I don't see what point you're making, yes other teams do it, but our game last week was next level and the stats back it up. Like I said, I made comments about it at the time during the match thread and this was before stats were even released to back it up.Don't read stats! Storm are happy for a fast game if they are winning, when they are behind the 8 ball they intentionally slow everything down, wrestle and sap the momentum out of the opposing team and the refs do nothing. Remember they invented it!
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So, which is it? I'm confused.
Who do you think is a good coach in the nrl?I don't see what point you're making, yes other teams do it, but our game last week was next level and the stats back it up. Like I said, I made comments about it at the time during the match thread and this was before stats were even released to back it up.
I'm not being critical about us doing it or anything, I'm just sick of the "poor Bulldogs" mentality that is being developed around our club ATM. We're fucking shit, our coach is fucking shit, etc, yet so many people are clutching onto excuses left right and centre and trying to deflect everything.
We need to warn the refs about letting us take conversions where they should be taken just like other teams are allowed to.Annesley the pig should shut his mouth . And should stop having a threesome with burgess and Bennett . A bunch of scums .
I don't think he has analysed any of the contoversial calls we have had to date. Not that it matters because they don't do fuck all about it anyway. The board need to go to the nrl with a video of every bad call against us and ask for an explination for it always happening.We were slowing the ruck down. But that's what teams do when they're over matched and under the pump. And we got penalised for it.
But of course our play the ball speeds will be faster because Souths didn't want to hold down in the ruck as we were always struggling in our own half barely making 25 metres a set. So the faster we play the ball, the better for them and their line speed.
Annesleys analytics bullshit stats don't take into account the flow of the game and also he didn't mention the numerous penalties and video ref calls that went against us that changed the momentum of the game.
If your constantly being penalised for it then I actually think it balances out in the end. Souths had way more possession and won the game. We managed to hold on and lose by a respectable margin.I agree that we did it but no different then what Storm do when they are behind the 8 ball and never penalised for it. One rule for all and not just for some.
No, the Storm do it smarter as part of the tackle. We simply held them down after the tackle was made.I agree that we did it but no different then what Storm do when they are behind the 8 ball and never penalised for it. One rule for all and not just for some.
Exactly right. Sam Burgess and Sutton whinging while playing the ball slowly would slow the average down. Slow play the ball speed isn't solely caused by the defender. Quite often it's due to the attacking player taking too long to get up and play it.what about everytime a souths player looked up at the ref after being tackled and had a whinge before they played the ball , that easily took 1 to 3 seconds on its own .. is that being factored in ? or what about when there was dominant tackle or a surrender tackle ??
Stats can be used to mislead people just as much as they can be used to tell a story, or in some instances create a story ...
The point I'm making is that I'm not going to be too concerned about making sure our team is policed on issues when there is about 4-5 teams being obviously looked after by the NRL. If the game was squeaky clean I would be more self critical of our guys...…...I'm just not going to do it when there are plenty worse around. We did it, yes but Souths layed in the ruck longer too making the stupid individual times drag out. They were fukin pathetic as usual with old mate squish face whinging at every turn. As I've said, it's the Ref's job to call the penalty and set the tone...…..they didn't do it so our team played to the whistle. This is all on the refs for not doing their jobs. No use them coming out after the game making brave statements...……….maybe they should have dropped the refs for not following the rules in the first place? You need to stop kicking the team why they're down. there's plenty of others lining up for that.I don't see what point you're making, yes other teams do it, but our game last week was next level and the stats back it up. Like I said, I made comments about it at the time during the match thread and this was before stats were even released to back it up.
I'm not being critical about us doing it or anything, I'm just sick of the "poor Bulldogs" mentality that is being developed around our club ATM. We're fucking shit, our coach is fucking shit, etc, yet so many people are clutching onto excuses left right and centre and trying to deflect everything.