NRL 2017

gallen v sbw -

I agree with you macca...it COULD be easy work for sbw. thats what i thought as soon as i saw gallens first few fights and stood next to him at a geale sparring session one day. he is too small for a HW....very short in stature. and he gasssed in his first few fights. however, his fitmess has improved as he got experience...but its against guys who arent boxers.

sbw gassed badly against botha, and they pulled a rort and shortened the fight to ten rds during the fight. he has been 8 rds with genuine heavyweights, albeit very average ones. but guys who have been around the block. sbw hasnt fought since 2015... is his body still able to handle boxing?

if he is in good health physically....sbw has too many advantages over gallen. id back him but id like to see him have one or two fights beforehand.

TIGER wrote: I can't take any rugby league player who turns to boxing seriously, they have turned boxing in to a farce....but it's entertainment so I hope SBW and Peptide Gal knock each other's brains out

You cant knock em for getting in there. and its not their fault they get more media and money than most full time pro fighters. although i see the frustration with that, as full time pro fighters with stacks more ability do the most.

Not enough brain damage incurred playing rugby league/union. Butter up for some more during the off-season.

maccamax wrote: Tlazolteotl wrote: Not enough brain damage incurred playing rugby league/union. Butter up for some more during the off-season. Tiaz.      The former Welterweight Champion of the World is a Politician. I'm trying to decide if that enhances your statement or is telling us Politicians are scatter brained. I'll settle for the latter with Turnbull in mind.

Who ever did the NRL draw should get down to OPSM

How on earth can you have teams playing each other twice in 3 weeks is beyond me

Tigers have bought really well.

their front row pairing of packer and matulino might be as good as any in the comp.

The game is a joke if Cronk is allowed to sign with them, scrap TPAs and bring in a draft again to make it a fair system, who cares what Terry Hill did years ago

The Rorters are a blight on the game and the NRL administration couldn't run a chook raffle,absolute decades behind the AFL

The NRL is a joke

Love the game but it's dying, the imbeciles running the game are destroying it

Roosters would be lucky to have 5,000 supporters, no juniors and outnumbered by Souths supporters in the local area but the NRL looks after them like no tomorrow

Tlazolteotl wrote: In the Sunday Terror there is an Easts salary roster with Cronk added to it on $1 million and they still make the cap. You will say the figures are bogus but the NRL know more than you and they accept them.

Its still possible they could be under the cap, because a large portion of easts player salaries could be made up of third party agreements. uncle nick would hsve lots of corporate associates and friends to call on.

but here's the thing....TPA's cannot be arranged or finnaced by the club. it must be done through the player manager or outside the club entity. now we know that rule is an absolute farce and totally laughable. that suggests player managers have the business nous, acumen and contacts to go out into tbe corporate world and sign up player sponsors for hundreds of thousands of dollars. yeah right. the clubs are up to their necks in arranging TPA's and everyone knows it.

secondly...until we know what every club spends on TPA's, any suggestion this is an even comp based on the nrl salary cap is also a farcical joke.


make the TPA's public!!! so we can find out which clubs have spent $12 million on their rosters and which clubs have spent $8 million.

Pearce boosters always point to his Grand Final win with Easts in 2013. Pearce has never impressed me much and I've seen him in loads of SOO games, unfortunately. Like all Pearce performances the 2013 GF has left no impression on my memory so I thought I'd check the player rankings from the famous Pearce highlight game to see if he did anything notable.

"7. Mitchell Pearce
Helped the Roosters control field position with a solid performance, albeit one in which he rarely threatened in attack. 7."

Yes that sounds like Pearce.  Interesting to note the rating for the halfback on the losing side.

"7. Daly Cherry-Evans
After a quiet first half Cherry-Evans got the Sea Eagles back into the contest, making a couple of line breaks at the start of the second term and rolling in the grubber kick that led to Jamie Lyon's penalty try. A great effort to win the Clive Churchill Medal in a losing side. 9."

http://www.nrl.com/nrl-grand-final-player-ratings/tabid/10874/newsid/74996/default.aspx

The Cronk/Pearce thing keeps on getting weirder. Now the talk is Pearce will go to Manly. WTF reason would Manly want Pearce? They have a better halfback already on big money. Is Pearce a top grade 5/8 and I've just never noticed it?

World Cup Game 1 and Australia beats England.

Jayne was playing the USA, let's not get carried away,Fiji threw the ball around and it was a training drill

Welcome cooper

What a joke our game is becoming, the NRL won't mind however keeps one of the 3 favorite clubs prominent in the Premiership race...