NRL Finals

[Blair]

Where are the Roosters fans? Playing a team from out of town and the crowd's sparse.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Man to only have forwards playing like that! All drawn up!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

$BW knocks on!
Matt Scott back on.
Gus calling Cowboys forwards fatigued, so that means they should come home to win it!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Money bill not allowed to lose it twice?
Clear loss, Nth Qld has its hand of god and 7 tackle set!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

They will talk about Lui knock on as the screw job, but it was a knock on it hit his forearm. The SBW drop but called strip that let Roosters get the 1 point that screwed them!

 

[Blair]

Cowboys cant win play off games in Sydney.

Bit of a sour taste.

 

[TheDMC]

Fantastic game, sorry for the Cowboys whom I wanted to win, but I don't think robbed. Yes SBW wasn't stripped, but those calls happen at least 2-3 times every game and Cowboys still had their chances. JT was fantastic but had too much resting on his shoulders and blew the game when he made the break and kicked to the wing without seeing Morgan clear on the inside. That is where they lost the game, not the non strip.

The knock on disallowed try at the end - they had to rule a knock on to be consistent with how they have interpreted 'knock ons' for this and recent seasons, which is basically if the ball is anything but blatantly backwards it is a knock on. I hate that interpretation personally - in Rugby Union, they only call it a knock on if clearly forward from contact, the benefit of the doubt goes to the team with the ball and less stoppages in play.

 

[Blair]

No need for the Warriors to shake up the finals series after all.

It's a bloody beauty already. More drama tonight with a struggling Manly up against Dessie's Dogs.

We'd all written the Bulldogs off about two weeks ago, now they look dangerous again.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Juniors on at the moment. Had a dead set try disallowed by video ref to score on the next set on back of knights knock on (bad call).
And have just scored again, with some great offloads and hands!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Good win by the Junior's to knock off the minor premier's.
Little to much lip from some of the boys at the end which wasn't a good look, but a fair bit of it during the game from both sides!

 

[Blair]

Great win for the boys. I turned the radio off with four mins to go, can't handle that stress with what's gone on this season in general.

ABC Grandstand commentators talking up Kata and Mason Lino. Also the 'big front-rower.'

 

[playdaball]

Great win for the boys. I turned the radio off with four mins to go, can't handle that stress with what's gone on this season in general.

ABC Grandstand commentators talking up Kata and Mason Lino. Also the 'big front-rower.'

Sam Lisone was outstanding ... big front rower.

Interesting Lolohea looked very average and agree that Kata looked good as well.


I do like the Knights hooker, Levi, from Randwick, Wgtn. There is a touch of Issac Luke about him - perhaps a future Kiwi hooker?

 

[Cold Roses]

ABC Grandstand commentators talking up Kata and Mason Lino. Also the 'big front-rower.'

Sam Lisone was outstanding ... big front rower.

Even more than his performance, I was impressed with his trying to pump the boys up near the end of the game. It looked as if he was trying to galvanise them on defence and give them some direction. Good stuff. Need that in first grade.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Manly v Dog has hit another level!
One thing about not being in the finals is sitting back and enjoying the football!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I hate that rule! Incompetent ref can't get out of way, needs to change.
Maybe a reset/restart of play if it touches ref?

 

[playdaball]

I hate that rule! Incompetent ref can't get out of way, needs to change.
Maybe a reset/restart of play if it touches ref?

Even worse was that it seemed Morris had to remind the ref of the rule outcome i.e. attacking side gets put in.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Even worse was that it seemed Morris had to remind the ref of the rule outcome i.e. attacking side gets put in.

Exactly, its funny we don't see the loop hole used more often. Kickers aim for goal post now days, time to train to hit the men in pink!

 

[vvvrulz]

Bit late but... what a great finals weekend!

Two one-pointers and that Cows comeback was just epic.
They weren't robbed but can't blame them for feeling let down.

Dogs aren't a threat to the title imo, the Storm and Manly are falling apart
There's definitely a shift in the NRL superpowers

 

[Evil_Mush]

Yeah, has been a pretty drama-filled finals series already, the only problem I've had is that there were two sendoffs for punching in the Dogs-Manly game and Josh Reynolds wasn't the one to get smashed in the face!!!

Hopefully the drama kicks on through the prelms and grand final!!!! Also hoping for a new combo of opponents for the GF, which leaves only Penrith-Souths.

 

[Blair]

It's a good measure of how good this finals series is when the week is going so slowly.

Can't wait till 5 pm Friday...

Personally it's the most enjoyable finals series since way back in 1991, my Green Machine, qualifying last (then fifth place), stormed into the GF and tried for three premierships in a row.

Penrith pipped them in a memorable GF.

Of course the Warriors big finals series - 2002, 2008 and 2011 - were more exciting than this year, but more enjoyable? Not really, there was too much worry and stress!