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    harry siejka

    Had no idea he was at the club either. I saw him play in the U20s Origin game out at Penrith the other year and he looked like a future superstar. Next thing I hear he's unable to hold down a place in Wakefield's side in Super League. No idea how his progress stunted as badly as it seemingly...
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    Cameron Smith touches ref

    Exactly this. Of course Smith shouldn't be suspended. Neither should JT have been, neither should Klemmer have been. I'm all for coming down like a ton of bricks on a player physically intimidating a ref, but there's a huge difference between bullying officials and the slightest touch to get...
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    What the Grub did

    I'm pleased someone said this. The tapback was horribly executed, but the crossfield kick was pretty shoddy before that.
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    Ashley Klein - Learn the rules

    Not complaining overall, as it was equal for both sides, but I've never seen a game with such godawful 10m measurements. Even within the same set, a defensive line might be taken back 8m on one tackle then 14m on the next. Completely inconsistent and clueless. Repeatedly - and equally for both...
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    Halves Lack Control

    I've said this myself. I can see him being excellent in that Jamie Lyon type role. Clearly he's got more pace than the obese pig-chaser now does, but while Lyon bounced in and out of the halves earlier in his career, Manly had the good sense to eventually settle him in the centres.
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    Our Goal Kicking will cost us a game or more

    If Paul Kent were my workmate, I would steal his lunch from the fridge every day and make sure I cracked one off into it before returning it.
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    Brawl at ESL Game

    Aaah, my beloved hometown of Huddersfield! Impressive work from Justin Carney. He gets hounded out of Castleford for banging his teammate's missus and as soon as he gets to Salford, he winds up in a punch up with his own fans. Stay classy, Justin.
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    Kennel Advertising MODS - PLEASE EXPLAIN

    Penrith started sending me what look almost like membership emails this year. I bought tickets via Ticketek last season for the Dogs' season opener at Penrith, but they have only now started spamming me. (Yes, I went again this year, but rolled up and bought a ticket on the day.)
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    There are 5 true Bulldogs juniors playing NRL this week but none for the Bulldogs

    If we banned people for making shit threads, the site would have no members.
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    Pritchard and Thompson scoring in Widnes-Hull FC

    Well worth watching the first minute of this at least. Frank's first try in England and then two to Thompson, the second of which is a pretty impressive putdown.
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    Stanley picked ahead of hollande?

    You want a minute? It's 50/50 if he'll make halftime...
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    The kennel needs to freshen up it's Logo?

    A 12 year old boy coming out to bat in a Test Match? An Iris and a Pea? Foran, Folau, Thurston, Brett Stewart all in Dogs jumpers?
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    What did anyone else think of Shaun Lane's performance tonight?

    Pretty sure FoxSports have struck again. Adam Elliott had "Next to no game time". Didn't he literally have no game time?!
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    What did anyone else think of Shaun Lane's performance tonight?

    Pretty sure FoxSports have struck again. Adam Elliott had "Next to no game time". Didn't he literally have no game time?!
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    Good News

    Triple M's information is about as likely to be correct as a fortune cookie or an average statement by Donald Trump. Literally 90% of their inside information turns out to be horsesh*t.
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    Early mail: Bulldogs vs Panthers

    Yup. Segayaro's clearly a solid player, but he always looks like a bloody Immortal against the Dogs.
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    Johns and Fletcher - James Graham Interview

    Nah - Buhrer's barely a First Grader. Isn't an automatic starter for Manly. Matty Johns played in winning Origin series and a World Cup.
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    Johns and Fletcher - James Graham Interview

    Plus all of that group sex with teenagers must be good for his stamina. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-05-07/matthew-johns-in-group-sex-scandal/1675926
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    Johns and Fletcher - James Graham Interview

    Not even close. Jamie Buhrer? Justin Poore? There's been some crappy crappy rep players. Matty was no legend, but was good enough to play for the Kangaroos.
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    Goal kickers

    It will. It killed the momentum in the Finals defeat to the Roosters last year. We'd likely have lost anyway, but we were just getting back into the grind and were throwing away points in a (then) close game by scoring in 4s when the Roosters were scoring in 6s. Utter spirit killer.
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    Goal kickers

    Nope. Chase Stanley is next in line. After that, God knows. Reynolds? Browne?! Worst in the comp by a distance when it comes to goalkicking options. Think back 2 years and we had Inu and Hodkinson - both much better than our current best.
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    Injuries

    Des is a troll when it comes to injuries. The Belmore trial game vs Storm was a classic. Graham gets smacked in the ribs, so he comes out second half on crutches with ice on his calf and Des claims it's a mild concussion. Hasler's taking the piss when it comes to admitting injuries.
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    Humble Pie Thread

    FoxSports thought Shaun Lane went ok off the bench tonight. A solid 5/10. WH He ended last year in superb form - didn't he get MoM in three games in a row late last season?
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    What did anyone else think of Shaun Lane's performance tonight?

