Redneck Redfaces 2

[POPEYE]

Could the salary cap pay Bird 20% less than what Benny is offering and my wannabe 20% discount for one-clubbers make up the difference. Providing the Sharks wanted to pay the extra, providing Flannagan is not the coach I think he is and providing it's not worth the effort seeking out new talent

Best thing about the Benny Bird Incident is we now know for sure Wayne is not as good a coach as Bellamy and imo not as good as Flannagan . . . even allowing for Maloney

Interesting which coaches complain about premeditated signings, which ones hypocritically participate and which ones don't find any of it necessary . . . 'necessary' the key component

 

[Blues Riff]

Sounds good mate. Penrith could save a fortune and poach Bellamy.

 

[POPEYE]

Sounds good mate. Penrith could save a fortune and poach Bellamy.

Penrith would be easier than most for Bellamy considering it's famous 'gigantic breeding ground' but I'd rather see him go to the Warriors given his infinity with Kiwi forwards. Be great to see if the best coach in the game could teach a Kiwi youngster to play halfback properly

 

[Pedge1971]

Penrith would be easier than most for Bellamy considering it's famous 'gigantic breeding ground' but I'd rather see him go to the Warriors given his infinity with Kiwi forwards. Be great to see if the best coach in the game could teach a Kiwi youngster to play halfback properly

I reckon the first thing he would do is sign a couple of young tough forwards from Aussie club system (maybe Melbourne) to put around the talent at the Warriors.

Their problem isnt ability it is discipline and resilience when things get tough.

 

[POPEYE]

All the Warriors need is a Cronk/Maloney/Norman and a ban on Johnson passing the ball just for the sake of it 4 out of every 5 . . . matter of fact tell the bloke he can't pass until he's through the line, force him to do what he does best.

I don't mind the Warriors beating Melbourne like they can but it's f**king pathetic when they do win a game Johnson gets his nine lives back . . . Warriors supporters have trouble distinguishing 'icon' from 'enigma'

 

[POPEYE]

Was worth sourcing a replay to see how well a Foran led Warriors side can go, Melbourne had to step up big time and even then lady luck played a part. Kearney is not a bad coach because he can't teach Johnson to think but he's not a supercoach because his choices are dictated

The Warriors would have beaten most teams on that performance, a f**king pity that Foran is going to be shanghaied just as Maloney was . . . what is it with smart players not wanting to play in NZ

Dessie will be licking his lips over '18 for the same reason Mary will be biting his for 6 weeks, the Dogs will have Foran and the Dragons will have McCrone. Lucky for the Roosters that when Josh was put behind the wheel he threw the keys away

 

[POPEYE]

Just returned from my working holiday and the first thing I read was truly worth a giggle. 'The one thing in favour of the Panthers keeping Corey Harawira-Naera is his living situation'. That is as opposed to the Sharks finding him accommodation in the Shire . . . something which Penrith players hate the thought of

As someone who had lived in the Blacktown/Parramatta/Penrith area most of his 69 years I can tell you the humidity ridden concrete jungle shithole is not the thing to wave in the face of promising young players who have a choice

 

[POPEYE]

Crikey, what with Cronk likely to become the successor to Sterling as the most sought out RL tv personality, Smith set to rise to the top of the NRL hierarchy ladder, Bellamy the prime candidate for Headmaster of a possible RL Coaching Academy and Bart Campbell the Guru of Club Chairman . . . is there no f**king end to Victoria's claim to sporting dominance

How did it come to this, Melbourne is about to become Australia's most acclaimed city and the NRL has let RL be commandeered by sporting pirates. So much for Sydney's antiquated self-centered bullshit, time to spread the game Australia wide and give those f**king Mexicans a run for their money . . . time to thin and grin

 

[Blues Riff]

Just returned from my working holiday and the first thing I read was truly worth a giggle. 'The one thing in favour of the Panthers keeping Corey Harawira-Naera is his living situation'. That is as opposed to the Sharks finding him accommodation in the Shire . . . something which Penrith players hate the thought of

As someone who had lived in the Blacktown/Parramatta/Penrith area most of his 69 years I can tell you the humidity ridden concrete jungle shithole is not the thing to wave in the face of promising young players who have a choice

You lived in the Penrith area? Yeah right. You must have missed the 12 000 square kms of pristine world heritage listed wilderness just to the west.
Dickhead.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Crikey, what with Cronk likely to become the successor to Sterling as the most sought out RL tv personality, Smith set to rise to the top of the NRL hierarchy ladder, Bellamy the prime candidate for Headmaster of a possible RL Coaching Academy and Bart Campbell the Guru of Club Chairman . . . is there no f**king end to Victoria's claim to sporting dominance

How did it come to this, Melbourne is about to become Australia's most acclaimed city and the NRL has let RL be commandeered by sporting pirates. So much for Sydney's antiquated self-centered bullshit, time to spread the game Australia wide and give those f**king Mexicans a run for their money . . . time to thin and grin

Melbourne does this far more than Sydney. I've never lived anywhere else that was as obsessed in comparing itself to another city. It was the first thing that comes to mind for people in Melbourne: How does this compare to Sydney?

 

[POPEYE]

You lived in the Penrith area? Yeah right. You must have missed the 12 000 square kms of pristine world heritage listed wilderness just to the west.
Dickhead.

By just to the west do you mean up the mountain overlooking the shithole. People up there live in their own little world, more like bush people than the rabble scrambling on the plains below. As soon as I climb the Bell's Line of Road it's like being let out of the cells the morning after

Anyway, with the absence of anything better to catch you'll have to do . . . a nibble on the road back

 

[POPEYE]

Melbourne does this far more than Sydney. I've never lived anywhere else that was as obsessed in comparing itself to another city. It was the first thing that comes to mind for people in Melbourne: How does this compare to Sydney?

