NRL Rd 25 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Thatwasnthighref]

Absolutely insane how bad Souths have been hammered by injury this year. Also how Penrith are in the bottom few every year

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Any idea what’s included in those totals? Does it include games missed by depth players who wouldn’t normally make the 17?

If you overlaid some kind of “starter” weighting I’d imagine we’d be further up that list.

Still, no denying Souths have had a very very tough year.

 

[Izz]

Man, the Knights are poor

Edit: And as soon as I post that, they score. Freakish but still, a try

Edir2: and then straight back to being poor

 

[Blair]

No upset in Newcastle, 46-12, the Broncos are on our tail.

10-all at Leichhardt...now a miracle - 2005 GF Benji flick pass - try by Buller!

Leichhardt erupts. 16-10, Tigers. Halftime.
...Tigers stuff up and let Deardon in under the bar. 16-all.
...deadlock broken by some Tigers magic. Luai's first try for Wests. 22-16, and they're in again, 28-16...

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Up the Tigers. Benji has been through plenty coming from all corners, but he is making them better

Top marks also to Channel 9 who have Thurston down on the sideline getting hammered relentlessly with “Furston, where’s your QLD spirit”

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Hold the phone, they’ve fallen to bits

 

[JJ]

Cowboys equalise lol

 

[Blair]

Up the Tigers. Benji has been through plenty coming from all corners, but he is making them better

Top marks also to Channel 9 who have Thurston down on the sideline getting hammered relentlessly with “Furston, where’s your QLD spirit”.

And now, typical Tigers, they blow it.

Three Cowboys tries in five minutes, 34-28, Cows. Eight mins left...and they stun Wests in the end, 34-28, final.

It's a bit pointless Cowboys winning, isn't it?

 

[JJ]

Up the Tigers. Benji has been through plenty coming from all corners, but he is making them better

Top marks also to Channel 9 who have Thurston down on the sideline getting hammered relentlessly with “Furston, where’s your QLD spirit”

Much as I’d want to agree, I don’t see that Benji has made them better, better players have made them better

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Much as I’d want to agree, I don’t see that Benji has made them better, better players have made them better

I don’t know, he has lifted them from the position they were in when they lost the best teenager of all time

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I don’t know, he has lifted them from the position they were in when they lost the best teenager of all time

Who then didn't make it into Joey's 5 best young players of today. Fittler had Galvin in, ahead of Robert Toia. Which is hilarious, and a window into why Fred was rubbish as NSW coach

 

[Blair]

A big round of footy done. Raiders and Storm are locked in at the top. The Tigers really test their fans loyalty. That hill was packed, they were partying, and then, emptiness.

Rd 25:Ladder:

Ten sides can still win it! But I think we know who will. Brisbane and Cronulla are stalking us now.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

After the AB's piss poor effort in Buenos Aires I saw a post where someone - very graciously - complimented the Argie boys, saying how it makes for a very interesting RC (very true) and how nothing beats test rugby.

I'd argue that in this one weekend of NRL, just one regular season round, the NRL served up 2, maybe 3 games that easily topped the dross the ABs have served up all year. Maybe in the last 2 years.

That hurts to say. Not cos I'm unhappy with how league is tracking, but because of how far rugby has fallen. Our test team seems rudderless and clueless, and thanks to WR, the test game itself has descended into an over-officiated near unwatchable mess.

With the finals so close I'm in this weird state of anticipation but also disappointment that it'll all be done in 6 weeks.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

We need a much better showing than last time we toured Oz. Kane Williamson missed the Sydney test with the flu, I recall. We have Boxing Day at the MCG for the first time since the '87/88 (Whitney surviving Hadlee, but McDermott plum to Morrison in the second last over, not given) epic.

Mate we played the Boxing Day test at the MCG on our last tour to Aus, I was there! I can understand you forgetting it though as typically we had a shocker.

