[Round 23, 2021] Broncos vs Warriors

[Sproj]

I'll be grabbing a packet of something salty and sitting down to watch this tonight...

I am grateful for your sacrifice.

 

[Johnny92]

In Annersley's description he slows the play down and says "follow Aitkens hand" and when it comes into view he says it is Coates' hand. Yet magically it has a bandaged wrist and Coates wrists are not bandaged. So not only did the bunker get it wrong, Annersley's whole team had the rest of the weekend to replay it and they still got it hopelessly wrong. Go and look at it yourself. Also look at the thumb on the bandaged wrist it is a left hand as you can see the palm. At this point it was Coates right hand that gounded the ball. The guy is a frikkin pumpkin. The hand that they say was last to the ball was the bandaged wrist and that was obviously the hand of Aitken.

In the live commentary im certain i heard the video ref say Coates grounds the ball in the in goal and Cronk and Co go good decision blah blah then it comes up green light.. but every replay i can find it says Aitken instead of Coates..
Surely I'm hearing shit and they wouldn't have gone and changed it for the highlight videos

 

[Dash]

He circles Coates' hand and says "this is Aitken's hand" then follows it through to the grounding.

The incompetence is astounding.

 

[rnabokov]

In 25 ISC games, Herbie played centre once and wing 24 times. He's never shown a passing game which was why the wing was ideal and Smith had it sussed early.

He has become too rigid in the centre, his strength on the wing for Norths was his ability to adapt and change and pop up all over the place.

He played different sides and had great results. Against the Pride he came across to pass to the other centre then trots back over to his side like no big deal but it created extra men on that side, he had good vision. His second try he stays out when he has to and just waits for the Dargan pass to find him.

Against Ipswich slots in at centre on the left and shrugs off guys and scores. Goes back to the right wing.

He started 2019 on the left and then Smith moved him round 9 against Tweed back to the right. Then back to the left and got four tries against the Pride- finals back to the right. It was an even split by the end of the year with 10 tries on each side.

I made the Tate comparison in 2019, that is still what I think is his best role, on the wing move around and do more dummy half work because he is very strong and fast.

He looks like he is playing a straight jacket at the moment. Wing frees him up. He's just content to make his 10 hit ups and 150m. He's got more than that.

Sounds to me like a coaching issue. I'm all for letting Herbie play, as you say, popping up "all over the place" . He'd be brilliant at it. His ability to break tackles with both power and terrific footwork and acceleration is wasted the way Kevvie has him playing now. In a straight jacket, locked in a one-dimensional centre role, where he continually gets the ball with little room to move. Thank goodness we will have a decent half back next year who understands the importance of setting up your players out wide..

For mine, we should try at least, the strategy that Hasler uses with Turbo, Robinson with Tedesco and Cleary with Luai. it bloody works a treat. Herbie is under-utilised.

As for his kicking game, he reminds me of an EPL player taking corners, and rather accurately at that. I see Farnworth's skills as useful to this side as those of Staggs.

 

[MrRobot]

He circles Coates' hand and says "this is Aitken's hand" then follows it through to the grounding.

The incompetence is astounding.

Watching it made my head explode. He clearly circled Coates' hand, and said it was Aitken's left. How tf does that happen?

 

[Dash]

Watching it made my head explode. He clearly circled Coates' hand, and said it was Aitken's left. How tf does that happen?

These NRL blokes are cooked in the head.

1. It was facing the wrong direction to be a left hand
2. It belonged to a bloke with brown skin.

It's insanity.

 

[McHunt]

Watching it made my head explode. He clearly circled Coates' hand, and said it was Aitken's left. How tf does that happen?

These NRL blokes are cooked in the head.

1. It was facing the wrong direction to be a left hand
2. It belonged to a bloke with brown skin.

It's insanity.

He circles Coates' hand and says "this is Aitken's hand" then follows it through to the grounding.

The incompetence is astounding.

Yeah, I'm not seeing that. I scrubbed that video back and forth about twenty times. It's pixelated to **** but purely on the last angle, I tend to agree with Annesley.

At any rate, when it's down to frame by frame like that, I don't care if they just award the try. Do we really need to nitpick to that degree? It's not like we we can claim we were robbed when they were over the tryline in the process of downward pressure on the ball.

