The first five rounds of the 2005 Telstra Premiership

[MarkInTheStands]

Parra on channel 9 sux when they play Brisbane. You don't get to see the game live unless your prepared to travel by plane. Atleast on foxtel you can watch it live or go to the pub and watch it.

I will be driving

 

[Stagger eel]

Parra on channel 9 sux when they play Brisbane. You don't get to see the game live unless your prepared to travel by plane. Atleast on foxtel you can watch it live or go to the pub and watch it.

I will be driving

have you got fox in the big blue car??? :shock:

 

[COACH STERLING]

Parra on channel 9 sux when they play Brisbane. You don't get to see the game live unless your prepared to travel by plane. Atleast on foxtel you can watch it live or go to the pub and watch it.

I will be driving

Can You pick me up?

 

[Stagger eel]

Parra on channel 9 sux when they play Brisbane. You don't get to see the game live unless your prepared to travel by plane. Atleast on foxtel you can watch it live or go to the pub and watch it.

I will be driving

Can You pick me up?

it depends what you look like??

 

[MystikEel]

Wow. Parra actually get a Friday night game!! -gasp-!

 

[COACH STERLING]

it depends what you look like??

Theres always one in the crowd.

 

[Stagger eel]

it depends what you look like??

Theres always one in the crowd.

:nwave:

 

[Jake the snake]

If our team has the attitude that every game will be difficult then we will go a fair way to winning a fair few of them. It comes down to the Players attitude.

 

[Stagger eel]

If our team has the attitude that every game will be difficult then we will go a fair way to winning a fair few of them. It comes down to the Players attitude.

there's been a massive increase in intensity and speed in the last few years that most if not all clubs treat each game like a playoff, you just got to look at the attitude of clubs like the Roosters who sometimes go into camps a few days before a normal NRL match.

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

I'm not too confident about the start of next season, because:

a) We won't half an established half combination, which is of course critical to domiation.

b) Everyone has hoo-haa'd about the last two years and how we were gonna do this and that and whatever. What happened?

There's an old saying - don't count your pieces of chicken until their covered in special herbs and spices, and you are tearing the flesh from the bone with your teeth, feeling the grease dribble down your chin and into your beard where it will congeal and smell foul the next morning. I think we should all heed that ancient wisdom.

 

[COACH STERLING]

I'm not too confident about the start of next season, because:

a) We won't half an established half combination, which is of course critical to domiation.

b) Everyone has hoo-haa'd about the last two years and how we were gonna do this and that and whatever. What happened?

There's an old saying - don't count your pieces of chicken until their covered in special herbs and spices, and you are tearing the flesh from the bone with your teeth, feeling the grease dribble down your chin and into your beard where it will congeal and smell foul the next morning. I think we should all heed that ancient wisdom.

Hey, what was that part about dribble?

 

[Jake the snake]

I'm not too confident about the start of next season, because:

a) We won't half an established half combination, which is of course critical to domiation.

b) Everyone has hoo-haa'd about the last two years and how we were gonna do this and that and whatever. What happened?

There's an old saying - don't count your pieces of chicken until their covered in special herbs and spices, and you are tearing the flesh from the bone with your teeth, feeling the grease dribble down your chin and into your beard where it will congeal and smell foul the next morning. I think we should all heed that ancient wisdom.

Spot on next year we will have alot of youngsters come into the team so we can't expect Miracles. 2006 and 2007 when we really will be challenging.

 

[Utey]

I think 06 is a realistic year to get things going. 05 will be gelling. Lets hope the traffic out of the club at the end of the year is kept to a minimum.

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

Oh, I think if we can hang in thereabouts until the end of the season we could really be a force in the Finals, kinda like 00.

BUT, let's look at all the dancing everyone has done (YES, everyone here!) over the last two seasons:

03 - Paul Green will be the new JT and will lead us around the park to victory! WOOOOOOT! Hindy, Green, Caylo and Jamie pose for a big tough photo with their arms crossed looking like tough guys saying how we will reclaim our defensive title.

Result - poor old Greeny busts his arse but gets smashed by Wags and becomes the Elephant Man. Massive disappointment.

04 - big, Big, BIG recruitments! We're gonna take on the big boys at their own game. Watch us steamroll everyone! WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! Mark geyer predicts a Top 4 finish for us and everyone seems to forget big blokes can't move very well

Result - Cannings gets busted and sits out the season. Ditto Caylo. Big fellas leave an exposed ruck area and we are torn up all over the park as a result.

05 - Big recruitment drive has people not learning their lessons and jumping up and down as if I just walked into the room. No one seems to realise the importance of not having a proven half (at all in any position) even though we have a lot of promise with youngsters.

Result - Chicken pieces are being counted before the new and improved KFC meals with those desserts (you know the ones from the ad with Hodgo in it?) are brought back by a chick who is neither hot nor a good actress!

 

[Grantwhy]

The Cowboys get 2 FTA games in the first 2 weeks and a Friday Nighter, that is interesting the Tigers also getting 2 Channel 9 games with the Broncos. I guess it pays to Bitch and Moan that you aren't getting FTA coverage,

Well it worked so well for the Cowboy from Round 2-1995 to round 24-2004 didn't it .

Cowboys I can partially agree with,

I think getting to within 4 points of making the grand final and both the Cowboys FTA games are against teams they beat in the finals might of helped ;-).

but I think that Friday crowd might be a little down on numbers or you will hear the Bushies Spark up saying that can't get to the game because the have to drive 8 hours to get to Townsville and can't do that on a Friday.

You'd be surprised just how many of the regular (Saturday night) crowd actually do something like that.

The Tigers however had 3 shots to make it to the Finals, and dashed each one of them.

Agreed, but to say it that way seems to imply the teams the Tigers played didn't have much influence on the result (the old "team X lost instead of team Y won" statement).

I suspect that who the Tigers are playing in their FTA games also had something to do with Ch.Nein picking those games?

Dragons Eels, Rabbits and Knights all on one game each all are heavily supported Sydney sides that will rate well so I can understand 9's call there, especially when 3 of these sides didn’t make the finals and the other was out first week.

Agreed.



Intresting that the Storm don't get a FTA game in the first 5 weeks considering they finished 6th (regular season) and made it through to week 2 of the finals.

Canberra also made the finals but also no FTA game in the first 5 weeks.

 

[Eelementary]

No disrespect to thge Cowboys, but they had some young players in key positions (they had a rookie hooker and prop) and their halves were hardly world-beaters.

And yet they finished 1 game short of a Grand Final berth (under VERY shady circumstances, I might add).

I fail to see why we cannot emulate this success.

 

[bartman]

I fail to see why we cannot emulate this success.

Me too.

And if we don't succeed next season, I think we'll all see one possible reason why we haven't be brunt at the stake before the season's end...

 

[TheParraboy]

We could win 5 out of 5 very easily* 8)











* this includes 3 trial victories

 

[choc_soldier]

after those 5 games we should have 10 points

Nah, we'll f*** that up in Round 4... ;-)

 

[Eelementary]

after those 5 games we should have 10 points

Nah, we'll f*** that up in Round 4... ;-)

Big words from a fan of a team who has just recently re-discovered competitiveness.