Qualifying Finals Wk1 Discu. | Rabbitos - Broncos ELIMINATED

[knight-no-7]

The Finals are here! No-more Knights Games so.. Discuss the weekend as it happens Here!

Match Information:
Comming Soon..

Fixtures:

Game 1: Friday (6.30pm AEST) 4-Warriors (10) v (12) 5-Parramatta Eels at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Game 2: Saturday (6.30pm AEST) 3-North Queensland Cowboys v 6-Bulldogs at Dairy Farmers Stadium, Townsville

Game 3: Saturday (8.30pm AEST) 2-Manly Sea Eagles v 7-South Sydney Rabbitohs at Brookvale Oval, Sydney

Game 4: Sunday (4.00pm AEST) 1-Melbourne Storm v 8-Brisbane Broncos at Olympic Park, Melbourne.


Top eight locked in

September 02, 2007 NEW Zealand will host Parramatta on Friday night to kick off the NRL finals series after the Eels trounced reigning premier Brisbane to secure fifth place on the ladder.

The Eels victory finally cemented the top eight positions on the ladder.

Third-placed North Queensland will host the sixth-ranked Bulldogs on Saturday night in Townsville, the Dogs sent back to Dairy Farmers Stadium after losing to the Cowboys 38-32 on Friday.

In Saturday's late game second-ranked Manly will host the seventh-placed South Sydney at Brookvale Oval, the Rabbitohs qualifying for their first finals series since 1989.

And next Sunday in a grand final re-match, eighth-placed Brisbane will travel to Melbourne to clash with minor premier Melbourne Storm at Olympic Park.

Under the NRL's final eight system, the two highest ranked winners in week one will progress directly to the preliminary finals while the two lowest ranked losers are eliminated.


SHOULD BE A GREAT FINALS SERIES! CANT WAIT! Go The WARRIORS!

[Jonno_Knights]

My tips are the Storm, Sea eagles, Cowboys and Eels. Warriors V Eels is easily the game of the round IMO, hopefully they both bring their attacking games. Rabbits could cause an upset though i think manly will lift.

[knight-no-7]

Yea Storm and Manly at home will be imp. to crack in the finals. I really want the warriors to win! and haha how funny is 'Queensland Cowboys v Bulldogs '- Two weeks in a row!

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Yeah I bet the Bulldogs wont be so blarsay this time round. After this weeks rabbitohs performance u wounldn't no what 2 expect they are so bloody inconsistent

[Theknightsrule7]

lol
Cowboys vs bulldogs

I rememner these sides playing in week 1 2004 at telstra stadium

The cowboys won by something like 30-22


yeah!!! aswell as that game...the broncos played at olympic park less then a month ago!august 12th
& manly & souths played at telstra stadium a couple weeks ago too!!!

[Jodie]

I'm hoping Eels make it through.. I want to go see them play!
I'd like to see Tahu before he goes to England.

And I'd love the Bunnies to get a win!

[knight-no-7]

Yea Top 4 should be fine and will probably win this week.. unless the Doggies get fired up about facing the 'two man team' twice in a row!

[knight-no-7]

SBW facing a minimum 2week ban...

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Yeah i don't think sonny will play again this year

[knight-no-7]

SBW Suspended for 1 Week
David Fa'alogo Suspended for 7 Weeks

Bulldogs are going to struggle without SBW

[U23]

I'd like to see Tahu before he goes to England.

Hes going to union, not england. Lol.

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Bloody Falongo or however u spell it got what he deserved, 5 weeks wasn't enough. I'm Happy about Sonny, I'm going 4 the dogs as well as the warriors.

I agree, Warriors vs EEls is game of the round.

[seabass14]

Yep Warriors vs Eels should be a cracker!

[knight-no-7]

Yep Warriors vs Eels should be a cracker!

has to be the best game of the 4games this week.

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

The only bad thing about it is trying 2 tip a winner

[knight-no-7]

my NRL tipping compps finished so yea i dont have to tip for the finals, thank god or it wud have been a real headache.

[jamesgould]

This finals system is lame, it leads to some boring blow-out matches in the first weekend.

[knight-no-7]

Yea 1 v 8 etc/// The afl system of 1v 4, 2v3, 5v8, 6 v 7 would be better i reckon

[jamesgould]

Same.

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Yeah I agree, they need a new system. I think the idea is 2 get rid of the pretenders in the first week though

[knight-no-7]

Rabbits n Broncos should go out this week

[U23]

Yea 1 v 8 etc/// The afl system of 1v 4, 2v3, 5v8, 6 v 7 would be better i reckon

That would be one hell of a finals series. Probably more exciting than the one we have now.

The first week would be:
Storm v Warriors (What a game that would be!)
Sea Eagles v Cowboys
Eels v Broncos
Bulldogs v Rabbitohs

[jamesgould]

Man, that was disappointing by the Warriors. In front of that big home crowd, they should have won. In retrospect I suppose it was their first final since 2004, and a lot of their players were new to the environment. But still ...

