Dan54
Tim Horan (67)
Why do you watch then?? I know it's fun in your world to continually whinge, but any chance of doing it elsewhere? We understand you don't like it!
TT Rd 2 - Chiefs v Brumbies, Sat 22nd May, 5.05pm AEST, FMG Waikato
- Thread starter KOB1987
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Why do you watch then?? I know it's fun in your world to continually whinge, but any chance of doing it elsewhere? We understand you don't like it!
Dan54
Tim Horan (67)
???
Dismal Pillock
Simon Poidevin (60)
Welcome to 15 years of the Auckland f**** Blues.
Weber should be utterly spewing at shelling that with the line open. After all the hard slog a golden opportunity to nail the coffin shut.
Bumblies bumbling around a bit.
To finish this post on a brighter note for Australian rugby, ACT have a very smart away jersey.
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
I’m actually switching between the two because my kids are at school with Sua'ali'i and my mate’s Kayo account is still active from when he stayed here a couple of weeks ago. I can report that it’s boring as fuck.
Derpus
George Gregan (70)
Crichton showing what we missed out on though.
SteveWA
Charlie Fox (21)
The beatings will continue until morale improves?
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
That’s been evident for a while now. Still doesnt make league two dimensional.
waiopehu oldboy
Stirling Mortlock (74)
DMac to Boshier was backwards out of the hands but Boshier to Nankivil was surely forward?
Derpus
George Gregan (70)
Eh the collisions are better and the skills much, much higher than the current Rugby playersin Aus. Its really growing on me.
waiopehu oldboy
Stirling Mortlock (74)
I think the High Tackle Framework needs another tweak or three........
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
The skills part is debatable, better accuracy with passing maybe but in league you go into contact trying to hold onto the pill, in union you are always looking to retain possession in other ways. 90% of the attempted offloads in contact in league end up on a patch of grass nowhere near anyone. From that perspective their skills are terrible.
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
i didn’t mind that it was only a yellow though. A year or two ago it would have been a red. I liked that they walked through all the mitigating factors to reach the decision. But yes, given the foot and a half difference in height a penalty would have been sufficient.
eastman
Arch Winning (36)
League is becoming increasingly specialised much in the vein of NFL. The players have very specific roles and train exhaustively at their core role (e.g. fringe backrowers practice running slight variations of the same line and defence to death but do very little else).
So while on average their players can be appear limited in their skillset, they are generally much better than their union counterparts if the skill is within their role; this includes their playmakers being better passes and ball-players.
They are generally better athletes too.
Derpus
George Gregan (70)
They have to execute a narrower variety of skills but their execution is light years ahead of the union lads
Edit: in Aus, the Kiwis etc can do it.
Up the Guts
Steve Williams (59)
Bad take, League are light years ahead in terms of the quality of their skills in their core rolls.
Rebels3
Jim Lenehan (48)
Average league skills is higher than a lot of our players but I think the main reason for that is the basics can have more time been practiced because there is less facets of the game to worry about. For instance there is no line outs or scrums to allocate time to complete.