Round 10 - Sea Eagles vs Broncos

[BroncsFan]

I cant see any real contact.
It was dumb to put himself in that position when you've been told and been on the wrong end of it.
I'd be interested to hear what others thought about the contact though

I saw pretty minimal contact from head to head, but Riki adjusted his head position to be above the ball and was then looking to push him back over.

I think Harper made it look worse than what it was because when Riki was looking to push him back it's likely his head came in contact with Harper's chin whose reaction was to jar his head back... like when you hit your chin and chink your teeth together... and because he felt contact with his chin he made a big song and dance about it knowing it would draw attention.

Poor execution more than anything I'd say and warranted a penalty... was always going to be a sin bin with the over zealous little prick in yellow holding the whistle

 

[Sproj]

The thing I got out of it was Harper looks a lot like a pug.

 

[Huge]

I cant see any real contact.
It was dumb to put himself in that position when you've been told and been on the wrong end of it.
I'd be interested to hear what others thought about the contact though

Riki head into shoulder, clavicle area. No contact with head or neck. Don't think he got charged for it? Should never have been 10 in bin

 

[WASSHHH]

The thing I got out of it was Harper looks a lot like a pug.

He looks like a rock spider.

Penalty (simply because of contact with the head), nothing more. It’s nothing like Napa where he comes charging in like a lunatic. He’d already made contact and was in the wrestle for a considerable amount of time.

Definitely not a reportable offence and most certainly not a sin bin. Which is funny, as the MRP agree, which says it all really.

 

[Skathen]

He looks like a rock spider.

hahaha wow - been a while since I saw that one. Yeah dude def giving off the hide your kids vibe.

 

[fitzy0707]

Anybody saying that we are blaming the refs for losing either isn't reading the actual posts in this thread, or is simply a troll - it's that simple

John, most certainly not a troll. Bronx fan true and true. Maybe you need to re-read the thread, I didn't say everyone was blaming refs but there are several comments about decisions going against broncos as if it was going to change the result, as Kevie said its something we have to work on, he took it on the chin as he knew it was the teams "soft" performance that lost the game.

 

[fitzy0707]

If only it was that simple. A lot of Bronco supporters and fans of the game in general do not know the facts about the Broncos and their relationship with penalties. The Broncos have received the least penalties of all teams in the league since 1988. It's not a coincidence nor simple bad luck or happenstance. It's a deliberate and concerted effort to hobble the club.

Given we play all the other clubs in the same fashion that they play each other you'd expect all clubs to have a similar percentage when taken over a 30 year period. That's not the case though. One club, the Broncos are clearly and consistently discriminated against.

During that period you'd expect every club to have been at the top or near top at least once, that's penalties received, not conceded. Penalties received is not something we can control, it's entirely in the refs and NRL's control.

Nope, never happened. We've never even been close. From memory two clubs have been though, Manly and Cronulla. In fact I think they make up 30% of top places during the last 30 years. Manly 5 times, Cronulla 4 times. Most penalties in a season awarded to them.

That's deliberate. So, good or bad form it makes no difference. We have always been discriminated against.

Agree, but I can see this argument in a close encounter and losing by a single try or score. Feel as if its irrelevant this time around and its the team that needs looked at for the result, not external influences. Game was lost on attitude taking the pitch IMHO

 

[fitzy0707]

Reynolds won’t provide much at all if the rest of the team can’t get to the end of their sets, or hold the ball.

Wouldn't question Kevies methods or tell him what needs done, he seemed as baffled as anyone by that performance. As you mentioned, need to go back to basics and complete sets and the basic skill of holding the ball

 

[fitzy0707]

I don't believe anybody on this forum actually thinks that the reffing caused us to lose the game. Manly played all over us but the one sided over the top reffing just ruined the game to watch. If contact eliminating contact with the head is so important why not do this at the start of the year?

I had just seen several comments entirely based on the ref decisions rather than the teams performance. I agree with you, game is destroyed by these new rules, why not have them implemented start of the year, or at this stage, review and implement next year, weird we're close to half way through the season and they start messing about.

