Maximus Decimus
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21 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:
Uffff just seen the Wardle try again. Never ever ever a try.
I was surprised it went up as a try. There was defo a chance the ball touched the line, however I would say the Penrith example was more likely a try.
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6 minutes ago, Roy Haggerty said:
Look, I think that there were some hard decisions which went against Penrith consistently tonight: the Wardle try, the last minute try, the forward pass try, the ball steal, a couple of âknock onsâ at the ptb etc. But thatâs why home advantage matters: crowds donât shout for their own teamâs forward passes.
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If Penrith are honest though, theyâll need to look to themselves. They dominated territory, and looked stronger throughout, but they couldnât do anything with it. Butchered two certain tries with an easy drop and then trying to outrun Field instead of passing to support. And the kicking game to get repeat sets was non-existent.Â
ÂThey could and should have won even with the unfavourable decisions. The fact they didnât is on them, really Â
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As Bevan French himself said, Penrith controlled pretty much the whole game.
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6 minutes ago, Gates1 said:
I don't think so, the 2nd try was a clear forward pass, 3rd try was short and a double movement.Â
A ref not understanding the rules he is officiating to (with the ball steal) is pretty unforgivable incompetence tbh.
Wigan got the rub of the green no doubt about that. The two tries that went up to the VR were basically identical IMO. Both could've been given and both could've been chalked off.
However, a couple of hard to take decisions doesn't even get close to corruption. The last two penalties given to Penrith (interference and resetting the tackle count) weren't clear cut decisions and if they were given in reverse would be examples of favouritism.
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American Trilogy by Elvis.
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Only the RFL would take a look at Super Rugby Union and get ideas.Â
Like pretty much everyone else, I saw that last night and came away thinking there is no game if that is a red card. I had to watch it about 3 times to see where the infringement even was.
People will get annoyed and make exaggerated claims, but the reality is that it ruined the game as a contest for everybody there. In the long term that will be very damaging.
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17 hours ago, M j M said:
15,100 ish announced at headingley.
Surprised by that. Never liked that new stand facing the cameras, it looks terrible and often quite empty.
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On 09/02/2024 at 12:57, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Oh I have a long way to go as mine are 11 and 9 but it occurred to me that in 7 years one will (hopefully) be at uni then the otherÂ
Even before that the eldest is not going to be a 'child' for too much longerÂ
Then I realized that over half the 'job' is done on term of having non adult childrenÂ
There are a lot very old people on here who have probably been through this......so what is it like going back to not having little kids ?Â
Trying to appreciate every moment etc but it feels like a slog of gets kids ready for school, work, kids clubs after school, clean the kids and clean the house, sleep ....repeat for what seems like foreverÂ
Only now realizing it won't be like this forever and not really many years leftÂ
Anyway...just thinking out loud and wondered if anyone has any thoughtsÂ
Funny enough I had this thought the other day too.
Mine are 7 and 10, and I realised the days of taking them the park etc are nearly gone. Don't get me wrong, there have been times it's felt like a right chore but I'll miss it when it's gone.Â
I already had a mini-adjustment a couple of years ago. I'd spent so long looking after the kids, that I didn't know what to do with myself anymore when I had some free time. When they were able to go off and entertain themselves, I'd feel a bit listless and couldn't motivate myself to do anything.
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On 14/02/2024 at 11:17, Click said:
The game has evolved over the years to include more breaks for things like commercials.Â
I am not sure why I am not allowed to have an opinion on a game being a lot longer than it should be, just because you think it is how it is designed to be done.
I don't think it's about having an opinion, it's about the fact that you seem to genuinely misunderstand how the clock functions in the NFL, and how it is fundamentally different to British-based sports.
If they did away with all adverts the game would still probably be over 2 hours. That's because the clock isn't meant to be a continuous clock. There are times when it runs and times when it doesn't. This is on purpose and key to the tactics of the game. I actually enjoy it, especially when I've played NFL based video games. Clock management is incredibly important.
It would be a mistake to think this all because of adverts, and was in fact more to do about controlling time-wasting between plays.
Nobody on here is going to argue against the idea that it goes on too long, and ad breaks are frustrating but the idea that NFL is a 60-minute game dragged out to 3 hours misunderstands the purpose of the play-clock. For me it's about expectations, and when I went to the NFL it was almost no issue at all.Â
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On 14/02/2024 at 11:09, Gerrumonside ref said:
I think the cure for those who require constant action from the NFL is to watch NFL Redzone.
There are no advertising breaks, just hours of constant live action being cut together from the various early and then late games on a Sunday.
Itâs very well produced and can become very exciting when multiple games are close at the end.
I've said for a while if Soccer Saturday was like NFL Redzone, it'd be the most watched programme on TV. If one team was pressing for a winner, they could just go to the game and watch etc.
