NRL Round 3 Reactions

NRL Round 3 Reactions

Liam Fogarty

The Wests Tigers have more wins this year than the Rabbitohs. Certainly not what I had expected in the first three weeks of this season but it just goes to show that Rugby League is the greatest soap opera of all time.

Round 3 is in the books and as we head towards the Easter Long Weekend, the Cowboys are the only 3-0 team this year.

Once again there were far too many talking points that I could’ve chosen this week to write about narrowing them down to five was not easy but I’ve chosen the most clickbaity ones to get you all in here and outraged enough to leave a comment.

If you’ve read this far that means it worked and I’m a digital marketing genius.

Let’s talk footy hey?

Replying To Your Fan Mail

Last week I said that the Xavier Coates try was the greatest try of all time.

I listed out some very clear reasoning as to why I thought that was the case and I know that I made a compelling argument because there was a theme in the comment section.

“It was a good try but there’s probably a better one”

NAME IT THEN.

If there has been a better try than Xavier Coates’ don’t you think these generic boomers in our comment section would be able to name it?

I don’t know about you, but I’d imagine the greatest try in a 100+ years of Rugby League in this country would be memorable.

Clearly that’s not the case for the Grahames, Johns and Nevilles of this world.

Google Tall Poppy Syndrome and these three blokes pop up.

These other too comments were too good not too include as well.

We found Helen Lovejoy’s burner account. Won’t somebody think of the Wingers?!

This could be the greatest comment of all time.

I guarantee Malcolm is one of those old boomers that complains that the younger generation gets offended too easily, but then has been offended by a try in the NRL 🥴.

He clearly reminisces about the good old days where you could fill your house full of asbestos, smoke on an aeroplane or send your children off to war.

1. Look at how they massacred my boy

I can’t believe no one has called this out for what it actually was yet.

This was targeting.

Taylan May went out of his way to try and injure the Broncos best player to take him out of the game and guess what.

He got away with it.

Go back and watch the clip, the way Reece catches the ball shows that he was always going to tip it on, he never set up to run at all.

May has plenty of time to pull up his run or alter his body in a way that wouldn’t result in what actually went down but that was never the plan.

If you truly believe this was an accident you are a deadset clown.

It’s either a poor read and horrible technique from Taylan, something that would never be tolerated at Penrith or May was intentionally trying to injure Walsh in any way he could.

This is a targeting penalty in the NFL every day of the week, and that is a football league with virtually no rules about tackling technique.

If the NRL are truly concerned about player safety, May should receive a big punishment for this.

Going out of your way to injure the opposition best player by any means necessary is not a good look for the league.

2. Jason DemetriOUT

The Rabbitohs are the only 0-3 team in the league and are starting to drift out very quickly in the premiership markets.

This is the first time South Sydney have been 0-3 since 2008 and while I don’t think they will be as bad as that Souths side who lost 10 of their first 11 games to start the season, it’s clear that something needs to change quickly.

This team has so much fire power, on paper they should be getting a lot closer than a 48-6 pantsing by the Chookies.

When a team of hot boys isn’t firing, all eyes turn to the coach and I don’t know if Jason Demetriou will have many weeks left with the Rabbitohs.

Sending Illias down to ressies was a cooked decision in itself but benching Damien Cook for the Roosters game was the final straw for me, how on earth did anyone ever think that would be a good thing for the Bunnies?

The Rabbitohs have the Bulldogs, Wahs and then Sharks in the next three weeks.

Something massive needs to happen in that space of time if Demetriou wants to keep his job.

3. Tino 😭

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That’s one way of getting out of playing for the Titans I guess.

Not great for the Maroons however, that’s now Gilbert and Tino who are unavailable in our forward pack.

I don’t really have anything profound to add here, I’m just sad.

4. We all owe Luke Brooks an apology

I try to avoid watching Manly games, it’s just always been a rule of mine.

But the one player that continues to jump off the screen for me this season has been Brooksy.

There’s nothing better than getting out of a toxic relationship and starting thrive elsewhere and that is what we are seeing from Brooks so far to start the year.

Playing with DCE and not having all the pressure on his shoulders to save a dying franchise is doing wonders for him.

Brooksy so far this year has played like the player he was hyped up to be all those years ago.

I’m willing to put my hand up and say I’ve dumped mining truckloads worth of shit on him over the years and clearly it was the Wests Tigers I should’ve been bullying this whole time.

From the bottom of my heart, I’m sorry Brooksy. Keep ripping and tearing for Manly, it’s great to watch.

5. Time to say Bye Bye to the Bye

It’s time to give the Bye a Dan Ginnane GOODBYE.

The bye is garbage, having an uneven amount of teams is not good for anyone.

Think about the three teams that have copped the bye this year.

The Tigers have to play their first game in Round 2 after everyone has a week head start, the Titans get embarrased at home by the Dragons and then have a week off to marinate in how garbage they were and then the Phins have their greatest win in club history and their momentum is stopped instantly by having a week off.

I don’t think the bye has helped any of these teams so far this year.

This week it’s the Storm who are on the bye and they might need an extra week so they can get Munster back but I’m just not enjoying it.

I want every team playing every weekend and we need to get that 18th team in the league asap because the bye is rubbish.

Also, why do you get two points for not playing?

I know it all evens itself out at the end of the year but wouldn’t it all even itself out if you got 0 points as well?

It doesn’t make sense, it slows teams down.

Bring in an 18th team, hurry up.