2019 NRL Season: Grand Final Discussion

Who will win the 2019 NRL Grand Final ??

  • Roosters

    Votes: 4 57.1%
  • Raiders

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .

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SUNDAY 6TH OCTOBER, 2019 @ 6:30PM
ANZ STADIUM, SYDNEY

OFFICIALS


REFEREES: BEN CUMMINS AND GERARD SUTTON
SIDELINE OFFICIALS: CHRIS BUTLER AND NICK BEASHEL
VIDEO REFEREES: JARED MAXWELL AND BEN GALEA

CURTAIN RAISERS

2019 NRL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: NEWTOWN JETS VS BURLEIGH BEARS @ 1:35PM

2019 NRLW GRAND FINAL: ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS VS BRISBANE BRONCOS @ 4:05PM
 
lol lordy the Knights ain't so who cares between the rooters and tricky's poms.

At it least it won't be the storm or doncs!!
 
A tight contest for 70 minutes ruined by the refs favouring the Roosters, shocked!
 
On a positive note, it's nice that our new coach is coming to us with a fresh grandfinal win as his last RL experience.
 
Two things:

Leilua bombed a try.
That six again muck up was utterly disgraceful and the Raiders were well on top at that point.

Really feel for Raiders fans. That was gross.
 
What about the trainer being allowed to be on the field so early in a game that interfered with a charge down the Raiders were pretty much close to getting?
Felt like that was a bad omen for later on when the Roosters were gifted the game.

Which is a shame because up until that moment it was a nicely fought contest. And all people will talk about is that howler
 
Interesting times ahead for nrl, that's was a bad..bad call on grand final day 8-8, 2 great defensive teams going at it, refs change there mind from 6 again then roosters score game over.
NRL all ready struggles for crowd numbers this could be it for fans.
 
The Cronk sin binning was probably as big a bad call as the two that went against Canberra.
In a perfect world there would be nothing controversial about GF results, but the only time that happens is when one side wins easy.
 
The Cronk sin bin was correct. The Roosters knew exactly what they were doing when they saw Papali get the ball in the middle of the field with a bit of space and the best way to prevent 6 points being scored is to get to him before he gets the ball even if it costs you two points and a player for ten minutes.
It was a deliberate tactic that was disguised and thus deemed a professional foul.

The Raiders ran that exact same Papali play against the Souths and the Roosters were well aware he was probably going to be unleashed more in open space.

I dont doubt the Roosters trained in preparation for having 12 men defensively as well during the week.
 
The Cronk sin bin was correct. The Roosters knew exactly what they were doing when they saw Papali get the ball in the middle of the field with a bit of space and the best way to prevent 6 points being scored is to get to him before he gets the ball even if it costs you two points and a player for ten minutes.
It was a deliberate tactic that was disguised and thus deemed a professional foul.

The Raiders ran that exact same Papali play against the Souths and the Roosters were well aware he was probably going to be unleashed more in open space.

I dont doubt the Roosters trained in preparation for having 12 men defensively as well during the week.
It was borderline in slow motion with a dozen replays. A penalty was probably a 50/50 call. Sending someone to the bin was way over the top. If Cronk had contacted him a 1/10 of a second later, it wasn't a penalty, it was a great play.
 
It's the risk you take when you decide to take someone out without the ball. Teams are coached to niggle and constantly challenge the boundaries so it's not surprising the Roosters did it against Papali who is hard enough to stop one on one let alone against Cronk where the Raiders got the mismatch that they wanted.
 
The hand over when the ref called another six directly influenced the game winning try when they scored on the set after the hand over. If Canberra retained the ball, circumstances would have played out a lot different
 
How can a Knights fan forget ole Ben with some of the decisions he has made against us over the last five years?
 
At the 40m line that would never be a sin bin.

The Raiders weren't in a process of scoring a try so the Roosters wouldn't have done it

If Cronk let Papali catch the ball before hitting him he more than likley would have scored.
Sin bin was the correct call.
Foul play to stop a try.

Still amazes me that people don't get this. And it's funny the nrl/media are doing damage control with selective nit picking saying the Roosters were dudded, lmao give me a break.
Including the call as 'harsh' lmao, the Roosters knew what they were doing.

The raiders ran that exact play against the Souths the week before and against the storm not only in week one but when the raiders came back from 18-0 down. The one that won them the match.
Put it simply they did their homework

Just ignore the dive that led to the Roosters 2 point penalty amongst other things.
 
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