2019 NRL Finals - Week 1 - Match thread

[Farmduck]

 

[Copa]

Easts v roosters semi final?

[Lounge Room Lizard]

Well done Canberra and deserved. Storm just didnt look on tonight and made too many errors and struggled to match Canberra at times. Sezer had a great game for me. The match officials again made some very poor decisions. Croker should have been in the bin. The PTB was a joke with both teams often moving away from the mark and as for the Touchie at the end, the less said the better!

[Sports Prophet]

11 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

Vunivalu takes the short kickoff but touch judge rules his hand touched the line - which it didn't. ?@?#?$?%?^?%?$?#?@

That were diabolical! I can’t spake!

[Copa]

6 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

Well deserved win for Canberra and to think there were ‘experts” laughing at them being contenders this year.

They’ve won two from two in Melbourne...

[Sports Prophet]

1 minute ago, Lounge Room Lizard said:

Well done Canberra and deserved. Storm just didnt look on tonight and made too many errors and struggled to match Canberra at times. Sezer had a great game for me. The match officials again made some very poor decisions. Croker should have been in the bin. The PTB was a joke with both teams often moving away from the mark and as for the Touchie at the end, the less said the better!

Give over LRL, the officials could have called that, but then again, they could have called many more penalties on Storm for holding down.

Storm lost, don’t bring officials into the discussion.

[Farmduck]

3 minutes ago, Copa said:

Easts v roosters semi final?

That would be a bit one-sided.

[jacksy]

Wow Raiders 80m from the GF.

[Farmduck]

I hope someone took a photo of this "piece of pyrotechnic shell" from Leilua's eye.

[Lounge Room Lizard]

Just now, Sports Prophet said:

Give over LRL, the officials could have called that, but then again, they could have called many more penalties on Storm for holding down.

Storm lost, don’t bring officials into the discussion.

Why not? Croker did a Professional Foul and should have had 10 and the Touchie made up a decision. We all make mistakes but both of them are instances of incompetence. This is hardly the first game this year where the Match Officials have been incompetant.

Storm lost because they played poorly and created little. Tae away NAS and the forwards didnt do much to create a platform.

[jacksy]

Bellamy will destroy that touchies life.

[Farmduck]

8min: Api Koroisau try under the posts.  Reuben Garrick converts  6 - 0

[Farmduck]

11min: Moses Suli scores for the C-Beagles off a DCE pass. Garrick converts.  12 - 0

[Sports Prophet]

This game is over already. Sharks won’t come back from this. History tells us so.

maybe it’s Johnson the Sharks should be offloading for the noodle

[Sports Prophet]

I can’t watch anymore of this. 

Gonna find something else to do

[Farmduck]

18min: Spiderman's brother, Brad Parker, maybe got a try. Sent to cavern as TRY but .......... did he knock it on? ...... since it was sent up as try, insufficient evidence to overrule.  TRY.

Garrick kicks it.  Manly 18 - 0

[Copa]

23 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

That would be a bit one-sided.

I’m too excited to make any sense!

[Jeff Stein]

Do Manly have players out through injury?  I can't be sure from the commentary 

[Farmduck]

25min:  Bronson Xerri try for the Fish. Shaun Johnson misses the kick.  Sharks  4 - 18

[Farmduck]

Just now, Jeff Stein said:

Do Manly have players out through injury?  I can't be sure from the commentary 

Taupau suspended, Tom Turbo injured, Sironen and Joel Thompson injured,

[Copa]

He practically in the river near the stadium. Out by miles!

 

[Farmduck]

 

HT:   Manly  18    Sharks  4

[Farmduck]

45min: Aaron Gray try for Sharks in a rare NRL appearance. Subbing for Ronaldo Mutilator who is out suspended.

Johnson converts.  Sharks  10 - 18

[Farmduck]

52min: Fonua Blake try. Garrick converts.  Manly  24 - 10

[Davo5]

Plenty of average defence on show for the Sharks tonight.