Around the Grounds

[Loose Cannon]

Thinking Ciraldo has O’Brien covered in regards to half time speeches.

 

[HarVeeGee]

Eh. They started getting calls. The game flipped. Been happening all year. The six again is a blight on the game.

 

[SamSepi0l]

Raiders got the 6 agains in the first, Dogs second

 

[Mr_Knightside]

It shows that momentum is a massive part of the game these days, being able to stop that momentum swing or swing it back in your direction is something we need to learn.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Dogs got one restart prior to Stephen Chricton going beast mode and laid on 3 tries to get back to 20-16 in 11 minutes.

Six again is a hideous rule, but hardly the reason the momentum switched.

 

[Yosh]

They got run down by the best team in the comp. We got done by the worst club (bar us) in the comp...

 

[Zoidberg]

I don’t even want us to go the way we are playing at the moment.

 

[Apey]

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I don’t even want us to go the way we are playing at the moment.

Is it a home game we give up? One less I have to sit through is good by me.

 

[Nuke]

I don't think it matters. I think whoever gives up a home game for Vegas is then the away team for Magic and vice versa.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

Oh god… I just know I’ll end up going over there and watching us stink it up. Gaaaaaah!

 

[Apey]

We're lucky no other team besides the Dogs can defend either because after tomorrow it's likely we'll still have the 2nd lowest points conceded per game.

Shame we're so putrid with the ball in hand.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Raiders got the 6 agains in the first, Dogs second

There was one solitary 6 again given in the second half. Bulldogs in the 43rd minute.

 

[HarVeeGee]

It was clearly a very impactful one though & also it came late in a seven tackle set the Dogs got awarded after the Raiders almost scored.

Obviously the Dogs are very good - they got handed momentum back and then they went on with it. But the Raiders were all over them till they got that break.

That game is maybe not the best example. Probably a better example is the obviously impotent Knights attack piling on 20 points in 30 minutes due to being handed a bunch of six agains in a row. The pressure always tells eventually, even the passive pressure of shit attack but just happening to have the ball a lot.

Most depressing thing about AOB’s bitching last night is he may actually be right, if our backs just happen to get through a game without making unforced errors, we very well might be able to beat anyone at the moment, as long as we’re far enough on the right side of the randomly generated set restarts. Even with our clunky attack. We’ve seen teams pile up 40 or 50 points with a massive six again discrepancy in their direction & then get obliterated and fail to score 10 points when it goes badly against them so don’t tell me I’m imagining it.

That’s not what I want rugby league to be.