 

[Huge]

Agree, but I can see this argument in a close encounter and losing by a single try or score. Feel as if its irrelevant this time around and its the team that needs looked at for the result, not external influences. Game was lost on attitude taking the pitch IMHO

Correct. It wasn't the refs that cost us the game. It was the refs though who took away any chance to win the game. Ridiculous premeditated decisions to send players off. Penalising players for being aggressive!

What cost us the game was the soft as **** opening and lazy efforts early on. Vlandwhale and the refs deprived us of the chance to make up for it. As a fan, I'm disappointed in both the teams attitude AND the farcical refereeing.

 

[mitch222]

View attachment 12988Sin-binnable offence.

Tackling too hard
Should have been sent

 

[BroncsFan]

John, most certainly not a troll. Bronx fan true and true. Maybe you need to re-read the thread, I didn't say everyone was blaming refs but there are several comments about decisions going against broncos as if it was going to change the result, as Kevie said its something we have to work on, he took it on the chin as he knew it was the teams "soft" performance that lost the game.

When I was listening to the Wayne Bennett press conference he mentioned how a long stoppage in play halts any momentum and results in both teams having to reset and get back into the arm wrestle, specifically citing the refs going back several plays to put a player on report for a previous incident the bunker picks up.

I thought when TPJ was put on report it was a total reset of the game. You could see everyone on the field was totally confused by it all and then all of a sudden everyone was marched 70m upfield and the ball was given back to Manly for a touch finder.

The score was only 6-0 at that point and I thought we were just settling into the grind and we were about to get the ball back from a manly knock on. Instead we had to give the ball back to them, most players were probably still confused about what had just happened and how could that be considered a reportable offense. DCE kicks the ball close to the 50m line on the touch finder and all of a sudden manly get to reset in prime attacking position.

We were unable to adapt, reset and get back into the grind, and conceded the horrible Keppie try soon after the play restarted. Pretty sure everything collapsed from that point onwards.


Looking at the play by play on NRL.com TPJ was put on report at the 20min mark and it doesn't look like we saw the ball again until maybe the 27th minute (there's a break from the 26th minute until a Turbo linebreak in the 29th minute).

We needed to be better after the TPJ incident, but instead we reverted to 2020 broncos and 10min later we were down 18-0 and the game was gone.

 

[mrslong]

The thing I got out of it was Harper looks a lot like a pug.

He reminds me of a Chris Lilley character.

 

[Morkel]

New plan. We field a team of midgets. The opposition will spend the entire game in the bin.

Anyone seen Sugar Man from the X-Men?

Get him playing for us = guaranteed premiership.

 

[Renegade]

I loathe to blame the refs but man they did a number on us.

We would've lost regardless as we sucked but don't think we were losing 50-6 without the refs intervention.

Frankly when they scored 3 tries basically back to back when it was 13 on 11, I was thinking they could hit 70, so maybe we got off lightly?

Gonna be hard doing the BOG's this week... herbie had one good run at the end of the first half? Isaako somehow fooled everyone into getting over the line... that's about all she wrote.

 

[Donald Garner]

Hate to say it but the club needs to start looking at the players not the coaches. Seibold was the scape goat for these players and the club has allowed their performances to not matter.

I would argue that this years team is better then last years and apart from one or two performances we have been diabolical. The players were the problem last year and they are this year. For too long they have been talked up like they are superstars.

Case in point Riki. Ffs he was being compared to SBW by the likes of Glenn and co. The guy isn’t in the same universe as that. He would be lucky to make the 17 of most clubs. He is just one example of overrated, over paid players ruining our club.

 

[broncsgoat]

Hate to say it but the club needs to start looking at the players not the coaches. Seibold was the scape goat for these players and the club has allowed their performances to not matter.

I would argue that this years team is better then last years and apart from one or two performances we have been diabolical. The players were the problem last year and they are this year. For too long they have been talked up like they are superstars.

Case in point Riki. Ffs he was being compared to SBW by the likes of Glenn and co. The guy isn’t in the same universe as that. He would be lucky to make the 17 of most clubs. He is just one example of overrated, over paid players ruining our club.

The players pies was handed had 60%+ win percentage over the preceding 4 seasons. Since he was involved we’ve won 16 out of 55 games and lost pretty much every trial game. Losing is a habit and he kick started it.

 

[Sproj]

Anyone seen Sugar Man from the X-Men?

Get him playing for us = guaranteed premiership.

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Or Modok!