State of Origin Game 2

Ice wrote:Gould smashing Gallen without saying his name, and probably bird and Farah. All three should go.

Yep I reckon it was mainly aimed at Gallen too.  Absolutely giving it to him without actually saying his name.

Ice wrote:Yeah, jackson was ok, never gonna win us a game but not gonna loose it either. He is doing ok, apart from throwing the ball out when the game was on the line.

Gould clearly saying that Gallen has been the wrong captain for the last 6 or 7 years. Muck me dead Gus, tell us something we don't already know.

He MUST go for game three, the time is now!

It's obvious, but it isn't gonna happen. They're not going to drop their captain from the team in a dead rubber in what will be talked up as his last Origin game. Good news for you lot is he won't be there next year.

SI wrote:Anyone just see the team song?  Everyone else in full kit except Thaiday who was just in his budgie smugglers and they started to zoom in on the group then panned left away from big Sammy double time!

I am yet to see a team celebration with Thaiday in anything but his budgie smugglers. Bloke must strip off the moment he hits the sheds

Seriously, fuck Jennings. I hope he stubs his toe.

Fuck me dead Fatty fat, I could have coached this Qld team to a few series victories.

I think we just have to accept that Qld have better players and because they are Qlders and are basically a bunch of pecker heads, they simply care more, that's what is seems to me, they just care more cause they have nothing else left in ther miserable lives.

Jokes, Qld is awesome.

Reynolds gone for Game 3. Bird must be the number 6, or maybe Moylan to 6 and Teddy into the 1

Hopoate would have got his fingers up away from the ball.

Bren wrote:

SI wrote:Anyone just see the team song?  Everyone else in full kit except Thaiday who was just in his budgie smugglers and they started to zoom in on the group then panned left away from big Sammy double time!

I am yet to see a team celebration with Thaiday in anything but his budgie smugglers. Bloke must strip off the moment he hits the sheds

I've never seen him "stand out" quite so much as tonight 

Bren wrote:Hopoate would have got his fingers up away from the ball.

There's just no fighting genetics.

Thaiday charged with a grade 2 dangerous throw but can play game 3 with an early plea. He definitely deserves a couple of weeks on the sidelines, luckily Gallen came out of it okay and wasn't seriously injured.

Sounds about right.

It's pretty consistent with how they usually grade

Probably should be more but we'd rather crack down on tapping a ref on the shoulder

2 weeks for throwing a water bottle at someone.

2 weeks for throwing a player head first into the ground.

The NRL everybody.

Was certainly on the bad end of the scale for this year.

When I saw it I said two weeks because of who it was. If that's Bird he gets 5 weeks.

leaguegod wrote:It's pretty consistent with how they usually grade

Probably should be more but we'd rather crack down on tapping a ref on the shoulder

I'm trying to recall which player it was (Fifita maybe?) but in the last year or two I recall a player getting something ridiculous like 4+ weeks for a similar offence in a club game. If the grading was higher I wouldn't bat an eyelid though, fair call as there was no need for it.

Did Daley really just say he won't be blooding any new players for game 3? What about Tedesco? Or Cartwright? Even Peachey.

Honeysett wrote:When I saw it I said two weeks because of who it was. If that's Bird he gets 5 weeks.

but that's because Bird would have loading coming out of his earholes.

Bren wrote:

Have a look again. It wasn't me who posted the coffee-drinking smiley, it was Archer

If there was one thing I could change on this forum, it would be deleting that stupid coffee drinking smiley. Whenever you post it I get annoyed, no matter what context, even if I agree with it. (And I generally am on the Qlder side.)

But go sick on it this week cuz....

Bren wrote:

I'm trying to recall which player it was (Fifita maybe?) but in the last year or two I recall a player getting something ridiculous like 4+ weeks for a similar offence in a club game. If the grading was higher I wouldn't bat an eyelid though, fair call as there was no need for it.

Well when you consider it a grade 2, you've gotta wonder what a grade 5 would look like or even a 3 or 4 for that matter


Nrl judiciary is basically:


Charge anything that is reportable with a grade 1 and let those loading add up so players miss game for soft offenses

Charge the really bad ones with a grade 2 and give them only a slightly tougher punishment