can all get to is the final round) so we picked the Roosters as obviously due to the fact they're Irish and Pom they live in the Eastern suburbs.
So anyway, which team should I support? Given that they're bound to lose I might go for the Cowboys in honour of @mariner4life.
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Carn the cows!!!
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Latrell is genuinely the best natural footballer in the comp
That pass was ridiculous
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Fuck if you're not watching he's put on a master class
He just missed a field goal from 50 that would have made it from 60
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Fuck if you're not watching he's put on a master class
He just missed a field goal from 50 that would have made it from 60
@mariner4life said in NRL 2025:
Fuck if you're not watching he's put on a master class
He just missed a field goal from 50 that would have made it from 60
And Rabbits fans wanted Jye Grey at the back instead of him lol.
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Funny game that. Melbourne looked like they were gonna put 50 on, but we're more worried about trying to put as many points on as they could as opposed to doing the hard work, and let the Bunnies in stupidly which changed the momentum of the game.
Still, an important win for Melbourne.
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that's two coaches in a foot race to see who gets fired first.
