Who had/has a more horrible style of football?

[Apey]

i hope your other 18,245 posts were not this stupid

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

The Tigers were throwing hospital passes all night, and Benji in particular put in some terrible kicks. It might not have been spectacular, but the Dragons deserved to win.

Generally the Tigers are brilliant to watch, but where was the 'creativity' you spoke of? All they had in the opposition 20 was going side to side hoping for an overlap to appear. No chip kicks, no run arounds.... it was pretty pedestrian to be honest.

To be fair the Tigers were disrupted by several key injuries throughout the week. Our attack was always going to look disjointed playing a centre at 5/8 and Marshall at half, although I don't think anybody could've predicted how appalling Marshall would play. Credit must go to the Dragons for their excellent defence - they'll make any attack look bad.

 

[Nevan_]

played in the spirit of the game...pass the ball, run on the last. actually have a crack in each set of six as opposed to the drone like style that the dragons adopt

All Soward does is bomb the bloody thing 100 times a game. Wow, creative much? And NSW want him in the side? bwahahahahaha

LOL

We did all those things tonight

Your stupidity is reaching new heights, Moffo.

 

[kia ora storm]

The Dragons play a great "biege" style of game..illustrated pretty much by Soward kicking for goal to get them 2-0 up early in the game.

Conservative style does not always win finals though...

 

[saints_fireup]

What a rubbish thread.

So because Saints don't throw the ball around excessively, make forced errors and give the ball to the opposition, they're boring? Incredible logic. Almost sounds like the logic of one from the Shire.

It seems that a structured approach developed around a strong defensive unit is only boring to supporters of teams on the losing end of such an approach.

Saints don't have the player leading the Dally M award in their line-up for nothing.

 

[hellteam]

Dragons 10 and Storm 07 both play pretty similar styles I think, but I think the Storm were better to watch. Better players, and could often come up with brilliant plays through Slater, Inglis etc.

Dragons need to step up another notch in the finals, which they didn't last year. Storm had the players (illegally obviously), to come up with those great plays, it remains to be seen whether Dragons can pull them off when they REALLY matter.

 

[Daddycool]

Dead heat!

 

[kia ora storm]

What a rubbish thread.

So because Saints don't throw the ball around excessively, make forced errors and give the ball to the opposition, they're boring? Incredible logic. Almost sounds like the logic of one from the Shire.

It seems that a structured approach developed around a strong defensive unit is only boring to supporters of teams on the losing end of such an approach.

Saints don't have the player leading the Dally M award in their line-up for nothing.

The structured approach has found to catch the Dragons out in finals...the concern is that if they choose to adopt this style then they need to be able to step it up when they are behind in a finals game.

 

[cleary89]

St George are like AFL, better to watch live apparently
That is only because `the fall asleep on the couch after 10' option is not available live
It was 3 tries to 2 in the 77th minute against a team using their 5th choice halfback (Moltzen, Lui, Lazarus, Farah) who got absolutely bashed by Canberra 5 days before.
That St george took so long to put us to the sword is an indictment of their `style'
They do honestly have nothing and when referees start pinging that old hack priddis for flopping in 30 seconds after a tackle is made or bin players who resort to the professional foul after a big bust has been made. They might get the same decisions next week, even the week after, maybe all the way til Sept.

But when the pressure is on and the refs pick up that, amongst other rubbish like the ginger cat's hand on the ball every f**king tackle, they'll show they have nothing again and whoever comes 9th could well dust them up, again.

good point. we suck. we wont win a game all season. no one will play origin. wait, what?

 

[Loudstrat]

Easy. Manly in 2008 - who were far better than Melboring in the latter half of the season.

Start again Moffo, and get it right next time!!!!!!!

 

[sovereign]

Supporters will always hate on the team at the top of the comp.

Fact.

People without their brain seeping out of their skull should ignore this thread.

 

[Didgi]

i hope your other 18,245 posts were not this stupid

:lol: If not, then fairly close.

played in the spirit of the game...pass the ball, run on the last. actually have a crack in each set of six as opposed to the drone like style that the dragons adopt

All Soward does is bomb the bloody thing 100 times a game. Wow, creative much? And NSW want him in the side? bwahahahahaha

Brett Morris - 15 tries in as many games IIRC before this round. Wingers don't score tries without the ball being passed wide (most of his tries) or an attacking kick, which all teams do.

 

[Kiki]

oh dear. this thread is just....wow

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Well....we all know that the dragons have been the dominant team during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Before that, the Storm did pretty well. Question is, who were the more horrible team to watch?

The Storm were known for grappling away in tackles and slowing down the play the ball. For some unknown reason the referees let them get away with it in almost every game. They might as well have had Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man as their front rowers

The Dragons are largely devoid of creativity, and rely on a dour defensive approach to work teams down. As last year proved, they have nothing when teams turn up the pressure a few notches

Its just a shame that teams who actually play rugby league properly (the tigers are a good example) are worn down by teams that bastardise the game

Discuss

Cheers,
Moffo

Don't watch.

 

[Eels Dude]

Dragons play a very structured form of football which is very successful, but completely boring to watch. I'd rather watch a team who plays that ad lib football anyday. Parra had a fairytale run like that last year and were awesome to watch. Tigers won it in '05 and Panthers won it in '03 by doing it and those two are the premierships that everyone will remember from the past decade. Panthers could do it again this year, if so they'll be the side everyone will be cheering for in the finals just like the Eels last year.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

St George are like AFL, better to watch live apparently
That is only because `the fall asleep on the couch after 10' option is not available live
It was 3 tries to 2 in the 77th minute against a team using their 5th choice halfback (Moltzen, Lui, Lazarus, Farah) who got absolutely bashed by Canberra 5 days before.
That St george took so long to put us to the sword is an indictment of their `style'
They do honestly have nothing and when referees start pinging that old hack priddis for flopping in 30 seconds after a tackle is made or bin players who resort to the professional foul after a big bust has been made. They might get the same decisions next week, even the week after, maybe all the way til Sept.

But when the pressure is on and the refs pick up that, amongst other rubbish like the ginger cat's hand on the ball every f**king tackle, they'll show they have nothing again and whoever comes 9th could well dust them up, again.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:Thought you didn't care if you lost. Happy with a good performance blah blah blah.

Suck it up Steady Eddie. You're no chance aginst us now or in September. If you even make it to September.

How good was Creagh.

 

[Eels Dude]

Creagh's performance sums up his status at a player. Terrific in a club side that's going well, useless at rep level.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Creagh's performance sums up his status at a player. Terrific in a club side that's going well, useless at rep level.

Just stirring Steady Eddie up mate. He loves Ben Creagh.

 

[Kiki]

as a Dragons fan, i'm fairly sure i would prefer that we win rather than entertain you lot. just sayin.

 

[smacky]

To me it seems anyone complaining about dragons style of play is only jealous that their team arent as consistent, disciplined and have dragons defence. Im sure a lot of teams (eg: tiger, raiders, eels) would look at our style and wish they could replicate it in some way because its what wins you matches on a consistent basis.

When it comes to finals though we will have to step up. Not so much with flair and attacking brilliance but with intensity and aggression. Will be interesting to see what happens.