NRL Rd 1 2024 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Beavers Headgear]

So Cowboys get a penalty try for a soft Dolphins tackle in goal, when imo it wasn't 100% certain the Cowboys' player would score, while all we get is a penalty for DWZ getting tackled in the air after making a clean catch and having to do nothing but fall to ground with ball to score...

I’m coming in completely blind here and haven’t seen the incident at all, but reading that DWZ was the attacker going for the ball close to the line, therefore the defender is allowed to touch him ? I may have what happened in my head though because that scenario wouldn’t earn a penalty

 

[Beavers Headgear]

I didn’t see much at all of that opening round, but there seems to be a buzz around with rugby league at the moment that goes back to where the game was pre the super greed war

Games sold out in Newcastle, Auckland and Parramatta with a big crowd in Brisbane too is a great sign the game is healthy at the moment

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I’m coming in completely blind here and haven’t seen the incident at all, but reading that DWZ was the attacker going for the ball close to the line, therefore the defender is allowed to touch him ? I may have what happened to ring in my head though because that scenario wouldn’t earn a penalty

Change in the laws this year apparently.

the penalty was given so that part seemingly isn’t in dispute- the question is why, when a penalty had been awarded, was it not then called penalty try as DWZ had made a clean catch in goal and only needed to ground the ball to score?

 

[TheDMC]

It was a shocker. Should have been a penalty try for sure. Or at least a professional foul/10 in the bin. You can't do that in a clear try scoring situation and just get a penalty. The ref just shook his head and said nah when the Wahs complained.

 

[TheDMC]

And I can't believe I just said the "Wahs" FMD.

The team/captain Tohu need to learn how to engage Refs more effectively. Should be training on that. They don't come across well and get shot down by the ref...

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Leniu suspended for 8 weeks...guess who his first opponent after that is?

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Change in the laws this year apparently.

the penalty was given so that part seemingly isn’t in dispute- the question is why, when a penalty had been awarded, was it not then called penalty try as DWZ had made a clean catch in goal and only needed to ground the ball to score?

Interesting, haven’t heard anything about that change.

Seems absolutely ridiculous that if a guy catches a kick on the line or in goal you aren’t allowed to touch them and basically have to let them score

 

[Blair]

Leniu suspended for 8 weeks...guess who his first opponent after that is?

The breakdown of that seems to be four weeks standard, plus two weeks for his lack of contrition and how he carried on with it afterwards in the hotel, one week for doing it during the NRL's showpiece and one week for how really upset Mann is.

They counted out a further week because that would mean missing a Warriors game.

 

[Rich102]

Leniu suspended for 8 weeks...guess who his first opponent after that is?

Tough decision. Depends on common usage of the word. I think it is a rude tag but I am not sure if it is racist.

Obviously the judiciary thought otherwise.

 

[JJ]

The breakdown of that seems to be four weeks standard, plus two weeks for his lack of contrition and how he carried on with it afterwards in the hotel, one week for doing it during the NRL's showpiece and one week for how really upset Mann is.

They counted out a further week because that would mean missing a Warriors game.

sounds like how the judiciary would roll - be nice to have some consistency tbh

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Tough decision. Depends on common usage of the word. I think it is a rude tag but I am not sure if it is racist.

Obviously the judiciary thought otherwise.

It’s racist when you’re using it against black people who’ve historically been accused of being apes or monkeys as a way of portraying them as primitive and less than human. Eastern European football fans would throw bananas at black players with the same insinuation. f**k Leniu, he’s a grub.

 

[Blair]

It’s racist when you’re using it against black people who’ve historically been accused of being apes or monkeys as a way of portraying them as primitive and less than human. Eastern European football fans would throw bananas at black players with the same insinuation. f**k Leniu, he’s a grub.

The most well-known case here was when Indian cricketer, Harbhajan Singh, dropped it on Australian Andrew Symonds, who was ethnically half-West Indian.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Tough decision. Depends on common usage of the word. I think it is a rude tag but I am not sure if it is racist.

Obviously the judiciary thought otherwise.

It's racist mate. It's horrible

 

[Penrose Warrior]

The breakdown of that seems to be four weeks standard, plus two weeks for his lack of contrition and how he carried on with it afterwards in the hotel, one week for doing it during the NRL's showpiece and one week for how really upset Mann is.

They counted out a further week because that would mean missing a Warriors game.

If it was 7, his game back would have been the Broncos and they couldn't have that

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Tough decision. Depends on common usage of the word. I think it is a rude tag but I am not sure if it is racist.

Obviously the judiciary thought otherwise.

Compare it to the Montoya incident. AFAIK Kyle Feldt isn’t gay and Marcelo wasn’t actually insinuating that he was- he just dropped the slur in a general sort of way, he could’ve said “get up Kyle you pussy” instead. If Kyle was queer and Marcelo had called him a f****t on field I suspect he would’ve got more than four weeks because of the context of it.

 

[Meth]

Definitely racist, whether Leniu knew or not.

I thought 8 was harsh. 4-6 weeks would have been better for mine.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Definitely racist, whether Leniu knew or not.

I thought 8 was harsh. 4-6 weeks would have been better for mine.

I reckon there was a couple of weeks of Vegas loading in it. Embarass the game on the big stage, wear the consequences. Especially considering how badly that slur would have gone down if the same incident occurred in US sport.

 

[Meth]

I reckon there was a couple of weeks of Vegas loading in it. Embarass the game on the big stage, wear the consequences. Especially considering how badly that slur would have gone down if the same incident occurred in US sport.

Yeah. I don't like that.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Yeah. I don't like that.

Eh, fart in school assembly and you’ll get a weeks detention- fart at end of year prizegiving during the guest of honour’s speech, you’ll get a month

 

[Campion]

a week's detention for a fart?! that's pretty harsh