PRE-GAME [Round 1, 2023] Panthers vs Broncos

[Wolfie]

Panthers are vulnerable. We will win this.

 

[McHunt]

Maybe if we lose against the Dolphins you might actually start to see what some of us are talking about regarding the game management?

If we lose to the Dolphins we sack the coach.

 

[Culhwch]

If we lose to the Dolphins we sack the coach.

You don't upset your star hooker by sacking his dad. Sheesh.

 

[Xzei]

If we lose to the Dolphins we sack the coach.

i think reno is safe for another year

 

[Nerd]

Crawley or Craddock?

Your right I'm getting my Cra's mixed up. I was thinking of Craddock. Saying that Crawley is still clueless.

 

[Johnny92]

If we lose to the Dolphins we sack the coach.

If we're fully fit we should be putting 40+ on them.
We need to make a statement.

 

[Mick_Hancock]

Can you please find another hill to die on.

This one is MY hill and after all the effort I've done in making it comfortable, I'm not letting some young upstart just walk up and throw themselves dramatically on the ground.

plenty of room on the hill for this cause
However, if this is another one of those “highlander” situations, I’ll call my Sherpa and head back down. There can be only one.

 

[Mick_Hancock]

On a seperate note… does anyone else feel like this was the longest off season?! I know two useless teams are on tonight, but HOW GOOD IS IT HAVING FOOTY BACK?!

 

[GCBRONCO]

plenty of room on the hill for this cause
However, if this is another one of those “highlander” situations, I’ll call my Sherpa and head back down. There can be only one.

 

[Culhwch]

Your right I'm getting my Cra's mixed up. I was thinking of Craddock. Saying that Crawley is still clueless.

You gotta know what a Craddock is to understand cricket...

 

[Sproj]

Madden and Willison have dropped off the bench, Piakura and Mariner remain. Sneaky suspicion one of them replaces Palasia on the bench?

I reckon tonight's game reinforced you just can't carry three props on a bench anymore.

 

[Mick_Hancock]

Agreed @Sproj. First 3 rounds are a war of attrition to see who can stay fitter longer.
Unless Kevvie is planning to play Palasia as an edge forward?! Doesn’t make any sense though, especially when we need to see something from Piakura and Keenan is leaving us to never play finals again.

 

[Foordy]

FUN FACT:

There are 4 players playing in this match that have signed for a rival club in 2024. (Leniu, Crichton, Farnworth, Flegler)

for this reason Greg Alexander has called for an end to the current free-4-all transfer rules in favour of two transfer windows, with players only permitted to sign for a rival club for the following season during these windows. one mid season and one after the GF.

Greg Alexander said:

“Have a window where players can sign (during the season) but if it is not done then and there, well, sorry boys, now it’s after the grand final,” Alexander said.

“I remember when we changed it (from June 30 to November 1) the reason was to stop all the speculation throughout the season.

“It was just constant about is he going to go, is he going to stay.

“So I thought, well, let’s try something different.

“But when you look at every other sport around the word, it just doesn’t happen.

“You don’t sign for a (rival) club and then stay at that (existing) club for 12 months.

“If you try and explain it to people from other sports, they go, ‘What? So you’ve signed with that club but you are staying with that club all season?’”

 

[Mick_Hancock]

The model does sound silly when you spell it out like that. You could sign a contract on the second of November one year and not start with your new team for more than a year. Even as I write this it sounds ridiculous.

Brandy is referring the European football transfer model. Although it’s on a much larger scale, works great.

 

[Sproj]

The model does sound silly when you spell it out like that. You could sign a contract on the second of November one year and not start with your new team for more than a year. Even as I write this it sounds ridiculous.

Brandy is referring the European football transfer model. Although it’s on a much larger scale, works great.

And NBA.

And AFL.

 

[Foordy]

And NBA.

And AFL.

And pretty much any other professional sport in the world

 

[Spoon]

We won't win this game guys. Let's just accept it now and move onto Round 2.

Not with that kind of attitude, no we won't.

 

[Culhwch]

It's game day, bitches!

I'm a bit excited. I was last year too and we did pretty good for two thirds of the season. Let's aim for pretty good in all three thirds and then even better in the fourth third that is the finals series! That sentence made absolute perfect sense, don't even question it!