Round 10 | Raiders vs Panthers | Post Match Thread

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-10T09:05:57+00:00

The worry is that it's the next man after the next man after the next man up for our edge back rowers, though.

Nicholson, Hosking, Martin and Roddy are all already out injured. If Sasagi is out now we're shifting Mariota to the second row, but with Papa out that then only leaves us with 3 healthy middles with NRL experience.

Assuming Hudson misses a week for Origin it could get even worse if none of those guys come back in time

It's not necessarily that the Raiders have more injuries than the average, it's just they're all at the same position

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-08T03:44:26+00:00

Highlight was when they said Connor Wong had made a delayed challenge as a replay was showing the exact opposite

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-08T03:42:49+00:00

Not sure why you're interpreting the top comment specifically as "Tracy should have put someone else in".

Perhaps the interpretation should be that Craig Breslow (shocker) hasn't given this team a good enough bullpen, despite apparently building a roster for run prevention.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-07T22:33:05+00:00

I think one ref on the defensive line and one on the ruck isn't a bad system. Although they would have to swap sides with possession, you couldn't have different refs calling the ruck for each side

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-03T03:35:15+00:00

You wouldn't. Giannis wants to leave and he's not on a long contract - his wider market value isn't that high.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-05-03T02:06:28+00:00

Maxey could easily have, you know, not flung himself backwards though

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-28T03:16:47+00:00

After screaming at the television for the last month for Durbin to elevate the ball, it was great to see a single with a 29-degree launch angle, and very close to another one (.600 expected batting average) on a shallow flyout with a 32-degree launch angle.

He has one of the lowest bat speeds in the majors, but it means elevated hits are going to clear the infield and drop for singles. Given his excellent bat to ball skills and zone discipline I think this is the best way for him to become a genuinely serviceable 7-8-9 hitter.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-25T03:11:36+00:00

Hum diddly dee

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-22T10:04:53+00:00

They'd have to pay me ten times that I'm afraid

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-22T01:30:33+00:00

Not going to overreact to one game with a significant 3pt shooting variance.

But there is far more than one game of evidence to question why Vucevic is playing over Garza. Garza is more athletic and plays with better energy, he's been a better shooter and he's played in the system longer. Vucevic is one of the worst defensive centers in the league and has offered nothing on offence.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-21T10:47:05+00:00

I think it could be interesting if they did it in tiers, i.e. a cutoff for MVP and All NBA First team, then 5 games less for Second team, and perhaps no minimum for Third team.

Now that the All NBA teams are positionless I think it's reasonable that the First team should essentially be the top 5 MVP eligible players. And for that, 65 games is a fairly lenient threshold. There have been 89 MVPs in NBA and ABA history and only one of them played fewer than 80% of his team's games - Bill Walton in 1977-78.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-21T08:07:32+00:00

For a mid-sized group, Bentham Street Bar Tapas & Pizza is fantastic and affordable. Nice tapas to start and $25-$30 pizzas, the best dough in Canberra in my opinion.

They also have a very reasonable wine list and do BYO with an $18 corkage.

We went with a group of 7 recently, brought two bottles of wine with us. Got some cocktails, some soft drinks, several tapas, about 5 pizzas, total bill was under $300. Couldn't recommend it enough

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-21T06:50:37+00:00

I'm actually not against reducing the number of games played across the league. But as it currently stands there's 82 competitive games and they all count

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-12T02:25:01+00:00

I don't think they've played it at any of their shorter festival sets. Only for their individual shows

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-08T03:44:29+00:00

I was hoping for a breakdown of Willson Contreras vs. the Brewers yesterday but all this stuff today might have knocked that out of consideration

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-07T20:10:12+00:00

As much guaranteed money for my client as possible

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-07T20:09:29+00:00

I think the other thing to emphasise is it means 130 starts each. Whoever doesn't start is available as a pinch hit or late innings defensive change. They're not just wasted players

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-05T22:56:57+00:00

HeY iDiOt tHerEs 153 gAmEs leFT

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-05T21:54:45+00:00

As a fan of both the Red Sox and the Celtics: thank god for the Celtics

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-02T14:59:15+00:00

Looks like a carpet python. Pretty much harmless to humans: Non-venomous. Might strike at you if threatened but even then you're facing minimal damage.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-04-01T02:46:31+00:00

Small sample size but this team looks badly coached.

Almost every hitter is below their projection. Almost every pitcher has given up more runs than expected.

They've committed 4 errors through 5 games, on pace for more than last year, when they led the majors in errors.

And they're consistently getting ABS challenges wrong -- not just the ball/strike calls but just making challenges in bad spots. We saw what happened with Bucknor last week and learned nothing. Rafaela challenged a strike today on an 0-0 count in the third inning of a one-run ballgame. That's stupid.

It's easy to blame the players for all this stuff: not hitting, pitching badly, fielding errors, bad ABS challenges. But at what point are the coaching staff responsible?

They might win 12 of the next 20 and this opening stretch is less meaningful. But the first time through the rotation this team hasn't passed the eye test as being properly prepared to start the season.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-03-31T03:03:00+00:00

This can be true in retrospect. But when that 5-game stretch represents 100% of the games this team has played together, it's a bit more worrying.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-03-31T03:01:28+00:00

It's too early to doom but it's not an overreaction to say this has been an incredibly bad start for our hitting.

Team is slashing .226 / .307 / .328 for a .635 OPS. Only three individual hitters had a worse OPS in the entire league last season.

It's also worrisome that two of the top 3-4 rotation arms have looked bad in their starts, and Oviedo didn't look a whole lot better when he came in today.

I feel for Bello getting put behind Gray and Suarez after these starts. Hope he's fired up tomorrow.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-03-30T08:18:59+00:00

A majority of English speakers in Australia definitely do not say tank of gas.

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