PRE-GAME [Round 25, 2021] Broncos vs Knights

[McHunt]

Interesting Bullemor has gone past Kennedy to be the replacement starter, you wouldn't think that would be the case if he was out the door would you?

Means nothing. Milford, Coates, Levi and Croft are named as well.

Good point, this is the week we farewell:

Glenn
Croft
Milford
Levi
Isaako?
Bullemor?
Oates?

Coates, not Oates. But maybe Oates.

 

[Accept]

Means nothing. Milford, Coates, Levi and Croft are named as well.


Coates, not Oates. But maybe Oates.

If the Broncos can offload his contract or part thereof, they will definitely get rid of him. Unfortunately, most teams aren't in the market for a busted winger. Maybe the ESL.

 

[winslow_wong]

Good point, this is the week we farewell:

Glenn
Croft
Milford
Levi
Isaako?
Bullemor?
Oates?

Will they all take turns at chairing each other off the field?

 

[WASSHHH]

Will they all take turns at chairing each other off the field?

Glenn - would think he was still doing it well, but really, he hasn’t done it well since Parker retired.
Croft - would try really, really hard, but be shit at it.
Milford - too much effort, wouldn’t even bother, unless someone else did all the organising and gave him good support.
Levi - I’ve got nothing.
Isaako - would carry someone off way too sweetly and end up on Coro Drive.
Bullemor - would look really promising doing it, but then Kevvie would take him off.
Oates - would trip over his own feet and drop someone.

 

[Johnny92]

Glenn - would think he was still doing it well, but really, he hasn’t done it well since Parker retired.
Croft - would try really, really hard, but be shit at it.
Milford - too much effort, wouldn’t even bother, unless someone else did all the organising and gave him good support.
Levi - I’ve got nothing.
Isaako - would carry someone off way too sweetly and end up on Coro Drive.
Bullemor - would look really promising doing it, but then Kevvie would take him off.
Oates - would trip over his own feet and drop someone.

Issako would carry someone from the crowd as that always seems to be who he kicks off too
If Milford gets carried off he'd make sure they were going through the Macca's drive through first

 

[Sproj]

What a hilarious conversation! So funny.

 

[PNG Broncos fan88]

I think the Raiders are also in our camp. Sticky would hate to see that sort of shit on his watch.

You are wrong. They became the dive kings last Friday. In the last 10mns of the Warriors game both Rapana and Young took innocuous hits staying down long enough to earn penalties.
You could hear the Warriors stand in captain questioning why Rapana was not off for HIA while he was lining up the penalty kick. Blatant ignorance by the ref there.

Same shit happened to Tanoa-Brown when Warriors where in attack and he got up groggy spitting blood but no..."play on".

Looks like the teams with persuasive players and captains are milking these better than some of the others. Refs are biased honestly, they pay attention to Tedesco, Hodgson, and brush aside the likes of Glenn, Jackson.

 

[McHunt]

Relax you can't judge an entire players skills on a single pass lmao.

You can when it's their only pass of a game and you want to shift them into the spine based on talents you've never seen them display.

 

[McHunt]

I reckon we dodged a bullet getting rid of Lodge. He's had 1 win from 5 starts with the Warriors. Already been banned twice since Rnd 17, and is facing another ban next week. He was coming off a ban when he left the Broncos, which I think was his (3rd?) ban of the season.

Read and weep:

Warriors prop Matt Lodge is free to play in Sunday's last-round clash with the Titans after escaping a fourth suspension this year. Following the lead of Panthers coach Ivan Cleary, Warriors assistant Justin Morgan represented Lodge. The 26-year-old risked a two-match ban by challenging a grade-one dangerous contact charge for a hip drop-style tackle on Canberra's Joe Tapine.

Lodge has already missed three games (rounds 20, 22 and 23) since joining the Warriors in July after contrary conduct and high tackle offences. The former Bronco was also sidelined in round 12 due to a high tackle charge.

Morgan told the panel of Sean Garlick, Tony Puletua and Dallas Johnson that Lodge was "sandwiched" in an awkward position:

"Being the defensive coach, I thought it was best to sit here with Matt … and let you know where we think the tackle went wrong."

NRL prosecutor Peter McGrath argued Lodge used his two-hand grip on Tapine to "carelessly" swing his bodyweight onto his opponent's leg. However, Morgan countered that Wayde Egan's "twisting" motion around the ball contributed to Lodge's positioning:

"Joe Tapine beats Matthew and he's holding on for dear life. We certainly don't think that Tapine's momentum was stopped because of [Lodge's] contact. The contact was stopped because he was twisted."

"If it was [Lodge's] grip that brought him down, he would have brought him down five or six steps earlier. There's no way a player can bring down a player of Joe Tapine's athletic ability with his hands. The twisting motion at some point of the tackle has sandwiched him underneath. If Wayde Egan is not involved in the tackle at all, what happens is Joe Tapine finds his front and Matthew Lodge finds himself in the play-the-ball area."

But in McGrath's view, the other defenders did not contribute to Lodge landing on Tapine's limb:

"It was a case of player Tapine – I think, in this instance – getting the better of the defence … and player Lodge doing what he could to stop him. McGrath claimed there was an "unacceptable risk of injury. [Lodge] comes down with contact on player Tapine's ankle and that causes that knee to buckle under the weight of player Lodge. "

Tapine was unable to play the ball with a minor knee issue but returned to the field to help the Raiders to a 28-16 win. Normally, the charge would result in a fine – after a 25 percent discount afforded for a guilty plea – but four non-similar offences in the past two years added loading. The enforcer would have been rubbed out for round one of next season if the verdict went against him. While a finals miracle isn't possible for the Warriors, they are keen to strongly finish off another nomadic season with a win over the Titans on Sunday.

