ESL still have fights - and damn good ones!!!

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[video=youtube;FZaMbT7icPY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZaMbT7icPY[/video]

Watch #9 toss in an uppercut about 20 seconds in!
 
They were both binned for this, though.

It's not like they just got on with it afterwards.
 
Ahh I miss football played by men, not metrosexuals with handbags.
 
Jack Wighton punched Sosaia Feki in Round 1. Was pretty similar to this. Guess the NRL still has fights too.
 
chris_e_fresh said:
I might start following super league NRL sucks
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Really? Honestly at least 1/3 of Super League games are so imbalanced as to be a foregone conclusion.

St Helens/Wigan/Warrington could likely drop their entire first 13 and still beat the likes of Wakefield. At least the top-to-bottom gap in the NRL is small enough to make all games at least competitive.
 
NRL is garbage now without the no punching rule.

Watch what is going to happen in origin, lots of niggle with no release.
 
Pom_81 said:
Really? Honestly at least 1/3 of Super League games are so imbalanced as to be a foregone conclusion.

St Helens/Wigan/Warrington could likely drop their entire first 13 and still beat the likes of Wakefield. At least the top-to-bottom gap in the NRL is small enough to make all games at least competitive.
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The "competitiveness" of the NRL is a fallacy in two ways.

1. Its not actually that competitive. Of 80 games so far this season, over half (42) have been decided by 10 points or more, and 15 (nearly 1 in 5) have ended with a difference of 20 points or more. Picking out Wakefield in particular in the ESL gives a skewed perspective as they are an absolute basket case at the moment. They will get dumped from ESL the moment a decent Div 1 team (Leigh Centurions perhaps) can put together a sufficient application for ESL status.

2. "Competitive" is actually relative to expectation. This is the area the NRL has dug a massive hole for itself. It has explicitly communicated a desire for a competition where all 16 teams are theoretically on equal ground. This has shaped club and fan expectations in a way that leads to a lot more disappointment. It has driven the game into a state where game play margins are slim and coaches feel massive pressure to micro-control. The ESL is frequently more entertaining than the wrestle-a-thon we see dished up every week over here. It reminds me more of Rugby League in the late 80s and 90s, when footy was genuinely fast paced. It annoys me no end when comms these days say "this is an incredibly fast-paced game". Go back and look at the old clips, tackling players rolled off their opponents so much quicker 15-20 years ago.
 
ASSASSIN said:
Ahh I miss football played by men, not metrosexuals with handbags.
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Yep, getting rid of the shoulder charge and biff made the game allot less entertaining. In the NHL they let them fight and look how popular that sport is.
 
People acting like before the no punching rule there were brawls every week lol. Get real. G Stewart v Adam Blair was one of the biggest in the last 10 years and that was a bunch of crappy haymakers and players jumping on each other.

I'd rather they stopped the WWE crap on the ground than remove the no-punching rule. A bit of fighting is okay, but it's not a big deal to me either way.
 
I miss real footy.
I don't care about the mums and impressionable kiddies. Footy is real life.
You put 26 guys on a field and ask the to tackle each other 300 times each in 80 mins, every now and then you're gonna come to blows.
 
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