NRL Round 24 Thread

[MZH]

Parramatta are an odd team. They look great one week and woeful the next. This is definitely the latter. If Brisbane don't put 50 on them I'd be surprised.

[Futtocks]

Mam makes it 34 points for Brisbane.

[MZH]

Scoring at will now. Parra don't want to know. The final score could be anything.

[Futtocks]

Walters scores for the Broncos - not the first time that sentence has been heard.

He did have to wrestle Ezra Mam for the touchdown, though.

Edited August 11, 2023 by Futtocks

[MZH]

Spineless from the Eels. Two tedious games today.

[Futtocks]

10 minutes ago, MZH said:

Parramatta are an odd team. They look great one week and woeful the next. This is definitely the latter. If Brisbane don't put 50 on them I'd be surprised.

I think you can now change "surprised" to "flabbergasted".

42:0

[Futtocks]

Just now, MZH said:

Spineless from the Eels. Two tedious games today.

Even though the Eels fell apart after 20 minutes, the Broncos have been good to watch.

[Futtocks]

And suddenly the Eels improvise a nice passage of play that sees Russell score out wide.

[MZH]

15 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Even though the Eels fell apart after 20 minutes, the Broncos have been good to watch.

They've played some good rugby, but it doesn't really count when the opposition is so poor. League 1 teams can look great when they aren't been met with any resistance.

[Futtocks]

The wonderfully-named Tyson Smoothy takes Brisbane to 46 points with ktc.

[Futtocks]

Bit late for a comeback, but Brown starts and finishes a try-scoring move.

[Futtocks]

Walsh scores under the sticks, giving Reynolds a chance to kick his thousandth goal, which he does for 54:10.

[Futtocks]

7 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Walsh scores under the sticks, giving Reynolds a chance to kick his thousandth goal, which he does for 54:10.

And that's the final score.

[DavidM]

Brisbane are a serious contender . Theyre good to watch

[Farmduck]

     

[Farmduck]

I don't know why this game is in Cairns. I know the FIFA thing is on but they don't have many matches left so they wouldn't be using every stadium in Sydney. As well, Souths played St George in Wollongong earlier this year so if there was some FIFA interruption why not swap this game with that Wollongong game? Why not play this game at Parra Stadium, since the Parracites were out of town?

[Farmduck]

Late change for Souffs - Jed Cartwright out in the warmup with back spasms.

[Farmduck]

So, they played at Kogarah, not Wollongong, earlier this year. I thought Netstrata was the 'Gong.

[Farmduck]

10m: the inevitable Alex Johnston try

Latrell goal from out wide on a windy day in Cairns

6 - 0

[Farmduck]

Isaiah Tass crosses but ref had already called forward pass.

[Farmduck]

St George kick the line dropout 10m over the sideline.

Latrell kicks the penalty

Souths 8 - 0

I wish Blake Lawrie (and Jayden Hunt) would shave off the beards. I keep wondering why St George have signed Ramzan Kadyrov.

Now Souths fail to field the restart and from the resulting scrum Ravalawa try in the corner

[Farmduck]

Hunt missed the goal from out wide.

St George 4 - 8

[Farmduck]

13 mins left to HT and St George look dreadful. Players having to reach for passes. Ball going from dummy half to props in attacking situations. Ben Hunt's worst kicking day since ever.

[Farmduck]

HT:  Souths 8  St George 4

 

A promising candidate for Worst Half of NRL this year.

[Farmduck]

FT:  Souths  26  St George 14