Typical Danny weidler. The bloke is a spud of the highest proportions. Journalism in Australia in general has gone down the drain over the past 10 years.

No.

He's gone to Fiji for a bit during the bye and will be coming back for the Round 17 game against Cronulla.

Channel 9 News didn't check the story and just ran with it. Typical Aussie media.

St George getting the rub of the green when it comes to playing teams near Origin lol.

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Such a good idea to cap him for the Roos ffs.

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Confirmed Semi Radradra to the Roosters in 4 years.

and Semi has taken the Semi trailer to play rugby union in France?

Story here

The Bulldogs on their day have the best forward pack in the game imo. Too bad the halves act like complete strangers. Also Morris is coming back soon and the only one i can see getting the flick would be Perrett which is unfortunate but Morris is on too much money to be sitting on the bench

lol playing Sharks is always bad.

Such a grubby game.

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and the turnbull govt has pledged $100m for a new stadium in the city centre of townsville

Surely they need an aleague team there to ensure the stadium gets use all year round? :-k

Not a soul at Allianz.

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Which is all you need to get into the NSW Origin team ;)

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About time he did something in attack, has played like a busted ass the last 18 months.

Sounds like the whole thing is more of a media beatup.

Well done Tigers and Farah.

If there were any actual dramas with Taylor and Farah, that solo try should be a nice middle finger lol.

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Id say it has to do with the apathy and sheer laziness of Sydneysiders as well.

I'm not sure where to start? :lol:

There's too many teams. They play out of lifeless stadiums that are way to big and many share the same 'home' ground. Add in The fact there's some pretty shit Sydney teams this year and the NRL have some tough decisions to make on the long term future of clubs (mine included).

What's with Sydney teams and shit crowds?

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Geez I know it's wet but try defending for once Tigers.

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lol two manly games in question.

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Missed the game as I was working. :(

Won't be able to find out what actually happened either given how bias the coverage is.

Just looking at the stats, the minutes for most of the front rowers seems ridiculously low.

Looks like Boyd had a huge game 17 runs for 170 metres. Wow.

Cronks ankle looked really bad from the pictures I saw.

Where did Walker play when he came on?

It wouldn't be Origin without Daley having a sulk about refs after a loss.:lol:


Yea of course people get riled up, people just go nuts in Qld for it. I was at a train station in the CBD yesterday a few hours before the game and you had guys just yelling out Queenslander at the top of their lungs. :lol:

Although it's obviously the pinnacle of the sport but if you are a die-hard nrl fan of course it's a nuisance. So many seasons (as a Broncos supporter) where we've been in the top couple of teams get to the origin period only to lose half our side (sometimes as high as 12 or 13 players ffs) for a number of weeks.

Does lead to the odd awesome moment though, like the Baby Broncos of 2002 against the West Tigers. :d

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/01/1022569836729.html

Supposed to be happening next year. At least one game from memory. Either game 2 or 3

Isn't Broncos v Cowboys kinda like NSW's City v Country? :lol:

After Morris' knock on from the tap I'm not surprised :lol:

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Big news this morning with NSW Police investigating matchfixing in the NRL

This. Tried to play with too much structure in attack. I really like our back 5 but they just need early ball. Morris and Jennings looked dangerous whenever we shifted it quickly.

Game 1 can always turn into that. Both teams know how important it is to win it if they want to win the series so go out not to lose instead of trying to win. I expect the next one to be very different.

NSW were good until they had to try and score, then they shit the bed.

Agreed.

And for a lot of the media to say NSW were poor; I thought the opposite.

They at least looked like running play down to the wings almost every play even come the 70th minute whereas QLD were doing one pass out of dummy half and that was it.

The difference in metres gained in sets was diabolical, that and QLD kicking on 3rd/4th tackle when we're 10m off the line ffs.

Don't even get me started on Thaiday taking that kick lol (or Cameron Smith in general, his kicks were atrocious compared to the long bombs that Adam Reynolds was putting in).

And why has nobody in the NRL learnt to take a drop kick yet ffs?

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I'm dumbfounded as to why NSW even picked Dylan walker to play 10 minutes....especially when QLD were down to 16 men.
Daley has got to cop some flak for that