What was Swann thinking not passing? He'll never live that down. Pretty obvious the way the way was going that it cost them the win. Price's chargedown at the end was also baffling. I don't see Parra going too far, they had enough ball to win two or three matches in the first half but had nothing against a decent defence. They'll get eaten alive if they play Melbourne at any stage.

Warriors can improve and win next week, but 2008 will be their year to have a genuine shot at the comp, I reckon.

[knights4premiers]

I was cheering for the warriors as well james swann what was he thinking!

[jamesgould]

Everyone here seemed to be cheering for the Warriors! It was very good of you all. That poor big crowd. Such a great crowd for a league game in NZ, what a shame they won't be playing there next week.

[knight-no-7]

Yea stadium drenched in black.. good to see... yea SWANN he had to pass!! and the Penalty Try! Bill Harrigons justification was that because he took him out, the knock on was rubbed out... so in a way played cont. and try was awarded. If that happened every week, we'd be seeing 100-penalty tries a season!!!

[jamesgould]

:o

Well if he had just ruled that Witt had have scored had he not been tackled early - Witt did end up on the line, so I could sort of see his point of view, even though I disagreed. But his actual justification makes it the worst decision ever!!!

[seabass14]

Excuse me I was not cheering for the Warriors! Eels all the way.

I thought they did well under the pressure. A lot better in the last few weeks. Especially not a bad effort seen as they were backing up from a Sunday arvo game!

And the crowd in NZ was awesome, they really went all out for the black out thing.

[knight-no-7]

yea otherwise we would be seeing penalty tries week in week out!

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Yeah that Penatly try was a bad mistake from Billy Boy, very stupid. But since now I'm apparentley an eels supporter go the Eels.

[knight-no-7]

Cowboys played good tonight to keep out the Dogs and Rabbitos..ohwell never had a chance .. well done 2 them for makn the top8 though..

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

lol that Rabbitohs game was kinda funy.....sorry not a rabbitohs fan.

[knight-no-7]

yea no1 really expected them to progress to Wk2..

[vanbroeK]

yeah especially when they come up against Manly!! :D
but it was a good game just Manly was to good
Menzies and Stewart played awesome!

[Brogga]

Im Really annoyed that the eels and eagles won - didnt care for the result in the dogs cowboys match. Im still rooting for the warriors next week though. If Melbourne win tonight, which is almost certain, does that meen Warriors play the bulldogs next week?

[knight-no-7]

IF Melb. win, 4th ranking winner v 2nd ranking looser and 3rd ranking winner v top ranking looser

[knight-no-7]

so it should be cowboys v warriors?

[Brogga]

Ahhh ok cheers.

I find it all bloody confusing.

[knight-no-7]

Storm... lol looks like Broncos are going to get wooped!

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

yeh lol 28-nile after 45 minutes. Byebye broncos :D

[Brogga]

40 - 0 in the end... The Storms defence is unreal

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Broncos :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[U23]

Broncos :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We got beaten worse. 44-0.

[knight-no-7]

They Stood no chance, just blown away...

[Theknightsrule7]

lol Broncos

68-22 to parra, then the following sunday they get flogged 40-0 at olympic park!!!!!!

I reacon the storm should play at full potential, i see no1 ahead of them!!!!

lol.....the way the finals run is almost like a comp...like Big brother!!! lol

Its time to go South sydney lol & brisbane broncos double eviction lol

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

We got betaen heaps worse then 40-nil this year but it wasn't the finals when it is ment 2 be the best teams. Plus we didn't come out going on about how we were going 2 win the game

[jamesgould]

If you are talking finals then Brisbane smashed us by more last year haha.

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

I did say this year and I did say we didn't come out all cocky caiming we were going 2 win

[knight-no-7]

if we had our full strength side and we had made the finals, we could have gone quite far..

[jamesgould]

I did say this year and I did say we didn't come out all c*** caiming we were going 2 win

I wish we had have done, we went into that semi last year playing like we'd already lost when Buderus and Simpson were ruled out.

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

Yeah well it was kindof the same this year. when bedsey got injured we fell in a huge crap hole

[jamesgould]

True.

[knight-no-7]

Yea that bedsey tackle last year... bloody hell...!

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

What really ****ed me off was that Sam Thaiday did basically the same tackle the next week and got zero weeks. I was spewing about that

[U23]

What really ****ed me off was that Sam Thaiday did basically the same tackle the next week and got zero weeks. I was spewing about that

Is this the tackle that got him suspended during the Manly game in the finals? Cause that tacke was effing awesome. :lol:

[knight-no-7]

Yea .. the speartackle... got 6weeks...

[Bedsey_is_the_best]

which was a rip off