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rugbyreddog wrote:The more that this year progresses the more I believe that the decision not to have relegation was a stroke of pure genius.
so true, its just a shame they couldn't make the playoffs any bigger... say, the top 14 teams qualify for the end of season playoffs? That would suit us.
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Injuries are part of RL life, and in our case, we are used to having major players out for major periods. Here we go again.
We will crack on, as we have been doing these past couple of years, and not whinge about it. Not that any of our NT fans will care - they never considered our 2008 league finish in the context of just who was out for what periods of time so doubt they'll start now. Morro's loss for 3 months is a HUGE blow, but not one that will cut any ice in NT quarters. No doubt they will argue that we should have had a Morro clone in the stiffs for just this eventuality.
I entirely agree every long term injury, to a succession of key players, is McNamara's fault, and indeed it was him that caused it, he flew out off the bench and tackled Morro across the knees when he wasn't expecting it.
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At least Solo will be back at some point soon, thats almost like for like, we will be swapping a hard-working non-stop 80 minutes ball handling multi talented hard as nails second row for....er....Solomona.
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Adeybull wrote:Its all Macca's fault of course, and he'll have to go now...
You may have a point here Macca has made us reliant on old injury prone antipodeans like Morrison and Menzies. Morrison often gets medium length injuries this is no surprise, MacBanana should have expected it.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:I entirely agree every long term injury, to a succession of key players, is McNamara's fault, and indeed it was him that caused it, he flew out off the bench and tackled Morro across the knees when he wasn't expecting it.
Also the fact that Morro must be running around with his wrists at knee level all the time to get that injury from Macca must also be a coaching issue - Doubly Maccas fault then
I think there is one thing to be shown by Morro's injury with regard to Macca and that is that he is an unlucky coach. Unfortunately this is probably worse than being a bad coach.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Injuries are part of RL life, and in our case, we are used to having major players out for major periods. Here we go again.
We will crack on, as we have been doing these past couple of years, and not whinge about it. Not that any of our NT fans will care - they never considered our 2008 league finish in the context of just who was out for what periods of time so doubt they'll start now. Morro's loss for 3 months is a HUGE blow, but not one that will cut any ice in NT quarters. No doubt they will argue that we should have had a Morro clone in the stiffs for just this eventuality.
I entirely agree every long term injury, to a succession of key players, is McNamara's fault, and indeed it was him that caused it, he flew out off the bench and tackled Morro across the knees when he wasn't expecting it.
Oh silly me I forgot it was only us that picked up injuries last year. It's the shiite that you post which stops me post regularly. But nether mind you be back being all aggressive and holier than thou attitude.
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True bull wrote:Oh silly me I forgot it was only us that picked up injuries last year. It's the shiite that you post which stops me post regularly. But nether mind you be back being all aggressive and holier than thou attitude.
Yeh baby yeh.
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so true, its just a shame they couldn't make the playoffs any bigger... say, the top 14 teams qualify for the end of season playoffs? That would suit us.
