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    NRL Draft back on the agenda

    It would completely eliminate any sort of tribalism from the game. There would be no point to suburban games or teams based there everyone just becomes Sydney. Nearly every club legend in the history of the game is a local player. We need to expand our pool of players. A Draft won't help this...
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    NRL Draft back on the agenda

    Every team in the NRL are capable of doing what Penrith, Souths and the Cowboys have done. They are just doing a crap job with junior development. A draft would be the dumbest shittest idea in the history of the game genuinely worse than super league.
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    The Game 2022 Crowd Watch

    It works in Melbourne because the AFL comp is similar to the 1908 Rugby League set up. Sydney is more sprawling, the comp would be better if every Sydney side had their own 25-30k stadium to play out of they can work on filling those stadiums which would be achievable. Comparing to the AFL is a...
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    Best Grand Finals that never were..

    Brisbane vs Penrith in 1992. Penrith after losing their opening two games of the 1992 season. Penrith went 7-3 in their next 10 games including beating Brisbane at Lang Park 24-10, Illawarra at home 24-12. Easts who started that season on fire 23-12. Penrith were in 6th place 2 points off of...
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    Why do merged clubs perform so poorly?

    I agree with you that no one should have been made to merge, but I would say there was an uptick in crowd numbers in 1999. The main thing is to have all the geographical areas of Sydney represented and I don't think this has been the case since 1998. It's a hodge podge of teams and poorly...
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    Best Clive Churchill Performances

    No one has mentioned it but Ricky Stuart in 1990 was a fantastic display of kicking Penrith defended really well and basically kept Canberra in their own half for the majority of the game only for Stuart to kick the ball 50-60 metres down field every time, he also played a huge part in their...
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    Why do merged clubs perform so poorly?

    Basically, the wrong teams merged, Leichardt and Campbelltown are too far away from each other to make a coherent club, Wests should have merged with Canterbury since they were preparing to play out of Liverpool and Balmain should have either merged with the Roosters or Souths. If the mergers...
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    The 2022 Build Up thread

    Top 8 1. Roosters (If they don't have so many injuries their squad depth is the best Walker and Suuali should be better and they have some good players coming back, plus the media will bang on about if they had no injuries they would have won 5 comps in a row or some other bullshit completely...
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    Penrith from everyone’s second favourite club in 2003 to absolute hated club in 2021:

    People didn't hate anything about Penrith at first. Then the geniused smugness shit came along. Penrith are the okay symbol of the NRL. Plus the daily Telegraph and NRL 360 have been massively criticizing Penrith for years without any justification. Plus when James Maloney carried on like a...
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    The big NRL divide

    If you watch NRL 360 it's basically a Roosters fan channel, every day they just keep saying how amazing they are and awesome etc, I've literally never heard them say a bad word about anyone or anything to do with the club it's nothing but praise. All organizations they are basically built as...
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    The big NRL divide

    If you watch NRL 360 it's basically a Roosters fan channel, every day they just keep saying how amazing they are and awesome etc, I've literally never heard them say a bad word about anyone or anything to do with the club it's nothing but praise. All organizations they are basically built as...
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    The big NRL divide

    Those business interests are mainly a man in his late 70's what happens when he leaves or passes on ? They have had unprecedented good press and success over the past 20-25 years, they get every advantage handed to them but what happens when they don't get success for a sustained period ...
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    The big NRL divide

    The problem is we have two clubs in the NRL which don't have a junior base, Melbourne is understandable due to them expanding to an area with no history of the game. The other team is far less understandable and make no sense as a standalone venture and really add nothing to the competition but...
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    What the hell is going wrong with Manly???

    Manly, Canterbury and the Cowboys are all still attacking with block plays in slow motion. They are miles behind now the game has quickened up and you have to adlib a bit and think on your feet. Like Souths, Penrith, the Roosters even Melbourne. Manly's only try tonight came from a good...
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    NRL's growth mindset points to 18th team. And it ain't Perth.

    They have been pushing the Roosters to become Sydney's team since 1996, It aint going to work they are allowed to sign the best players they get almost universal positive press all the time. But still don't have a big supporter base, they have screwed over pretty much every other Sydney club in...
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    NRL360

    We will also see how much the Morris Twins are playing out of the goodness of their hearts when they are replaced.
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    The Game 2020 Judiciary Charges

    He should fight it, the reverse angle they showed on Fox Sports made it look very innocuous.
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    How many teams should the finals have?

    Top 6 Week 1 (losers eliminated) Parramatta vs Souths Roosters vs Canberra Week 2 Penrith vs Melbourne Parramatta vs Roosters Week 3 Melbourne vs Parramatta Grand Final Penrith vs Melbourne
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    2020 R14 Fri - Warriors 12-18 Panthers @ Central Coast

    Are the warriors getting shot if they lose this game ? This is the hardest they have played for 25 years.
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    Best halves pairing you've seen?

    Kenny/Sterling Lamb/Mortimer Daley/Stuart Walters/Langer Lyons/Toovey Carter/Alexander Florimo/Taylor Fittler/Lam Hill/Kimmorley Campbell/Gower Marshall/Prince

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