    That was bloody funny. Channel Nine investing in some "official stats" which Fatty and Gus ripped savagely, suggesting whoever came up with the algorithm must have been on the turps. Tom Trbojevic was probably Manly's best, yet ranked dead last in the whole game plus Sam Perrett played twice and...
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    What did anyone else think of Shaun Lane's performance tonight?

    FoxSports through he went ok. A solid 5/10. Any other views?
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    Humble Pie Thread

    The Bulldogs barely put a foot wrong, but also did nothing that made you say "Wow". It was routine stuff, but that was comfortably good enough when DCE can't find touch from a penalty and two easy in-goal grubber cleanups get missed for simple tries.
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    Fox Sports Vs Channel 9

    Really surprised at myself. I watched the first half of yesterday's Parra game on Fox and then switched to the second on Nine and preferred it. Watched all tonight's on Nine. I'll probably stick with Nine unless they're on delay, in which case I'll be bloody grateful for Fox. (HD's irrelevant...
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    Humble Pie Thread

    My views (from Big League magazine on Twitter):
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    2016 NRL SuperCoach & NRL Fantasy Thread

    Cannot get Supercoach to recognise 376242. Is it already full?
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    Kennel Upgrade

    The Kennel down? Looks like Pornhub will get a spike in viewers for a few days.
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    Season Tickets

    Same here
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    MOSES Mbye has secured the richest rookie contract in NRL history

    The simple answer is that nobody has a bloody clue whether his contract is good or bad value for the club as NRL contracts are not public, so even if it is the $750k (or whatever) that's reported, the only part that matters from the club's viewpoint is how much of that is guaranteed directly...
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    James Graham now a father

    If it were a boy born with Graham's genes, it would probably come out with a week's stubble on its face and be yelling at Mitch Brown for his brainsnaps.
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    Thompson to Widnes

    Hat-trick for Corey Thompson against Leeds yesterday: http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/35536012 (Still on the wing, not at full back)
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    Commission runs at $18M loss - tells the Clubs to start turning a profit

    This whole thing is nonsense. Yes, the commission ran a "loss", but that was after banking a massive future fund (currently $52.8 million) for future growth of the game. If they can only lose $18m, banking that much and dealing with the fallout of Nathan Tinkler's ego-driven f*ckup in...
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    James Graham now a father

    From tonight's All Stars game:
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    Season Tickets

    Just the temporary card that came with the membership kit. Not got the real thing yet.
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    Famous Doggies fans

    Isn't Tim Cahill a Dogs fan?
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    NRL premiership or bust for Dogs: Lamb

    Dammit. That was my first thought reading this thread. You beat me to it.
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    Who have you actually met from The Kennel??

    Sorry, mate. You probably wish you hadn't met me...
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    They turned KE into a search engine

    Annoyingly, I can't get it to get a good freezeframe on the infamous "Boink slut" diary from My Fair Laddy.
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    Damian cook

    Stop providing balance and perspective. Just blame T-Rex and Perrett's defending and get on with being a Kenneler.
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    Frank Pritchard

    http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=AUD 1.85m GBP is about 3.8m AUD right now.
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    2nd Super League player suspended after sleeping with teammate's missus this year

    "Tried to". Could be anything from getting the number of a girl he thought was 16, who turned out to be only 15 and pestering her right down to grooming someone he knew was way underage. No details yet.
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    2nd Super League player suspended after sleeping with teammate's missus this year

    Holy crap. At least Justin Carney and Brett Ferres were only accused of rooting a teammate's wife. Other Super League players have been accused of far worse, it seems... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-35487178 A Hull Kingston Rovers player has been charged with child sex offences...
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    Betting chat : Why does this sound too good to be true ?

