A question about the brawl.

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Jeba said:
Yeh but good for the game???
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We should be encouraging brawls like it, great for the game and sure to help over protective mothers to allow their boys to join rugby league as opposed to soccer...
 
But it's still not good for the game, and I hope the NRL act accordingly.
 
The Rock said:
Storm in a tea cup. The amount of brawls in rugby league have REDUCED over the last 10 years and I'd say that punch ups in junior footy are still just as common. It's one brawl, it's not going to discourage mothers putting their kids in the sport for goodness sake.
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Do we want people looking at our game thinking our players are as weak as piss after laying into a bloke 5 on 1? Or do we want them thinking we are a bunch of hot head wankers that run off the bench to a fight?

Told you, you worded it wrong!
 
The Rock said:
It's not if it happens every week. But it didn't so I hope the NRL don't over-react.
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But if they DO over-react, it never will happen every week. Make an example of these guys.
 
Tim Sheens was on the radio saying that a similar thing happened with the Tigers a few years ago. 5 of their players got suspended for a total of 17 weeks.
 
Rightio, that'll do me. I gave you a chance at an out and you still claim it was 'good for the game'. One of your best mate.
 
**** you're a moron Rock. The number of comments from parents to the effect of "my kids aren't playing league". The number of casual observers disgusted by such thuggery.

It's bad for the game. Anybody with a functioning brain can see that.
 
I think Joey Johns summed it up pretty well on the Footy Show. League fans love it but the non-league fans and corporate interests that the NRL is trying to attract will look at it as a negative.
 
And frankly I only enjoyed it until the idiots flew in. Then it was disgraceful
 
I only had a quick glance at it, but it looked like Brett Stewart was the worst of the bunch.
 
Fozz said:
I think Joey Johns summed it up pretty well on the Footy Show. League fans love it but the non-league fans and corporate interests that the NRL is trying to attract will look at it as a negative.
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See what happens when you take drugs.

Mark Geyer was sprouting shyte as well on the Sunday Roast.
 
Is The Rock
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Reckon next year's video footage to 'This Is Our House' will just be footage of this incident? May as well be, because it's good for the game.
 
Seriously Rock, I don't know what commentary you're listening to, what reports you're reading, but all anyone is talking to is how it escalated into an all in with the Manly players rushing in, bench players getting involved (only to break it up) etc.

It's not just about the Stewart-Blair thing, at all!

And there's been numerous callers to league talkback, comments on articles etc, from parents saying their kids won't be playing league if this kind of behaviour is acceptable.
 
Our teenage mate watches these games and he is ALWAYS throwing punches in the game. He can't help himself. He sees the big boys doing it so he does it too. Had a few suspensions. Every under 16's/18's match I've been to there's been fights. Mark Geyer is turning it up by saying the kids don't admire that stuff. Maybe the under 7's don't, but get into the teenage years when boys are full of testosterone and it's a different story.

It was disgusting how 5 v 1. I loved it until Brett Stewart flew in squarking and Lussick and the rest of them.

I hope they throw the book at them. Especially after Billy Slater, Nielsen and the others were so careful with Wolfman. Showed him so much respect and sat still for 5 minutes rather then shoving him off to get back into the defensive line.

Manly are filth. That is all.
 
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