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donnymurph
20,000 crowd to see a match with no home team in Perth. That's good news!
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donnymurph
Well, Penrith just ruined my perfect round of tipping.
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donnymurph
They are in stunning form at the moment, unfortunately they're going to run into a brick wall as their last 5 games are Bulldogs, Sharks, Sea Eagles (away), Cowboys (away), and Rabbitohs. They have the toughest final 5 of any team by far. The only game I'd feel confident tipping them in is against the Sharks.
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If they make the 8 they are a serious premiership threat. I played with the ladder predictor last night and they missed the finals by 4 points, but I tip at about 60-70% accuracy, so who knows what could happen. It ended up with the Dragons and Titans in 7th and 8th, with the Sharks slipping out of the 8.
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donnymurph
Panthers for the spoon IMO.
Tipping comp is hotting up a bit. Leader is on 107, second on 103, third on 102, fourth on 101 and me in fifth on 100. I wouldn't say that's an insurmountable lead considering how unpredictable the results have been, but at any rate the 2 minor podium positions are being hotly contested.
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Knights are still hanging in there!
Just found this gem on Facebook, written by a Queenslander after last year's Origin series.
In the fallout from Wednesday's Origin decider, some of rugby league’s most vocal critics have slammed the Q.L.D Maroons for having the audacity to tackle Jarryd Hayne, N.S.W/ Parramatta fullback and direct descendant of popular theological figure Jesus Christ.
Hayne, 2009’s Dally M Medal winner and new golden child of the sport, as well as league journalists, were found to be appalled when several players from the Maroons wrapped their arms around his chest — sometimes his waist or his legs — in an attempt to pull him to the ground and secure the ball, whereupon the play was completed in a move commonly known as a “tackle”. Such a play forced him to relinquish the ball without scoring a try or curing it of blindness. Though such an act was well within the rules of the game, it has been deemed to be a “dog act” by several notable critics, and as such, the rule is under review.
“Oh, it’s a shocker,” says prominent league writer Peter Katzitsos. “The whole point of having Jarryd Hayne in the league is having him score tries at every given opportunity, completely untouched, so that we can wax lyrical the next day about how he may well have legitimately deistic qualities.
“Who wants to watch a game of league that we can’t wet ourselves over? Not me, I tell you what.”
In response to what could well be a series of passive-aggressive editorials in the sports section of pointless tabloids, the NRL has undertaken a typical kneejerk bandaid scheme to try and amend the rule.
The rule, an amendment to the recent Jarryd Hayne Rule, called the Just Let Jarryd Hayne Do Whatever He Wants Rule, will allow any Parramatta fullbacks named Jarryd Hayne to be able to do absolutely anything they please while on-field. As such, examples of previously prohibited behaviour that Jarryd Hayne will be able to partake in include eye gouging, groin kicking, passing forward at will, blowing penalties for his own side, expelling supporters he deems unattractive from the ground, and even running up to the scoreboard operators to change the score to suit his liking.
“We felt like Jarryd Hayne just wasn’t being given the freedom to effectively become the only player of any significance in the league,” said NRL rulemaker Lawrence Hutz. “With this new rule we’re confident that people will forget every other player in the league.
“With any luck they’ll stop caring about the football, too, so then we can dissolve the clubs and just show Jarryd Hayne standing in a white room for 80 minutes every Friday and Sunday while Ray Warren and Phil Gould rub themselves in the commentary booth.”
The rule is expected to be green-lighted by this weekend’s games, which will allow Jarryd Hayne to burn holes through Manly second rower Anthony Watmough with laser beams shot from his eyes, and offer decisive proof of fullback Brett Stewart’s guilt in his sexual assault case during the half time break.
Hayne himself has declined to comment on Friday’s game, instead electing to fly to the moon using sheer force of will while performing delicate neurosurgery on a deaf orphan.
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donnymurph
This week I've got Storm, Bulldogs, Raiders, Bunnies (despite their terrible record vs top 8 sides), Warriors (although not with any great confidence - I predict a truly woeful game), Titans, Knights for an upset over Manly, and Cowboys.
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Haxzor
Knights are gonna get $%^&ed. Home game with a full strength team?
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donnymurph
The Knights are about the 3rd best team in the comp at the moment.
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donnymurph
Horrible refereeing decisions abound!
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Haxzor
Knights are gonna get $%^&ed. Home game with a full strength team?
And I said?
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Haxzor
Someone needs to send them out 30 mins before kick off, they might actually be switched on for the game then...
Only reason they were any good in the second half is because we didn't have a bench
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