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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

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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

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

Nuke

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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.
 

Apey

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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.
 

HarVeeGee

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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.
 

Loose Cannon

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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.
It was 3rd tackle (4th of 7 because Canberra f’d up over the line, another stupid rule, was meant too discourage kicking dead, not regular in goal fails), and we don’t know why it was awarded because Ricky Stuart was on camera when it was blown.

In between, Burton threw a horrible ball on the left which was recovered but took time. Nothing about the reset was more influential than Crichton’s play, and nor did it influence the five tries that followed.

I agree with you about the restart rule, as I mentioned.
 
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We'd prefer to go back to the plodding footy that the game was dishing out when teams were deliberately giving away penalties to slow any momentum the opposition was building?

Wow
 

HarVeeGee

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There's a balance to strike though. Watching tries be scored because defenders are literally collapsing with exhaustion is lame.
 
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There's a balance to strike though. Watching tries be scored because defenders are literally collapsing with exhaustion is lame.
I think the balance has already been struck tbh when they made anything inside the 40m a penalty

What exactly would you do to change the current rules?
 

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