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Official NRL discussion thread (Fuck you Queensland!)

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Official NRL discussion thread (Fuck you New South Wales!)

Any Rugby League fans on here?

I support the NQ Cowboys and am looking forward to the 2013 Season!
 
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We have a thread for this, unless they deleted it.

Shoulder charge being banned, meh, people overreact too much about it. Tackle properly or fuck off, it'll exploit the likes of Sonny Bill, Chris Sandow and Greg Inglis who are all about the charge. 3 weeks will go by and noone will be fazed by it being banned.
 
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We have a thread for this, unless they deleted it.

Shoulder charge being banned, meh, people overreact too much about it. Tackle properly or fuck off, it'll exploit the likes of Sonny Bill, Chris Sandow and Greg Inglis who are all about the charge. 3 weeks will go by and noone will be fazed by it being banned.
fuck out of here with that nonsense. The shoulder charge ban is fucking awful, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a properly executed shoulder charge and it is a proper tackle :kobe

Cowboys are an average side, semis will be between Storm, Bulldogs, Manly and the next flavour of the season, possibly Souths.
 
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I reckon we will see a Cowboys - Sharks grand final this season. Imo the have the best rosters in the comp, especially the Sharks, I wouldn't be surprised if their rorting the salary cap. It's good to have wrestling to watch during the pre-season, if we didn't the pre-season would fell a hell of a lot longer.
 
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Greg Inglis has so much more to his game than the shoulder charge...

I will miss Sandow trying to shoulder charge and bouncing off players.

I do hate traitors, but its good that SBW is back in the game. Wish Folau had followed suit. Its always good when QLD gets stronger.

Hope the Warriors finally get their shit together this year, but I wouldn't bet on it. Other than that its hard to go past Sea eagles and Bulldogs (even though I dont know how the dogs arent routing the cap). Storm will have grand final hangover IMO. The players wont be as motivated as before. I really want the Cowboys to win, just for Thurston and because they got screwed against Manly last year. Souths are entertaining, but as long as Sutton is in the halves, they wont win. I wouldn't say the Eagles look that strong on paper but they have one of the best, if not the best halves combination and they got rid of that lard Tony Williams. Broncos halves are too average even with 50yr old Scott Prince. Other then that, no other team really stands out.
 
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There is too much of a risk factor involved on the charge, that's why I see merit in its ban. Dean Young could have been severely injured from Inglis' botched tackle last year.

:lol Cowboys aren't going to have any influence on the finals because they cannot win in Sydney. Storm will be back up the top, Dogs as well, Cronulla should be up around the top with their roster alone, and I'd say Newcastle will raise a few eyebrows this season with the Bennett influence having another offseason to take effect.

As for us, if we can make the 8 I'll be happy. A consistent halves pairing, and limited injuries to key players, plus Benji having a year of consistently good games, we could push for the 4, but it's unlikely.
 
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Thats why the judiciary should penalise high shoulders more severely, if you go for one then its at your risk. Taking it out of the game altogether is weak.

Sharks will do well until Origin and then they will fuck up. They should make the 8 easy though. My dark horse for the finals is Canberra. If they can keep everyone fit then they have a quality, young backline that can cause problems for sides.
 
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Not sure why you bother Adam, every year you're let down by the Knights being awful and get so filled up with hate towards Manly being one of the top clubs. Now we have
as a full time coach, it really must eat you up inside
 
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The Cowboys will be one of the teams to beat this season. A lot of this we can't win in Sydney talk is starting up again, well let me give you one statistic. In 2012 the Cowboys won 7 away matches. While that number would have been increased to 8 if it was for some 'Brad Maddox style refereeing'The NRL referee's are corrupt. Going into that match them refs had played to have them Manly scum win imo. The NRL hierarchy wanted an all Sydney grand final imo.
 
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:lmao Laughable. Both sides benefited from poor refereeing that match.

Anyway, last year Cowboys only beat Canberra (in Canberra), Newcastle (in Newcastle), Melbourne (in Melbourne), St George (in Sydney) and Sharks (in Sydney). 2 of your other away wins were against Brisbane, and one was against the Roosters in Darwin which isn't exactly a proper away game. So out of all your games against Sydney sides you only won 2 here, against the teams finishing 7th and 9th. The only impressive away victory was over Melbourne.
 
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we'll do better than Newcastle seeing as you guys are rubbish nowadays but i can't see us getting any better than last year. We have less depth in our squad and we also need to fuck off Kite, Rose, King maybe a few others as well. We just lost Harrison and Williams which is a a blow to our forwards and we also lost Lussick b/c he's a money grabbing cunt. Not the biggest loss but its still a bit of a blow. We also lost Whare and Oldfield from our backline which is awful as well but hopefully Farrar has recovered properly from his ACL tear and Taufua continues to beast it.
 
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No benefit of the doubt rule so the hand of Foran won't gift you an empty finals win this season.

Speaking of money, Jennings is now a Rooster. I question how they aren't breaking the cap with the signings of $BW and now Jennings, as well as having guys like Pearce, Minichiello and Shaun Kenny DroptheBall on the books.
 
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Jennings could have a backloaded deal (ie for example if he has a 1.7 mil 4 year deal he could get paid like 200k this season, then 500k in the 3 seasons after) so once $BW goes his wages get bumped up.

although, Pearce will be on a big deal, Hargreaves would be on decent cash, Maloney would be on a huge deal, same as SBW. Tupuo, Guerra will also be on decent deals as well.
 
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^ never going to happen
Wishful thinking. Still, I would only want him if he is clear of injury, which is highly unlikely with his track record. They’ve invested heavily in Dugan (in the vicinity of $650k a year), so another injury ravaged season to a guy with a star contract like Campese could see some pressure on him. He still has 3 seasons to run on his current contract. If we were talking about the Panthers here, they would probably be looking at offloading him.

Top 8 – Bulldogs, Storm, Sharks, Roosters, Manly, Knights, Cowboys, Warriors

Wooden Spoon – Panthers. Dishonourable mention: Dragons.
 
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Top 8 prediction (no order)

Tigers, Melbourne, Bulldogs, Cowboys, Cronulla, Manly, Newcastle, Roosters.

Eels will go close but just miss out.

Wooden spoon I'd say will head to Penrith or Gold Coast

Also, very sad to hear of the passing of Jon Mannah. Such a young age and with such a bright future, plagued by a cunt of a disease :(
 
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