MZH
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NRL Round 1 Match Thread Round - Part 2
MZH replied to Graham's topic in The Australian Rugby League Forum
Kamikamica bombs a try that probably would have won the game for Melbourne. -
NRL Round 1 Match Thread Round - Part 2
MZH replied to Graham's topic in The Australian Rugby League Forum
Poor from Meaney. The grass is very greasy. If he just dives low and early there was no chance of stopping him. -
NRL Round 1 Match Thread Round - Part 2
MZH replied to Graham's topic in The Australian Rugby League Forum
Errors are getting silly now. It does look very greasy tbf, but I don't think anyone has completed a set for about 10 minutes. -
NRL Round 1 Match Thread Round - Part 2
MZH replied to Graham's topic in The Australian Rugby League Forum
Error strewn. The speed and intensity as always is very good, but both teams have lacked quality so far. -
I'll take your word for it, I was 6 at the time.
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Too young to remember that, although the game I mentioned was at the Boulevard, not at your place.
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I couldn't even celebrate the winning try, because there was really nothing to celebrate. Individually there were some pretty good performances. Staveley looks a good un, Jack Brown and Ashworth gave us decent go forward, and the half backs both played pretty well even if it was mostly off the cuff stuff that looked the most dangerous. But overall it was another fairly grim display. The amount of basic errors we make is awful, and we were really flat and low on energy all game. London would have fully deserved the points had they got it over the line. I'm really not looking forward to Catalans next week (although it would be a very Hull thing to go over there and win after being utterly useless for tbe first 3 games).
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Hull FC, first game (at least that I can remember) was 1997 against Huddersfield, the season we got promoted.
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2 games or 22 games, we've got 14 players unavailable at the minute for one reason or another.
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Joe Bullock and Matty Russell have both joined Hull on a short term loan. Makes sense given how many players are unavailable at the minute. Especially the Russell one since the youngsters we have in the backs who are capable of playing SL have already been deployed and we don't really have anything else. I don't really like loan players taking chances away from academy players but we really are bare bones at the minute and will be for another couple of weeks yet.
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For me there were 3 contentious calls in the game. Some people have said about forward passes in the Leeming try, but to me they were the sort of passes you see 20+ times a game. They were borderline but you see passes like that allowed all the time. So that leaves the ball steal, the Wardle try and the Penrith disallowed try. The ball steal was obviously the wrong decision, and to me, the disallowed try was obviously the right decision. It didn't look like a try in real time, and not of the replays suggested the ball had got to the ground. I'm surprised how many people think it should have been given. The Wardle try is the big one. I don't think it was a try. However, I also don't think it's such a horrible call as some are making out. I do think the ball got to the line. They showed an angle afterwards (that I don't think the video ref saw) from the opposite corner flag which looked to show the ball on the line. The ref also got in for a close look and gave it on the field, which suggests he saw the ball on the line. I would have disallowed it for a double movement, because there's no doubt he was short initially and then there was a lot of wrestling and then it got to the line. But even that isn't an easy call to make, because there's nothing to say that Wardle promoted the ball. The Penrith players were pulling on the ball and wrestling and Wardle is doing the same. So is that double movement? If you showed me the video for the first time and said is that a try I would say no. But I don't think it's the shocker of a decision that many are making it out to be.