Ivan reminds me of those creatures that was in Game of thrones.Tell ya what I’m enjoying this opening game so far …
Whitewalkers.
This Warriors v Knights game makes me even angrier about last week's refereeing performance! Two head high sin bins in the first 10 minutes 🤬
It's not the bad officiating that gets me angry. It's that the bad officiating invariably goes against us. Seriously, apart from the occasional trial game here and there, when do we ever walk away thinking we got the 50/50 calls?
Who’s sad to see Galvin go out of the Finals in straight games? 😂😂😂😂
Not I.
Galvin is clearly a 6, playing him at 7 ruined the Dogs season. Bringing back Sexton for the finals showed how badly Ciraldo stuffed up, when it came to the crunch sudden death he had to play his best team. The problem for the Dogs is they now have 2 6s and no 7. The Woods guy is another kid and whilst they are pumping his tyres there is no evidence that he is anywhere near ready or will be elite. So 2026 is another year of playing two 6s and mucking up their spine. The fact that Galvin had a couple of good touches will make them double down wit Galvin. The dogs had a seriously weak draw this year and then they faded hard when the draw got tough. If their opening 10 rounds next year brings a poor start they will absolutely be eating each other alive
Galvin is clearly a 6, playing him at 7 ruined the Dogs season. Bringing back Sexton for the finals showed how badly Ciraldo stuffed up, when it came to the crunch sudden death he had to play his best team. The problem for the Dogs is they now have 2 6s and no 7. The Woods guy is another kid and whilst they are pumping his tyres there is no evidence that he is anywhere near ready or will be elite. So 2026 is another year of playing two 6s and mucking up their spine. The fact that Galvin had a couple of good touches will make them double down wit Galvin. The dogs had a seriously weak draw this year and then they faded hard when the draw got tough. If their opening 10 rounds next year brings a poor start they will absolutely be eating each other alive
Agree. I rate Ciraldo as a coach, but the implosion of the Dogs is on him. Taking on Galvin and then persisting with him at 7 was an audacious play that he overestimated and couldn't make work. And then he got pig-headed about it. He's slipped a few rungs because of that. Gus doesn't like a bad look... so he'll need to make it work quick smart next season.
Stefano Utoikamanu says his move to the Storm has been the best call of his career, and he hopes to bring Fonua Pole with him:
“Fonua Pole is from [Melbourne], he has family here, and I’d love to see him come back.”
He also reflected on his Tigers exit:
“To see everyone trash me on the way out, the fans, and the media a bit, it was a shit way to go out.”
(via SMH)
go Bronx
I can't cheer for rhe architects of super league the vriabane broncos and the only team to be publicly listed
they failed against cowboys and penrith would love to see them fail again, haven't win a comp since 2006
hate melbourne too but not as much
I don’t have any Ill feeling towards Madge. Reynolds seems like a good guy. Mam seems like a flog.
Stefano has acted like a turnip the last couple of years
Congratulations to Michael “Madge” Maguire on another GF victory
Couldn’t be happier for Madge a well deserved win. And I can’t wait for the NRL media to eat some humble pie.
Happy for the fella - excellent coach who joined us at the wrong time and was nearly ruined. Fantastic resurrection from Madge
https://twitter.com/BradWalterSport/status/1974786042533462331
Yes, I’ll hop onboard and congratulate Madge & the whole Broncos club itself. Being the first club to do the double, NRL & NRLW Premierships is a very special achievement but let’s be fair dinkum that club should be doing what they’ve done on a pretty regular basis, winning a premiership every 5-10 years should be a minimum. They are, in the context of footy in this country, a Superpower. When they missed finals & got a wooden spoon it was very, very special for fans of other clubs because it was so rare for them. I doubt very much I will ever see them run last again so I knew then it was a special time. The Broncos NRL have contested 4 Grand Finals since the Wests Tigers only GF 20 years ago and the Broncos should be doing that. Madge, in my eyes, would’ve failed had he not at very least, made a prelim’ with that roster. He went a little better & won a Premiership, well done.
Was he really criticized that much? Any more than any other up-and-coming player who turns his back on a struggling team that gave him his first-grade break to join a top-of-the-table side? These comments and his stuck-up comments aren’t doing him any favours. He basically waited for his team to make the GF, had two very good games in a season where he underperformed in Origin and was generally pretty average for the Storm to start shooting his mouth off. I was beginning to think we might have been better off if he stayed, but now, after these comments, and his typical performance in the GF I’m convinced he did us a favour by leaving.Stefano Utoikamanu says his move to the Storm has been the best call of his career, and he hopes to bring Fonua Pole with him:
“Fonua Pole is from [Melbourne], he has family here, and I’d love to see him come back.”He also reflected on his Tigers exit:
“To see everyone trash me on the way out, the fans, and the media a bit, it was a shit way to go out.”
(via SMH)go Bronx