 

[Blair]

Mate we played the Boxing Day test at the MCG on our last tour to Aus, I was there! I can understand you forgetting it though as typically we had a shocker.

Yeah, I did forget that. It was a poor tour from a side we expected so much more from. That's why next year is so important, we need that intense rivalry with Australia to play out with great battles on the field.

See you at the SCG...

 

[Penrose Warrior]

After the AB's piss poor effort in Buenos Aires I saw a post where someone - very graciously - complimented the Argie boys, saying how it makes for a very interesting RC (very true) and how nothing beats test rugby.

I'd argue that in this one weekend of NRL, just one regular season round, the NRL served up 2, maybe 3 games that easily topped the dross the ABs have served up all year. Maybe in the last 2 years.

That hurts to say. Not cos I'm unhappy with how league is tracking, but because of how far rugby has fallen. Our test team seems rudderless and clueless, and thanks to WR, the test game itself has descended into an over-officiated near unwatchable mess.

With the finals so close I'm in this weird state of anticipation but also disappointment that it'll all be done in 6 weeks.

I watched the ABs game, it was such a turgid rubbish performance from us. The Argies were much more enterprising, stronger, smarter than us. Apparently we were pretty average against France B, too

Rugby just holds no interest to me anymore. I'll watch it with friends family etc if it's on because I want to be social, but it never gets a run in my house. I spoke to a guy over here at the sauna the other day (not one of those all-male bath houses, I wish to say) and he said he looks at all winter codes, and the NRL is the only one not killing itself with over-officiousness, defensive systems killing flair, ball out of play etc.

Stan, the media outlet over here, does a package for union now about an hour after play that gets rid of all the time the ball is out of play. It's apparently about a 40-min package.

 

[Blair]

I watched the ABs game, it was such a turgid rubbish performance from us. The Argies were much more enterprising, stronger, smarter than us. Apparently we were pretty average against France B, too

Rugby just holds no interest to me anymore. I'll watch it with friends family etc if it's on because I want to be social, but it never gets a run in my house. I spoke to a guy over here at the sauna the other day (not one of those all-male bath houses, I wish to say) and he said he looks at all winter codes, and the NRL is the only one not killing itself with over-officiousness, defensive systems killing flair, ball out of play etc.

Stan, the media outlet over here, does a package for union now about an hour after play that gets rid of all the time the ball is out of play. It's apparently about a 40-min package.

I'm actually riding the Wallabies resurgence because they have a Kiwi coach and it'll be good for the game. My dream is an All Blacks game at Ellis Park, but that is tied to other things, like African wildlife, and my rugby heritage. You can't get tickets, anyway.

I also scour the Internet for a second-hand Manawatu jersey, but that's just my heritage too. It's so long ago.

Nothing comes close to the excitement of the NRL right now, however, the weekend ended on a downer, as I wanted that Tigers win. It would've been so...good for the game!

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Father in law was over and he had the rugby on, found myself on my phone rather than looking at the screen when I was in the room

How ridiculous a rule that if you tap a ball up and regather it you can grab a try, but tap it up and it hits the deck and you get 10 in the bin

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Des and the Titans parting ways in 2 weeks

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Father in law was over and he had the rugby on, found myself on my phone rather than looking at the screen when I was in the room

How ridiculous a rule that if you tap a ball up and regather it you can grab a try, but tap it up and it hits the deck and you get 10 in the bin

Exactly the thought I had when I watched Reece go to the bin. It's a dumb rule. Pure reflex action, he never batted it down, his palm was facing up and as you say, if it goes up he's praised for a runaway try at a time they desperately needed one. Essentially what that rule says is that you shouldn't try at all to catch it unless it's in your bread basket.

 

[Big Marn]

Its only international rugby thats turgid. The NPC is much better where the IRB laws dont constrain. There were some cracking games over the weekend. The mighty Mooloos took the Ranfurly shield back to the Waikato. Southland might take it south as they come into the challenge having upended the BOP in Rotovegas.