    My accounts with most major bookies have been stopped from being eligible for any bonus bets. I would only bet when their bonus bets skewed things in my favour and so was running at a longterm profit. Their solution? Invoke the "professional gambler" clause and make the account ineligible for...
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    Player Profiles are up

    T-Rex: If you weren’t playing league, what would you be doing? If I was not playing league right now I would be playing soccer with Lionel Messi.
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    Hasler's magic touch

    That's been true for years, sadly.
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    Supporters Survey

    I presume the want to know about The Bulldog Belmore. I really hope this survey was set up by some 15 year old intern on work experience. If they paid some consultant to write that crap, I hope they refuse to pay for the job done.
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    Supporters Survey

    Did anyone else get emailed a link to a supporters/members survey by the club? The questionnaire is hilariously shit. it won't even let you progress unless you choose one option, even though the answer for many questions is "none of the above". Not sure who the club is paying to write...
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Yup. Exactly this. If I want a Bulldogs hat, they have a perfectly good teamstore selling better hats than the membership freebies.
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Hasn't been a bag for a few years, unless you paid a small surcharge for "premium" membership. I think they had backpacks up to 2011, then some mini insulated cool bag in 2012 and then nothing since then.
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    Morris twins assist Lafai's Red V switch

    Yes, it was pretty much the moment at which they may as well have admitted that the send off was dead. If that's not a dismissal, nothing is. (Then they managed to send Dave Shillington off later in the year for a very minor headbutt - far less dangerous to an opponent than Frizell's shot.)
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    100% genuine celebrity endorsement - Jamie Soward

    Jeez - doesn't Soward really sell how enthusiastic he is about the product he's endorsing?
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    Morris twins assist Lafai's Red V switch

    Was he? He was the one who almost decapitated Tim Browne with a swinging straight arm uppercut.
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    Survey of 2016!

    Isn't that a waste of your snog? Kinda take it for granted that you'll get plenty of that after the marriage.
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    Craig Fosters

    Exactly this.
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    Roberts deal improves Broncos salary cap

    Transparency would help a hell of a lot, wouldn't you agree? Even if a club sponsor came out and said "yes, we're giving this player a free house in exchange for smiling for a couple of photos", at least that would be a clear statement of what had happened. It would also stop some rumours when...
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    Roberts deal improves Broncos salary cap

    Exactly. I don't seriously believe 99% of these stupid rumours of various clubs cheating the cap, but they spring up because of the utter lack of transparency. You look at any major US sport and the exact amount charged to the cap each year for each player is public knowledge. No reason not to...
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    Roberts deal improves Broncos salary cap

    Yeah - I have no objection to the Third Party Agreements system. It's better that than stopping players from earning what they're worth commercially simply because some clubs can't be bothered to market properly. That said, it does rely on the league doing what it can to avoid obvious...
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    Roberts deal improves Broncos salary cap

    Yup. Sad, but completely true.
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    James Graham now a father

    Surprised I've not seen this on The Kennel so far (unless I've missed it) but announced yesterday on Twitter. Presumably legit, as retweeted by Raelene Castle. No news on a name (or sex of the baby) as far as I can tell.
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    Roberts deal improves Broncos salary cap

    It's not necessarily a salary cap cheat. It's more likely the simple consequence of having one team in a Rugby League mad city of over 2 million people. Each Sydney team competes with 8 other Sydney teams for third party deals. The Broncos have a monopoly locally. The sooner there's more teams...
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    Canterbury Bulldogs 2016 NRL season preview

    It means about as much as Barba having a "whimsical" season in 2012. Pretty shoddy writing.
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Ah, ok. It's not really comparing like with like, though. Those Manchester United ones in the link were 32 quid (about $65) just for pens and keyrings. Bloody nice pens and keyrings compared to the NRL membership crap, but I'd guess with cheapest Bulldogs season tickets at $130, maybe $10 of...
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Those are nothing to do with season tickets. Those are simply extra packs that they sell separately to season tickets. It's basically a set of merchandise you can buy as a unit from the clubshop. Note the season ticket link on that page - no mention of any membership pack. If you look at the...
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Cheapest Season ticket 2015-16 at every Premier League club. None even close to 90 quid. Arsenal £1,014.00 Aston Villa £335.00 Bournemouth £550.00 Chelsea £750.00 Crystal Palace £420.00 Everton £444.00 Leicester City £365.00 Liverpool £710.00 Manchester City £299.00 Manchester United...
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Your mate is spectacularly full of shit. a) There's no such things as club memberships in English sports as such. They do, however sell season tickets. b) Season tickets are just that. No membership kit, no hat, no keyring. All you get is a ticket to every game (and maybe a small discount at a...
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    Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion (Warning...Spoilers)

    How many times can they rely on the "surprise parents" trick? It's bordering on being an intergalactic episode of Jerry Springer.
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    Chelsea FC relegatiion watch 2015/2016

    Not true at all. Neither team has been relegated in the Premier League (i.e. post 1992) era, but both teams have been relegated in the past. Chelsea were last in the lower leagues in the late 1980s. Arsenal were last outside the top level in 1915.
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    Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion (Warning...Spoilers)

