Finally winning over the AFL states

[El Diablo]

Can you please lead the charge?

i second the motion

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Shirt pulling? Origin players don't wear shirts, they wear.....JERSEYS.

The games are getting tougher, without the biff.

This. We don't need punches thrown in our game, rugby league is constantly getting tougher and faster as the years go on.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

The melees were embarrassing.

What the dopey merkins who run the game don't get is that a big blue early in that game would have sorted out all the niggle and the game could have started for real. Instead the players spent an hour trying to bait a punch out of the opposition and ruined the game.

The Helen Lovejoys that run this sport are doing their absolute best to kill it.

No it really, really wouldnt...

A punch up wouldnt solve anything, it would just escalate it. either someone gets sin binned, stretchered off or both players in the fight stay on the field and just keep trying to get back at one another...

 

[Perth Red]

This. We don't need punches thrown in our game, rugby league is constantly getting tougher and faster as the years go on.

Last nights game wasn't tough it was just grubby and niggly. Either refs need to jump on it and bin people or let them get it out of system with a punch up so we can play RL. That first half was one of the worse I have seen for many years when you consider the amount of attacking skill on the field.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Last nights game wasn't tough it was just grubby and niggly. Either refs need to jump on it and bin people or let them get it out of system with a punch up so we can play RL. That first half was one of the worse I have seen for many years when you consider the amount of attacking skill on the field.

I agree last night's game was pretty bad, but look at Origin 1. It was one of the toughest games I've ever seen.

 

[Perth Red]

Agreed, I would say it was the legally toughest game I have ever seen. Strange game two turned into such a dour grub fest. Looked like both teams were desperate not to lose rather than go out to win it. I can see the handbag swinging, jersey pulling grubbiness getting worse though unless something is done about it. Big punch ups are not a great look in this sanitised world we now live in but the afl like melees will turn even more fans off the game IMO.

 

[POPEYE]

Only people who will take anything from game 3 are people who don't deserve it . . . cancel the f**king thing and forego risking the best players for nothing

 

[miguel de cervantes]

yep, the game doesn't need the money or the tv ratings, great idea

 

[East Coast Tiger]

No it really, really wouldnt...

A punch up wouldnt solve anything, it would just escalate it. either someone gets sin binned, stretchered off or both players in the fight stay on the field and just keep trying to get back at one another...

BS. That virtually never happens in a game. Did Myles chase Gallen the rest of the game last year? Of course not.

Every other game in recent years that has had an early blue has settled into a good game. This one never did because nothing solved the constant niggle. A couple of sin bins would have helped if anything. If ever a game needed a couple of less bodies on the field it was that one. Blind freddy could have told you this ridiculous one-punch 'rule' would lead to the kind of niggle and baiting we saw.

The reactionary, incompetant administration doesn't understand any of this. They'd have to be touch with the game, the players and the fans to do so. And we've seen time and time again they are not. It was a dog of a game and it's all down to the ill-conceived interpretations thought up on the run by people with agendas who don't understand the sport.

 

[Parra]

yep, the game doesn't need the money or the tv ratings, great idea

Exactly. It already has the best rating shows and more money than it knows what to do with.


f**k off game three and get on with the real footy - the NRL comp.

 

[Parra]

Looked like both teams were desperate not to lose rather than go out to win it.

This is true. Hence the valid comparison to a dour rugby union test match. One without the melees, shirt pulling and constant hands-on-faces bullshit that marred Origin II. Although rugby isn't immune, they had a little bit of run-in-and-do-nothing as well.

The new tough guy move is the hold-me-back-bro.

Lucky they have beards and tough stickers.

 

[Canard]

This is true. Hence the valid comparison to a dour rugby union test match. One without the melees, shirt pulling and constant hands-on-faces bullshit that marred Origin II. Although rugby isn't immune, they had a little bit of run-in-and-do-nothing as well.

The new tough guy move is the hold-me-back-bro.

Lucky they have beards and tough stickers.

Always gotta stick up for Rugby hey.

 

[Parra]

Not really. The test was shite.

 

[STORM.99/07]

Exactly. It already has the best rating shows and more money than it knows what to do with.


f**k off game three and get on with the real footy - the NRL comp.

The fans don`t want game 3 and I bet the players don`t either.We are getting to the business end of the season and that is what the focus of the players should be.

 

[POPEYE]

The fans don`t want game 3 and I bet the players don`t either.We are getting to the business end of the season and that is what the focus of the players should be.

To give you an idea of what players really want and what I've been saying for years about them living in a different world than supporters/hangers-on, Ryan Hoffman was unanimously voted best player by his team mates . . . an inkling of how selectors/media who gave MOM to Gallen are more trouble than they're worth

 

[BlueandGold]

Exactly. It already has the best rating shows and more money than it knows what to do with.


f**k off game three and get on with the real footy - the NRL comp.

You have rocks in your head, to not play game three in QLD would cost the NRL in the vicinity of 8-11million dollars.

It would also take the chance for a clean sweep away from us NSW fans, to get the clean sweep in front of all those winging QLDers would be priceless after 8 years of torture.

 

[BlueandGold]

I honestly believe we need to introduce a third team.
The exiles.
If we keep dilly dallying around, the AFL will get their Origin started again and have a 3 state team origin comp before we know what hit us we will again be behind the 8-ball and just cannon fodder to more progressive codes.

I cant see why if the series is already won, like it is now, why we cant introduce the exiles to play game 3.

Anyhow, that is way too forward thinking for our code, they took 3 years to rid themselves of the corner post and still only waking up to the fact Anzac day in Brisbane is a huge idea, same as it would be in NZ.
Even AFL beat us to NZ Anzac day game.

Yes folks it is true. beaten to the punch by a code who has no connection to NZ.
We are the lemmings of the world, happily to run off the cliff because we were told to.

We need third world marketing ideas. even then we would be in front of where and how our game thinks.
We are the tortoise of world sport.

Mate did you see the crowd this year...........................lucky if there was 5k there.

AFL have no chance in NZ, first year they gave away tickets and had 6k traveling fans and this year it was empty.

NRL crowds in NZ have averaged 19k this year and that is with Poor weather effecting most Eden Park games.

And no AFL will never have a better SOO then RL............................:crazy::crazy:

 

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[alexwilliams_66692007]

I honestly believe we need to introduce a third team.
The exiles.
If we keep dilly dallying around, the AFL will get their Origin started again and have a 3 state team origin comp before we know what hit us we will again be behind the 8-ball and just cannon fodder to more progressive codes.

I cant see why if the series is already won, like it is now, why we cant introduce the exiles to play game 3.

Anyhow, that is way too forward thinking for our code, they took 3 years to rid themselves of the corner post and still only waking up to the fact Anzac day in Brisbane is a huge idea, same as it would be in NZ.
Even AFL beat us to NZ Anzac day game.

Yes folks it is true. beaten to the punch by a code who has no connection to NZ.
We are the lemmings of the world, happily to run off the cliff because we were told to.

We need third world marketing ideas. even then we would be in front of where and how our game thinks.
We are the tortoise of world sport.

You must be high or just plain stupid if you think an AFL State of Origin will ever surpass Rugby League's SOO. They tried years ago, failed, and the same will happen if they try again.

State of Origin is more popular now than it has ever been, why change it?

 

[MrAnonymous]

Cant believe that merkin is still trolling you f**kwits.:lol: