AFL/NRL/Union/Cricket Bashing Thread 3

[pseudonym]

Crowd in Shanghai

10,118

[Paul01]

Fox Sports reporting another NRL player involved in a late night brawl.

They name the player as Luke Brooks.

[Paul01]

47 minutes ago, pseudonym said:

Crowd in Shanghai

10,118

5000 travellers and 5000 expats throwing bananas. Don't expect a huge contingent of Chinese except those paid for by the Federal Member for Wentworth  (not Wentworthville)

[btron3000]

I can't believe that cricket has been added to this thread. Outrageous

[DCWSW]

12 minutes ago, btron3000 said:

I can't believe that cricket has been added to this thread. Outrageous

I agree. 

Especially since the article referred to is one about a pay dispute, something that WSW is no stranger too

[pseudonym]

... but it is actually called the Big Bash

[DCWSW]

What's there to bash about the Big Bash?

[btron3000]

Actually, I'm quite happy for the Big Bash to be bashed. But leave test cricket out of this!

[Paul01]

2 minutes ago, danielcarr said:

What's there to bash about the Big Bash?

Reputations of Sports Personalities eg Mel McG.

[pseudonym]

10 minutes ago, danielcarr said:

What's there to bash about the Big Bash?

Nothing serious about that post. Just a pun.

[Burgerman]

49 minutes ago, Paul01 said:

5000 travellers and 5000 expats throwing bananas. Don't expect a huge contingent of Chinese except those paid for by the Federal Member for Wentworth  (not Wentworthville)

Just seen the ABC sports report on this and it mentioned that the Chinese fans were sponsored by their company that sponsors port Adelaide to go, so probably forced into attending haha what a joke.

[luisenrique]

3 hours ago, btron3000 said:

Actually, I'm quite happy for the Big Bash to be bashed. But leave test cricket out of this!

Yep, change title to afl/nrl/big bashing thread. It even works as a pun.

[Carns]

I love test cricket, but Cricket Australia, the Big Bash and some of the Australian cricket team can be ****s, so I think it is worth staying. As with AFL and NRL, they still have respective threads where you can discuss the game/important issues.

Cricket can be just as guilty for trying to **** with other codes.

Of course, no one gives a **** about rugby, so who gives a **** about them anyway?

[mack]

We have a pun thread.

@Carns I must admit I pondered not bothering to put Union in the thread at all. I may get rid of it.

[Paul01]

We have had 3 non-football CEOs: Rugby Union, AFL and Rugby League.

they have all failed to understand the game and do the bidding of the mainstream media. If Gallop walks any time soon, we are most likely to get a former cricket CEO.

so keep cricket in for its administrators and how the MSM lauds big bash over football

Edited May 14, 2017 by Paul01
Correction

[theguyyouwishyouwere]

Other sport bashing thread?

 

cos i really wanna bash polo, but i like to stay on topic.

[StringerBellend]

Just seen footage of the "big" afl game in China.

briliant!

"sold out" but loads of empty seats

bunch of ex pat and a couple of thousand bored locals

game was one of those dreadful afl games where one team is 60odd points ahead 

 

[MartinTyler]

Caught the SMH report of the Giants game yesterday...suggesting the 11k crowd went into raptures following the winning goal....strange given that I caught the closing stages of that game on Fox and half the crowd were in black and white !!

[Swanderer]

1 hour ago, MartinTyler said:

Caught the SMH report of the Giants game yesterday...suggesting the 11k crowd went into raptures following the winning goal....strange given that I caught the closing stages of that game on Fox and half the crowd were in black and white !!

As if there were 11,000 there ............. 

[Gazmon]

43 minutes ago, Swanderer said:

As if there were 11,000 there ............. 

Terrible metrics for the GC Suns... that's 0.0045% of the population of Shanghai... something like that anyway. Kick 'em out!

[Neverbloom]

funny how they are not talking about the china match on the afl shows, 2 hours of afl shows(half way through one of them) and the china match was talked about for less than 2 minutes

 

in the massive wankfest that was before the match about how the afl discovered china and is going to take over china the payoff wasnt that impressive

[ManfredSchaefer]

[ColdRock]

Well, it was fun being up on that high horse for all these years

[SBW]

What is the NRL trying to prove with the 'beanie for brain cancer' round? 

