The Football (all sorts) Thread

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

Maroonwash anyone? :p

That's what NSW get for picking Cronulla thugs (Gallen, Snowden, Bird) and scaredy cat Ennis, who likes to throw punches at unaware opponents then hide behind his team mates...
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I had a laugh when Ennis hid behind Snowden was it after Shillington stood up Looked like a little school brat hiding behind his mums skirt:D

Now Trunks of all people knows I'm orange in one eye and black in the other but I have to ask why do the NSW selectors (yes there were players from the Dragons and The Panthers) pick a host players from teams in the bottom half of the ladder and not one player was picked from the side coming third?!?!?!?! We are coming third for a reason.

Going to ignore the fact that Germany lost to Spain...

Bird was a Shark, and played under thug Stuart until he glassed his partner and tried to blame everyone else for it. Sharks players as a rule are good at thuggery and look where it has gotten them on the table.

As for not picking Tiger players, that is NSW loss (although I would have had Tuquiri in the QLD side ahead of Tonga). Lawrence should have been in the squad (as should have Idris), Heighington and Fulton would not have been out of place in the squad either, and I have always said Farah should have been there instead of grubby Ennis.
But really, shouldnt you be happy to have the strongest Tigers team available throughout the origin period? With all the other injuries you guys have you need all hands on deck now.

Ennis was outplayed by Gidley who really lifted NSW when he came on at Dummy half, shows you what having someone who is fast and willing to pass can do in that position. The media is calling for his head, but with the idiot selectors of NSW, I bet he gets picked next season

Overall NSW didnt play too badly, they need a better halves combo, and to get rid of some of their thugs (Gallen, Ennis, Watmough), and to stop rushing in from their edges, not sure they made the right centre-wing pairings, I would have paired Gordon and Jennings and kept throwing those two speedsters the ball.

Excellent, it is as I hoped - the World Cup will be won by a nation that has never won it this year.

Personally I hope that Holland wins it - most of the Spanish players annoy the living hell out of me, whereas only Van Bommel and Robben really get my goat from the Dutch.

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

Footy Stuff

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thuggery smuggery

Bird was a shark what happened (Sacked) Latu (SACKED) Maiva (SACKED) Seymore (Sacked), where is inglis (STILL PLAYING at storm) stewart (Injured But still playing at manly) benji marshall (Still at tigers)... list can go on and on...sharks have always had a Zero Tolerance to that sort of stuff....so to say that sharks as a rule are known for thuggery is well just poor.... and saying that thuggery got sharks on the bottom of the table well everyone knows poor coaching and poor player retention and recruitment got us there that is the obvious one..

Ennis the menace.... i agree he should not of been there but then is farah really origin material either.. he does ok for the tigs, a good kicking game but he defends poorly most the time.. Luke Priddis has been on good form and would of been a good pick at hooker.... butterfingers beau scott......i agree Lawrence should have been there in his place, he is one of the better running centres in the game and Jennings didnt get involved or wasnt involved enough..... our halves well NSW has a poor pool to pick from... 5 and 6th string.... QLD has all the quality, pearce mortimer campese they really dont have anything compared to the playmaking class of thurston lockyear cronk smith and prince.... QLD are Miles infront in that department..... i did like how nsw went for some youth... they need to keep the faith in the selections now not chop and change again...

NSW get rid of gallen... nah they need him he runs more metres then the fullback tackles more then most your talking about a game that was built by thugss... and they need him he does what the others wont give the niggle back to the roaches... queensland give as good as they get but they sook more.....

NSW biggest problem is the coach... QLD have the perfect system a full time coach,he can watch/scout all weekly games and not worry about the responsibilities and pressure of running a club side, can pick the top perfoming players based on form from his own eyes, not others say so.... a full time coach with full time preperation.... but not Laurie Daley not Phil Gould not Ricky Stuart, andrew john, brad fitler....... with the exception of gould who has results.... but is nothing but a sour cancer to the game now... the others were all brilliant players.... but bad coaches they make....to much one of the boys etc etc....

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Originally Posted by Sharky

thuggery smuggery

benji marshall (Still at tigers)... list can go on and on...sharks have always had a Zero Tolerance to that sort of stuff........

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Thats a bit harsh. Marshall wasn't to blame for his incident. A friend of mine slings beers at that spot and basically these blokes caused trouble because Marshall wanted to be left alone. Look at Daine Laurie, Even though he got off with assaulting hid girlfriend the Tigers still tore up his contract.

'sif you all didn't know:
http://www.smh.com.au/world-cup-2010...ml?autostart=1

I was expecting Spain to win, but I wanted the Netherlands to win cos I have Trypticon which I consider to be my "Dutch" TF whereas I don't have any TF I consider to be "Spanish" (yeah, I don't own any of the Jointrons :p). Ah well.

The final was dull, the 3 vs 4 match was (as almost always is) the more entertaining game.

Spain played to win, the Netherlands played to not lose, so no surprises as to who won... Took Spain longer than I had thought, but still the scoreline I had predicted.

Spain was my pre tournament pick for the champions, although out of the two I wanted Holland to win.

Who did the octopus pick?

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Originally Posted by Bartrim

Who did the octopus pick?

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Spain.