Aussie Sports Thread - NRL, AFL or A League

[peterbread]

NRL trials have started on the weekend. My GC Titans have our first trial match in Toowoomba vs the Broncos this weekend. Several players missing due to the indigenous match

Watching it right now. Have the Titans got a few starters in there?

Good start for the broncos.

[SB]

What did you think of it SB?

Not a big fan tbh. Way too much BS going on all over the place. Mind you the right team won on the day. They played fantastic & the first ever Aussie received a winners medal. Oh & I’ve never seen so many grown men skipping around a field when they do something half decent.

Roll on the NRL season though

[Sus]

Super Bowl on today at 10am QLD time if anyone is interested. I think this’ll be the first one I’ve watched. Starting to enjoy NFL a bit more but not totally sold on it yet.

What did you think of it SB?

[SB]

NRL trials have started on the weekend. My GC Titans have our first trial match in Toowoomba vs the Broncos this weekend. Several players missing due to the indigenous match

[SB]

Super Bowl on today at 10am QLD time if anyone is interested. I think this’ll be the first one I’ve watched. Starting to enjoy NFL a bit more but not totally sold on it yet.

[Sus]

Good point re moving to 4 teams - with the Wallabies made up mainly for 32 private schools in NSW and QLD, hopefully it helps raise our standards a bit

[SB]

Same problem in most of the sports where they’ve tried to add new team. You could look at the difference between the top and bottom teams in both the NRL and AFL with the recent additions and see the same problem. Take a couple teams out and the extra quality could bring the top and bottom closer together.

[peterbread]

I’ve seen the Drua but not Moana & yeah they weren’t bad to watch at all. I think the lack of quality players to sustain 5 sides is the exact same problem the A League is having.

Same problem in most of the sports where they’ve tried to add new team. You could look at the difference between the top and bottom teams in both the NRL and AFL with the recent additions and see the same problem. Take a couple teams out and the extra quality could bring the top and bottom closer together.

[SB]

Hopefully going back to 4 teams will help with the talent less spread out. I think that’s been a big reason for the drop off. When Perth first came in they took so many Queensland players that they dropped right off and took a long time to recover. Australia didn’t have the depth of talent to cover so many teams.

Just seen Jordan Petaia has left rugby to try and make it in the NFL. That’s a shame he’s a great player. I wonder how he’ll go.

I watched quite a few of the Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika games last season because of the time difference and being up so late on the weekends and they were always entertaining to watch.

I’ve seen the Drua but not Moana & yeah they weren’t bad to watch at all. I think the lack of quality players to sustain 5 sides is the exact same problem the A League is having.

[peterbread]

Hopefully going back to 4 teams will help with the talent less spread out. I think that’s been a big reason for the drop off. When Perth first came in they took so many Queensland players that they dropped right off and took a long time to recover. Australia didn’t have the depth of talent to cover so many teams.

Just seen Jordan Petaia has left rugby to try and make it in the NFL. That’s a shame he’s a great player. I wonder how he’ll go.

I watched quite a few of the Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika games last season because of the time difference and being up so late on the weekends and they were always entertaining to watch.

[SB]

I forget how early the Super rugby starts - always catches me by surprise

Wonder how **** the Waratahs are this season - just the usual level, or extra special?

They’ve been bad for so long now hey. Not sure if it’s the recruitment team or players just don’t want to live in the most expensive City in the country ?

[Sus]

I forget how early the Super rugby starts - always catches me by surprise

Wonder how **** the Waratahs are this season - just the usual level, or extra special?

[SB]

I haven’t checked the programming out yet but last season Ch 9 had a match on each Saturday from memory. I’ll suss that out.

Here’s the full list of where to watch the Super Rugby . And yeah we get 1 match on Saturday night on free to air.

https://super.rugby/superrugby/match-centre/broadcast-guide/

[SB]

I haven’t checked the programming out yet but last season Ch 9 had a match on each Saturday from memory. I’ll suss that out.

[peterbread]

I see the super rugby comp starts next week on the 14th. I used to watch it a lot when it was on Foxtel but once it went to Stan you had to pay two subscription fees, one for Stan and then another for Stan Sport. It’s also not been the same since the SA teams left.