NRL Rd 8 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Beavers Headgear]

The defence of the Tigers was amazing

Hate golden point, this is going to be decided by a coin toss with the state of this wind

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Tigers win the crucial toss, but May spills his lollies

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Game of the year, Tigers should be just about to kick the winning penalty

 

[Penrose Warrior]

f**k the NRL is so good this year

 

[Beavers Headgear]

f**k the NRL is so good this year

Have been very low on the game for the last 24 hours lol, but shit that was an epic encounter. The Tigers D this season is great. Nicho not being able to ice that game will have the heat on him again

interesting week ahead, nobody is going to be happy, all the talk will be about not ruining Magic Round again, so we will probably end up with the officiating doing a complete 180 again, might be a good week not to have Manly involved

 

[Blair]

Wests win a golden-point thriller at Leichhardt, 20-18. The Tigers of yesteryear would've lost that one. This year they seem tougher in defence.

Rd 8 Ladder:



Look who's last. It's eight games in - two months! - it's not just an anomaly. This is serious, Ivan.

We're top four. No hubris, please. No one's showing off about it but it's OK to be a bit over the moon with it, ay!

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Have been very low on the game for the last 24 hours lol

Haha why? Your team smashed the four-time premiers and our team won in your home town

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Haha why? Your team smashed the four-time premiers and our team won in your home town

Smashed the 4 time premiers, but the officiating made it an absolutely atrocious watch, and it was bloody strange afterwards not being hyped at all about it, I was into the Tigers game more today somehow lol

 

[JJ]

Galvin is a very good talent…. May the buy of the year

 

[nswarrior]

Great win for the Tigers. What a great game to watch. I was sure the Sharks would win it but Tigers defended unbelievably wrong

 

[Big Marn]

That Pole sinbin was ridiculous. Classic over correction by the NRL. And Annesley no longer has his video breakdown each week explaining all the botched calls. Convenient.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Found myself rooting for the Tigers just cos they've had such a shitty couple of weeks.

Stoked they got the win, but I reckon Fitz will be privately fuming at how badly the Sharks went about trying to close that out. All the momentum at the end, forwards rolling through the middle at will but they just kept bottling it.

Some massive defensive plays by the Tigers obviously, but I think at least 4 of the Shark's bungled field goal sets were as much about their own bad decision making as anything else.

Great watch though, even with the ongoing head contact bollocks. No prizes for guessing what the big topic of the week will be lol

 

[Blair]

Big Addin looks even bigger this year and not in a good way. However, that perception by me could simply be down to a change in uniform and haircut.

He's still enormously effective rolling up the field. He's also very keen, wants to get involved and is quick getting back on his feet, getting back into the line, moving around the ruck, marshalling himself and team-mates on attack and defence.

Good player; we know that.

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

Big Addin looks even bigger this year and not in a good way. However, that perception by me could simply be down to a change in uniform and haircut.

He's still enormously effective rolling up the field. He's also very keen, wants to get involved and is quick getting back on his feet, getting back into the line, moving around the ruck, marshalling himself and team-mates on attack and defence.

Good player; we know that.

Great player. Shit person. His interview on Fox when they asked Addin why the Sharks? He replied he wanted to be in finals footy more. I hope they miss out on the 8 after he said this. I don't dislike the Sharks but AFB's side dig at the Warriors here made me dislike him even more than I previously did. My son's team is the Shark's, and he even agrees with his old man lol

Blair it isn't the uniform colours or his haircut. He has put on a few kgs, though he still carving up the metres his movement on the field looks a little more sluggish than when with the Warriors. Ironically, he won Dally M Prop of the year twice with the Warriors. I don't think he will win it this year with the Sharks. Haas / May will snap that up.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Round 8 Sin Bin side

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Abdo on a spin mission on NRL360 tonight. Gotta respect him fronting up at least.

But looking past the waffle, reckon there’ll be some changes this weekend.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Great player. Shit person. His interview on Fox when they asked Addin why the Sharks? He replied he wanted to be in finals footy more. I hope they miss out on the 8 after he said this. I don't dislike the Sharks but AFB's side dig at the Warriors here made me dislike him even more than I previously did. My son's team is the Shark's, and he even agrees with his old man lol

Blair it isn't the uniform colours or his haircut. He has put on a few kgs, though he still carving up the metres his movement on the field looks a little more sluggish than when with the Warriors. Ironically, he won Dally M Prop of the year twice with the Warriors. I don't think he will win it this year with the Sharks. Haas / May will snap that up.

half an hour after getting a release from Manly, he was celebrating on social media smoking a pipe lol

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Abdo on a spin mission on NRL360 tonight. Gotta respect him fronting up at least.

But looking past the waffle, reckon there’ll be some changes this weekend.

Yep you can pretty well guarantee there will be changes. I saw one headline saying it was the worst officiated round in NRL history. Joey Johns has been blowing up, it's all over all media outlets and I think this is one controversy they won't like the column inches from.

The footy is still great but yeah we unwittingly became part of an out of control beast when Kosi copped the high one from Luai.