lucablight
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Metres made by backs don’t count?
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Metres made by backs don’t count?
Their two best metre gainers were Papenhuyzen and Munster. Four of their top five were edge players, much like us last night. Melbourne should win nearly every time they play us, but they take us lightly and try to go around us. Sound familiar? It's a recipe for disaster. I hope it happens in the finals.
lucablight asked publicly so I answered him publicly. Thanks for the advice though. If you don't like his questions maybe send him a DM letting him know how you feel?
A did say grand final wins, not premierships. But also, being in a position to cheat like that (illegally retaining players they had poached as youngsters) is a sign of how strong they were/are. They have obviously perfected the art of retaining players 'legally', although they're still not as dominant, as shown by their inability to make four straight grand finals ever since. The best they managed was 2016-2018 (for only one win).
It's not the lack of resources I'm talking about, it's the abundance of resources available to the clubs who have won multiple premierships. That's the point I'm making. It's good that weaker clubs are a chance of arsing their way to a premiership when the stars align, and hopefully it happens for us. But the experience of the Roosters and Storm (and to a lesser extent the Panthers) over 20 years points to the problem. In that 20 year period we have lost 11 finals matches:
| Team | Finals wins over Parramatta since 2002 |
|---|---|
| Storm | 6 |
| Cowboys | 2 |
| Broncos | 1 |
| Panthers | 1 |
| Rabbits | 1 |
No he was a utility. He played fullback, centre and five-eighth (48 games at this position).
The bloke who Bellamy moved from fullback to five-eighth? Fancy all these great players being able to play multiple positions. Dylan Brown is in good company.
Only sometimes. We outplayed the Penrith pack in last year's finals. Just our backs weren't good enough to capitalise. But it was anyone's game.
* Mostly.
Not really because the number of runs where some merkin doesn't get tackled (like scoring a try) is insignificant over the course of 80 minutes of rugby league. It will make no difference to their level of fatigue. It's just the f**king dumbest simile any rugby league watching dope has ever come up with.
Not when judging the platform laid by the forwards. Good platform laid by the outside backs though I suppose, but maybe we'd rather them make line breaks and score tries?
It was in response to you belatedly claiming your question was a rhetorical one... you're so high on keyboard fantasies you don't even know what argument you're trying to start or reply to any more
And I don't think I've seen one person ask you a question publically... You don't have to answer ever public post that appears in the forum - unless for some reason you're trying to fill a gap in your life?
What a shit post. Again.
Pou and credibility?It was in response to you belatedly claiming your question was a rhetorical one... you're so high on keyboard fantasies you don't even know what argument you're trying to start or reply to any more
Take a rest from it mate, you're fast losing whatever credibility for being a "thinker" you seem to think that you have,
