NRL - 2019 Grand Final

[LGH]

I wonder how long it will be before someone says it’s just a game of football so just chill you guys ?

Darius will have a column this week saying just that. He's an expert on such things after all.

 

[Dexter]

Shit call and no doubt potentially changed the outcome but they had a lot of ball and couldn't convert.
JL could have put Rapana over but decided to do it himself then he was the one left behind when Keary went from dummy half. He actually put his hands in the air and got out of his way and at no stage looked up to see the play or try and chase.
Sometimes you need to look within.
I thought the Cronk binning was soft so they got that massive call and couldn't score against 12 players.

 

[Dexter]

Does anyone know why the call was changed??? Who made the over call??

 

[Browny]

And JWH was told he’d get the Clive Churchill. Fucking amateur hour

 

[Nashy]

Does anyone know why the call was changed??? Who made the over call??

I've only watched/heard it back a few times. But it looks like Cummins did it all himself, and the other bloke continued like he had no idea an issue had occurred. As soon as the was the hand over, Cummins buggered off and Wighton was left arguing it with a ref who seemed to have no idea that it had happened.

 

[Nashy]

And JWH was told he’d get the Clive Churchill. Fucking amateur hour

What happened there?

 

[tommy]

I thought Cronk getting binned for being a fraction of a second early was gloriously ironic.

 

[Browny]

What happened there?

Roosters star snubbed after Medal farce

Roosters prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves was left awkwardly standing next to the NRL Grand Final presentation podium after wrongly being told he’d been awarded the Clive Churchill Medal.

www.news.com.au

 

[Nashy]

Roosters star snubbed after Medal farce

Roosters prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves was left awkwardly standing next to the NRL Grand Final presentation podium after wrongly being told he’d been awarded the Clive Churchill Medal.

www.news.com.au

I wish I could be surprised at the absolute uselessness of this sport, but it's just so expected now.

 

[winslow_wong]

Roosters star snubbed after Medal farce

Roosters prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves was left awkwardly standing next to the NRL Grand Final presentation podium after wrongly being told he’d been awarded the Clive Churchill Medal.

www.news.com.au

Why would Lockyer vote for wighton... he’s lost the plot of late.

 

[tommy]

How does the voting even work if only 3 of them vote on it? How could Lockyer's vote change the winner?

 

[ningnangnong]

How does the voting even work if only 3 of them vote on it? How could Lockyer's vote change the winner?

Maybe they get like 10 points each to distribute, and then when you tally it up the player with the most points win?

So, to give a basic example:

Meninga
JWH - 6 points
Wighton - 4 points

Daley
JWH - 6 points
Wighton - 4 points

Lockyer
Wighton - 6 points
Hodgson - 3 points
JWH - 1 point

I have no fucking idea but haha.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Does anyone know why the call was changed??? Who made the over call??

Here’s the play with just the refs talking. He’s called 6 to go then said, “Is it?”
What a clusterfuck.

 

[theshed]

the Ref fucked up, no doubt. But burning the last play for the Raiders is no where as significant as if they erroneously gave 6 again inside roosters 20m.

It only looks that way because Raiders couldn’t defend an 80m field advantage.

 

[Dexter]

How does the voting even work if only 3 of them vote on it? How could Lockyer's vote change the winner?

I picked Wighton as my CC winner but how do 2 ex Raiders sit on the panel. The NRL has no fucking idea.

 

[tommy]

Trent Robinson looks like he wants to tear JT's throat out lol.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/n...n/news-story/a5e05c56a44be79d033b7691cca85019

 

[007]

It was a double wrong call. I do feel for the Raiders as that was the turning point and i think the Rooster jumped on it.

It shouldn't have been 6 again in the first place, but to call it, then reverse it mid play is ridiculous.

 

[Alec]

So who is going to stop the Roosters next year?

Souffs? Don't see it.
Melbourne? Definitely not if Smith retires. Definitely not if they persist with Hughes in the halves.
Manly? Maybe if DCE and Turbo stay injury free.
Canberra again? Maybe, but they were riding hard on emotion, I have a feeling it'll be the case of 2015 to 2016 Broncos with them.
Broncos? Sharks? Eels? God no.

It'll probably be the Titans.