[Neverbloom]

afl on tv, there are what sounds like 12 bogans yelling melbourne every 3 seconds, its painful

[ManfredSchaefer]

Watched about 5 minutes of the Dogs vs Panthers game yesterday arvo.

Okay, I'm no partisan of either team however what really struck me was how boring the play was, and that included a couple of tries. I used to love league back in the 70s & 80s, but if what I saw is any reflection of the modern game I'm glad I don't care anymore. 

All I saw was mechanical barging and paper thin defence, with big units hitting each other and zero panache. The Panthers smashed the Dogs and for all the talk about how boring a 0-0 draw may be in sokkah, how fooking tedious is a blow out in league?

Oh and the State of Origin? Who cares

[FCWanderers]

WHICH NSW government minister and friend of broadcaster Alan Jones is still trying to move funding for an ANZ Stadium redevelopment to his influential mates on the SCG Trust to instead build a new 65,000-seat stadium at Moore Park?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/whats-the-buzz-how-the-blues-got-it-right-why-cooper-cronk-could-join-souths/news-story/e4a8d42c3668b61a9028497efed46b9e

From the latest Phil Rothfield rumor file column, this past weekend. No prizes for guessing who it is.

[SBW]

On 6/5/2017 at 0:25 PM, ManfredSchaefer said:

Watched about 5 minutes of the Dogs vs Panthers game yesterday arvo.

Okay, I'm no partisan of either team however what really struck me was how boring the play was, and that included a couple of tries. I used to love league back in the 70s & 80s, but if what I saw is any reflection of the modern game I'm glad I don't care anymore. 

All I saw was mechanical barging and paper thin defence, with big units hitting each other and zero panache. The Panthers smashed the Dogs and for all the talk about how boring a 0-0 draw may be in sokkah, how fooking tedious is a blow out in league?

Oh and the State of Origin? Who cares

In regards to this game, the Dogs were piss poor, and I have someone on the inside at the bulldogs saying that the players no longer want to play for Hasler since they decided to let Josh Reynolds go to the Tigers and the players are pissed off about that and bringing Foran in who is a very volatile player and hangs around gambling addict pimp.

My dad is going to the game today at ANZ stadium with his fellow dragon supporting mates and he reckons Dragons are going to have the easiest win of the year.

[btron3000]

On 6/5/2017 at 0:25 PM, ManfredSchaefer said:

Watched about 5 minutes of the Dogs vs Panthers game yesterday arvo.

Okay, I'm no partisan of either team however what really struck me was how boring the play was, and that included a couple of tries. I used to love league back in the 70s & 80s, but if what I saw is any reflection of the modern game I'm glad I don't care anymore. 

All I saw was mechanical barging and paper thin defence, with big units hitting each other and zero panache. The Panthers smashed the Dogs and for all the talk about how boring a 0-0 draw may be in sokkah, how fooking tedious is a blow out in league?

Oh and the State of Origin? Who cares

Agree with everything except the last line. The NRL has changed the rules to the point where the ball is never contested, and they just bash and barge. It's so dull.

The first 40 minutes of Origin, however, was some of the best Rugby League I've ever seen. Both teams were attacking, throwing the ball around, and scrambling in defence. Was awesome.

[btron3000]

11 hours ago, SBW said:

In regards to this game, the Dogs were piss poor, and I have someone on the inside at the bulldogs saying that the players no longer want to play for Hasler since they decided to let Josh Reynolds go to the Tigers and the players are pissed off about that and bringing Foran in who is a very volatile player and hangs around gambling addict pimp.

My dad is going to the game today at ANZ stadium with his fellow dragon supporting mates and he reckons Dragons are going to have the easiest win of the year.

Well so much for that theory!

I can imagine the players getting upset that their mate is leaving. But as this week's result shows, they have to get over it and move on. If you earn hundreds and thousands, even millions, from the game, you can't really complain about cut-throat professional decisions from your coach.