PNG Tax-Free Bombshell, NRL Blowouts & Expansion Fears
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
G'day, I'm Morgan of Kenti Blitch, your daily hit of NRL news. Kenti, Wednesday, Dart Night Tonight. Starstead Night. Yeah, very good. How did you know that? There you go. Excited? Oh, looking forward to it. Yeah, I haven't played. I didn't obviously play last tournament because I had other matters on. But yeah, looking forward to this season. It'll be a bit of fun. Very good, very good. Good luck to the Native Roses, whatever they're called. Fellas, well done. Good luck. Okay, let's keep moving. Kenty, last weekend saw some blowouts of monumental proportions and teams are in now. I want to talk to you whether we will see a repeat of these results. And obviously the whole sell point this year was the entertainment value.
Yeah. I want to ask you, do you find that entertaining what happened on the weekend? Well, it's interesting, isn't it? The NRL had this compulsion, really, that tries equal entertainment. People love seeing tries. The more tries, the better. But, yeah, as I say, you can only put so much sugar in a cake before it – starts to turn taste-wise, and that's what's happening with all these tries.
How bad is the NRL blowout crisis and which games highlighted it?
It's just far too many. Now, let's talk about, firstly, the Roosters-Cowboys. I think that was kind of an anomaly, okay? Cowboys were a top-eight side, dropped their bundle for whatever reason. They have a horrific record. I saw, I think, Dan Gannate brought up or put out. Yeah, it's phenomenal. Yeah, where the last nine games that they've played, the The Broncos, the Cowboys, have lost the week after, which shows that their energy gets front-loaded into that Broncos game and leaves a little left. They also had a short turnaround, which didn't help them. Great stat from him. That's a ripper stat. Yeah, a good stat, yeah. The thing about that, though, was is – Even given that, nobody expected what we saw.
And what was most impressive about that performance from the Roosters was often we'll see teams go to a big halftime lead and they'll often square the second half or even lose the second half because they've basically put the cue in the rack. The Roosters went on with the job And it was the third highest score ever in NRL history, which everybody knows by now. And the only time it was achieved high was in 1935 when St. George beat Canterbury, who were first season in the comp. And then obviously later, the Eastern Suburbs, who are now the Roosters, they also beat Canterbury. 91-6 and 87-7 were the two scores there. Yeah. Ironically, in today's game, you reckon it probably would have been much higher, that score, because firstly, we've got four-point tries.
And he kicked, I think it was 19 tries and 17 goals. The way they kick these days, you probably could have banged those extra two over as well, although I dare say most run to the post. But the thing about that, the Roosters were just highly impressive in that game. And so I think I put that down as one of those games you see every now and then. A bit like when Melbourne beat Saints... 70 to 10 all those years back. It was just one of those games where everything just seemed to work. Do you remember the background of that, can't he? Mundine. Yeah, Mundine. Just tell the viewers. He came out and he basically said that they should have won the grand final the year before and that Melbourne shouldn't have beaten them in the grand final and that Saints deserved it.
Poor old Anthony. They gave him his receipt. They played him in round one and got flogged.
Why was the Roosters vs Cowboys result described as an anomaly and record-setting?
Yeah, 70 to 10. Now, But the rest of the weekend, the flogging Penrith over Canberra, the Warriors over the Titans, things like that, that was just a real, I suppose, illustration of where the game is at these days. Once the momentum starts going your way, the inability to wrestle it back. And to me, that's concerning for the game. I don't think we can keep going down this track where Tri-Zigal points, where Tri-Zigal Entertainment And I think that the game that made the point, the Tigers-Paramata game was an absolute bludger of a game. It was the lowest game I have seen for many, many years.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:05
2
How bad is the NRL blowout crisis and which games highlighted it?
1:05–3:20
3
Why was the Roosters vs Cowboys result described as an anomaly and record-setting?
3:20–14:27
4
What made the low‑scoring Tigers‑Eels game a 'lesson' for entertainment value?
14:27–21:44
5
How do tries, gambling markets and broadcast money influence NRL play?
21:44–31:09
Speakers
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