    Nothing against Finn, but if that guy's meant to be the charismatic replacement for Han Solo, the trilogy is doomed. There's nothing wrong with him as a character, but he certainly doesn't add any of the non-nerdy everyman charm that Harrison Ford brings.
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Mine arrived yesterday.
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    Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion (Warning...Spoilers)

    Ah, ok. Not sure how I missed that... Not sure how they'll get another charismatic hero in there without it feeling like just copying Han, though.
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    Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion (Warning...Spoilers)

    I thought it was damn good, but I do fear this trilogy going in the opposite direction to the prequels. Clearly Episode 1 < Episode 2 < Episode 3. One thing that the prequels lacked was any non-nerdy charisma. Having Han Solo back almost single-handedly dragged Episode 7 miles above the shoddy...
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    2016 Membership Packs

    Nope. Got nothing yet.
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    Foxsports will be showing every game LIVE from next year

    Does mean that is Gus and Rabs get into over-hype mode (SBW's "inner voice" or some other complete toss) there's always an alternative. Very pleased about this.
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    Foxsports will be showing every game LIVE from next year

    Same as with the AFL deal. Nine still has some games, but they'll also simultaneously be on Fox live.
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    2014 Grand Final

    Same here. Not even seen a minute of that game since leaving the stadium that day. A good friend of mine (a Parra fan, no less) described the Nine pre-game coverage as hideously one-sided. The idea of Gus fapping over those bell-ringing bell ends would bring back far too much bitterness. I'm...
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    Origin of your Kennel name

    Been through this before in another thread. Have a bloody guess, Sherlock.
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    Manly On The Hunt For Cordner And Klemmer (RLW Article)

    Journalist/professional internet troll Rothfield said on Twitter last night that Manly were looking at bringing in a Test forward by 2017. Someone replied saying "I'm hearing it's Klemmer" and he shot them down with a simple "No."
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    2nd Super League player suspended after sleeping with teammate's missus this year

    First ex-Rooster Justin Carney and now Brett Ferres http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6756590/Rugby-league-star-Brett-Ferres-caught-cheating.html ENGLAND rugby league ace Brett Ferres was filmed bedding the wife of his club team-mate and best man by his own missus. Devastated...
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    Mortimer anoints Moses Mbye as club's new No.7

    In fairness to Turvey, this is less insane than last year's equivalent thread: http://www.thekennel.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=108566
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    Loko charged with drug possession

    Really pleased to see this reported in the article I saw as "Former NRL player" not "Bulldogs player". Good f'ing riddance.
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    Simpsons Question

    Can't easily answer greatest episode. Most absurd episode, simply contrived around one joke: A Fish Called Selma. They clearly only wrote one around Troy McClure's fish fetishism so they could have the exchange: "I thought you said he was dead?" "No, I said he sleeps with the fishes."
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    Hypothetical - Scrap the cap bring in a points system

    A thousand times worse than the current system. i) Way more complex than a simple salary cap ii) Given the paranoid accusations about clubs with deep pockets, this would only lead to suggestions that certain clubs had "lent" on whoever judged the points system iii) How do you judge players...
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    Things That Annoy You...

    Promising a 2 year old that he can have a balloon if he goes to Bunnings and then the cheap bastards run out.
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    Things That Annoy You...

    I love that clip. Whenever my wife is being a nagger, I accuse her of being a Wheel of Fortune answer. Cracks me up every time.
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    Things That Annoy You...

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    NRL Rookie

    Who cares? The world over, these shows are utter cowshit. You can do these in singing etc because the amount of people capable of singing a pop song (given a decent songwriter and top level production) is pretty high. Not everyone can do it, but a large minority of the population can. Being an...
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    Dudes... (and lesbians)

    You make a very adulterous point.
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    Dudes... (and lesbians)

    We all feel your pain, buddy. We do.
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    What Would You Do

    Simple. Next time walk over and piss on his hands. See if he washes them then.
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    What Would You Do

    This is maybe the greatest line of poetry ever written on The Kennel.
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    For sale: Best unsigned 16 NRL players ahead of season 2016

    He can also kick the shit out of his missus, spit in her face and send naked photos of her to all her friends and family. Classy man.
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    For sale: Best unsigned 16 NRL players ahead of season 2016

    Cheyse Blair got a contract, so there clearly is a market for comedy defensive liabilities.
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    Jacob Loko’s career in tatters after being arrested for ecstasy possession

    (Reposted from an older thread) BOOM! So who do I collect my fiver from?
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    Tim Sheens gone as oz coach

    And surely Chris Lawrence has seen his last rep jumper.
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