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Should I follow Les Catalans? I like the French in general and especially the idea of a bunch of snooty Frenchmen (and criminal expats) playing the world's best game in a country that probably doesn't know rugby leage exists. Plus I like their kit. On the other hand I've never seen Super League, not sure if it's even possible to watch in Australia without cable tv, and they may be the equivalent of the Canberra Raiders only without the successful history. I'm still drawn to the idea of a team who train on garlic snails, drink wine during half time and wear berets to poorly attended media conferences though.
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Dirty Frank posted:Over the last few years the team has been competitive, but not really serious challengers. They're like the opposite of the raiders as the south of france is an amazing place to live, so they don't have such a headache attracting players. The team is pretty big and physical, tending towards idiot violence. They have an exciting young fullback called Escare who looks like he weights about 60kg. The fans are totally convinced that the refs are against them, and I think they are in the same way that the warriors get no love in Aus. So they have a big chip on they're shoulder for that. I've got to one game a year the last two years and the stadiums atmosphere is really good, the essential phrase to know is "va te faire enculer" (go get hosed in the arse). Saw them get thrashed by Wigan last year and I was a bit worried for the wigan fans at the stadium, but there was no trouble in the end, the refs in the first half were amazing though, pushing les cats back 12m but Wigan back 8m at every play the ball. Wigan werestill a bunch better and le cats getting two players rightfully sent off didn't help much. Thanks for the info, that was really good. Chalk me up as the newest Catalans fan, even if only so I'll have heard about Escare before my team, the mighty Broncos, buy him from Super League just because we can and then never play him at NRL level.
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And the overs they had to pay to get anyone to sign. It's hard enough to get anyone to sign up to live in a frozen shithole with Ricky loving Stuart as their coach, and can only get harder when three quarters of the salary cap is used to buy other clubs' castoffs. Plus the Raiders threw an epic tanty after losing Milford and cut their association with Souths Logan, which will reduce the number of talented youngsters coming through on the cheap.
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Jan 14, 2015 01:44
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Apollodorus posted:See, this is why I never got interested in the NFL despite living the USA all my life. Just not exciting enough. Don't they have dog fighters, wife bashers, steroid users and the like? I'd read when Suge Knight dangled Vanilla Ice off a hotel balcony to get him to sign a contract he brought a couple of NFL players with him for extra muscle. Sounds pretty exciting to me.
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Jan 15, 2015 04:46
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iajanus posted:Considering how close both of them sound to having a stroke when they're being apoplectic I'm hoping you aren't referring to them leaving the station but something more permanent. No losers in that scenario. We're all losers in that scenario. Even if Ray "Fuckwit" Hadley pops his clogs tonight it won't be soon enough. The only way to win would be to have never heard of the wife bashing scumfuck.
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Jan 18, 2015 10:23
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Aside from playing on what appeared to be a freshly plowed turnip farm that was a cracking game of football. And who was that bloke with the charge down at the end? Reckon he'll be able to dine out on that one for a while.
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Feb 22, 2015 02:33
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Jono C posted:The dealing/trafficking charges seem like a beat up, but these guys might just be too stupid to know how to stay out of trouble. As I read it they're basically being charged with supply for picking up a bit extra for a mate when they were scoring. Hardly breaking bad territory.
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Souths Cocks Broncos Manly Cowboys Storm Panthers Warriors Bulldogs Drug cheats Dragons Knights Tigers Eels Cokers Stickys
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Airstream Driver posted:I'll probably stick to supporting the Broncos because I want to make it to a few games and the atmosphere at Suncorp usually owns. And because the Broncos are by far and away thr best club in the NRL.
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An hour to go and I'm getting impatient. Time to see the mighty Broncos possibly barely scrape home if they're really lucky. Fire up you sad cunts!
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Mar 5, 2015 09:01
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Dirty Frank posted:Whats the 300m line about? Corey Parker's 300th game.
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Mar 5, 2015 10:18
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Maybe the NRL is targeting the coveted Hillsong demographic.
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cpaf posted:Dodds injured and still no sign of Vidot who I guess Bennett really hates. I reckon they'll beat the Sharks but I don't have strong feelings either way. Vidot has a couple of things to work on and apparently has to earn his way back into the team after slacking off in preseason training. Expect him back in the next few rounds either replacing Reed on the wing (or maybe Maranta if he's awful) or playing in the middle somewhere. He played one half at prop for the Jets last week and the other on the wing. Hope we can beat the Sharks, they'll be pretty motivated after last week plus Barba will want to prove something. How Gallen didn't even cop a trip to the judiciary for the on field hand shandy is beyond me, even with the NSW factor taken into account.
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bowmore posted:Maranta was pretty good in a losing side last week I thought He's alright, safe under the high ball but not much chop in attack. If you watch the tries other teams' wingers score and then look at Maranta the difference is stark. Some of these guys are planting tries with an outstretched arm reaching around the corner post while horizontal in the air outside the line and being tackled by two or three players. Maranta can only finish when the line is wide open. In other news Corey Oates is in replacing Dale Copley who picked up a calf injury. If Oates can play well and show a bit of stamina we may well run a wing pairing of Oates and Vidot for most of the year.
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Beau Scott is such a loving oval office.
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Byolante posted:I don't think there is anything wrong with social pee drinking, just that if thats a thing you are really loving into don't tweet pictures of yourself performing the act Um excuse me but Toddy wasn't stupid enough to tweet pictures of himself drinking his own pee. He was just pretending to drink his own pee to amuse a mate who for some reason had his camera out in the bathroom at Northies and then lost his phone before someone else found it and twootled the photos.
