Paul Kent ?

[moffla]

There's nothing I love more than seeing Kenty get upset after being "lied to"
His uproar with the whole titans coaching situation has been great.

 

[Starkers]

There's nothing I love more than seeing Kenty get upset after being "lied to"
His uproar with the whole titans coaching situation has been great.

last night was a fabulous meltdown. it was almost as though kevvie himself was there

loved ikin's redirect when he pointed out that, quite possibly, the titans have in fact made the correct choice as next coach!!!

 

[axl rose]

There's nothing I love more than seeing Kenty get upset after being "lied to"
His uproar with the whole titans coaching situation has been great.

Still doesn't top his meltdown when Valentine Holmes wouldnt talk to the media at the airport coming back from the States. I think he was wearing a hoodie as well (outrageous)

 

[Vee]

It's one thing to have a different opinion, it's quite another to go on a rant instead of allowing another person to finish speaking. And he did that repeatedly this week, very bad week.

GA was calm and measured, merkin and the Drunken Dribbler repeatedly missed the point with tangential rants.

 

[ram raid]

He's been very emotional lately.

 

[roofromoz]

 

[madunit]

It was cute watching Kent and Buzz pretending to be historians last night.

 

[Generalzod]

It was cute watching Kent and Buzz pretending to be historians last night.

What kind of like the Herodotus type...lol

 

[grouch]

Sam Burgess is good again

 

[Tenacious Titans]

Wrong thread mb

 

[Stallion]

Wrong thread mb

Seems to be a "Yes man" for his masters?

 

[Qapm]

It also gives him something to talk about endlessly and write about. Makes his job easy.

I have a story for Kent: the epic disaster that is the Dragon's 2019 season, a team with 5 SOO players now contending for the Wooden Spoon. No one seems to want to touch this story.

While I'm at it: I'm a fan of the various Matty Johns shows/podcasts but getting tired of the lack of interest in the Dragon's implosion. All you'll get is grimace and quick statement like "the Dragons and Mary have a lot of issues" and that only after the extent of the disaster could no longer be ignored.

How about it Paul? After all, reporting on the destruction of a once great club is THE litmus test for integrity in NRL reporting in 2019 and beyond.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

I have a story for Kent: the epic disaster that is the Dragon's 2019 season, a team with 5 SOO players now contending for the Wooden Spoon. No one seems to want to touch this story.

While I'm at it: I'm a fan of the various Matty Johns shows/podcasts but getting tired of the lack of interest in the Dragon's implosion. All you'll get is grimace and quick statement like "the Dragons and Mary have a lot of issues" and that only after the extent of the disaster could no longer be ignored.

How about it Paul? After all, reporting on the destruction of a once great club is THE litmus test for integrity in NRL reporting in 2019 and beyond.

5 SOO players and two England internationals

 

[LeagueXIII]

I have a story for Kent: the epic disaster that is the Dragon's 2019 season, a team with 5 SOO players now contending for the Wooden Spoon. No one seems to want to touch this story.

While I'm at it: I'm a fan of the various Matty Johns shows/podcasts but getting tired of the lack of interest in the Dragon's implosion. All you'll get is grimace and quick statement like "the Dragons and Mary have a lot of issues" and that only after the extent of the disaster could no longer be ignored.

How about it Paul? After all, reporting on the destruction of a once great club is THE litmus test for integrity in NRL reporting in 2019 and beyond.

But Mary's a good bloke.........................

 

[roofromoz]

I have a story for Kent: the epic disaster that is the Dragon's 2019 season, a team with 5 SOO players now contending for the Wooden Spoon. No one seems to want to touch this story.

While I'm at it: I'm a fan of the various Matty Johns shows/podcasts but getting tired of the lack of interest in the Dragon's implosion. All you'll get is grimace and quick statement like "the Dragons and Mary have a lot of issues" and that only after the extent of the disaster could no longer be ignored.

