Recent content by Tomatosoup912

I know we are meant to be nice to the female referees but the referring has been comically horrendous.

The shear amount of Luke Brooks emotion I have felt over the last decade has obviously fried my brain to the point that my bias overwhelms me when I watch him play. Because I genuinely think he was average to poor on the weekend and still can't understand why everyone was raving about him. I...

I played a lot of schoolboy rugby with Jared in Queensland. I am 6ft 2 (188cm) and he was always noticeably taller than me plus he was 105kg and looked like he had been cut out of clay by grade 12. He was the definition of an enormous human. Haven't seen him in person in over 10 years but...

I am very upset by people who call themselves die hard fans that don’t contribute to the club. I think it’s great that the CEO pointed out that despite a huge market share we actually have very few fans that financially contribute to the club. Getting tickets, paying for Kayo/foxtel and buying...

The answer is bad contracts. A flaw in the salary cap is that teams have to spend 95% of their cap every year. So even if we have below average first graders in the squad, third party contracts aside, they are being paid at a minimum 95% of what squads like the Roosters, Penrith, Cronulla are...

I live in Brisbane watch a lot of Q-Cup due to family members being heavily involved in Norths up here. Solmona Fataape had a real breakout year last year. Quick enough to play on the wing but moved to the centres. By the end of the year he was the form centre in the league. Pretty sure he won...

Couldn't agree more. I think those 5 you named would all walk into our side. In the same period who have we signed? Sezer, Fainu Brothers and Sullivan I guess are the new additions to our squad. Bulldogs are in a very comparable position in terms of rebuilding and just seem to be doing a...

Interesting take. I was really worried based of your commentary, so I watched the highlights video and I didn't think a single try was his fault. Maybe the first scrum play when there was clearly a miscommunication between winger/centre about jamming in or playing soft. Aside from that the...

So to clarify one point, the heat map was representative of where the play the ball was that immediately preceded points. The very large proportion of those tries are scored by backs. Aside from that I agree with everything else you have highlighted. The top 4 teams are all high performers in a...

Cheers mate appreciate the feedback. Everytime I have replied, it was in response to someone who implied corrections to the perspective I provided. I like posting with support for my perspective. I have followed this forum forever and have just reached a level if frustration with the pure...

This is simply factually incorrect. First photo below shows a fairly obvious trend that the further down the field you play the ball the more likely you are to score a point. In the NRL between 2016-2021 teams scored 0.3 points per play the ball inside the 10m line compared to 0.04 points per...

Mate I'm chill. I'm an engineer, we like numbers. All I did was provide a statistical response to your questions as to if we had beaten another pack this year and why us running dead last doesn't indicate pack performance. Sorry that a supported argument was too detailed to read. Have a good...

What do you mean by beat? Is your only measure of achieving dominance over an opposition pack how many points you score? My issue is that you are making these huge statements about the packs deficiencies without an ounce of statistical support outside the brilliant technical analysis of "Stef...

Everyone is entitled to their opinion bit geez it's obvious that a lot of blokes here haven't played a lick of football in their life. The criticism of Klemmer and Stefano is quite frankly absurd. For front rowers Klemmer is 5th in all run meters and 4th in post contact meters. Stefano is 13th...

Long long time stalker and occasional poster. Based in Brisbane so rarely have any information to post. However pre-origin was invited to attend a Sportsbet State of Origin dinner. Was seated next to long time Manly stalwart, premiership winner, NSW player etc. 10 beers deep and we chatted...