NRL The Finals Round 1

[srobbo]

You'll win next week regardless of who you play. I'll be barracking for whoever wins Storm-Raiders in the GF.
I have a GF ticket if you need it and we lose the prelim.

Canberra are absolutely no lock to beat Penrith. Hodgson won't play & we saw how lost they were once he left the field. 50/50 game.

 

[tugga]

Canberra are absolutely no lock to beat Penrith. Hodgson won't play & we saw how lost they were once he left the field. 50/50 game.

After watching Penrith play yesterday, I'd say you are right. Should be a belter of a game.

 

[moto748]

Is Hodgson out for the season? Will he make the Four Nations?

 

[Aucklander]

Canberra say they'll name him, but long time to go before game starts.

Link

 

[srobbo]

Is Hodgson out for the season? Will he make the Four Nations?

Been named as well as Blake Austin. Austin the more likely to play

 

[Aucklander]

Been named as well as Blake Austin. Austin the more likely to play

Hopefully Austin plays. Will be a big lift if he does.

 

[srobbo]

Hopefully Austin plays. Will be a big lift if he does.

Yeah will fill the halves gap if Hodgson misses.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

After watching Penrith play yesterday, I'd say you are right. Should be a belter of a game.

i actually went to the penrith game one of our worst performances in recent times (in terms of cohesive play we looked lost far too many times) We won for a few reasons 1 we ran the ball a ton barely kicking on the last, thus tiring the larger bulldogs pack over the course of the game, 2 we didn't get sucked in by Canterbury's bullshit and let the ref's handle the dogs pathetic aggro game, this frustrated the tiring dogs and they gave up more stupid penalties. 3 Canterbury's focus on large undisciplined roid ragers means that the team relies almost exclusively on professional tripper josh reynolds to create something. So we targeted him with hit ups and heavy tackles.

a more balanced team with more attacking players who don't rely on getting away with rule bending and some semblance of attack would have killed us. the dogs fattness really flattered us and allowed the boys to run away with it in the second half.

 

[tugga]

i actually went to the penrith game one of our worst performances in recent times (in terms of cohesive play we looked lost far too many times) We won for a few reasons 1 we ran the ball a ton barely kicking on the last, thus tiring the larger bulldogs pack over the course of the game, 2 we didn't get sucked in by Canterbury's bullshit and let the ref's handle the dogs pathetic aggro game, this frustrated the tiring dogs and they gave up more stupid penalties. 3 Canterbury's focus on large undisciplined roid ragers means that the team relies almost exclusively on professional tripper josh reynolds to create something. So we targeted him with hit ups and heavy tackles.

a more balanced team with more attacking players who don't rely on getting away with rule bending and some semblance of attack would have killed us. the dogs fattness really flattered us and allowed the boys to run away with it in the second half.

Pretty good summary mate. I liked how they ran the ball on the 6th tackle.
Any team that has James Graham and Sam Kasiano in it are just pure scum anyway.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

Pretty good summary mate. I liked how they ran the ball on the 6th tackle.
Any team that has James Graham and Sam Kasiano in it are just pure scum anyway.

especially Graham why Des made him captain is beyond me, i've nothing against making forwards captain but you cant have someone with no creative flair dictating play and selfishly calling for the ball all the time. If he wants to captain he needs to just focus on letting the player makers call their game and support them. Instead 3 times ginger called for the ball as first receiver with Mybe on his outside then never passed to him because he doesn't have the skill to flick pass out the back before the tackle.

Graham should be running off him not the other way around. Particularly when Mybe was the only player out of the bulldogs pack to actually create an attacking opportunity that resulted in a try for the first 77 minutes of the match.

 

[tugga]

especially Graham why Des made him captain is beyond me, i've nothing against making forwards captain but you cant have someone with no creative flair dictating play and selfishly calling for the ball all the time. If he wants to captain he needs to just focus on letting the player makers call their game and support them. Instead 3 times ginger called for the ball as first receiver with Mybe on his outside then never passed to him because he doesn't have the skill to flick pass out the back before the tackle.

Graham should be running off him not the other way around. Particularly when Mybe was the only player out of the bulldogs pack to actually create an attacking opportunity that resulted in a try for the first 77 minutes of the match.

He's an ear biter mate. Nuff said.