marinermick
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thomas477 said:
the battlelines may well be in newcastle, gold coast, townsville and brisbane
win there and league may be buried forever
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Manly v Cowboys
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the battlelines may well be in newcastle, gold coast, townsville and brisbane
win there and league may be buried forever
Capn Gus Bloodbeard
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The rules of SOO are a joke. The players are basically choosing who they want to play for.
I remember a few years ago, when the Newcastle coach, forget who it was, coached the Qld side.
It was so bloody obvious that he was trying to keep the Qld players away from andy johns (lest the princess break a nail) that it wasn't funny - I think he was recovering from injury, and any other coach would've just said 'run straight at the prick, all bloody night'
Yep, state pride. Totally on the line. Uh huh.
As for the Manly-Cowboys match, as the others have said - you've got a team that everybody in NSW hates (coasties moreso than anybody), versus a team that nobody in NSW cares about.
Even if it the crowd was 6500, that's probably not a bad one considering the 2 teams!
I used to go to NRL a bit, but since the HAL began, the number of league games I've been to I can count on one hand - there is no atmosphere at all....
But then again, when most matches these days seem to be played at Homebush, what do you expect? Bloody ridiculous - it's nobody's home ground, which means you don't go around the ground seeing trophies or past team photos (like you do at, say, SCG). There's no team colours that are a permanent fixture of the stadium - there's no sense of walking into your team's home when you go to the stadium. It's an absolute farce having so many games there. It completely kills the concept of community and local support that drove these teams to be big in the first place.
Furthermore, when you're going to get 10-20k to a match, in a stadium that holds 80k....well, of course the atmosphere there is going to be dead, moreso than anywhere else. That, and the fact that the seats are so far away from the bloody field it isn't funny (which, again, adds more open space for the crowd noise to dissipate).
I remember a few years ago, when the Newcastle coach, forget who it was, coached the Qld side.
It was so bloody obvious that he was trying to keep the Qld players away from andy johns (lest the princess break a nail) that it wasn't funny - I think he was recovering from injury, and any other coach would've just said 'run straight at the prick, all bloody night'
Yep, state pride. Totally on the line. Uh huh.
As for the Manly-Cowboys match, as the others have said - you've got a team that everybody in NSW hates (coasties moreso than anybody), versus a team that nobody in NSW cares about.
Even if it the crowd was 6500, that's probably not a bad one considering the 2 teams!
I used to go to NRL a bit, but since the HAL began, the number of league games I've been to I can count on one hand - there is no atmosphere at all....
But then again, when most matches these days seem to be played at Homebush, what do you expect? Bloody ridiculous - it's nobody's home ground, which means you don't go around the ground seeing trophies or past team photos (like you do at, say, SCG). There's no team colours that are a permanent fixture of the stadium - there's no sense of walking into your team's home when you go to the stadium. It's an absolute farce having so many games there. It completely kills the concept of community and local support that drove these teams to be big in the first place.
Furthermore, when you're going to get 10-20k to a match, in a stadium that holds 80k....well, of course the atmosphere there is going to be dead, moreso than anywhere else. That, and the fact that the seats are so far away from the bloody field it isn't funny (which, again, adds more open space for the crowd noise to dissipate).
Arabmariner
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The state where you sniffed your first bottom!!serious14 said:
Jolly_Roger
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I here that if Australia gets the world cup, it would require other codes to have a mid season break to make way for it. Wouldnt that piss them all off.
Can you imagine how big the world cup would be if it came to town. The hype generated through the attention of the world being cast upon us would be huge.
Can you imagine how big the world cup would be if it came to town. The hype generated through the attention of the world being cast upon us would be huge.
BrisRecky
I'm an idiot savant without the pesky savant bit
Capn Gus Bloodbeard said:
I with the Cap'n, I been a bit of an eels fan for a good long while, and since the Mariners showed up I havent been to an EELS game ....shit sometimes i cant be f****d watching 'em on the telly even.....I'm afraid Serious could be right on the money when he says that NRL will be a memory in 20 or so years.....
neverwozza
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RECKY said:
I had to laugh at my mum at the Newcastle/Tigers game when she said the atmosphere was great. I don't think she believed me when I said there was more atmosphere at the Sydney/Mariners washout and they didn't even play a game.
I'm also struggling to watch rugby league these days. I got Foxtel on to watch the A-Leaugue and have kept the sport on for the NRL but I've barely even watched a free to air game. The game has changed a lot since a played it and I've had enough of just watching 100kg monsters running into each other. They bulk up so much that they lose a lot of their athleticism and the little nippy exciting players like Preston Campbell and Matt Bowen rarely get picked in rep sides and just get run over the top of by the big men. I think Chris Anderson even mentioned in an article a few years ago that the amount of time the players are putting in at the gym is hurting the game.
BrisRecky
I'm an idiot savant without the pesky savant bit
Yeh Wozza,
It most certainly isnt the same game I was watching from 1969 onwards....its become overuled to the point of insanity...HELL...i watched a game on my uncles satellite last year in the netherlands while on holidays...the rellies were asking me questions about rulings and I just had to shake me noggin and tell I had no idea why the ref did what he did...it used to be so simple ;(
now its just painful too mwatch ( and f***n expensive too)
It most certainly isnt the same game I was watching from 1969 onwards....its become overuled to the point of insanity...HELL...i watched a game on my uncles satellite last year in the netherlands while on holidays...the rellies were asking me questions about rulings and I just had to shake me noggin and tell I had no idea why the ref did what he did...it used to be so simple ;(
now its just painful too mwatch ( and f***n expensive too)
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