How about it Paul? After all, reporting on the destruction of a once great club is THE litmus test for integrity in NRL reporting in 2019 and beyond.

Let him finish with Ivan first.

 

[Perth Red]

Kent came very close to a defamation claim on last nights 360, and Hooper not far behind. It was classic Kent v Ikin

Kent: Storm players are being coached to injure players in tackles
Ikin: How many players have been injured in Storm tackles this year?
Kent: errrrrr, you cant say its not happening
Ikin: No players have suffered an injury
Kent: errrrrrrrr

Kent: Storm are always doing crusher tackles
Ikin: Hang on all teams have been pinged, they are accidental
Kent: No they arent Storm are doing it all the time and coached to do so
Ikin: How many Storm players have been charged for a crusher this year?
Kent: errrrrrrr
Ikin: None:
Kent: errrr well that one should have been

Kent: Storm forwards are being coached to lead with their elbows
Ikin: Arent all teams?
Kent: No
Ikin: Didnt Burgess get banned recently for leading with elbow?
Kent: yes
Ikin: so are Souths players being coached to lead with elbows?
Kent: no, errrrrr, no he was banned
Ikin: sigh.


What a tool!

 

[southwalesrabbitoh]

Generally i love Paul Kent.

 

[Miller was a legend]

Generally i love Paul Kent.

Great to hear Mrs Kent, however the rest of us would have preferred you used contraception

 

[southwalesrabbitoh]

Great to hear Mrs Kent, however the rest of us would have preferred you used contraception

That is cheeky, too cheeky IMO.

 

[ram raid]

Kent came very close to a defamation claim on last nights 360, and Hooper not far behind. It was classic Kent v Ikin

Kent: Storm players are being coached to injure players in tackles
Ikin: How many players have been injured in Storm tackles this year?
Kent: errrrrr, you cant say its not happening
Ikin: No players have suffered an injury
Kent: errrrrrrrr

Kent: Storm are always doing crusher tackles
Ikin: Hang on all teams have been pinged, they are accidental
Kent: No they arent Storm are doing it all the time and coached to do so
Ikin: How many Storm players have been charged for a crusher this year?
Kent: errrrrrrr
Ikin: None:
Kent: errrr well that one should have been

Kent: Storm forwards are being coached to lead with their elbows
Ikin: Arent all teams?
Kent: No
Ikin: Didnt Burgess get banned recently for leading with elbow?
Kent: yes
Ikin: so are Souths players being coached to lead with elbows?
Kent: no, errrrrr, no he was banned
Ikin: sigh.


What a tool!

Here's the Tele article ..



How Melbourne manipulate the media and the referees to get away with wrestling - Paul Kent

Exactly nobody in the history of rugby league ever walked out of a footy ground and said: “Great game, just wish I saw more wrestling.”

Yet every NRL team’s success depends entirely on its ability to wrestle.

It is the perfect example of the confusion the game has created; nobody wants wrestling, but nobody can win without it.

And the game does not know what to do about it.

Small wars are being fought all around the game at the moment.

South Sydney boss Shane Richardson became a minor hero this week when he had the courage to put his name to a sentiment that is widespread throughout the NRL.

Coaches and club officials at other clubs have privately contributed to Richardson’s weighty argument.

The Storm have hit back with a passive aggressive campaign kept largely private. Journalists reporting the argument have been barraged with texts.

A Storm-friendly reporter will receive a text from one of several Storm officials that begins along the lines of “You’re a better journo than that …”
Those viewed as unfriendly are called a disgrace and accused of running an agenda, or of being another club lackey. For some, this week began with the first and ended with the second.

Storm football manager Frank Ponissi called Richardson this week to complain.

Clubs are sick of asking the NRL to deal with it. One coach sent the NRL 32 clips of illegal Storm tactics, from two games, and received no response. Another coach sent in more clips and, worse, discovered the NRL told the Storm what he did.

What chance him sticking his head up again?

Confusion is rife and a chief reason is there are two kinds of wrestling.

