NRL Round 4 Reactions

NRL Round 4 Reactions

Liam Fogarty

I hope you all had a great Easter punters, how was mine? Fantastic, thanks for asking.

Five days of footy, the Broncs getting up and a heap to dive into this week. I am very excited to get into everything that went down in Round 4 (or at least the talking points that I can click bait and get some more traffic to the sight for.)

With a month of footy now under our belt, this is truly shaping up to be one of the closest seasons we’ve ever seen.

Enough yapping, let’s get into it hey?

Replying To Your Fan Mail

My god I hit a nerve last week.

For those that didn’t see it. I might’ve had a controversial opinion about the hit that broke Reece Walsh’s face in Round 3.

Despite how I actually feel about it (which doesn’t really matter at this stage) I certainly triggered a lot of footy fans and if you’re looking for a good read. Grab yourself a cuppa and scroll through the 750+ comments on the Neds facebook page that are abusing me. I thoroughly enjoyed reading them all and I thought I’d highlight some of my favourites.

Wrong Eye

You have to be older than 18 to interact with our page, which means you’re also old enough to vote and my god.

Given how poor the media literacy was on a bookmaker’s Round 3 NRL blog post. I’d hate to think how anything vaguely political goes. Let’s start with what punters thought was a conspiracy theory. The image I used of Walsh as the blog image that was taken straight from his instagram.

Eagle eyed viewers clearly remembered he was hit under his RIGHT eye but this image shows that it’s now his LEFT eye that is hurt?!?!?!

Fake news? No. The selfie cam on an iPhone flips the image, most people who own a phone know that but the people who read the article thought they had uncovered a conspiracy theory bigger than Big Foot, Nessy and the Moon Landing combined.

No conspiracy here folks, just the technological and media illiterate. Shame they know how to comment.

This one was another favourite of mine.

I’m not hiding Ray, you just clearly didn’t click the article, my names all over it dawg.

Big fan of all this engagement team. Keep it coming.

1. The bloke winning your tipping comp has no clue

Leading your tipping comp so far this season is a dead give away that you actually have no idea this season.

So far this season, we’ve had our fair share of upsets and seemingly any team can beat anyone this year.

The Storm beat the Panthers but lost to the Knights who were beaten by the Cowboys who lost to the Broncos but belted the Dolphins and the Dolphins are on top of the ladder. Make sense of all of that.

This is the closest start to a season we’ve had in quite some time, no teams are undefeated and we’re only a month in. The last undefeated team lost in Round 6 last year. (It was the Broncs in case you were wondering.)

What I’m trying to say is that it’s been a crapshoot this year and it’s dumb luck not skill that would have you winning tipping so far this year.

2. Broncs v Cows doesn’t disappoint once again

Broncos v Cowboys was nothing short of incredible cinema.

That round four clash felt like an Origin decider or a final and it only worth two competition points, something you earn by having a week off in this league.

You could see the passion oozing out of every player on either side of the ball as it pissed down at a sold out Suncorp Stadium.

Vegas certainly was a success this year but that is the exact game you should be showing to the Americans.

Even though the Broncs ran away with it in the end, my god was it a Rugby League spectacle.

I rate it, four X’s out of a possible four.

3. Win Stadium the coolest stadium in the country?

https://twitter.com/Amul82/status/1652536301034557441?s=20

Suncorp for an Origin decider, sold out MCG for Boxing Day, Day 3 of the Pink Test at the SCG and… Just a random afternoon fixture in Wollongong?

Doesn’t quite sound right typing it out but I truly fell in love with Win Stadium over the weekend.

Big grass hill, immaculate surface and it’s right on the ocean? Get out of town, that sounds incredible.

Nothing about the Dragons excites me but if I had to pick an away day, Win Stadium on a Saturday Arvo with a million beers could be very high on my list.

4. AJ Brimson wasted in the centres

The Titans have some incredibly unique problems and while I don’t have time to get into every single one of them. The Brimmo one is certainly worth talking about.

Brimmo could easily be the Titans best player getting around at the moment and his ability and potential is being wasted in the centres.

It’s clear as day that he is a fullback and his game breaking speed and abilities simply can’t be utilised in the centres, he doesn’t have enough space to have the impact we are used to seeing from the Prince of Palmy and if the Titans want to salvage this season. It might be time to put AJ back at FB.

It’s a tough one and a problem that is very unique to the Titans, the bloke who currently holds that fullback jersey is the son of the greatest Titan of all time but JC – in my eyes at least, does not hold a candle to Brimson and I think the call needs to be made while the Titans still have a chance of finals to change up that backline before it’s too late.

You get a pretty pass from Campbell once or twice a game and then a liability in defence and get out sets for the rest of the game.

They have a Lamborghini parked in the garage and it’s time to swap him out for the push bike they’re currently using to go to work.

5. The Milk are a Myth

What do Yetis, the Canberra Raiders and the Female Orgasm have in common? None of them exist.

A bloke chirped me a few weeks ago about not talking about the Raiders and I thought about him a lot on Sunday evening as they let in their fifth unasnwered try to piss away an 18 point lead, my multi and my “best of the round” tip.

I thought Canberra were a massive chance against a depleted Sharks outift, “You beauty, $2.65 for the Raiders! The bookies have got that wrong” I said to myself as I got on the Milk during the week.

At the 23rd minute when Danny Levi went over, I had the champagne on ice, “My god I’m a genius, this is the easiest money I’ll ever make” and what happened?

The Raiders held onto the league as well as they held on to the footy.

23 errors in that game with 11 of them going Canberra’s way.

Sticky Ricky got on his soapbox after their Round 1 over the Knights and was ver quick to boast how everyone had written the Raiders off, Raiders fans started to join in after their Week 2 over the Tigers

What a great time to do a victory lap, do you know what’s happened after that? Nothing but dookie, the Raiders have been deep fried ass.

Shout out to you Seamus, your team is shit. Hope you didn’t get a Prem tattoo after Round 2.