In five matches under coach Nathan Brown, Lodge has averaged 135 metres and formed a formidable front-row partnership with Addin Fonua-Blake.

Lodge not guilty at judiciary and free to play

Warriors prop Matt Lodge is free to play in Sunday's last-round clash with the Titans after escaping a fourth suspension this year.

www.nrl.com

 

[broncos4life]

Still don't understand why Coates is and has been in the team.

 

[The Strapper]

Read and weep:

Warriors prop Matt Lodge is free to play in Sunday's last-round clash with the Titans after escaping a fourth suspension this year. Following the lead of Panthers coach Ivan Cleary, Warriors assistant Justin Morgan represented Lodge. The 26-year-old risked a two-match ban by challenging a grade-one dangerous contact charge for a hip drop-style tackle on Canberra's Joe Tapine.

Lodge has already missed three games (rounds 20, 22 and 23) since joining the Warriors in July after contrary conduct and high tackle offences. The former Bronco was also sidelined in round 12 due to a high tackle charge.

Morgan told the panel of Sean Garlick, Tony Puletua and Dallas Johnson that Lodge was "sandwiched" in an awkward position:

"Being the defensive coach, I thought it was best to sit here with Matt … and let you know where we think the tackle went wrong."

NRL prosecutor Peter McGrath argued Lodge used his two-hand grip on Tapine to "carelessly" swing his bodyweight onto his opponent's leg. However, Morgan countered that Wayde Egan's "twisting" motion around the ball contributed to Lodge's positioning:

"Joe Tapine beats Matthew and he's holding on for dear life. We certainly don't think that Tapine's momentum was stopped because of [Lodge's] contact. The contact was stopped because he was twisted."

"If it was [Lodge's] grip that brought him down, he would have brought him down five or six steps earlier. There's no way a player can bring down a player of Joe Tapine's athletic ability with his hands. The twisting motion at some point of the tackle has sandwiched him underneath. If Wayde Egan is not involved in the tackle at all, what happens is Joe Tapine finds his front and Matthew Lodge finds himself in the play-the-ball area."

But in McGrath's view, the other defenders did not contribute to Lodge landing on Tapine's limb:

"It was a case of player Tapine – I think, in this instance – getting the better of the defence … and player Lodge doing what he could to stop him. McGrath claimed there was an "unacceptable risk of injury. [Lodge] comes down with contact on player Tapine's ankle and that causes that knee to buckle under the weight of player Lodge. "

Tapine was unable to play the ball with a minor knee issue but returned to the field to help the Raiders to a 28-16 win. Normally, the charge would result in a fine – after a 25 percent discount afforded for a guilty plea – but four non-similar offences in the past two years added loading. The enforcer would have been rubbed out for round one of next season if the verdict went against him. While a finals miracle isn't possible for the Warriors, they are keen to strongly finish off another nomadic season with a win over the Titans on Sunday.

In five matches under coach Nathan Brown, Lodge has averaged 135 metres and formed a formidable front-row partnership with Addin Fonua-Blake.

Lodge not guilty at judiciary and free to play

Warriors prop Matt Lodge is free to play in Sunday's last-round clash with the Titans after escaping a fourth suspension this year.

www.nrl.com

If lodge was still playing for us he would have gotten 3 weeks minimum.

 

[McHunt]

Still don't understand why Coates is and has been in the team.

Because Kevvie was incessantly nagged and bagged about dropping him after he came back from Origin. But also because he's our most prolific tryscorer and Kevvie wants to win, more than whatever he would achieve by dropping him. Coates has scored 3 in the last 2 games. That's 50% more than Herbie all season. He's also saved at least one, plus that controversial one the bunker allowed. His defence seems to have improved.

 

[Sproj]

Because Kevvie was incessantly nagged and bagged about dropping him after he came back from Origin. But also because he's our most prolific tryscorer and Kevvie wants to win, more than whatever he would achieve by dropping him. Coates has scored 3 in the last 2 games. That's 50% more than Herbie all season. He's also saved at least one, plus that controversial one the bunker allowed. His defence seems to have improved.

So Herbie has scored 1 and a half tries? How did he score the half try?

 

[McHunt]

So Herbie has scored 1 and a half tries? How did he score the half try?

I can tell you're an Arts student.

Herbie 2 tries.
50% of 2 = 1.
2 + 1 = 3 (use your fingers to double-check that)

 

[WASSHHH]

Coates has scored 3 in the last 2 games. That's 50% more than Herbie all season. He's also saved at least one, plus that controversial one the bunker allowed. His defence seems to have improved.

 

[Culhwch]

I guarantee Herbie will score more tries for the Broncs next season than Coates will. Take that to the bank, guys.

 

[McHunt]

I guarantee Herbie will score more tries for the Broncs next season than Coates will. Take that to the bank, guys.

Computer, process this:

1. how many times will we play the storm (including Grand Final)?
2. how many tries will Coates let in per game?
3. where will Herbie play next season?
4. factor Staggs.
5. factor Reynolds.

It's down to the wire, that one.

 

[Blindside Bronco]

And if you are a referee, under fatigue make even worse decisions than normal.

Yes but that's why they have a bunker referee, unless he is fatigued from being sucked off by whom ever we are playing that weekend.