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Bodene wouldnt know anything, the fella is quite young and not very smart at all :yep

 

Well the Titans will be without Harro & Srama and are playing a few nuffies. If the broncos lose I reckon the Titans will play footloose and fancy free to TRY and put a score on the Eagles and they have beaten Manly a fair few times over the last few years. The boys have been practising kicking downfield from scrums so Dave can chase....but that is all blah blah blah....

Because T-Rex will more than likely bury Scott Prince 2 miles deep into the Earths core :yep:yep

Yep I think they can beat the Titans by more than 10.

 

Thanks Teke , think I'll go with that.

 

This was posted by a bloke on the Titans forum... I think it's a strong possibility


In doing the form for this game I went back and looked at our record in Round 26 matches, because I had this sneaking suspicion that we have failed to ever run a season out with any steam:

50-6 LOSS to Melbourne
28-12 LOSS to Wests
38-4 LOSS to Manly (we played finals this year)
21-18 WIN v Wests (finished 3rd)
32-12 LOSS to Parramatta for Preston's farewell.

We will lose by 20 points plus this week.

 

nrl killing itself...and asking you why...

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...for-juniors-weighty-issue-20110319-1c1ba.html

 

You should get KKKels input :yep

 

:yep

 

Man I played league from 6 to 17.... All the way up to second division in group 4 for the north tamworth bears. In our case we had huge koori kids. One kid ****** neane had a ****ing goatee at 11 and would have dropped even a grown man. It got so boring because the big kid would get it, run the whole field and score with 8 opposition members hanging off him. One year we played with weight restrictions and there was essentially two comps. It was much better. No longer were kids getting smashed out on the wing and breaking bones or being reluctant to play for fear of injury.

Some **** must have cried racism though because it went back to what It was the next year

 

I've had this argument with a mate a few times & i've come to accept there is an argument for both sides

He was always a big kid & went on to play at a pretty high level & i've said that i support a weight aligned competition & he always shouts me down by saying "how do you expect kids to learn?" & that the cream will rise to the top, he reckons smaller kids have to earnt their stripes against the bigger kids & thatit gives them the required ticker to go on & become better players & i can see his point, but then again, not all kids want to be elite players

I think you have to possibly let the more mature kids who can handle it play against the big kids & let the less confident play at weight for age

 

Guys like Geoff Toovey and Trevor Gillmeister had to adapt and use what they had to their advantage... unfortunately not all little blokes have the skill and probably are scared off by the sheer size of some islander kids etc.

The parents have the final say... i wish i had a dollar for everytime i heard a kids parents say "he wanted to play rugby league but we saw the big islander kids and put him in soccer instead"

But as you say, their is an arguement that a weight based system doesnt prepare smaller guys to be elite players. When they get to the top level and have to play against massive forwards it will have severe consequences. I do like the idea of a weight based system that lets smaller guys play with the bigger blokes if they want to but it would be pretty hard to implement and enforce i reckon

 

kids dont learn a thing before the age of 14.
no point whatsoever in sending them out to get trampled other than putting them off the game for life

 

maybe you didnt

maybe thats a reflection of where you're at now :yep

 

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now only if you'd have taken the view that learning starts before 14, you could look a whole lot better than that :good

 

your views arent worth the dog**** on my lawn.