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#1 ·
Well, I never saw an official thread started for Rugby. So I thought I'd start one. I'm not even sure if they are any fans of Rugby on the forum but if they are, here is a discussion thread for Rugby now 8*D.

- All Talk about Rugby League & Union goes in here.
 
#626 ·
NRL.com said:
Burns was charged with a grade two dangerous contact – unnessary arm/shoulder pressure for his chicken-wing style tackle on Roosters forward Mose Masoe and was also slapped with a grade three high tackle – intentional, for his tackle on Roosters forward Martin Kennedy.

Burns was sent-off for his shot on Kennedy, becoming only the second player this season to be given his marching orders after Dragons forward Matt Prior was sent from the field in Round 9.

Burns is facing up to 12 weeks for the high shot on Kennedy and four weeks for the tackle on Masoe.

If the Panthers take the early plea to both charges, the five-eighth would be ruled out for a total of 12 matches.
Regardless he isn't playing again this season.
 
#628 ·
That, and teams have again worked out the formula to stop them. If you have the fitness to be up and in their face for the whole game defensively, you pressure their attacking options, and they are very weak on the flanks which can be easily targetted. A lot of people like to blame tiredness from Origin and all that bullshit, which would be a fine argument if the Cowboys, Broncos, Sharks etc were also on a big losing streak. I am beginning to wonder when rumours of player dissention will surface, like they do at Sydney clubs such as Wests, when big losing streaks occur.

If Storm lose to Penrith next week, then yes, they have lost the plot.
 
#630 ·
Melbourne are shooting themselves in the foot. They handed the game to the Dragons yesterday. Morris shuldn't have scored any of his 3 tries, 1 was an intercept, 1 was picking up a loose pass and the 3rd was horrendous defense to allow a winger to get past 4 defenders on the line and power over.

The game before they had like 58% of th epossession. They're trying to be too fancy in the opponants 20 instead of sticking to what works. Losing Slater for 4 weeks was a big blow though.
 
#633 ·
In regards to the Sharks/Panthers kickoff fiasco, if you watch the replay, the shadow of the ball goes over the line beyond the 10m mark which is fine in my books. The big controversy is that Coote was offside from the chargedown which ultimately led to the winning field goal. Not sure what the league can do though, if they pull up play to check all these calls then momentum is lost within games. One solution could possibly be to put another 2 touchies on the field to watch their respective halves and limit these errors.

And as for Super 15, I'm cut that the Crusaders are out, but suck shit to the Stormers. Your boring European style shit failed when it counted you useless cunts and now you go another season without making the final. Chiefs/Sharks should be a very entertaining final.
 
#634 ·
They need to fix up the way they do things. One touchie on the offensive line looking at forward passes, one touchie on the defensive line looking at offside, ref looking at offside, the 2nd ref looking at the ruck and calling on strips/knock ons. So each ref has their job, and takes pressure off the main ref. Altenatively, do away with the 2nd ref, and leave it all up to the one ref. That way calls are generally more consistant.
 
#649 ·
T. Williams - missed 7 weeks suspension, Origin, injuries
Watmough - injuries + origin
G. Stewart - injuries + origin
B. Stewart - injury + origin
Matai - injuries and suspension
D. Williams - injury
Foran - injuries

not even mentioning other minor shit, thats 7 international players, all missing for extended periods of time. Most other teams don't even have 7 internationals, let alone playing without them all. If you want to ignore the impact of our backrow, then look at the 4 positions that are key to any rugby league side, fullback, 5/8th, halfback and dummy half. Our fullback and 5/8th have missed a bunch of weeks. Liam Foran and Dean Whare have nothing on Kieron Foran and Brett Stewart.
 
#651 ·
Knew that Melbourne would be back. That first half was beautiful to watch. Suck shit to Penrith.

Canterbury were not even close to being at full form and showed Newcastle up to be pretenders.

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Congrats to the Chiefs on winning this years Super Rugby title, they deserved it after playing some brilliant rugby all season. Now I'm looking forward to the Rugby Championship, should be a great concept with the Pumas joining the scene. I hope we can challenge for the Bledisloe, but don't think we're even close
 
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