GRAND FINAL: Parramatta v Penrith GAME DAY THREAD at Accor 2/10/22

[hineyrulz]

F**ken hell. Martin Lang agrees with me. Maybe @hineyrulz is right?

He’s had more head knocks than both us merkins combined!!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

To treat that game as a normal game is criminal. How the hell did the head coach come up with that thinking? I always said that he issues motivating his team for the big games. Have been saying it for the last few years. It was there to see in all its glory on Sunday. “Normal Game” he said. It’s just baffling. Just absolutely hopeless tactics and coaching. Hopeless.

Was it not a big game the week before when we won in Townsville?

 

[yy_cheng]

Nine news said last night Gutho played with a broken hand for the whole finals series.

Needed surgery but put it off until after the finals.

Moses missed footy for a broken finger come back early.

Junior didn't get a break post origin.

Dylan had back spasms ahead of the cowboys game.

RCG had ice on his hamstring last week at training.

I suspect we were most busted then what was made out and Penrith were just fresh as a daisy getting 2 weeks off in the space of 5 weeks.

Not an excuse btw just reality.

This is why I hate BA's use of the bench and sharing of the workload around.

 

[yy_cheng]

He should’ve tried it in 2010 as well.

Maybe he thought it was not sustainable and too high risk and decided to go back to what gave him success in England

 

[yy_cheng]

I said Allicent, not Laena Valeryon

Which ones, the kids or the adult versions?

 

[hineyrulz]

Love how the media are only just realising the Smugs are the Allicent Hightowers of the NRL

Meth heads who stab people???

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How are you fatigued after 5 mins?? Especially when you only plan is chasing the collision. Not a good plan

I thought it was about 15.

 

[hineyrulz]

I thought it was about 15.

By the 3rd set our kick chase was non existent, our line speed was also poor from about them onwards. Once we let that first try you could see some heads drop. I seriously doubt they believed they could beat the riff merkins.

 

[King-Gutho94]

‘My plan was thwarted’: Raiders star wanted to bring grand final to a halt

Mark McLinden ran onto the playing field in an attempted environmental protest but was tackled by security before he could chain himself to the goal posts.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Looks like the intruder was Mark Mclinden.

Used to play for canberra

 

[Gary Gutful]

He’s had more head knocks than both us merkins combined!!

…and we’ve both pissed off a lot of people at Chardon’s!

 

[IFR33K]

Which makes the coaches obsession to use 15/6 players down the home stretch all the more ridiculous.

Haven’t agreed with much you’ve said post gf, but if true would of at least made more sense to play Bryce and not ja.

 

[Gronk]

‘My plan was thwarted’: Raiders star wanted to bring grand final to a halt

Mark McLinden ran onto the playing field in an attempted environmental protest but was tackled by security before he could chain himself to the goal posts.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Looks like the intruder was Mark Mclinden.

Used to play for canberra

Wow played 165 games for the Faders.

Mark McLinden - Wikipedia

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[Eelectrica]

He always wanted to be involved in a grand final. That's one way to do it.

 

[hineyrulz]

Haven’t agreed with much you’ve said post gf, but if true would of at least made more sense to play Bryce and not ja.

Chasing points with 30 to go Bryce might of been a decent option on GF day, instead we waited to the 75th min to give the coaches little tacker a run. Wasn’t it just a lovely moment for the club

 

[King-Gutho94]

Wow played 165 games for the Faders.

Mark McLinden - Wikipedia

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Mark McLinden - Playing Career - RLP

A summary of the career stats for Canberra junior, a dangerous attacking player at halfback/five-eighth, represented Country Origin in 2001. Although only 25 when he left the club at the end of 2004 to link with the London Broncos McLinden was already the veteran of over 150 first grade games in...

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Don't think he will be invited back to any Canberra former player functions anytime soon

 

[hineyrulz]

‘My plan was thwarted’: Raiders star wanted to bring grand final to a halt

Mark McLinden ran onto the playing field in an attempted environmental protest but was tackled by security before he could chain himself to the goal posts.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Looks like the intruder was Mark Mclinden.

Used to play for canberra

He probably made more metres than our starting pack.

 

[Eelementary]

Premiers they may be, but their behaviour makes them the embarrassment of the league, imo.

It might come across as sour grapes, but I don't care - no other club that I can recall have been as immature as these guys post-Premiership win.

 

[Eelementary]

Interesting view. So no other player in that side improved?

Grothe,Burt,Inu,Cayless,MoiMoi,Hindmarsh, Mateo. Those 7 guys where excellent rugby league n players. All make this year's top 17.

Hayne was out of this world but so was MoiMoi. Kingston and Mateo would come on and wreak havoc.
Our defense become rock solid. Was Hayne the defense?

Honestly it was brilliant coaching. They began to punch hard, defend hard and offload

Grothe would walk into our 17.

Burt, I'm not sure about - he's quick, but small, and would not ruck the ball well.

Inu would have taken the centre spot, easily.

Cayless, and Moimoi, would have been handy off the bench.

Hindmarsh might have taken Papali'i's spot.

Mateo is just a Cartwright clone - he wouldn't have made our best 17, imo.

 

[yy_cheng]

Chasing points with 30 to go Bryce might of been a decent option on GF day, instead we waited to the 75th min to give the coaches little tacker a run. Wasn’t it just a lovely moment for the club

But what if dyl or moses or rheed or guth went down during the game. Dyl had back probs, moses broken finger and head knocks, guth broken hand

 

[Gronk]

Wow played 165 games for the Faders.

Mark McLinden - Wikipedia

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Mark McLinden - Playing Career - RLP

A summary of the career stats for Canberra junior, a dangerous attacking player at halfback/five-eighth, represented Country Origin in 2001. Although only 25 when he left the club at the end of 2004 to link with the London Broncos McLinden was already the veteran of over 150 first grade games in...

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