Western Sydney is NRL mad!
Penrith are 4-time Premiers in the last 5 years.
Bulldogs are the biggest club in terms of supporters in Sydney, we had been hopeless for 10 years and finally woke up last couple (65K crowd, 59K etc) ... Parramatta constantly get full houses at Commbank Stadium and...
Dogs went early and have been living it up!
Watched the Eagles at the sphere, trained at Raiders facilities, went grand canyon, night outs enjoying a few drinks!
Let's hope they had fun and now concentrate on the week of training and the game... You can't take any NRL game lightly without...
Toulouse & York are the other teams as reported in the SMH.
London Broncos miss out... Still cannot believe Bradford are in, Odsal dump makes Shark Park look like Allianz!
Super League is a shambles.
Penrith have averaged 13,000 at Parramatta (Officially averaged 19,000 but they counted Vegas and Magic Round which is stupid), the 4 time Premiers... It's embarrasing TBH.
I've asked a few Penrith supporters why? It's only 30 mins down the road and/or express train away, they got so defensive...
Great thread and discussions so far!!
A few things -
1. TV Ratings tell another story! NRL has more eyeballs on it (At least lately) then AFL.
2. NSWRL/NRL never pushed or even cared about Memberships until maybe 12 or so years ago, it's was never a thing to be a member while in the AFL I...
I think this weekend for the 1st time this year we will our best available and with Origin over (Had 4 players in each Origin unavailable) hopefully we get over the little hiccup of the last few weeks! Will be interesting how he goes. I know everyone is harping on about how can you drop Sexton...
Sometimes I hate Origin... Kurt Mann 18th man not avaialble for the Dogs is annoying! Last couple of years it's been Burton.
Dogs Unavailable this week
Stephen Crichton (origin)
Max King (origin)
Kurt Mann (origin)
Sitili Tupouniua (Suspended)
Jacob Preston (Suspended)
Jaemon Salmon (Injured)...
For the life of me I cannot work how people think Max King wasn't a good selection!
All year we've heard the Bulldogs have no forwards or small forwards, Max King has lead our forwards all year outstandingly and the club is coming 1st!
I'd never change a Max King for May at the Bulldogs
Dogs were missing almost their whole forward pack!
Sitili Tupouniua
Josh Curran
Jacob Preston
Jaemon Salmon
Sam Hughes
Jack Todd
And our prop went off cat 1 HIA in the opening minutes!
To be even in it is special let alone beating the Roosters and last week Canberra with so many outs.
hahaha Love it! For decades AFL media haven't paid any attention to RL while RL media always seemed scared of AFL!
Last couple of years it's totally reversed! I deadset haven't heard any AFL news in Sydney for years unless I go looking for it (It was always shoved down our throats previously)...