The Greenhouse

samvucago

Imagining having the absolute best product on the planet - Rugby League - and ruining it to the point where genuine die hard fans are getting sick of watching it. Can this have its own thread? I genuinely can’t believe that the self appointed smartest administrator in the history of world sport can...

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Officialdom hasn’t been the same since RL gave refs like Bill Harrigan a profile and muppets like Bernard Sutton told them that they were the 17th team in the NRL. It’s bloody embarrassing watching them warm up like they are players then link arms for the anthem like they are going to war. These day...

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Dr Zaius wrote: ↑May 3, 2024, 7:49 pm That is quite possibly both the worst and the best win in NRL history.

I second this.
Worst Raiders victory ever.

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Every season is important and every game is important. But our goal as a football club should be to win the Premiership. We have a natural disadvantage of being located in a landlocked, family oriented, public service dominant city, so we will always struggle to buy capable players to fill key posi...

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Has anyone thought about Weekes at 9? Nah - I suspect Ricky is happy with the good job Danny Levi is doing. Was a bit off last week but so was Tarps. All good players have the occasional rough game. Yeah nah Rocky is stubborn and Levi mustn’t be in the “good” category because he’s had 125 “rough” N...

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People thinking Hoppa is not that bad a choice for fullback, do they watch other teams, or just the Raiders?? Every team has a strike fullback. All of them. Hoppa is not even a strike winger With an already weak spine, this is devastating. I'll hope for some good metres and carries but I can't see ...

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To use NFL parlance - Rick has the makings of being a good GM. As it is, he’s a woeful Head Coach. In the NFL, the good GM’s have some knowledge of the football side of things - culture, recruitment, the relationship between the football club and the fan base etc. But the really good ones don’t enc...

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greeneyed wrote: ↑April 15, 2024, 9:27 am Schiller's defence really needs to improve. Scores two tries but gives up one isn't sustainable.

If you score more than you let in isn’t that a nett positive ?

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Dr Zaius wrote: ↑April 4, 2024, 5:13 pm
samvucago wrote:Look not gonna lie . 8 schooners in and I mighta stuffed up tryin to be impartial. I apologise . Play on.
Your mistake was not posting at the 6th schooner.

Hang in there team and wait til I get to 12. I’ve got a few things I want to get off my chest about this joint

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Look not gonna lie . 8 schooners in and I mighta stuffed up tryin to be impartial. I apologise . Play on.

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What even is a pro-Palestinian case. Not shrugging your shoulders when aid workers are hunted down and slaughtered when trying to deliver food to starving children? I ain’t touching that. You get labelled an anti-Semite or a terrorist sympathiser in these parts if you display any sympathy for eithe...

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What even is a pro-Palestinian case. Not shrugging your shoulders when aid workers are hunted down and slaughtered when trying to deliver food to starving children? I ain’t touching that. You get labelled an anti-Semite or a terrorist sympathiser in these parts if you display any sympathy for eithe...

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What even is a pro-Palestinian case. Not shrugging your shoulders when aid workers are hunted down and slaughtered when trying to deliver food to starving children? I ain’t touching that. You get labelled an anti-Semite or a terrorist sympathiser in these parts if you display any sympathy for eithe...

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David McWilliam’s (who should be president of planet earth) latest pod presents a pro Palestinian case for those trying to wade through the propaganda and discusses how this mess plays out. Great listen .

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Round 4 v Sharks Cam McInnes 6 Jack Williams 2 Blayke Brailey 2 Ronaldo Mulitalo 2 Canberra Raiders Dally M points after Round 4 Zac Hosking 8 Jamal Fogarty 5 Ethan Strange 4 Matt Timoko 4 Joseph Tapine 3 Morgan Smithies 2 Jordan Rapana 2 Dally M Leaderboard after Round 4 12 points Nicho Hynes (Sha...

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Corey Parker regularly fires off against an easy target, then after his had his stay he starts to counter with defensive claims that it’s nothing personal etc. Yet another rugby league media personality who never provides any real insight into the sport and instead just parrots and expands on what ...

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Johns isnt even the GOAT halfback :lol: Very sad to see RL tragic's who apparently never saw Cameron Smith play football :( Andrew John’s was the best player I have seen play and tbh for me it isn’t even particularly close. Easy the best half… honestly I don’t like the guy and I don’t like Newcastl...

