2021 RLWC Men's Semi Finals

[Smug Panther]

Really? How’s that bud? Calling out utter hypocrisy?

Nope just a racist clown

 

[Nealo 12]

Dunno how structured Penrith are

I think he’s more comfortable playing with his mates and his dad coaching him

he’s only 24 and any time his team (Penrith nsw or Australia) loses it’s his fault

joey is my favourite player ever and Cleary can eclipse him if he remains injury free and continues as he is

We are structured take it from me !

 

[Gobsmacked]

Ok so the comment that the Panthers success is built on the back of our Kiwis brothers is redundant is correct is it not ?

No. Like I said, for the third time now. They weren't used correctly. Penrith started both LEOTA and FISHER-HARRIS, then they bashed Parramatta out of the game.
Madge misused them.
They are the best starting front row partnership by a long way . Madge thought he knew better that bought into play a very effective back row for Australia.

 

[Nealo 12]

Mate read the thread you started , bizarre

 

[Gobsmacked]

Nope just a racist clown

" racism ": a modern term used to signal that you've lost an argument.
"Racism ": a signal that all logic and reason has concluded.
"Racist": Anyone with low levels of melanin.

 

[taste2taste]

ridiculous analogy
You're trying to convince Australians that these heritage teams aren't aussies in different team colours pretending & thats all of them
Italy ... Tedesco in the past .. Cooper Johns ( FFS) .... a joke
Lebanon ....
the PI sides

no one is being fooled & never will be ,
a pleasant little side show is all it will be while we wait for more serious stuff , again thats fine
but talk of it rivalling the interest there is in Origin in Aust is just nonsense

We were talking specifically about the Samoan and Tongan players, no one mentioned Tedesco

You avoided answering my question, I'll ask again using fewer words...

Your parents are Australian, they move to Japan and you are born 3 years later. Would you consider yourself Japanese or Australian?

Or as you put it , would you be a Japanese pretending to be Australian

 

[mozza91]

Dunno how structured Penrith are

I think he’s more comfortable playing with his mates and his dad coaching him

he’s only 24 and any time his team (Penrith nsw or Australia) loses it’s his fault

joey is my favourite player ever and Cleary can eclipse him if he remains injury free and continues as he is

He doesn’t enough ability to get near Johns. I’d compare him more to Cronk. Great kicking, support play and defence but doesn’t have the passing game or creativity of Johns.

He’s had a great career and will continue to achieve great things but he isn’t on that level and never will be.

 

[Gobsmacked]

We were talking specifically about the Samoan and Tongan players, no one mentioned Tedesco

You avoided answering my question, I'll ask again using fewer words...

Your parents are Australian, they move to Japan and you are born 3 years later. Would you consider yourself Japanese or Australian?

Or as you put it , would you be a Japanese pretending to be Australian

The bloodlines of these blokes goes into the 1000 of years in Samoa but yeah I bet they can't hold back the tears for Mt Druitt

 

[Northern]

I’ve been to both semis and, although I may not have brought myself to say this last night, both were terrifically tense games which could have gone either way. Both on FTA. Fair few Londoners in the crowd yesterday. I’ll bring myself to watch yesterday’s game sometime today. The passion and skills on show, the hits, and the gut wrenching mistakes must have made it one of the the most enthralling and entertaining pair of semis in any sport. We are so good at talking our game down, but wow, these games were terrific value. What a product. It’s hard for me to fully understand the SOO arguments from over here, all I know is who wouldn’t want to see more of these games?

 

[Smug Panther]

He doesn’t enough ability to get near Johns. I’d compare him more to Cronk. Great kicking, support play and defence but doesn’t have the passing game or creativity of Johns.

He’s had a great career and will continue to achieve great things but he isn’t on that level and never will be.

Yeah but no one is on that level. Joey was just different

 

[mozza91]

Yeah but no one is on that level. Joey was just different

Yep. A once in a lifetime player who made many players look much better than they were. No other player has had the level of influence over a result of game than him. On another level to everyone.

 

[Nealo 12]

He doesn’t enough ability to get near Johns. I’d compare him more to Cronk. Great kicking, support play and defence but doesn’t have the passing game or creativity of Johns.

He’s had a great career and will continue to achieve great things but he isn’t on that level and never will be.

He’s still playing, wait till he’s retired before making that assumption

 

[Gobsmacked]

I’ve been to both semis and, although I may not have brought myself to say this last night, both were terrifically tense games which could have gone either way. Both on FTA. Fair few Londoners in the crowd yesterday. I’ll bring myself to watch yesterday’s game sometime today. The passion and skills on show, the hits, and the gut wrenching mistakes must have made it one of the the most enthralling and entertaining pair of semis in any sport. We are so good at talking our game down, but wow, these games were terrific value. What a product. It’s hard for me to fully understand the SOO arguments from over here, all I know is who wouldn’t want to see more of these games?

100% mate! At the end of the day, that's exactly how most of us feel.
Absolutely amazing contests! Anyone who saw that wants more!!!
Thanks for bringing it all back into context.

 

[Northern]

On a more parochial note, lot of soul searching for English RL. We definitely need to playing more often. A few brain explosions probably cost us yesterday, probably from those you may have least expected to? We should have won, but here we go again. Because of the way the media is here, not getting to the final is a massive blow. But, like I said last night, we carry on but this has to count as a lost opportunity for English RL. We need more international games.
I have a fear that there will be a fair few empty seats at the final now. That would be a shame to end an hugely enjoyable tournament that way.

 

[taste2taste]

I’ve been to both semis and, although I may not have brought myself to say this last night, both were terrifically tense games which could have gone either way. Both on FTA. Fair few Londoners in the crowd yesterday. I’ll bring myself to watch yesterday’s game sometime today. The passion and skills on show, the hits, and the gut wrenching mistakes must have made it one of the the most enthralling and entertaining pair of semis in any sport. We are so good at talking our game down, but wow, these games were terrific value. What a product. It’s hard for me to fully understand the SOO arguments from over here, all I know is who wouldn’t want to see more of these games?

99% of fans agree. A couple of trolls on this thread might go out of thier way to disagree

The Eng v Sam game came down to the bounce of the ball an intercept, forward pass, miracle offload... play that game 100 tines and you'd get 100 different outcomes.

I would have loved to see a packed Old Traford in a ENG V Aus final..but seeing all the incredible scenes coming out of Samoa, Auckland, Melbourne and even Utah it's good too see Samoans around the world loving the game.

 

[Smug Panther]

Yep. A once in a lifetime player who made many players look much better than they were. No other player has had the level of influence over a result of game than him. On another level to everyone.

The reason Nathan might (I think will) finish higher then JT or Locky is because he defends as well as Joey. Nathan belts merkins, the hits he was putting on with a f**ked shoulder at the end of 2021 scared the shit out of me.

 

[Coastbloke]

Nope just a racist clown

I rest my case..

 

[Smug Panther]

I rest my case..

Well done

 

[Gobsmacked]

Gotta say. I don't get a real good vibe from Panthers supporters...f**k me, hate to talk to them when they're losing
Turns out Luai is very accurate representation of Penrith. O no wait, you have Gus...
Must be the biggest concentration of fxckwitts in the country.

 

[Smug Panther]

Gotta say. I don't get a real good vibe from Panthers supporters...f**k me, hate to talk to them when they're losing
Turns out Luai is very accurate representation of Penrith. O no wait, you have Gus...
Must be the biggest concentration of fxckwitts in the country.

But we don't lose