2021 NRL Season

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Maroon_Faithful, Feb 5, 2021.

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  1. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    That call on Crichton was a shocker.
     
    jazman84, May 15, 2021
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  2. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    "Forceful" its fucking footy.
     
    jazman84, May 15, 2021
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  3. Paddy P Orr

    Ben Cummins is complete cancer. This ''forceful tackle'' bs is already ruining games of football. Absolute piss weak.
     
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    Paddy, May 15, 2021
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  4. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    If the NRL think binning players for the kind of tackle on Tedesco is going to stop anything, theyre more retarded than I thought. Its an accident you muppets. Shouldnt even be a penalty.
     
    Maroon_Faithful, May 15, 2021
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  5. Magic AJ Parker

    I agreed with Robinson & Bennett’s comments on it, I don’t mind sending players to the bin if there’s a high tackle but they’ve clearly overcorrected and definitely not given fair warning.

    Gamble - shouldn’t have been binned, wasn’t much in it
    Riki - Yeh no problem, was stupid and deliberate
    Papalii - Yeh no problem, hit a bloke so hard in the head he was knocked out and ruled out of the game.
    Tupouniua - On the softer side, but it was lazy, go fix your tackle technique.
    Burr - shouldn’t have been binned, wasn’t much in it penalty sufficient.

    They’re just the ones I can think of off the top of my head and if they go away after this weekend and fix the two I think were very soft then I’m fine with it. Go fix your tackle technique and aim lower and I think we’ll see 5% of the sin bins we have seen over the course of the weekend.

    I’m more worried that as a result we’re going to see more diving brought back into the game..
     
    Magic, May 15, 2021
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  6. Wilson SB Wilson

    There’s a gluttony of ones that are being penalised without sin bins that I think are awful interpretations. Minor contact from either falling in the tackle or the tackle falling to the ground.

    The one against Townsend last night was appalling. They went back two tackles after it happened to penalise it as well.
     
    Wilson, May 16, 2021
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  7. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    I don't mind Wighton getting binned for that dig at Elliott's knee. I only saw a replay and didnt hear what the actual violation was though?
     
    Sultan Pepper, May 16, 2021
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  8. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Fuimaono's on Papenhuyzen wasn't worth a send off. All he did was cuddle a falling player.

    And no high tackle should ever be ruled in slow-mo.
     
    jazman84, May 16, 2021
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  9. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    With the emphasis on them wanting everyone to fix their tackling technique and tackle lower, they need to reward a good legs tackle and allow a slower ruck.
     
    Boobidy, May 16, 2021
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  10. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Yeah it's ass-backwards.
     
    jazman84, May 16, 2021
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  11. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    Exactly. Harshest punishment for slightly too high contact, often accidental, and zero reward for quality low tackling.

    Ridiculous.
     
    Maroon_Faithful, May 17, 2021
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  12. Paddy P Orr

    The emphasis on fatigue with 6 agains probably doesn't help either with tackling techniques.
     
    Paddy, May 17, 2021
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  13. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    And also with the way people run these days, going for low tackles is more risky for the tackler with copping a hip. So they want to make it riskier for the defender, to protect the ball carrier.

    Can't wait for them to sin bin a bloke for running the ball too hard and his hip knocking out a low tackling defender.
     
    Boobidy, May 17, 2021
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  14. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    It's going to get exponentially worse for sides under pressure.
    Less possession means more tackles, and more tackles under fatigue; therefore there is a higher chance of a tackle creeping up. Then you find yourself with 12 players, then 11.
     
    jazman84, May 17, 2021
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  15. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    The dumbest part of it all is that if they'd just enforced the rules properly to begin with, this whole over reaction wouldn't be needed. They've gone from missing some pretty obvious bad things, to completely changing the playing field.
     
    Sultan Pepper, May 17, 2021
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  16. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    The thing that gets me is people like Brent Read, Paul Kent and so many others keep saying "Yeah he fell into the tackle, not a lot such and such could do but you can't make contact with the head."

    That is a nonsensical statement. It's either an accident or its not.
     
    Maroon_Faithful, May 18, 2021
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  17. jazman84 JM Eightyfour

    Yeah, there are pretty clear differences between the one Teddy got hit with a fortnight ago and the one Papenhuyzen copped. I feel for Fuimaono. There was nothing careless or malicious at all in what he did. 5 matches is excessive.
     
    jazman84, May 18, 2021
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  18. morgieb MC Burridge

    Albert Kelly back.

    Wow.
     
    morgieb, May 18, 2021
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  19. Magic AJ Parker

    I disagree to an extent, I think it's wrong to continue to give the benefit of the doubt to defenders when they continue to hit a player passing the ball high.

    A lot of ball players drop their centre of gravity as they pass the ball, it's where they build the power for a long cut out or the deception of a long pass. In this instance Fuimaono never factored this into his decision making and stayed upright the whole time when he could have bent his back and lowered the target area of his hit.

    The choice is you either just have to accept that going into the line is a high risk move in Rugby League and you may cop a knock to the head or as a game we expect out defenders to wise up a little bit and lower their target area.

    Where I feel sorry for Fuimaono is he's been made an example of but I think defenders in this instance can do better and if it means they hit their target of 28% less HIA's then I'm all for it.

    The game is no worse off IMO if we are just asking players to aim lower, the game is worse off for the number of players we see go to the HIA bin every single week.

    Problem being there's been no consultation around this and clubs haven't been given ample time to fix technique, I thought Robinson spoke well on it last night on NRL360. You can't just ask players to go low with a week's notice and expect it to fix anything because there's just as much risk of head knocks from copping a hip as there is copping a head high tackle. It's something that clubs are going to have to work on in terms of tackle technique and its probably going to take an off-season, not something that be fixed during a season where most clubs only get 1-2 days to spend on skill training.
     
    Magic, May 18, 2021
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  20. stupersteve03 SJ Cambridge

    The things do correct themselves if they are done consistently. It is obviously a bit ridiculous to change the rules of the game with 2 days notice. But the more games that are win and lost on these calls the faster things will change and they obviously need to. I thin it is fair though to look in to what fatigue does to tackling technique and how that might increase risk for the defender.
     
    stupersteve03, May 18, 2021
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