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Dr Zaius wrote: ↑March 21, 2024, 5:51 am What's the story with Paul Keating?

Just another egotistical ex-PM trying to stay relevant. Paul Keating was a great treasurer in a good Hawke govt. Terrible PM, horrible human.

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I don't think anyone should be obligated to respect every opinion As an example if you tell me vaccines cause autism or the earth is flat or that 9/11 was an inside job and jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, I'm not going to give that opinion a single ounce of respect and I am going to think and pr...

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I don’t think any of these games will ever lose the physicality of the sport completely It’ll continue to get watered down where it feasible can be via rules that address it directly or indirectly via consequences (send offs/ sin bins / suspensions as examples) that then force a greater dedicated t...

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Sam Williams certainly tackled like a bloke who was concerned about head injury. I suspect over time the sport will continue to lose the physical aspects that make it what it is. This will result in a loss of Phil Gould style fans but a more accessible product that will grow in popularity and parti...

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Story time. In Japan, far right (and these guys are seriously faaaaar right) drive around in huge black vans, festooned with slogans and mounted with air raid siren size loud speakers. They set up at busy intersections, clamber up onto the roof and launch into the most stunning diatribes against, v...

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Who kicks off the 2024 Politics thread ?? She is gonna be an absolute circus this one. Strap yourself in for a US election, a couple of wars, the president of the QLD woke clique trying to be funny and disparaging at the same time, a few Greta’s and some neo-liberal accusations. Good luck to all tha...

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With the way the US is in terms of politics and how black and white it's become and continues to go, it often feels like that country is on a one way path to a second civil war and i see comments like that get thrown around a bit, probably mostly glibly Im curious if anyone thinks that actually rea...

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The Nickman wrote: ↑December 14, 2023, 10:02 am
-TW- wrote: ↑December 11, 2023, 6:33 pm Woke is a word **** go with when they don't like/can't understand a concept
Hahaha it really is, isn't it?

The term “woke” nicely encapsulates people with the terrible affliction of arrogance and stupidity that are trying to scream and shout their “concepts” into reality.

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greeneyed wrote: ↑November 27, 2023, 4:59 pm Andrew Johns' reputation owes a lot to the NSW media, desperate to find a player who was as good as Wally Lewis. He wasn't, but it was very much Origin fueled.

He was/is better than Lewis by lengths.

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Andrew Johns is nowhere near as good as he's made out to be in rugby league circles. He was a great player, but no better than Stuart or Langer or Thurston or (so I'm led to believe, I never really saw him play) Sterling. Andrew Johns is better than all of them. If it’s a table of 5 ; 1.Johns 2.Thu...

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lockyer and Thurston not good enough footballers to be immortal Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk Geez I hope you wake up tomorrow and remind yourself to not post on social media whilst drunk !! recency bias, lots of better players Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk Nope he is nearly the best ...

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Nathan Cleary will be an Immortal when he’s done !

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bonehead wrote: ↑November 26, 2023, 6:55 pm lockyer and Thurston not good enough footballers to be immortal

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

Geez I hope you wake up tomorrow and remind yourself to not post on social media whilst drunk !!

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Mickey_Raider wrote: ↑November 26, 2023, 11:10 am The Irish bloke (actually called the David McWilliams podcast ) is sensational.

I wish he was President of planet Earth

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Wasn't Bolsenaro the Trump of South America? Are they breeding or something? He's got better side burns than Trump Our Irish mates latest podcast once again delivers with a great narrative around why Argentina has ended up in the mess it finds itself in and how society’s turn to such people when th...

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Strange appointment . He lives in Newcastle!!

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Does the different colour Training shirts/bibs mean anything? Have always wondered if different colours mean higher levels? or just sorted in different teams. Does anyone know? Thanks Red often times means no contact if the player is able to train/run but has some sort of injury that lets everyone ...

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For podcast listeners with geopolitical interest. John Anderson (Former deputy PM in Howard govt) does really insightful chats and his latest episode with Niall Ferguson is a chat that paints a pretty grim picture if certain Countries continue on the paths they appear to be on now. Well worth a list...

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