All the same, good effort by Coates.

 

[LittleDavey]

Yeah, I'm not seeing that. I scrubbed that video back and forth about twenty times. It's pixelated to **** but purely on the last angle, I tend to agree with Annesley.

But Annesley was at pains literally 30 seconds earlier during his explanation of the previous Hiku try that different angles are critical to seeing what actually happened. Then proceeds to only look at the two angles where arms are obscured by bodies and skips over the front-on clip that the bunker used to confirm the try yesterday - which clearly showed brown hand on the ball.

That's aside from 5 seconds previously showing clearly Coates' hand (brown skin, no tape on the wrist) circled as Aitken's (paler skin, tape on the wrist) before describing - correctly - how that hand grounded the ball first.

This is literally doubling down on the stupid and the incorrect. Doesn't matter if we 'deserved it' or not. It was a clear no try even by their own video where they have obviously tried to choose the most obscured footage possible to give some veneer of plausibility to the bullshit.

 

[Scorchie]

In Annersley's description he slows the play down and says "follow Aitkens hand" and when it comes into view he says it is Coates' hand. Yet magically it has a bandaged wrist and Coates wrists are not bandaged. So not only did the bunker get it wrong, Annersley's whole team had the rest of the weekend to replay it and they still got it hopelessly wrong. Go and look at it yourself. Also look at the thumb on the bandaged wrist it is a left hand as you can see the palm. At this point it was Coates right hand that gounded the ball. The guy is a frikkin pumpkin. The hand that they say was last to the ball was the bandaged wrist and that was obviously the hand of Aitken.

Yep that did my head in. He circles Xaviers hand then in the next frame calls it Aitkens

I don’t get it

either way it was still a try because of simultaneous grounding going to the attacker but still, if your main boss can’t use his eyes what hope do the refs have

 

[Xzei]

Maybe annersley dosnt see color.... or much of anything else.

 

[Mr Fourex]

Yep that did my head in. He circles Xaviers hand then in the next frame calls it Aitkens

I don’t get it

either way it was still a try because of simultaneous grounding going to the attacker but still, if your main boss can’t use his eyes what hope do the refs have

Who makes up the panel observing and asking lame arse questions......?

 

[Dash]

Yeah, I'm not seeing that. I scrubbed that video back and forth about twenty times. It's pixelated to **** but purely on the last angle, I tend to agree with Annesley.

At any rate, when it's down to frame by frame like that, I don't care if they just award the try. Do we really need to nitpick to that degree? It's not like we we can claim we were robbed when they were over the tryline in the process of downward pressure on the ball.

All the same, good effort by Coates.

You're not seeing him circle Coates' hand, call it Aitken's, and then say it's the hand that grounds the ball?

That's kind of worrying, dude.

 

[broncos4life]

Watching it made my head explode. He clearly circled Coates' hand, and said it was Aitken's left. How tf does that happen?

Because he is a liar. He has made a career based around lying. Most people know lying is bad either for moral reasons or they have lied and been punished for it. Annersley’s whole career has involved lying and being praised and promoted for it.

 

[mrslong]

In Annersley's description he slows the play down and says "follow Aitkens hand" and when it comes into view he says it is Coates' hand. Yet magically it has a bandaged wrist and Coates wrists are not bandaged. So not only did the bunker get it wrong, Annersley's whole team had the rest of the weekend to replay it and they still got it hopelessly wrong. Go and look at it yourself. Also look at the thumb on the bandaged wrist it is a left hand as you can see the palm. At this point it was Coates right hand that gounded the ball. The guy is a frikkin pumpkin. The hand that they say was last to the ball was the bandaged wrist and that was obviously the hand of Aitken.

Also, his skin is brown.

 

[Mustafur]

You know there is something rotten when they consistently defend the undefendable. Coaches can't criticise them or they get fined and no one is accountable, so this shit keeps happening.

 

[broncos4life]

Why can’t they just say “yep we got that wrong, sorry” it’s fucking crazy.

 

[Aldo]

Yeah, this is a sick fucking joke

 

[McHunt]

You're not seeing him circle Coates' hand, call it Aitken's, and then say it's the hand that grounds the ball?

That's kind of worrying, dude.

To be honest, this is a pixelated dog's breakfast. I can't get histrionic over this. Sorry.