Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[GreyPower]

Rugby Union is watchable.

League is an abomination with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.

 

[TheArtfulTodger]

Rugby Union is watchable.

League is an abomination with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.

I have had many an argument with Leagu-ies over the years about why RL is so goddamn boring. Same thing over and over. I wondered why there isn't a coach that tries to play the game in a radically different style. Get it to the backs early in the set and catch the opposition defence off guard. The first three are always the same, just trying to gain 30-40 metres. The defence uses this time to catch their breath. That is when you should attack. By the end of the game they would all be knackered and it would open up. You could take advantage of that for the whole season until the other teams could improve their fitness. But then again, you would still have that thing they call a scrum, which as you rightly pointed out is part of the abomination.

 

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[I Dont Care]

I have had many an argument with Leagu-ies over the years about why RL is so goddamn boring. Same thing over and over. I wondered why there isn't a coach that tries to play the game in a radically different style. Get it to the backs early in the set and catch the opposition defence off guard. The first three are always the same, just trying to gain 30-40 metres. The defence uses this time to catch their breath. That is when you should attack. By the end of the game they would all be knackered and it would open up. You could take advantage of that for the whole season until the other teams could improve their fitness. But then again, you would still have that thing they call a scrum, which as you rightly pointed out is part of the abomination.

Scrum is useless in League. Will become non-existent one day

 

[tribey]

I have had many an argument with Leagu-ies over the years about why RL is so goddamn boring. Same thing over and over. I wondered why there isn't a coach that tries to play the game in a radically different style. Get it to the backs early in the set and catch the opposition defence off guard. The first three are always the same, just trying to gain 30-40 metres. The defence uses this time to catch their breath. That is when you should attack. By the end of the game they would all be knackered and it would open up. You could take advantage of that for the whole season until the other teams could improve their fitness. But then again, you would still have that thing they call a scrum, which as you rightly pointed out is part of the abomination.

The kick became far more prevalent in red zone situations, both high bombs and those diagonal grubbers that are designed to skip up like an NFL onside kick, but yeah. Jeez.

Even if you don't follow a sport religiously you can easily spot greatness.

Spider Silva and Bones Jones in UFC. MJ, Shaq, LeBron and Steph Curry in NBA. JJ Watt, Gronk and Aaron Rodgers in NFL. Unhittable pitchers and power hitters in MLB. Messi, Robben and Ronaldo in the roundball and so on.

I'd watch bits and pieces of Joey Johns, Darren Lockyer and Billy Slater and be all, "yeah... okay?"

 

[I Dont Care]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...s-just-for-kicks/story-fnjwkt0b-1227149047112

A HIGH rolling python with a penchant for amphibian asphyxiation has been popping metaphorical caps in cane toads’ arses at Darwin’s Sky City Casino.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...s-just-for-kicks/story-fnjwkt0b-1227149047112

 

[ozph1870]

gave the nrl a chance when they played a game at adelaide oval a couple of years ago. wanted to like it, thought it would be a great live sport but it was shocking to watch live. no skill, nothing happens, run in a line, get tackled, put the ball on the ground, do it again, may even be worse than silly soccer as a sport. never have been able to watch a game of rugby, league or union since.

 

[finbarr]

Rugby League is a wonderful game. Rugby is a shit game, played in Australia and England almost exclusively by rich kids, and you barely see the ball.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

10 years today.... RIP Dime

 

[Noobz0r]

I miss this thread.

I'll be ****ed if I'll be reading the 100 pages I've missed, though.

Catch me up people

 

[Dylan8]

I miss this thread.

I'll be stuffed if I'll be reading the 100 pages I've missed, though.

Catch me up people

missed like 30 pages of this thread, looked back one page - ween discussion


i never left

 

[Noobz0r]

Are they still shit?

 

[Dylan8]

According to Portia

 

[Portia]

Which is empirical proof

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Ween are Port Adelaide.

We have proof.

There is no proof any of you scum are Port Adelaide.

 

[Concussion]

There is no proof any of you scum are Port Adelaide.

There's our proof that Dingle is Port Adelaide

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[tribey]

There is no proof any of you scum are Port Adelaide.

I survived a headlock from Danny Frawley while David Gallop, Peter Hudson and Drake looked on, so

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I survived a headlock from Danny Frawley while David Gallop, Peter Hudson and Drake looked on, so

I can work out two of the onlookers but Drake???

btw you should have squealed for help to those three voyeurs. Although that may make Frawley frisky....

 

[tribey]

I can work out two of the onlookers but Drake???

btw you should have squealed for help to those three voyeurs. Although that may make Frawley frisky....

There's a security guard who regularly patrols the Magarey Room who looks alarmingly like him - and knows it - to the point where I'm expecting his next album to be titled Downundercover Boss with hours of bonus footage.

 

[spookism]

Warner 63*

 

[Phhht]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I can work out two of the onlookers but Drake???

btw you should have squealed for help to those three voyeurs. Although that may make Frawley frisky....

Squeal like a pig for me boy.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Squeal like a pig for me boy.

Tribey knows it's going to happen. He's been a bit cheeky lately. Obviously needs the fear of God put back into him. With or without consent.

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

I am Lorde ya ya ya