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19 hours ago, JonM said:
I'm in California - finding it a tough watch as a non fan, so many stoppages and adverts. Funny to think what an RL commentator would make of a game with so many penalties, dropped ball costing the first TD, scoreless first period and so on.
They are very different games and it certainly can be frustrating when defences are on top and there are very regular changes of possession. When a team is on a decent drive, it flows quite well.
Again, it's what you're used to. A lot of British fans will scoff at it, but don't have the same problem with a slow game like cricket. It's about expectations. If you're watching with people, it allows you to chat etc over a longer period of time and dip in and out.
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It certainly wasn't a classic but had a dramatic ending.
I managed to get to half-time before I had to go to bed. Up to that point the 49ers had dominated, but there was always the problem that they were only 7 points up.
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This is the biggest surprise since we found out Jimmy Saville was dodgy.
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11 hours ago, gingerjon said:
Not necessarily a way of looking at things I agree with but all US sports, and their fans and commentators, put a premium on how you perform in clutch/post-season games. A great regular season record is worth nothing if you don't consistently perform in the post-season. In baseball, you see this with players like Clayton Kershaw who are mocked despite regularly topping the regular season stats but just not being superhuman post-season.
You don't need to be a nutter - and Rodgers is a nutter - for that to happen.
Yeh, I kind of get this feeling.
I've always found it extremely flawed, but I can see how it appeals to sports fans. We like to think that the scoreboard always reflects the two teams, rather than including a great amount of individual instances. Just because a team lost a playoff game, doesn't mean they would have lost had they played the same game 10 times.Â
It's like in boxing. I often find fans treat a victory as proof that their fighter would win every time. Take Fury-Wilder 3. It doesn't suit his supporters to accept he might have lost that fight 20 times out of 100.
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I often use the phrase 'I can remember when YouTube didn't have ads and the content creators didn't get paid,' to show how old I am.
The ads per se aren't the problem for me, but the percentage of them that are basically scams. I find it a bit of a contradiction that YT will demonetise videos very easily (for saying the word holocaust too often for instance) but allows so many openly fraudulent advertisers.
It's usually scams about how to make loads of money, or for some reason I get bombarded with fake fitness gurus and obviously pretend YouTubers playing mobile games that are actually amazing!
I actually watched one all the way through today about a tiny heater that you put into your plug socket and heats the whole house for a fraction of your energy bills. I'm pretty sure that it made the claim that it creates more energy than it uses.
As for Temu (I'm shopping like a billionaire...), they bombarded me with this but I basically ignored it as a total fraud. I was surprised to find it was a thriving website.
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2 hours ago, Irish Saint said:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, it appears Aaron Rodgers, whoâs taken a grand total of four snaps as quarterback of the New York Jets, has lost his mind.Â
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This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPNâs The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), he sorta accused Jimmy Kimmel of associating with Jeffrey Epstein â exacting revenge against Kimmel for ragging on Rodgers and his public Covid vaccine skepticism in his late-night monologues. This latest outburst follows a string of recent kooky behavior, including receiving a homeopathic vaccine alternative as a way of âimmunizingâ (his words) himself against the virus, dabbling in 9/11 trutherism, going on McAfeeâs show every week behind the ugliest webcam setup you can possibly imagine and saying ridiculous ###### like âwoke mobâ and âAlphabet Mafiaâ on The Worldwide Leader in Sports, embarking on darkness retreats to help make major life decisions, and, worst of all, signing with the New York Jets. Didnât he see what happened to his mentor, Brett Favre?
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Once Aaron was, by all appearances, a nice man with a cannon for an arm. He had his hobbies. He was surprisingly good at Jeopardy! He was nice to people. He had famous girlfriends. Then a bunch of stuff happened in his life, and in the lives of everyone, and he lost the thread little by little, week after week.Â
Considering all this, his postseason achievements have been⊠slight. He won a single Super Bowl, in 2011, and then proceeded to ply his trade for disappointing Green Bay Packer squads of every shape and size. A 15-1 squad in the regular season, crucified by Eli Manning and the Giants. A loss to the demon Tom Brady, plying his trade for Tampa Bay. Ground into dust by a world-historic Seahawks pass defense. Over and over, Aaron would play like God, and over and over, the rotten Green Bay Packers would let him down. A defense that doesnât work, receivers who canât create, the worst running game youâve seen in your life. Disappointment, year after year, and it was never his fault. The Packers were just not up to the task of supporting the best quarterback whoâd ever lived.
