Swagman wrote on May 25^th, 2012 at 8:33am:


The boy from Bowraville, my home town till 12 month ago, has never complained about playing for QLD. He was taken as a teenager from Macksville to brisbane before he played senior footy. By your theory Sterlo the boy from Toowomba should have been a QLD'er.

NSW still need to stop whinging and blaming others for their own stupidity like Jenkins sin bin, if they can they will win a series no problem. Oh that idiot of a coach will need to go too.

Ok.
You all know that I believe that the other half of a very successful Sharks 'centre' pairing that are also very successful away from the game ...should be the NSW Blues Coach.
Mark 'Sparkles/The Hammer' McGaw

I still have yet to see the recent game.
My prediction was a NSW win in a QLD won series again.
Ricky Stuart to blame the Refs as usual. He played Union where the 'rules' are rules ...unlike League, and he still can't adapt to Rugby League's 'stupidity' of rulings.
Under McGaw (runs the 'Scientific' Sports Academy with HEAPS of success), he would push the players to score tries 5 to 1 to nullify anything the Refs could 'blunder'. Its like going overseas (or to QLD to fight Mundine / team Fenech) to fight in Boxing and knowing you will need to knockout the opponent to win, not via the judges. Read Kostya's books and he'll tell ya straight about this mentality.

...so I wasn't far off in regards to the game.
Inglis scored - the ball was dislodged by a kick, he fell upon the ball again for a try.

Ricky Stuart teaches players to attack/blame the Referee and so Gallen did just that.
STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH fellas 

I also predicted this T-Rex dude to get sent off. Did this actually happen also? Was he the one sent off?

Although BIG (headswell) Mal is listed as the Greatest Aust Player, etc and belted an aged non-boxing Mark 'Jacko' Jackson (AFL) around the ring in a very anal match.
Mark McGaw is someone who always bettered Mal Meninga, as a Centre (thats when the blues began winning ) as a pair of fists and hopefully as a Coach.

I predict Mal to retire asap when news of Mark McGaw coming onto the scene let alone his lip to curl in anger at the sight of that 'sparkle' in Mark's eyes as he smiles at the QLD demise.

Ef-Off Stuart you little angry Ref biatching. Go hang out with Ian Roberts again. Maybe take a plane to Christchurch where I saw you because you couldn't cope with coaching the Sharks.

Farrah Played at the ball.

About 85% of the time this type of thing happens it is ruled as no try.

Looking at the point in the air where Slatter first touched the ball the reality is that it probably went forward, when you consider that his momentum was fwd and he landed on the line he had to have been a few feet before the line when he made contact and the ball landed closer to the try line. While you could not see this from the film it had to have been the case as it is the only way the ball could have landed where it did. Slatter clearly did not touch the ball and then drop at 90 degrees.

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on May 31^st, 2012 at 3:05pm:


the latter - the TRY.


In my view it was definatly the case and the correct interpritation is that it is a try however this is mitigated by the fact that it is only ruled this way about 15% of the time.

You often hear the commentators say things like no ball security or he didn't have control of the ball.

This is one of the more flexable areas where the refereeing decision is more related to the phase of the moon than anything which happened on the field.

THe probability is about 85% that this same incident would be ruled to be no try next time around so in that respect the referees were wrong.

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Jun 1^st, 2012 at 9:31pm:


I think you are missing the most important issue here. The ref made it clear by the decision that the NSw player played at the ball. This means quite clearly that the ball was live. He then made it clear that the Qld player did not play at the ball, so this is a rebound. The alternates in old rules before it was allowed to use a boot to defend the line would probably have been kicking in danger penalty try.

Well, the Blues managed to scrape a win. I guess they had to. Let's see how they go in Brisbane.

There was a lot of fumbling and dropping the ball, mainly from Queensland.

John Smith wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 10:36pm:


You should have been worried. The Blues had the lions share of the ball, field position and decisions but only just managed to scrape through on a piece of total arse when Haine dropped the ball and it hit his foot, other wise it was a QLD win on what could only have been seen as a very off night. The funny thing is QLD had the sin bin this time and dam near still won but NSW can always find something to whinge about.