I know you know I'm taking the piss but you are right, just a few trips to Melbourne will confirm to anyone that the inhabitants consider themselves unlike those in any other city. Any outsider who thinks they can drive through the joint without considering the difference is delusional

It's because Melbourne has a chip on its shoulder for whatever reason they try harder to prove a point. I find the place invigorating by it's simplicity, no-one there is in any doubt of the rules even if the rest of Australia is confused by them

 

[Blues Riff]

It's f**king ironic that you claim to be fishing for Rednecks in this thread. Your biased ignorance and sweeping generalisations show who the true Redneck is here.

 

[POPEYE]

Just a bit of fun ol' mate, there are not many who take offence at my abhorrence of what Sydney has become. Penrith wasn't conjoined to it when I was a lad, electric trains stopped at Blacktown and you had to drive single lanes through fog to get where you defend. When I was first married Richmond was in the bush

Everything's changed since except RL, like a snail with a broken leg it hangs on to too many teams between the ocean and the wall at your back that protects we in the bush. Not that I mind, the shemozzle that is RL in Sydney does wonders for the rest, I can't imagine the Storm and Broncos being the perennial pick of the crop if there were half as many Sydney teams

I stopped fishing for Rednecks long ago, those that are around only visit once, it's people like yourself that bother to read what I write consistently that keep this thread alive . . . don't take my way of drawing attention to things I think need changing too seriously ol' mate

 

[Blues Riff]

It was the comment about CHN. You seem to assume that all Cronulla recruits will be housed in waterfront penthouses while our players are in some sort of urban ghetto. I left the area a few years ago now, but I was able to attend home games and 20 minutes later be at home in a nice bushland setting. There are also vast rural areas to the north and south. Thankfully I'm now in a place where I can have a km of beach to myself.

 

[POPEYE]

Truth be known ol' mate I prefer the seaside as you do, 2nd best is west of the Bluey's where 2 of my grandkids are but I visit the other 4 on the Sunshine Coast regularly. If I was a player who had to go through a myriad of traffic lights to get anywhere they'd have to pay me a whole lot of money.

I can drive the 1000k from Mudgee to Pomona in 12 hours pulling a van and only have to navigate probably 10 sets of lights . . . which is why people like myself would flock to an NRL team located west of the Blueys

 

[POPEYE]

The question has to be asked, why was the NZ/Aust game adjudicated upon so competently. Is it because the players are supposedly higher echelon and don't need to be treated like imbeciles, not like normal NRL players. No that can't be it, the Poms referee all their games the way of last night's game and we know their players are sub standard compared to the NRL

Maybe it's because the rules are slightly different, believe that and you do need an imaginary friend. Possibly it's because the single referee/Bunker know the eyes of the world are judging them and the contest should be between players and not show pony referees trying to outdo each other

It really is a f**king pity that NRL games should be used to train apprentice referees, why can't that be done in the lesser grades . . . it's bad enough we have to have KFC forced down our throats. Last night's one sided game was made easier to sit through because the players made the difference and we knew NZ's lack of cohesion was the reason . . . not f**king nitpicking adjudication

 

[wibble]

The question has to be asked, why was the NZ/Aust game adjudicated upon so competently. Is it because the players are supposedly higher echelon and don't need to be treated like imbeciles, not like normal NRL players. No that can't be it, the Poms referee all their games the way of last night's game and we know their players are sub standard compared to the NRL

Maybe it's because the rules are slightly different, believe that and you do need an imaginary friend. Possibly it's because the single referee/Bunker know the eyes of the world are judging them and the contest should be between players and not show pony referees trying to outdo each other

It really is a f**king pity that NRL games should be used to train apprentice referees, why can't that be done in the lesser grades . . . it's bad enough we have to have KFC forced down our throats. Last night's one sided game was made easier to sit through because the players made the difference and we knew NZ's lack of cohesion was the reason . . . not f**king nitpicking adjudication

The players are involved each week in the NRL, and do the same things each week in the NRL as they did in the test match. Yet the Test match was officiated with so much less lecturing and pedantry. I agree, clearly the officials are just taking the piss in NRL matches, they actually can officiate. Wish they would do it more often.

 

[POPEYE]

On another subject last night's game was lopsided as I said because the Kiwis didn't have cohesion . . . because they don't have anything like Origin. Forget that Kearney doesn't have anyone like Hagan who points the way for Mal

If the NRL is really interested in a fair playing field, it would turn this 'Testing' weekend into 3 and let the also-rans play amongst themselves . . . say NZ/England play the best of 3 and the rest get more games against each other

While that's going on Australia could play 3 straight weekends of Origin. The rest mightn't get close to Australia in World Cup or 4 Nations but they would have the same amount of hard practice games we have. Wankers who claim they're missing out on their NRL for 3 weeks and can't get a fix don't deserve to see the big picture

. . . let the Poms go without their 'stars' for 3 weeks, a small price to pay for equal preparation, something the Kiwis are in desperate need of

 

[POPEYE]

Game I enjoyed most today was PNG/Cook Islands, just because it again proves what inclusion in Australian RL can do for a country . . . re the Hunters in Qld Cup. Because it would not be a requirement that a PNG team bivouacked in Australia and playing NRL be made up entirely of Kumuls, ala the Warriors not entirely Kiwis, there's no reason Cronk couldn't join them . . . or someone else worth throwing millions at

It's a f**king shame that a country of 8 million diehard RL supporters is going to waste