Auckland Nine's offical Tournament Thread

[The Brain]

Early days but you are actually right here lolol

It shows Anasta is Hastings kicking coach
Napa smashed that I liked.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

score?

20-14 down...take on JTs tiges...hopefully about to put on our best show..

[SConcierge]

Its obvious Robo has no interest in the 9s, I hope he rests all the boys again for the next and hoprfully last match for us.

[Arties Pie]

What was the penalty against Napa for ?

[fletch]

did Maubs even come on the field, he was named on the interchange, I can't remember seeing him on the field.

[The Rooster Oracle]

What a f**king joke how the same old bullshit things never change, with us getting f**ked over by the refs and the refs looking after $ouff$, fmd the cowboys were robbed against them yesterday!! Napa put on a beautiful perfectly legal hit on a sharks player and gets penalized for it, what a f**king joke!! Also sharks lose the ball, JWH dives on it, should have been play on, and yet the refs in their usual f**ked up wisdom call a Roosters knock, WTF was the go there??

JWH and Napa are looking great to start the year!! Loving both players aggression!!

Evans needs to get some aggression in his defense. He has absolutely nothing on JWH and Napa in the aggression department!!

Sorry turk, but Stapleton is not a first grade standard player!

Langi can be a really dumb player at times, stuffing up two kick off catches. Also his defense is very suspect!

Macdonald has been really disappointing for me. I thought he would show some brilliance in this tournament, and instead he looks totally disinterested. Hope he gets interested during the season, cause f**k me he is bloody frustrating to watch at times when you know that he has so much talent, but wishes to just f**k arse around doing SFA!!

[Guest]

Langi would be playing first grade in just about every other team in the nrl.

He absolutely would not be playing first grade in most teams. I do not believe he would enter the 17 of any real from last seasons top 8 on a regular basis.

I do not know why so many of the players who are in second grade teams are rated so highly

[fletch]

Macdonald has been really disappointing for me. I thought he would show some brilliance in this tournament, and instead he looks totally disinterested. Hope he gets interested during the season, cause f**k me he is bloody frustrating to watch at times when you know that he has so much talent, but wishes to just f**k arse around doing SFA!!

agree on MacDonald has all the physical tools to be an absolute star but you can't teach heart/desire, the warning signs were there on him in the NYC finals.

[The Rooster Oracle]

seems not much has changed since last season, our handling is disgraceful and no one has taught Napa how to tackle properly.

Actually Fletch that hit Napa put on was perfectly legal, as he had his arm out and not tucked in like he was doing last year. That was not a penalty, even the commentators said so. The refs as usual f**ked up on that cause it was against us! Also love how the refs allow george burgar$e to get away with that swinging arm head high hit on storm player! I agree that our handling has been disgraceful most of the time, especially yesterday. Doing simple dumb things such as stuffing up catching the kick offs (Langi twice), and Hastings putting two kick offs out on the full are frustrating to watch!

[The Rooster Oracle]

agree on MacDonald has all the physical tools to be an absolute star but you can't teach heart/desire, the warning signs were there on him in the NYC finals.

As far as I know Fletch, the plan is to let Toups go and have Macdonald as his replacement for next year. If Macdonald continues to show the lack of desire, we will have to rethink that plan!

[Bigchook]

What a f**king joke how the same old bullshit things never change, with us getting f**ked over by the refs and the refs looking after $ouff$, fmd the cowboys were robbed against them yesterday!! Napa put on a beautiful perfectly legal hit on a sharks player and gets penalized for it, what a f**king joke!! Also sharks lose the ball, JWH dives on it, should have been play on, and yet the refs in their usual f**ked up wisdom call a Roosters knock, WTF was the go there??

JWH and Napa are looking great to start the year!! Loving both players aggression!!

Evans needs to get some aggression in his defense. He has absolutely nothing on JWH and Napa in the aggression department!!

Sorry turk, but Stapleton is not a first grade standard player!

Langi can be a really dumb player at times, stuffing up two kick off catches. Also his defense is very suspect!

Macdonald has been really disappointing for me. I thought he would show some brilliance in this tournament, and instead he looks totally disinterested. Hope he gets interested during the season, cause f**k me he is bloody frustrating to watch at times when you know that he has so much talent, but wishes to just f**k arse around doing SFA!!

Take a chill. It's a second grade team in a pre season comp.

[The Rooster Oracle]

Take a chill. It's a second grade team in a pre season comp.

You don't understand, it's about attitude which easily gets carried through from pre season into the season! In Stapleton's case it's a matter of lack of talent which can't be fixed.

[The Rooster Oracle]

Take a chill. It's a second grade team in a pre season comp.

I suppose you are one of the one's who believe that the refs don't favor $ouff$ and we get a fair go by the refs and that all the penalties against us are deserved and all the lack of penalties we don't receive is all justified? Don't kid yourself, the bullshit that we are already witnessing in the 9's by the refs will transfer over to the season proper, just like the bullshit cheating that has been going on in $ouff$ favor for the past 3 years and against us for about the past 10 years!!

NRL desperately wanted a $ouff$ vs bull$cumdog$hit GF for the past 3 years and finally managed to make it happen. This year they want a $ouff$ vs bronco$ GF, as that is what is best for business in order to cash in the most on what is most popular!!

[fletch]

Robbo has brought the big guns back for the qtrs.

Tuivasa-Sheck, Macdonald, Elliot, Maloney, Pearce, Hargreaves, Aubusson, Taukeiaho, Williams

Stapleton, Hastings, Napa, Evans, Manu

[Bigchook]

I suppose you are one of the one's who believe that the refs don't favor $ouff$ and we get a fair go by the refs and that all the penalties against us are deserved and all the lack of penalties we don't receive is all justified? Don't kid yourself, the bullshit that we are already witnessing in the 9's by the refs will transfer over to the season proper, just like the bullshit cheating that has been going on in $ouff$ favor for the past 3 years and against us for about the past 10 years!!

NRL desperately wanted a $ouff$ vs bull$cumdog$hit GF for the past 3 years and finally managed to make it happen. This year they want a $ouff$ vs bronco$ GF, as that is what is best for business in order to cash in the most on what is most popular!!

No. I'm saying cut the players slack. Not sure if you expected three man cut out passes and length of the field trys but like I said. It's still pre season. I'd rather win round 1 of the nrl than the 9s final.