OT: NRL 2014 Week 1 Finals

[TheParraboy]

other than Townsville, crowds have been woefull

same as the refereeing

 

[TheParraboy]

This x1000000000


Shitted me to tears Rabs rambling on what a great coach Bellamy is and what an amazing record he had making the finals every year at the Storm blah blah blah. Failed to mention the 5 years they were systematically rorting the cap.

On ABC radio they said the feedback that came in at no1 as far as what fans don't like about the game is the commentary. No doubt one (of many) reasons is Warren and the like waffling on about how good Melbourne have been hits a nerve with many other club fans. Absolute inconsiderate f**ckers

 

[Gronk]

Souths & Dogs were amazing. Certainly the form teams.

Not sure if my tip the Cowboys can go all the way now that I've seen the Bunnies hit top gear.

I don't mind if the Bunnies win this year. They certainly are playing well.

Next year they keep their squad in tact, save Sam B Ben Teo and being replaced by Glenn Stewart and Tim Grant ? f**k.

 

[Noise]

Souths & Dogs were amazing. Certainly the form teams.

Not sure if my tip the Cowboys can go all the way now that I've seen the Bunnies hit top gear.

I don't mind if the Bunnies win this year. They certainly are playing well.

Next year they keep their squad in tact, save Sam B Ben Teo and being replaced by Glenn Stewart and Tim Grant ? f**k.

No Sam Burgess either. Massive loss regardless of stewart and Grant

 

[TheParraboy]

Souths & Dogs were amazing. Certainly the form teams.

Not sure if my tip the Cowboys can go all the way now that I've seen the Bunnies hit top gear.

I don't mind if the Bunnies win this year. They certainly are playing well.

Next year they keep their squad in tact, save Sam B Ben Teo and being replaced by Glenn Stewart and Tim Grant ? f**k.

Based on one game?

Not convinced on Souths, Roosters touched them up only a couple of weeks back, kept Sam Burgess quiet seemed to work. I reckon they will bomb out at the same position 3 years in a year

Dogs have been woefull for 8 weeks, caught Storm at a good time with Smith playing injured and nowhere near his ability. They play a depleted Manly side, so footy gods with them for now, rather than being inform

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Penrith, manly, dogs side of the draw is looking the weaker half. Gee Penrith would be wishing they had a few more of their injured players available, not very often an opportunity to win the comp comes up.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Not convinced on Souths, Roosters touched them up only a couple of weeks back,

Souths did ok in that game, don't forget their halfback Reynolds was out. While the roosters scored 14 points when the bunnies had a player in the bin - before the binning the game was very close. Then souths come home very strong.

 

[oldmancraigy]

Penrith, manly, dogs side of the draw is looking the weaker half. Gee Penrith would be wishing they had a few more of their injured players available, not very often an opportunity to win the comp comes up.

Difficult to see Manly missing the GF from here!

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Difficult to see Manly missing the GF from here!

I reckon they will struggle against the dogs pack. But then I didn't think they would get to GF last year either but they do have more injuries this year. They may not even have a hooker available this week.

 

[TheParraboy]

Souths did ok in that game, don't forget their halfback Reynolds was out. While the roosters scored 14 points when the bunnies had a player in the bin - before the binning the game was very close. Then souths come home very strong.

fair enough good points , though roosters also had jake friend out

Wouldn't mind seeing them win the comp over the likes of dogs, roosters and Manly though

Hopefully Penrith can go all the way for a number of reasons but mainly to start digging that grave for AFL in western sydney

 

[TheParraboy]

Difficult to see Manly missing the GF from here!

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[T.S Quint]

other than Townsville, crowds have been woefull

same as the refereeing

No Eels.
No Dragons.
No Tigers.
Dogs had to play in Melbourne.
Penrith is a long way from the SFS.
Manly fans were never going to turn up to The SFS.
This Finals series couldn't have worked out worse for the NRL crowd-wise.

 

[The EELiminator]

Manly fans were never going to turn up to The SFS.

going by the crowd not many souths fans turned up either

 

[oldmancraigy]

I reckon they will struggle against the dogs pack. But then I didn't think they would get to GF last year either but they do have more injuries this year. They may not even have a hooker available this week.

No hooker would kill 'em. Apart from that, Buldogs are pedestrian out wide and Manly defend (unlike Storm). Dogs have a hoodoo over Storm, i expect their normal service to resume this week.

Panthers are solid, but surely wont trouble the big game SeaEagles?

I guess we will see! Having the best halves, and good defenders out wide will be tough to beat

 

[Jake the snake]

No hooker would kill 'em. Apart from that, Buldogs are pedestrian out wide and Manly defend (unlike Storm). Dogs have a hoodoo over Storm, i expect their normal service to resume this week.

Panthers are solid, but surely wont trouble the big game SeaEagles?

I guess we will see! Having the best halves, and good defenders out wide will be tough to beat

Am I the only that thinks dogs have a saloon passage to the GF?? They will shit in. Their defence is amazing! Credit to Des Hasler

 

[Kornstar]

Am I the only that thinks dogs have a saloon passage to the GF?? They will shit in. Their defence is amazing! Credit to Des Hasler

Yep, Manly on the decline and an injury plagued Panthers.....they should easily make it.

 

[hindy111]

I agree-Dogs look to me like they will get in.
There win in Melbourne was more The storm where woefull and every bounce of the ball went the dogs way thou rather than good footy by he dogs.Two intercepts and a few tries off bombs.Not exactly attractive footy.But they bring teams down to there level and make it a scrappy grind.
Melbourne had a try dissalowed that at 24-10 with 30 mins to go would of been a different ball game. But credit to the Dogs defense.Question is how much gas did they burn up.

I thought Penrith would fall off a while back but they keep finding a way.A week off to rest and get there minds back on the job.Manly and dogs may get injuries or belt each other too death.I favour dogs but im not sure it will be a cake walk.Manly still have a classy 1-7 and if Ballin is back its a 50-50 who will win.

I still think the winner comes from the other side of the draw.

 

[strider]

the thing about this NRL season is that form seems to come and go almost weekly

teams aren't consistently turning up

who knows who will be the form tream next week???

 

[guruminga]

the thing about this NRL season is that form seems to come and go almost weekly

teams aren't consistently turning up

who knows who will be the form tream next week???

Got that right!

G

 

[Chipmunk]

Am I the only that thinks dogs have a saloon passage to the GF?? They will shit in. Their defence is amazing! Credit to Des Hasler

No one has a more inept left side defence than what Melbourne had. Not even either of our edge defences are as bad as Melbourne's left side. I'm surprised that someone hadn't already had a crack at it big time prior to yesterday. It just took someone to exploit it early and then for a while it was the gift that kept on giving, in both attack and defence...

Melbourne had plenty of chances in attack, but the Dogs did hold firm.