The NRL Round 13 Thread

[Graham]

Still 25 minutes left

[Graham]

Mitch Moses on the short side a dummy and then presents Simmonson a try in the corner on the right.

28-10 Eels

Moses magic in that one.

He’s the star of this Eels performance.

 

[Graham]

King Gutho has had a good game too.

 

[Graham]

Atkinson off the back of a penalty. Scores a try. Gutho almost held him up.

[Graham]

28-14 

goal from Trindall

28-16 Eels

[Graham]

17 minutes left.

Sharks give themselves a chance.

[Graham]

Sharks right back in this.

Try on the right. 
Goal

28-22 Eels

13 minutes left

[Sports Prophet]

Sad to say it, but the Sharks are pretenders. Not good enough to win a premiership by any stretch.

[Graham]

Latest

34-22

Simmonson gets another try.

 

Hang on put down being checked.

Possession lost short.

No try

 

Edited May 30, 2024 by Graham

[Graham]

Just three minutes left.

Not a bad game this. 
Very few errors. Lots of adventurous play.

Sharks nothing like the team that’s seen them sitting at the top of the league for weeks.

 

[Graham]

FULL TIME

PARRAMATTA EELS 34 - 22 CRONULLA SHARKS

[Graham]

Moses and Gutherson make such a difference to this Eels side.

Neither of them looked rusty after their injury lay offs.

[Graham]

The Sharks doubters look to be right.

[Anita Bath]

Champs come from those teams who can survive origin period.

[Graham]

Next up then, Knights v Bulldogs

[Graham]

Newcastle have won their last four matches, going into this game in good form.
For Canterbury Bulldogs, they have had to severely shuffle their resources for this game and with them lacking consistency, it would not be a surprise to see them fall short in this one.

[DavidM]

Decent game that . Moses looking good on his return , the Red Sea parts for him to stride through and he commands that team around , which prophets from his presence 

[Futtocks]

Back online in time for the end of extra time in Dolphins v Canberra.

Sent to Golden Point by Rapana's first-ever drop goal and won by his second!

Hell of a game all around.

[Graham]

Some right results in this unpredictable (for me) round.

[Anita Bath]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

Back online in time for the end of extra time in Dolphins v Canberra.

Sent to Golden Point by Rapana's first-ever drop goal and won by his second!

Hell of a game all around.

The ‘winning’ drop goal was tipped. Things no longer going the dolphins way.

[Graham]

Looking to the Sunday game…

There will be plenty of top players missing in this game owing to State of Origin, but both Sydney Roosters and North Queensland Cowboys can still call upon some real quality for this matchup.
The Chooks seem to be better suited to deal with their absentees and having looked the part with the ball in recent games.

The Cowboys have had defensive issues lately so this should be a comfortable home success for Roosters…

Having said that tipping matches in this round has been tricky to say the least. 

 

Edited June 1, 2024 by Graham

[DavidM]

Tremendous games today  , especially the first one 

[Farmduck]

[Farmduck]

I didn't realise this site was down. I was already having trouble getting on to this site so when I started getting the "Upgrade" msg I just assumed it was chapter next of my log-on problems.

I think the Chooks should do this comfortably.

[Farmduck]

I think the ref might have cost the Dolphins the game yesterday with one of his drop goal rulings. Did he rule that the first Dolphins goal was No Goal because it was touched in flight? I'm sure that rule was changed a few years back. In fact:

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A drop goal shall be awarded notwithstanding that the ball touches or has been touched in flight by an opposing player.

https://www.rugby-league.com/governance/rules-and-regulations/laws-of-the-game

Then later the ref must have been reminded by the bunker because he allowed a Raiders' drop goal which was touched.