NRL 2017
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What's the only thing worse than signing Adam Blair for 3 years?
Signing Adam Blair for 4 years.
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@raznomore said in NRL 2017:
What's the only thing worse than signing Adam Blair for 3 years?
Signing Adam Blair for 4 years.
Signing Adam Blair and Pita Hiku Kearney Jnr at the same time?
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All Queensland this week in the playoffs.
Cowboys continue their run, eliminating the Parramatta Eels tonight 24-14. This is a team that should have missed the playoffs with the amount of injuries they've had, including Thurston and Scott.
Broncos dispatched of the Penrith Panthers last night 13-6. Scary moment for Broncos wing Corey Oates. He was knocked out by his own teammate following a tackle by Nathan Cleary.
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Bulldogs finally pull the plug and fire Des Hasler as coach.
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Bulldogs finally pull the plug and fire Des Hasler as coach.
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@sneakdefreak Wasn't Foran heading there to reunite with him?
@canefan Foran? Yeah, he was. Be interesting to see what happens there (Foran is staying in Sydney but if Hasler was to link up with another Sydney club...)
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Wondered if Foran had a clause to exit if Des was no longer coach? I guess that'll come out pretty soon - maybe he's waiting to see who is appointed?
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11925253
So the new gameplan is to forget about tackling or doing the hard stuff?
Mannering should be the first player picked in my opinion.@sammyc WTF - I was never a huge fan of Mannering but he's been class in his later career as an absolute workhorse. If he was Aussie he'd be lauded as the best buy ever for the Warriors.
I'm ultra worried about things now after reading that article! What 'brand' of football are the Kiwis going to be playing?
On a side note, I'm playing league live 4 on the PS4 in career mode as the Warriors and I reckon Luke is on track to be the Dally M winner.
Mannering never makes a Kiwis side (for some reason you can't pick a Kiwi squad you just get random players) but is always close to the top of tacklers. Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close. -
@sammyc WTF - I was never a huge fan of Mannering but he's been class in his later career as an absolute workhorse. If he was Aussie he'd be lauded as the best buy ever for the Warriors.
I'm ultra worried about things now after reading that article! What 'brand' of football are the Kiwis going to be playing?
On a side note, I'm playing league live 4 on the PS4 in career mode as the Warriors and I reckon Luke is on track to be the Dally M winner.
Mannering never makes a Kiwis side (for some reason you can't pick a Kiwi squad you just get random players) but is always close to the top of tacklers. Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close.@sammyc WTF - I was never a huge fan of Mannering but he's been class in his later career as an absolute workhorse. If he was Aussie he'd be lauded as the best buy ever for the Warriors.
I'm ultra worried about things now after reading that article! What 'brand' of football are the Kiwis going to be playing?
On a side note, I'm playing league live 4 on the PS4 in career mode as the Warriors and I reckon Luke is on track to be the Dally M winner.
Mannering never makes a Kiwis side (for some reason you can't pick a Kiwi squad you just get random players) but is always close to the top of tacklers. Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close.Yeah I see the coaching staff/ selectors are Kidwell/ Nikau/ Iro and McGahan. Call me cynical but I don't see those guys coming up with a perfect new gameplan to fool the Aussies.
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@sammyc WTF - I was never a huge fan of Mannering but he's been class in his later career as an absolute workhorse. If he was Aussie he'd be lauded as the best buy ever for the Warriors.
I'm ultra worried about things now after reading that article! What 'brand' of football are the Kiwis going to be playing?
On a side note, I'm playing league live 4 on the PS4 in career mode as the Warriors and I reckon Luke is on track to be the Dally M winner.
Mannering never makes a Kiwis side (for some reason you can't pick a Kiwi squad you just get random players) but is always close to the top of tacklers. Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close.Yeah I see the coaching staff/ selectors are Kidwell/ Nikau/ Iro and McGahan. Call me cynical but I don't see those guys coming up with a perfect new gameplan to fool the Aussies.
@sammyc WTF - I was never a huge fan of Mannering but he's been class in his later career as an absolute workhorse. If he was Aussie he'd be lauded as the best buy ever for the Warriors.
I'm ultra worried about things now after reading that article! What 'brand' of football are the Kiwis going to be playing?
On a side note, I'm playing league live 4 on the PS4 in career mode as the Warriors and I reckon Luke is on track to be the Dally M winner.
Mannering never makes a Kiwis side (for some reason you can't pick a Kiwi squad you just get random players) but is always close to the top of tacklers. Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close.Yeah I see the coaching staff/ selectors are Kidwell/ Nikau/ Iro and McGahan. Call me cynical but I don't see those guys coming up with a perfect new gameplan to fool the Aussies.
They'll probably come up with one to fool their own players though.
Mannering is the ideal guy considering we're losing a huge amount of leadership by ruling out Bromwich.
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Are these fluffy bunnies serious?
Can just imagine the selection meeting...
'Mannering, na he's bad for team morale. He makes too many tackles, too organised on defence and waaay too much ticker. All that does is make the rest of the playing group look bad. I don't think we can risk taking him'
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They must be studying the Patrick Ewing theory....remove your best player to make the team better.
Dumb, dumb, dumb move if they are even considering it.
Review of game: Not as good as the previous version, but playable once you figure out that scooting from dummy half is the best way to make ground and then score in close.I've been suggesting the Warriors, the actual Warriors, follow this gameplan for years....
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BTW Broncs trailing Storm 0-2 27mins goooorne
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30- 0 in a prelim final
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Only watched the last 25 minutes. Pretty rubbish game, other than all the late hits on Cronk.....
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I'm on holiday at a place with Fox Sports so decided to watch a bit of this. NRL has become even more of a drudge than I remember.
Funniest bit was the doctor looking at Slater's high shot on Marshall with great care, but thirty other tackles around the neck and head throughout the game going unpunished.
NRL is going to have some legal action to deal with down the track
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Cowboys do the dirty over the Roosters 29-16 and make it to the Grand Final. Hard to believe they did it without their two captains Jonathan Thurston and Matt Scott.
NRL will be stoked: Melbourne Vs North Queensland in Sydney.
Michael Morgan and Te Maire Martin are making an awesome halves pairing that I'm now thinking that JT sticking around for one more season might be a bad thing in the long run.
