Tee's Roar Profile

I remember when you needed short hair and a tie to get into the RSL. Where you went after 10pm closing time at the pub because they had a licence till midnight. They gave out ties at the front desk. The administration finally realised it was a losing battle when the place was full of drinkers at midnight wearing ties with their t- shirts.

Hahaha. Classic Rex.

Wonderful rugby league days. No one could deliver a tautology like Rex. And peerless when policing nudism at Balgowlah.

Nothing empirical to back this up but I haven’t noticed anything different in contact this week. I have noticed more players on the field and fewer mystified players and baffled commentators.

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You’re talking about the evening news, right?

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The sport needs an nrl referee a sin bin and a definition of forceful contact. Just to make sure mums won’t mind their kiddies taking it up as a sport. Oh, and to avoid litigation.

The consequences of a send off go beyond the twelve on thirteen disadvantage. Desperate defence by gassed players attracts the six again penalty and then after a try the affected team has to immediately surrender possession again and the vicious circle starts all over again. If the bin is for an accident albeit a forceful one the penalty is out of all proportion to the offence. That’s the mischief in what’s happening now. Random and unavoidable events judged subjectively are deciding outcomes.

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Nobody wants to see head injuries. Nobody wants games ruined by players being sent off for innocuous head contact. Distinguishing deliberate and accidental isn’t that difficult. A dog knows the difference between being tripped over and being kicked. Proportionality between the punishment and the offence is a basic principle observed by rational people in every aspect of their lives. Applying a subjective assessment to the seriousness of an incident according to the semantics of the word forceful is always going to be controversial when contact is at the margins. Punishing every head contact in sports version of dodgem cars is just plain silly. Somewhere in there is a solution to all this. Here’s a suggested start. Bin the deliberate and seriously reckless. Forget the trivial. Apply cumulative penalties to the dangerously careless. Basketball gives you five fouls and applies penalties to team fouls. Some adaptation to that principle might work. But fix it please.

Stone him! Drop him to reserve grade! Villify him on TikTok Tok! Ungrateful wretch! No. Raiders players and fans are too classy for all that. He seems a humble and generous man and deserves to enjoy the rewards offered at another club. He’ll be missed but the lime green shoots emerging at the club are promising a successful couple of years.

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Absolutely spot on, sensible, rational, and indisputable. So no way they’ll take any notice of you. It’s just bizarre that in a heavy contact sport celebrated for its toughness, the accidental and inevitable, is then moderated by a subjective assessment of forceful, and then result in a send off that can result in a decision that decides the outcome of a game. It really is just a silly form of virtue signalling against a background of legitimate concern about head injuries.

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There’s box office theatre in nrl squabbles, and the confected disapproval as an encore. Watch the NRL 360 panel pass the ball around on the Galvin stuff and you wonder if someone is ever going to blow the whistle. It’s hard to believe that the fix for this stuff isn’t to be found in American professional sports where everyone makes a buck and the punters get an entertainment dividend as well. Trade windows and well drafted contracts can put an end to all this. But is it what we really really want?

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It’s only football but a banner on nrl 360
“Moses the messiah leads eels to victory” . Seriously? And Voss during commentary connected the biblical Moses with the one in the field with Easter and a game winning try. There’s poetic licence, journalistic liberties taken with language and puns and common sense. And there’s just plain dumb.

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In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. Pretty well sums up Gould’s success. And the antipathy from those who resent it. Gould as a player added guile and intelligence to unremarkable natural talent and had success with it. The same qualities were worth a lot more as a coach and administrator. Take away Wayne Bennett and a couple of the up and comers like Ciraldo, and there’s not much competition for him in the smarts department. A two eyed man might eventually best Gould. Can anyone sight him?

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Hahaha.

The old afternoon rag The Daily Mirror required a reading age of a 9 year old, something which remained undisturbed by the publishers. I’m often reminded of this when I listen to the journos ‘ questions at after game press conferences.

Hey Abdo, want to protect referees? How about ban stupid questions, muzzle journos and commentators?

The broadcaster’s perception of its demographic determines what we get. Nine loads up on former nrl luminaries and really doesn’t care much if all they provide are complacent banalities and bro chit chat. NRL 360 in the days of Ikin and Kent had some varied and meaty content and its hosts were articulate. The show’s current line up relies on confected controversy unworthy of the prolonged and repetitive discussion it elicits. And there’s only so much someone with a full brain can get out of the ‘let’s bait Phil’ gag after a year’s worth of running it on Monday nights. God bless us all but the NRL fan base is broader than the demographic that gets to sit in live on the Matty Johns show.

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Mar

Sure, the Raiders tried to get out of a hole by digging it deeper. But revisiting the penalties and agreeing with the ref is simply begging the question. Those penalties are subjective and therefore discretionary. Your argument is easily rebutted every time you see a similar play that isn’t penalised. Which you see every week. The marginal shepherd 40m out routinely escapes attention. If DCE went sideways instead of straight ahead the discretion would probably have been exercised in Kris’ favour. What your stats do show is that a team gassed by penalties make mistakes. They don’t prove that the penalties were all warranted.

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First half stats. Manly 77 percent possession, 6 penalties to 2, 5 set restarts to 0, 71 tackles to 220, 46 tackles in raiders 20m to 2 in manly’s. And a dubiously disallowed try. And a sin bin where a penalty was an option. Seriously? Ricky was a model of self restraint.

Disallowing Seb Kris’ try was a travesty. Any number of tries could be disallowed if the defender confects an obstruction by running into the attacking line after being beaten. That said, maybe the Raiders could occasionally go into a game with a plan B. The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result. Manly wasn’t doing anything remarkable when it spent 70 percent of the first half camped on the Raiders’ try line. The Raiders have looked like they are being coached by Sisyphus for a number of years. Sometimes it works. Mostly it doesn’t.

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You add an NRL player and mirabile dictu! Now for the Australian netball team……

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Rugby

Nov

Just saw a news report describing Matt Denny’s bronze as a lesser triumph than the preceding descriptions of the gold winners. No slight intended obviously and probably poor copy writing. But discus throwing started off as a sport over 2500 years ago and has been a staple of the modern Olympics. All credit to our dinghy and skateboard gold winners but a bit of perspective in our reporting of sport might help educate as well as celebrate.

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Olympics

Aug

Anybody across nba basketball and with no particular bias knows that unless Thybulle was injured he was way in front of half the Australian team in qualifications and talent to make that team. Delly and Ingles have been great representatives of oz basketball but the past tense in that observation means something. Put Thybulle in that contest v Serbia and Australia wins. Australia was forced to put too much ball through Mills and Gidley and hence the turnovers. They needed at least one exceptional athlete in the team to take the pressure off them. No one squeezes the us team into turnovers because they are just too dynamic athletically not just technically. Bad bad selection decision and an irrational one.

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Wow. And here I was celebrating the return of a game unspoiled by officials instructed to stifle the drama of one of the great sporting spectacles by endless nit picking and nannying and virtue signalling to the pearl clutchers and sanctimonious girlie men who for some bizarre reason think that one of the most intense contact sports in the world can be rendered free of accident by a strict little man with a whistle. More of the torrid unchained spectacle of rugby league played with the passion and grit and elation of that game the other night please. And if that’s not what you like feel free to go and watch the virtuousity and erudition and pressed shorts of rugby union officials repeatedly resetting scrums to the sound of a game clock ticking away the playing time and the interest of the contest. There’s always plenty of seats.

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Jul

I don’t get the hate on Luai thing either. It’s like he is being told to stay in his westy lane in a very unpleasant way. Get off his back and let him enjoy his achievements and his talents.

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