Rumours and Stuff

[Noise]

This season is 27 rounds long. Wasn't it 24 rounds until recently?

It's only one extra round - which is the third bye for every team (24 games, 3 byes). Previous years has been 26 rounds (24 games 2 byes)

 

[Gazzamatta]

Friend of mine just spotted Josh Reynolds at a Hurstville Imaging Clinic with his Bulldogs minder. Interesting that he plays his last ever Bulldogs Reserve Grade match tomorrow.
Gus's surprise coment that Reynolds "gave up" his top 30 spot for Sexton so he could come to The Dogs.
No idea if theres anything wrong with any of this cause I dont understand The Salary Cap but it seems smelly.

 

[Gronk]

Friend of mine just spotted Josh Reynolds at a Hurstville Imaging Clinic with his Bulldogs minder. Interesting that he plays his last ever Bulldogs Reserve Grade match tomorrow.
Gus's surprise coment that Reynolds "gave up" his top 30 spot for Sexton so he could come to The Dogs.
No idea if theres anything wrong with any of this cause I dont understand The Salary Cap but it seems smelly.

A bit like how Mitch Rein came back from fishing, announced his retirement, and nek minute Brendan Hands is Top 30 28 ?

 

[parra pete]

RIP Matty Johnson...The first captain of a Parramatta Premiership team..
the 1964 Third Grade Premiers.
Matty gave great service to Parra, playing 162 games for the Club, including 64 in top grade.
Wins in Matt's era were few and far between, but he was a player who gave it his best shot, every time he took to the field. You can't ask anything more than that.
Matt was good friends and team mate with two of my very good friends, both of whom are deceased - Bobby Lee and Kenny Cluff.

 

[parra pete]

Vale Matthew Johnston​

Authorparraeels.com.auTimestampFri 14 Jul 2023, 03:22 PM

The Parramatta Eels and Parramatta Leagues Club are saddened to learn of the passing of prominent Leagues and Eels life member and Eels Player # 146 Matthew Johnston. Matt’s relationship with the Club started in 1955 as a 19-year-old after growing up in Riverstone in northwestern Sydney.​

He made his first-grade debut in 1957 becoming Eels player #146 against Newton and scored a try on debut. He played 162 games for the Club as a lock or backrower including 67 games in First Grade which included receiving the Eels player of the year award in 1960. Matt was also part of two major milestones for the Club including being part of Eels first Final’s winning team (First grade) in 1963 and being the first captain of an Eels Premiership winning team when the Eels won the third grade Grand Final in 1964.


Matt’s contribution to the Club continued well after his playing career, including being involved in the Club across a number of roles and in his later years was heavily in the Blue and Gold Alliance. Even well into his 80’s, Matt was a regular at all Eels home games and player reunions with his collection of memories and memorabilia continuing his strong connection with the Club.

In honor of Matt’s great contribution to the Club, our First-Grade team will be wearing black armbands in his memory.

Vale Matthew Johnston Player #146

 

[T-Boon]

I’ve been watching games from the 90s (right now eels v panthers ((Brett Kenny commentating haha)). It’s remarkable how much faster the game was. Rucks were gloriously clean in comparison. I am certain those teams would beat current teams back then. Current teams would quit 20 minutes in.

 

[Avenger]

Josh Hodgson is officially out for the season and BA just said on Channel 9 that we are looking for a hooker and we still have a few weeks to find one.

I’m hoping it’s Lussick.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I’ve been watching games from the 90s (right now eels v panthers ((Brett Kenny commentating haha)). It’s remarkable how much faster the game was. Rucks were gloriously clean in comparison. I am certain those teams would beat current teams back then. Current teams would quit 20 minutes in.

I think current teams would just wrestle those merkins out of the game.

 

[Incorrect]

Josh Hodgson is officially out for the season and BA just said on Channel 9 that we are looking for a hooker and we still have a few weeks to find one.

I’m hoping it’s Lussick.

Bernie would've had at least 10 hookers ready to roll.... MON has failed yet again!!!

 

[T-Boon]

I think current teams would just wrestle those merkins out of the game.

They’d get penalised into oblivion. Wrestling would have totally been considered illegal back then.

 

[Noise]

They’d get penalised into oblivion. Wrestling would have totally been considered illegal back then.

WTF? There was no rule for wrestling. What would the penalty have been for?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They’d get penalised into oblivion. Wrestling would have totally been considered illegal back then.

I don't reckon it was. They just didn't have the technique or fitness for wrestling. Players were still taught to tackle around the legs and the few teams that were good enough to consistently get numbers into the tackle were known for it. These days every team does it to an extent. It is the expected minimum standard of ruck defence. When teams fail at it their hooker gets isolated and steamrolled, like on the weekend.

 

[T-Boon]

WTF? There was no rule for wrestling. What would the penalty have been for?

Flops, laying on tackled player, etc.
Refs would have just gone WTF is that monstrosity. Penalty.

 

[Happy MEel]

Flops, laying on tackled player, etc.
Refs would have just gone WTF is that monstrosity. Penalty.

Flops aren’t wrestling. Laying on a tackled player also isn’t wrestling. The wrestle occurs before they hit the ground and are effectively “tackled”. There’s no way a ref in the 80s or 90s are calling penalties for the wrestle in todays game.

 

[T-Boon]

Flops are wrestling. Laying on a tackled player also isn’t wrestling. The wrestle occurs before they hit the ground and are effectively “tackled”. There’s no way a ref in the 80s or 90s are calling penalties for the wrestle in todays game.

Flops and laying on the tackled player and getting 4 into the tackle so they gain time to get up ("peel away") are all massive parts of the tackle/wrestle that refs have just had to (or have) adopt to and allowed the tackle to take longer.
These are the things I am talking about would have seen penalties galore.
Also hands all over the ball.
Just watch a game from the 90s then watch this knights/tigers game. They get what looks like an extra 2, 3, 4 seconds once the player is tackled.
I've counted about 20 occasions in this game where the tackle is complete and a third tackler comes in and just wraps his arms over top of the other tackler so that they can have an extra second or two.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Flops, laying on tackled player, etc.
Refs would have just gone WTF is that monstrosity. Penalty.

Im sure Atkins and Casey Badger would survive just fine.

 

[Legal Eel]

I don't reckon it was. They just didn't have the technique or fitness for wrestling. Players were still taught to tackle around the legs and the few teams that were good enough to consistently get numbers into the tackle were known for it. These days every team does it to an extent. It is the expected minimum standard of ruck defence. When teams fail at it their hooker gets isolated and steamrolled, like on the weekend.

You are relentless.

 

[the phantom menace]

*shameless

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You are relentless.

Have you got something to say about the relative smallness of our cocks, merkin?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

*shameless

ffs