Breakup.Â
A normal man getting divorced or breaking off an engagement fires up cigs like itâs the end of the world. Iâve seen it; itâs absolutely terrifying. One after another, three gigantic puffs and then dumped in the ashtray. Anything to seek one second of comfort while everything you had planned for your life slips away from you.Â
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Rodgers is an athlete though, so he canât do that. When he and Shailene Woodley broke off their engagement in 2022, he needed to find a less productive outlet for all that anxiety than smoking cigs. So, like many men before and after him, he got into drilling Internet into his head all night and talking about it with his friend on a podcast. Itâs just that he was Aaron Rodgers, and the podcast where he appears is now on ESPN. These are the woods of divorce: the light at the exit is always moving, the darkness just gets deeper and deeper.Â
Cheap, niche, and kind of stupid: the ESPN of the future is here, and it sucks. McAfee has allowed himself one major expense, though: he has paid Rodgers to come on his show every week and talk nonsense so that media guys like me will write about the inane he says on-air and gin up attention for McAfeeâs broke-dick discount-daily podcast-ass program.Â
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In a way, Rodgers losing it is ESPNâs fault. They give him a giant platform to wander around every week, he wanders dick-first into a bunch of swamps, ESPN and their lil afternoon show get attention, and everyone marches forth, confident in their ability to ever-so-slightly increase the amount of money they can extract from ESPN, thereby proving its usefulness in the broader Disney family of products and services.Â
I've never seen a better example of 2020s era journalism than this. Petty, ranty, bitchy and all about winning culture wars battles.
Aaron Rogers can't be a great player who became a conspiracy nut. Because he's a conspiracy nut who is also on the perceived wrong side of a number of issues, he also has to have actually been an awful player. We can't have it that he might actually be good in any walk of life.
I mean he led the Packers to a 15-1 season that then lost in the playoff game! Talk about rubbish.
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So the Bears are coming back to London.
Obviously, tickets aren't out for a while but I've got a mates 40th coming up and this would be a perfect gift.
Does anyone know of any tips for how to get tickets to a game even if you're willing to pay a bit more, like hospitality or part of a package deal? I don't fancy leaving it to the chance of being in a queue with a few hundred thousand people...
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During the tournament, I was sporadically looking up what people were saying on Twitter, especially in other countries.
For some reason, there was a constant meme amongst German fans about Peter Wright throwing a 130 from his kitchen.Â
I tried to look this up in English but can find nothing about it. Anyone know anything?
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1 hour ago, Damien said:
Sky milking the Littler gravy train. I do hope this works out well for Littler, and isnt too much too soon, and that he has all of the right support around him:
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It got to the point where they couldn't leave him out. It'll be much easier to sell tickets.Â
Other than Peter Wright it seems fine, although personally I don't like what they did to the Premier League a couple of years back.
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6 hours ago, hindle xiii said:
It's a bit early for me to articulate properly, but the victor and first time champion, is not being spoken about much.
Tbf he's been a bit more humble about it than he was in the earlier rounds.Â
Amongst regular darts fans, he's being spoken about and lauded for his achievements. However, had he played Rob Cross say, it'd have been watched by 1.2 millionish people. The 3.68 million figure was all about Luke Littler.
When the dust settles, he's achieved his dream and is probably the second most famous darts player in the country right now. I also think there was something in what he said. The age and ability of Littler opens up the very possibility of Taylor like dominance on the horizon. It's far from guaranteed and he might go the other way, but if he continues to develop there might be few opportunities for other players to win for a while.Â
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16 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
3.68m people watched last night according to Sky.
Absolutely incredible figure.Â
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3 hours ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
Itâs been a great story and story telling is the key in all walks of life.
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As a darts fan, I must say I've been surprised by the whole thing. I get that he's only 16 and how rare that is, but I'm not quite sure why this has resonated so much with the public. It's not like he looks 16, and is it so hard to believe that you could be exceptional at a sport like darts at 16? Darts fans know that it is (a 28 year old Luke Humphries is the 7th youngest major winner ever) but I'm didn't think the public would quite get that.
Darts is the real winner, especially when it comes to the World Championships in future. Millions more people than usual have discovered how exciting a game it can be to watch and play. There is something about the speed and the nerves when going for a double etc that make it exciting. They might not become diehards who watch every week, which I'm not tbh, but I'm sure when the Worlds comes around there'll be plenty of interest again especially if Littler is in the running.
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4-4. Some match this, real ebbs and flows.
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Most unsettled he's looked, hopefully last night he can stay in it before he gets going.
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31 minutes ago, Mumby Magic said:
His approach for finishes although not unique is different from the norm. Reminds me of when Whitlock joined the PDC. 140 on treble 18s last night.
He did one last night, I can't quite remember but he put himself on D10 in an unconventional way and it was insane.
He is the camerman's worst nightmare, they miss loads of his finishes.
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It certainly helped that the two games were great and looked lightning fast.
If you'd told me before they'd get 40k, I'd have thought that a tad disappointing but the way they went on made it seem like a huge success. It was infectious and I've no doubt it'll be bigger next year. It looked awesome and the lighting was such that the empty seats weren't crazy obvious.
We have a habit talking down achievements. The initial magic weekend comes to kind, which likewise was below expectations.