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Mills posted:Oi gently caress off you cunts he sounds like a Rabbitohs supporter to me Nah, I think he's moving to CQ for work.
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That thing is loving hideous. The bits at the bottom look like something Lord Bogan might get as a tattoo. Speaking of tattoos, anyone want a big strong lazy winger who likes easy options, dropping bombs and making bulk metres? Dan Vidot is really on the outer now. http://m.couriermail.com.au/sport/n...i-1227278633812
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bowmore posted:They might keep it in mind now. It's been out publicly for a few years.
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Tapau is farkin yooj. Wish we could have picked him up instead of Gavet.
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Jono C posted:You say it like it's a bad thing. I don't know whether he has photos of the judiciary with various animals, the Bulldogs connection or the NSW player exemption in action but the amount of poo poo he gets away with is ridiculous. in that game last year he kicked Sam Thaiday in the face, kicked out to trip Ben Barba before finally trying to take Alex Glenn's head off. IIRC he's had other kicking/tripping issues too, plus a pretty ugly tackle in Brent Tate in Origin which he got away with. But for whatever reason they treat him like a first time offender instead of a serial grub. E: apparently he tripped Segeyaro earlier this year too and wasn't even charged. ili fucked around with this message at 13:19 on May 4, 2015 |
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I can't believe Peachey is getting off so lightly. Deliberately dumping a bloke on his head well after the whistle is pretty bad. I mean, everyone knows the judiciary is shite but this is poor even by their very low standards.
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All he needs to do is get up on the roof with a six pack of pineapple cruisers. That or sexually assault someone, piss in his own mouth, bite a woman on the leg, gently caress a dog, drink drive repeatedly or beat someone unconscious. Probably best to start with the cruisers though. E: he being Michael Gordon that is, I'm told the above type of things no longer happen in origin camp. ili fucked around with this message at 07:17 on May 19, 2015 |
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bowmore posted:Pretty happy that the Broncs are going to be missing 5 players in the Knights game on Monday night Possibly Ben Hunt too if we're super unlucky. Still a decent chance of winning though.
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gently caress me sideways, never thought I'd see "Beau Scott" and "lack of grub power" in the same paragraph.
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bowmore posted:he's not a grub he's just tough You say that now when he's in your team, but wait until he runs out for Parra next year. One late high spearwrestle tackle on Mullen and he'll be grub of the century. He is nothing on Jeynolds or Bird though, that's for sure. Probably because he can cop it as well as dish it out instead of flailing about on the ground.
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Jono C posted:We're listing Queensland's grubs and none of you have mentioned Myles? 
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Jesus, how long before Jason Taylor gets his walking papers?
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At least we got to see Marty Tapau channelling his inner Sandow.
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May 23, 2015 12:38
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Jeez I'd love to own a door replacement business in Canberra today
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I know nine are poo poo but why have they got the rock reading out some Gus Gould babble bullshit?
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bowmore posted:what do you think is going to happen when we go to Suncorp A blues heavy commentary team, and Adolf fellating blues players as they leave the field on camera.
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Jono C posted:It was astonishing how poo poo he was in game 2 last year. He got a slight pass in game 1 because he would have trained to come in at lock, but he got a full week of training for game 2 at halfback and decided to become a hitup machine. As I recall he had a hosed knee and didn't train at all in the lead up to game two, but decided he was okay on game day. I'm a bit dirty on him for that, Hunt trained at halfback and was looking good but DCE chose to play, had a poo poo game and potentially cost us the series. Motherfucker probably was worried that Hunt would have a blinder and take his bemch utility spot. Also lol at iajanus referring to Queenslanders as if he was from a different group. Embrace your inner Inglis and just accept that you're one of us now. Anyway it's better than having to cheer for Mitchell Pearce. ili fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Iajanus, can you tell the Hoff to either learn to pass or get back on the wing? Ta. E: fucken James Roberts is awesome. ili fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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Bring on Nollsy and whoever that other guy was. That was awesome. But where's The Rock gone?
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A couple of marginal calls but they're not the reason we lost. loving DCE is 0/3 as a halfback. Send him back to Manly to think about what he's done and hope Cooper is fit. If he's not get Hunt in as 7, or else put Hunt on the bench and bring Morgan in to play with Thurston, or play with 12 players, but DCE has done his dash. Goofy motherfucker managed to poo poo the bed in attack and gently caress our defence.
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Jesus that was an absolute cracker of a game. I spent the final ten minutes tensed up just waiting for the Broncos to crack slightly but god they just kept at it. Fantastic effort and that level of commitment should take them well into the finals.
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Nice to see the Bulldogs/NSW player exemption still exists.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:What's this Mitch garbutt guy like who is coming to the rhinos He's got the potential to be a good forward but just never kicked on at the Broncos for whatever reason. He had a poo poo preseason, mostly due to a back injury which he's bern carrying through this year. Had very limited game time in first grade and this together with the injury has dented his confidence a bit. Because of his limited preseason and game time he never got the chance to cement his spot in the team. Plus he was signed by the old management here and is on decent coin but we've got a few good juniors coming through and just don't really need him. On the plus side he's got a big frame and a big motor. If he can adapt to the conditions and get over his back problems he may well become a star player over there. Best of luck to him.
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