NRL Round 5 Discussion
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Because the refs only do that with certain teams. You can be assured that we'll have (even more than now) 6-agains blown against us, until we either concede a try, or one of our players will be binned.
The coaches have been gagged from even commenting on the refs, and now we see they are trying to gag the media. It's a dirty organisation run by a known dirty operator.
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I can tell you never went to Harvard. Or some other Yankee uni that Mr Pies went to.
Big Del
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You know they do test for PED S .
He doesn't look to be on roids to me judging by his body and aerobic capacity .
Now EPO that is more plausible. Roids increase muscle mass . And that can negatively affect aerobic capacity .
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Until the ball carrying arm touches the ground the ball is still alive . So fair play to flop on, if the ball is not dead .
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Correct and Dogs are not elite at it like Penrith have been.
Dogs are getting it wrong(late) a lot.
The other part is winning the ruck.
If the attacker wins the ruck the flopper isn't supposed to dwell at all,
but they do and the refs let them because it looks nearly right.
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The 3rd man in stuff is all about slowing the play the ball, and some teams just do get more freedom.
Last week, our avg play the ball speed was 3.65s, but phins only got done for 1 ruck infringement 6 again.
Conversely, Phins avg play the ball speed was 3.44s, but we got done for 4 ruck infringement 6 agains.
If you look across the stats for the games, and the number of ruck infringements given compared to the avg play the ball speed, you'll see just how inconsistent it is ref to ref and team to team. As long as that's the case, you'll never not have people thinking their team gets shafted.
Last week, our avg play the ball speed was 3.65s, but phins only got done for 1 ruck infringement 6 again.
Conversely, Phins avg play the ball speed was 3.44s, but we got done for 4 ruck infringement 6 agains.
If you look across the stats for the games, and the number of ruck infringements given compared to the avg play the ball speed, you'll see just how inconsistent it is ref to ref and team to team. As long as that's the case, you'll never not have people thinking their team gets shafted.
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Can be teams feeling pressure and trying to slow things down .
Lots of long periods of no possesion lately . Start to get fatigued by repeat efforts try to buy a little time . Pinged .
Also part of it is the Ref`s personality certainly . Some feel the need to get the players respect . They are constantly coaching them in penalty / 6 again situations . If they think you might be disrepecting them and ignoring . Bingo . But that can also be fatigue on the part of the ref or the players that influences decisions .
I heard an interesting quote on the ABC radio . NRL official is the only job where you are expected to be perfect all the time .
LOL .
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I think that's a given my problem is with the teams that seemingly never get shafted. Like Penrith for 5 years and now the Dogs.
Not denying there isn't a bit if envy there. If we could get close to defending like that we would be unstoppable.
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I suppose they're also suggesting Piakura should've been straight sent and should be getting more weeks on the sideline.
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He got him good but .
May was falling but Brendan did smash his shoulder into his melon pretty violently .
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He got absolutely folded by Kobe from the side... prop running a crash play on the goal line... if he's not going in hard there's chance you concede a try.
Is it meant to be moderate force AND no mitigating circumstances... or moderate force OR no mitigating circumstances.
NRL is just ridiculous at the moment... who the **** knows what's going on, but you can bet it's going to **** your team... unless you're golden child (storm, dogs, etc.)
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Good chat from Mason on the dogs ... interesting when he talks about their defensive system and the "chain" defence... sprinting up off the line and sticking tight together with no gaps between them.
It's probably something that makes sense when he says it and will probably be something that I'll now notice, but wouldn't really have been something that I noticed when watching their games.
Would love to see how the dogs go up against a tough team, but it looks like it's only going to be us bookended by souths and titans, so they'll be front loading up on our game in Round 8.
They don't play panthers until middle of the origin period and only get storm once in round 25... twenty fucking five. The schedule is fucking rigged.
It's probably something that makes sense when he says it and will probably be something that I'll now notice, but wouldn't really have been something that I noticed when watching their games.
Would love to see how the dogs go up against a tough team, but it looks like it's only going to be us bookended by souths and titans, so they'll be front loading up on our game in Round 8.
They don't play panthers until middle of the origin period and only get storm once in round 25... twenty fucking five. The schedule is fucking rigged.
