Spiff
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Apparently it means the salary cap is working. As someone who supports a club that is basically a feeder team for the English Super League, I'm over it.
NRL 2007
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Bucko
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Had a Great day at the Footy yesterday, the Tigers won. Sat in a Corporate Box, drank a selection of Beers, ate prawns, and generally had a bloody good day. Did'nt even feel the cold either hahhah
Spiff
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Chris Anderson has quit as coach of the Roosters.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22047558-23214,00.html
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22047558-23214,00.html
Bucko
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Spiff
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mattt
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LYON VOTED 'MOST OVER-RATED' IN PLAYERS' POLL
The title of rugby league's most over-rated player has a new owner – Manly's Jamie Lyon.
Lyon has felt the wrath of his peers to be voted the NRL's most over-rated player in the annual Rugby League Week magazine Players' Poll.
Lyon walked out on Parramatta in 2004 and has received an armchair ride back into representative football after returning from England. With Braith Anasta finally offloading the unwanted over-rated tag he won four times in seven years, Lyon polled the highest ever percentage (38%
, ahead of Rooster Nate Myles and the Dragons' Jason Ryles.
Even Manly legend Cliff Lyons has taken a shot at Lyon, telling Rugby League Week: "I don't think anyone is blind to the fact that Jamie has had a good ride into representative footy. And I'm sure the other players are angry and jealous about that."
Meanwhile, Willie Mason has been tagged league's biggest sledger, a title he says he is happy to wear because he knows he can walk the walk … as well as talk the talk. Mason replaces Eels hooker Mark Riddell as the new supremo of sledging.
The spectre of drinking and gambling among NRL stars remains a concern, with 65 per cent of players saying there is a drinking culture in rugby league - and 29 per cent admitting they know a fellow player with a gambling problem.
But it appears league players have nothing on the bad boys of the AFL, with a staggering 89 per cent of NRL players saying the culture of binge drinking is worse in Aussie Rules.
The complete list of poll results are in today's issue of Rugby League Week.
The title of rugby league's most over-rated player has a new owner – Manly's Jamie Lyon.
Lyon has felt the wrath of his peers to be voted the NRL's most over-rated player in the annual Rugby League Week magazine Players' Poll.
Lyon walked out on Parramatta in 2004 and has received an armchair ride back into representative football after returning from England. With Braith Anasta finally offloading the unwanted over-rated tag he won four times in seven years, Lyon polled the highest ever percentage (38%
, ahead of Rooster Nate Myles and the Dragons' Jason Ryles. Even Manly legend Cliff Lyons has taken a shot at Lyon, telling Rugby League Week: "I don't think anyone is blind to the fact that Jamie has had a good ride into representative footy. And I'm sure the other players are angry and jealous about that."
Meanwhile, Willie Mason has been tagged league's biggest sledger, a title he says he is happy to wear because he knows he can walk the walk … as well as talk the talk. Mason replaces Eels hooker Mark Riddell as the new supremo of sledging.
The spectre of drinking and gambling among NRL stars remains a concern, with 65 per cent of players saying there is a drinking culture in rugby league - and 29 per cent admitting they know a fellow player with a gambling problem.
But it appears league players have nothing on the bad boys of the AFL, with a staggering 89 per cent of NRL players saying the culture of binge drinking is worse in Aussie Rules.
The complete list of poll results are in today's issue of Rugby League Week.
Spiff
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I've never seen what the big deal is with Jamie Lyon... but I could say that about plenty of today's "stars".
KoichCPA
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Hanso
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And it's Secondreceiver, not Sickofmysemen.
Hate to sound like a know it all but it's actually "petrol 70centsperlitre"
Spiff
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I was thinking about going to the grand final this year but decided against it. The last one I went to was in 2004.
KoichCPA
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Spiff
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Spiffo's solution to the diving controversy:
If you're down for more than five seconds, you must be removed from the field and use up an interchange. It's for your own safety, NRL players. It might not stop it entirely, but it'd be fun to see.
If you're down for more than five seconds, you must be removed from the field and use up an interchange. It's for your own safety, NRL players. It might not stop it entirely, but it'd be fun to see.
Goreripper
Metal as fuck
Five seconds it's really long enough. I've been creamed in tackles and taken longer than that to get up simply because I've been seeing stars and had no balance. But it can't be too long, because obviously that holds up play. I do agree, however, that there needs to be a time limit. If a guy's down for too long, get him off. They'll stop doing it.
What the feck happened in our game against the Bulldogs last night? I get score updates from 3 at half and full time, and it seemed there was quite a turnaround. Not happy!
I saw the controversial try on tv this arvo. What do you guys reckon about it (the stripping of the ball etc)?
I saw the controversial try on tv this arvo. What do you guys reckon about it (the stripping of the ball etc)?
