NRL Rd 11 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Beavers Headgear]

Yeah there is a stench of don't give a f**k that is impossible to ignore right now

The eye rolling when O’Brien was talking in the press conference last week shows where he is at

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Is it time we start talking about the legitimacy of short kicks offs? Is there a stat somewhere of how many are successful? Seems like it's an almost dead set certainty for a fresh set 10m out middle of the field, as opposed to 35+ down field

Yeah I’m not a fan of it. I also still can’t figure out why the hell the receiving team can’t touch the ball until it goes 10m, let along be penalised for it

 

[Blair]

Ponga should be donating 2/3rds of his salary back to the club.

He went there 'to win a premeirship' according to his own words. It's a noble thing to do (if he really meant it) as usually an ambitious star would choose somewhere else.

10-0, Eels. Halftime. The Newcastle crowd will be losing patience...

...Eels win 28-6, that's a flogging in the Hunter.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Carrigan and Reynolds quoted as saying that the Taupau liking of a media post is a bad look, and he is going to have to sit down with all the senior players and explain himself

This comes from the same club who had a bloke drive drunk and full of drugs, while not holding a licence, and veer onto the opposite side of the road and collect another car injuring the young girl. No sacking for that and crickets from the senior players

 

[JJ]

Carrigan and Reynolds quoted as saying that the Taupau liking of a media post is a bad look, and he is going to have to sit down with all the senior players and explain himself

This comes from the same club who had a bloke drive drunk and full of drugs, while not holding a licence, and veer onto the opposite side of the road and collect another car injuring the young girl. No sacking for that and crickets from the senior players

Don’t think logic like that is any part of it sadly

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Intensity of this Dogs Roosters game is so good

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Robert Toia with a coach killer. Far out

 

[Big Marn]

Is it time we start talking about the legitimacy of short kicks offs? Is there a stat somewhere of how many are successful? Seems like it's an almost dead set certainty for a fresh set 10m out middle of the field, as opposed to 35+ down field

SJ was pretty accurate. we had a pretty successful time of it in 2023. Ford was quite good at snaffling them. Berry too i seem to remember. Not so much in 2024. Metcalf is not good enough with the boot in 2025 so far.

 

[Blair]

Robert Toia with a coach killer. Far out.

It's still 14-0 at halftime to the Chooks. I'll be 0/2 for tipping tonight. I'm so glad no money's involved. At this rate you watch the Tigers steam home on Sunday. What a great season!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

What a try!
Highlight reel for years!

 

[SpaceMonkey]

SJ was pretty accurate. we had a pretty successful time of it in 2023. Ford was quite good at snaffling them. Berry too i seem to remember. Not so much in 2024. Metcalf is not good enough with the boot in 2025 so far.

Speaking of SJ, geez he’s making a good fist of his move into media post footy, he’s already way better than some of the more established guys (looking at you Gordon Tallis). I’d say he’s going to have a solid career as a presenter for a couple of decades if he wants to.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

It's still 14-0 at halftime to the Chooks. I'll be 0/2 for tipping tonight. I'm so glad no money's involved. At this rate you watch the Tigers steam home on Sunday. What a great season!

Was hoping for a Roosters win to give us the chance to go equal first if we can get past the dolphins

 

[SpaceMonkey]

double post

 

[Meth]

Holy shit I’ve just watched it… what in the fk is that guy on??

I think it was just sped up, which made it look like he was tweaking

 

[Penrose Warrior]

It's still 14-0 at halftime to the Chooks. I'll be 0/2 for tipping tonight. I'm so glad no money's involved. At this rate you watch the Tigers steam home on Sunday. What a great season!

Dogs are never beaten, their attitude is A++. They have a pretty decent squad but I don't think any side works harder for each other, we're close but probably lack the star quality they have in Kikau, Burton, Crichton etc.

Anyone who beats the Dogs in the finals is going to have to bloody earn it. They'll have learned a lot from the heartbreaker to Manly last year

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I think it was just sped up, which made it look like he was tweaking

Ah, that explains it. I didn't realise that.

Still talking like a real germ, which I've never seen from him

 

[Meth]

Is it time we start talking about the legitimacy of short kicks offs? Is there a stat somewhere of how many are successful? Seems like it's an almost dead set certainty for a fresh set 10m out middle of the field, as opposed to 35+ down field

I think that a part of the conversation would have to be how many of those fresh sets 10m out actually lead to tries though. I know that it seems much better to be defending with the attack coming at you from deeper down into the field, but I do remember there being a conversation about how having an opportunity to contest for the ball made it generally favourable in the risk v reward analysis.

 

[Meth]

Ah, that explains it. I didn't realise that.

Still talking like a real germ, which I've never seen from him

He's leaning into a persona, for sure.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I think that a part of the conversation would have to be how many of those fresh sets 10m out actually lead to tries though. I know that it seems much better to be defending with the attack coming at you from deeper down into the field, but I do remember there being a conversation about how having an opportunity to contest for the ball made it generally favourable in the risk v reward analysis.

Yeah that's definitely part of the equation. I would think physical + mental fatigue would be part of it as well. If you can get it down to the 50m line and make a tackle on the 35, the first 3 tackles at least are not on-line defensive set-ups. So if I'd just defended 2-3 sets on my line, or it was near halftime or fulltime (presuming we weren't down near fulltime) I'd probably want to go longer. And then also depending on how creative or predictable the other team is in our 20m line.

I do like the change they made in regards to not being a penalty, it does encourage those decisions. I presume they've got rid of that stupid rule that saw a team penalised earlier in the year when their kick 'wasn't contestable'

 

[Penrose Warrior]

That Dogs Roosters game, that's 1 v 10 last night, and will be hard to top for game of the year. It was incredible. Also featured try of the year from Marky Mark, what a freakish effort that was (conveniently ignoring the 4-5 errors he made that probably cost the game)