There is the simple wrestling designed to slow the play-the-ball down. Slowing the tackle has been around since Dally Messenger threw his first hospital pass but now it is systematic and practised.

Then there is the other wrestling designed to injure the opponent.

Richardson has no doubt the Storm are deliberately setting out to injure opponents.

“Something needs to be done,” Richardson said to Fox Sports James Hooper.

“Who invented the crusher tackle, who invented the chicken wing, who invented the rolling pin?

“We were furious afterwards. It’s not in the spirit of the game.”

Richardson pointed to this week’s version, Cody Walker’s tackle on Tui Kamikamica where Kamikamica led with an elbow into Walker’s chest.

He charged it was deliberate and the Storm countered by claiming it was an accident.

The Storm have said nothing about Channel 9 commentator Phil Gould, who casually commented during the coverage that he saw the Storm practising it in their warm-up.

There was a time when such an attack would have drawn an immediate penalty but, nowadays, referees are so busy looking for so many illegal moves from the defence they have taken their eyes away from the ball carrier.

Yes - it's out of control
No - everyone does it
The Storm are under siege, not unfairly, but they are not the only club fouling opponents.

I spoke to a coach at another club who does not want to be dragged into this unholy slanging match but has clear understanding of what is happening.

He spoke of the “grey area”, that moment where all coaches ultimately arrive at in their coaching careers.

The grey area is the simple difference between right and wrong. At some point coaches, he said, face a moral decision whether to take that extra step in search of victory or to remain within the rules.

Some have and some have not.

“We have a moral choice whether we want to play within the spirit of the rules,” he said.

“Wrestling coaches don’t have that moral choice. It’s what they do in their sport.

“But it’s not our sport. If you hand over control to the wrestling coaches they will take it over.”

Bennett has been a fierce critic of Melbourne’s tackling since the moment Alex McKinnon broke his neck in a Storm tackle gone wrong. But he is burned out by the endless debate.

Bennett has remained one of those coaches who resisted the urge coaches to drift into illegal tactics, even if it is to the detriment to his team.

Such moves are disguised and deliberate.

The first tackler will catch his opponent, the second secures him and the third tackler will circle behind the ballrunner and sniper him from behind, diving hard into the unprotected legs.

The third tackler can have another job, too.

Often he will then collapse his hips and drop on the calves of the tackled player and roll away, dragging his body over the heels and twisting his opponent’s ankle.

Elbows are being dropped into the flashy parts of the flesh, such as the groin or thigh, with pressure. Sometimes to the side of the head.

Legs are twisted. They search for head control, choke holds.

Aware the NRL will not charge them because it is not initial contact, players will take a second grip around the neck after the ballrunner has been caught, or sometimes the head, and then hogtie the player to the ground.

Players are instantly vulnerable once their head and neck are being grappled and usually submit immediately, under the rule that where the head goes, the body follows.

And it all looks accidental.

The great test for the game is how it untangles the wrestle out of the game.

NRL boss Todd Greenberg confirmed it is a problem the game must address.

“We will absolutely be looking at ways to eradicate wrestling and to eradicate contact with the head and neck in the future,” he wrote.

The quickest way to eliminate the wrestle is to penalise it out of the game. Have the referee call held and if the tacklers don’t immediately release the ballrunner they are penalised.

If the tackle collapses after the call of held, another slowing tactic designed to look like an accident, then penalise that too. And when players don’t cop the tip, sin bin them.

And then follow that up with a match review committee schooled on wrestling techniques who can identify the trickery and charge the players.

It will force change, from the catch and wrestle tackle that dominates now and return it to the hit and drive style that dominated for almost a hundred years.

It will cause enormous uproar, some coaches will complain, and the NRL will need a certain bank of character to see it through, but the game needs a circuit breaker.

Eventually coaches will have no choice but to submit.

That might make a nice irony.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/teams/storm/how-melbourne-manipulate-the-media-and-the-referees-to-get-away-with-wrestling/news-story/