I was thinking of going to the game, but after seeing the prices I’ll be watching from home. $40 (plus booking fee) to stand on the hill for a trial is ridiculous.
Missing Garner, Sorro, Martin, Henry, Cogger and Cole.
Hard to gauge the performances last week, the team looked liked they had never played together.
We know Ivan doesn’t take these games any more seriously than an opposed hit out. As long as I don’t have to turn the audio off like last week (Kevie declaring the cows as premiers every 30 seconds lol).
$40+ dollars is a rip off, it’s what I used to love about going to the Parra v Penrith trials in years past - it was what $20 or so for the family to get in.
$10 is fee to watch the ‘game’ and $30 to visit the sh!tiest ground of all, you know the same place that dope Darcy Byrne calls the 8th wonder of the world and convinced that dope PM to spend another $40M of taxpayers money on.
Game went pretty well as I expected, although the one on one defensive misses giving them there 2 first half tries was disappointing.
The guess agains from Klien, including one on the last when they had made very little ground that set WTF was crucial, giving the tiges a mountain of ball which gave them some chances.
A couple of fringe players did themselves no favours for the season ahead.
Getting a bit of the rust out was working, until the Cleary incident, which may have some impact for the first few rounds & then the siren went & it was 12-10.
And then after the break the JF/Cup game was played.
Next season, no first 17/19 players should participate in the pre-season “tournament”.
Ground Hog Day - poor ball security, some poor discipline - things you can’t afford when Klein is the referee. Imagine paying good money to watch that. I also agree about Cleary’s brain fades.
I’m not really sure where you are coming from with this???
In all my years of following RL, there has scarcely been a player more in control of his game than NC. He never seems to be panicked and most always makes the correct decision.
His previous suspension came when he dropped Dylan Brown on his head in a tackle that went wrong when Fish let go of Brown, leaving Brown in a precarious position. NC was a victim of circumstances in that one.
The incident on Fri was because NC read the situation and reacted to it. It was just bad luck that the tigers guy lost the ball, went searching for it and in doing that dropped down, meaning that NC’s target area suddenly dropped & hence the contact was higher than planned.
The ‘safe’ option is to just roll over and accept the penalty, but I suggest we are all over the charging and judiciary process as it now works, with almost everyone just accepting the charge and taking the penalty, fearing getting the penalty time. With no judiciary hearing, no-one is testing the match review committee - they just get away with whatever they say.
Last season the Panthers seemed to have had enough of that and pled not guilty to a charge on Sorro, I think it was. The incident looked 50/50 and we obviously though we had a good case, but the panel upheld the charge and he got the extra week - perhaps a, we’ll show them who’s boss here, by the panel.
I had some hope that Captain V’landys would make a call on this as he has done on other matters, saying we don’t want our players missing games due to an incident in a trial, but he has been mute on this one.
I was 50/50 on what we should do in this one, but back the club in challenging this. Likely NC will end up missing the feather dusters game but sometimes you need to back yourselves.
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