The Most Exiciting Side in the Division.
The Most Exiciting Side in the Division.
Brad Thorn will kick the dick head out of him as he is the best coach of young talent in the country atm.
There is enough corporate money in Brisbane atm.
South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett has all but accepted highly sought-after teen Joseph Suaalii won’t be at the club next season... but the super coach has left the door ajar should anything change as the Rabbitohs prepare to offer him a new deal in a final attempt.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...98c3cfb5f2307c
Penrith are looking a bit too slick now, to the point where you could see a 2001 Parramatta/2017 Castleford style collapse when it matters most.
A Penrith Premiership would be good to see.
What are your thoughts on the South East Queensland Titans making the top 4 next year?
@Lewis
Justin Holbrook has done a great job, but you wonder whether they will ever have the juniors/pull to build an actual winning roster.
Penrith beat the Roosters, get mugged by Canberra, lose to Melbourne in the preliminary final. That or they put forty on everybody and piss it from here. We'll see.
Get dead, Wigan.
I'm a twit
Wigan under-fifteens. Ellery Hanley's son is meant to be something, but then you would be with the strongest genes in the sport.
Regan Grace is far too good to be a Super League winger. He needs to move to full-back or to Australia.
These Sam Burgess allegations are wild, and not entirely unbelievable. There will be some major fallout if they are even half-true.
Yeah he is fucked and Souths have to be in trouble. Cocaine has been a huge problem for what feels like 15 years now.
The wife beaters hall of fame would field a pretty good team
Why do Australian NRL and American NFL (it seems) have a massive skew towards woman-beating compared to other oval ball codes? Or is it just that they are more in the media spotlight than the others?
Last edited by Queenslander; 02-10-2020 at 10:41 AM.
Given the demographics involved the sports probably have similar rates to, maybe even lower rates than, wider society. But then you would expect more of it in football on that reasoning, so who knows? Maybe they hush it up more effectively due to the money involved.
Ben Barba
Blake Ferguson
Greg Inglis
Jarryd Hayne
James Roberts
Robert Lui
Scrum half
Matt Lodge
Hooker
Addin Fonua-Blake
Jack de Belin
Sam Burgess
Greg Bird
That is a serious side, but you will note that, unless I am missing some obvious candidates, the two missing positions - seven and nine - are the ones that require the most intelligence to play. You could maybe shift Lui to seven, Inglis to six, and draft Kirisome Auva'a in.
Jack De Belin, Jarryd Hayne, Dylan Walker off the top of my head.
Last edited by Queenslander; 02-10-2020 at 08:19 PM.
Dylan Walker was an iffy one, and he isn't getting near that side anyway. Inglis is the weird one in that, not only does it never get brought up, but there seems to have been a deliberate sport-wide attempt to forget about it.
Yeah fair enough.
Inglis is a definite scrubbing by not only the sport but Australia as well.
I have a theory that anyone the commentators refer to by their first name will always be wanked off regardless, even though there seems to be no real logic to any of it. They all love 'Latrell', but none of the other Roosters got it, even when they were carrying him, and nobody at Souths does either. 'Tom' and 'Jake' get it, but poor old Daly Cherry-Evans toils away, single-handedly preventing them from running last under his full legal name.
'Greg'/'GI' was a very good example of this, but then so is 'Sammy', so there will probably be no comeback whatsoever for him lest it disturb the system. He will have to be completely erased from history, and they should start by giving his Clive Churchill to George Burgess who was actually the best player on the pitch that day.
There is definitely something to that first name/nickname.
What I would give for Daly Cherry-Evans to join the Broncos. A halfback that can tackle is something I can only dream of...
Hopefully he finally gets some credit when he leads the shittest Queensland side in twenty years to a whitewash of Wayne Bennett masterclasses.
Pull the other one Wayne!
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/i-k...03-p561o6.html'I know nothing': Bennett denies any knowledge of Burgess allegations
You could see it either way. On the one hand, half his coaching philosophy is supposedly about off the field stuff, like nursing Darius Boyd through life without a spine, so he would have taken an interest; on the other, you could imagine him going out of his way to avoid any bullshit and rumours around the club as long as he was still performing. It will be worth pursuing anyway just to see him doing his shirty interview gimmick under police caution.
Bennett under pressure will be great fun.
Wayne Bennett.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/54491179
What sort of licence fee death wish framing is that? Stonewall dismay at protections for women. The obvious 'flexibility' would just be to rule people out on a case-by-case basis, but obvious reasons stop that being a goer, so what do they want?
Thought Parra were going well at halftime yesterday (after a bad start) but didn't watch the rest after I saw your Bennett comment.
Also, Wendell Sailor having a 22 year old son has somewhat taken me aback. I'm not sure if it's cultural insensitivity on my part, or just being old. I guess he hung up his boots quite a long time ago now.
Wobs earning a 16 all draw in Wellington was some of the guttiest play from an Australian team in 5 years.
Only 1 Waratah in the starting line up is a record as well. Funny how picking players in form helps with team petformance.
We play NZ 4 times in a row.
Both teams had many opportunities to win the game, but didn't take them, so a draw is really the right result. It's strange seeing the All Blacks so unpolished and making simple errors under pressure. Hopefully just first-game nerves.
You can hear the massive sigh of relief from those no longer having to put a Souths retrospective together without mentioning Sam Burgess. It would have been ace had they won, but Penrith probably stand a better chance of knocking Melbourne off, so win/win.
Gutted Salford, losing in front of all their fans. Luke Gale.
Entertaining stuff.
What a performance this is.
If Josh Simm doesn’t break some try scoring records, I’ll get James Roby’s sisters face tattooed on my arse.
I'm a twit
Leeds have got half a side out, and they're probably still hammered.
I see the [Sir] Cameron Smith blaming Alex McKinnon for paralysing himself stuff has come up again. Well he did, and he was right to question the penalty count.
I don't know about that one, so hopefully this isn't the fall to bits.
16-0 and they haven't done anything. Well in lads.
This is a bit embarrassing up to now.
If they come back off this blatant obstruction sympathy try.
They've done a Castleford. Rubbish.
Paul Gallen v Mark Hunt in a pro boxing bout leads me to believe that Gallen doesnt have any friends.
Cameron Munster is a super hero.
https://m.betootaadvocate.com/sports...-grog-horrors/
I saw the teams earlier. Jesus. Queensland probably have a better halves combination (not necessarily better halves), and Josh Papalii is easily the best prop in the game, but New South Wales are miles ahead in every other position. Miles ahead. I bet you could get down to about a New South Wales third string before Queensland had more quality overall.
2-1 Queensland.
My faith is in Wayne Bennett. Anyone else coaching and I would be putting my life on New South Wales sweeping it by a hundred points.
That coaching team is once in a lifetime with Neil Henry doing tactics and Meninga just being big and scary.