2024 Season General Discussion Thread

[Hail Sezer]

Brimmo on Keegan and Co podcast

Not a bad listen, talks about des and the training. Has a bit about kini also

Good poddy, enjoyed that episode and the insight into the Des regime

[Titslover]

So good to hear Brimmo saying that Des puts so much detail into planning for a game. “You’ll know exactly who’s kicking, where they will be kicking, when they get to this post what they are going to do.” Can’t wait to see a Titans team with that discipline and attention to detail.

[Cowabunga]

Have to congratulate Dumb and Dumber for only bringing up the Broncos 3 times in the Des interview, Great job guys!!!

Your last premiership win was in 2011. What do you make of suggestions you’re a spent force?

DH: Being a spent force … that’s disrespectful. Don’t use spent force.

I hope Des made them both apologize.

[Titanic]

Saw that and I reckon Des has tool of the century Badel right in his sights … that’s twice now.

[Cowabunga]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2024/01/17/...terpretations/

Contested Restarts
If a team kicks the ball out on the full over the touch line, or the ball fails to travel at least 10 metres forward in an attempt to contest a restart from the goal-line, 20m line, or half-way line, play will now restart with a play-the-ball 10 metres out from the line of the kick and 10 metres in from touch, rather than with a penalty kick. The change will give more incentive for teams to attempt short kick-offs or drop-outs.

That is insane to me, Teams already constantly take the risk... Why get rid of the penalty.

[Titanic]

Were we the worst in the history of the game at this?

[T0ken]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2024/01/17/...terpretations/



That is insane to me, Teams already constantly take the risk... Why get rid of the penalty.

Short kickoffs are back on the menu and the wind up run onto the ball is gonna die out.

[Whats Doing]

Short kickoffs are back on the menu and the wind up run onto the ball is gonna die out.

It sort of negates the advantage of getting a goal line drop out when the risk of taking the short kick off has a lesser risk factor attached to it.

[NZFan]

Don’t know how I feel about this one. On one hand I never really liked the rule as the whole team is penalised (quite heavily as well in respect to a 10 metre drop out or kick off) for a genuine mistake of one player. On the other hand I think teams will aim to get the ball back from finding touch more often as the penalty for getting it wrong is less.

If the rule change was accompanied by removing the rule where teams get the ball back for finding touch I think it would be fine. That rule has never seemed logical to me. If it was a kick from general play you wouldn’t get the ball back.

[Cowabunga]

Won't the second/third tackle probably be more dangerous if a team loses either on the kick off especially? Teams always try and load up defensively on whoever is taking those runs if they give up the ball. If we give one up whether we are winning or losing I'd expect Tino, Keenan and Moe to be lining up whoever is taking those runs to try force an error if it's down field.

That's before getting into the fact that if your 8 points down with a couple of minutes to go, you now have to take more time to get those points + score two tries if a team takes the short drop out which is going to take up more time to just get a play the ball, this instead of cutting it down to 6 and teams are way happier defending on their own line with the fullback.

So many teams are going to abuse this I feel hahahhaa, I'm a bit mad that we're not in a great spot to do it with no aerial threats.

[Upthetits]

Bit of a write up about aj at centre

https://rugbyleaguewriters.com/nrl-2...ove-to-centre/

[Whats Doing]

Email forwarded to members who pledged 2020 membership where invitation to be sent out where the Titans 2024 squad is to introduced. Event to be held at the Star Casino on 28 February 2024. . Great initiative by the Titans and well done

[lonegull]

Email forwarded to members who pledged 2020 membership where invitation to be sent out where the Titans 2024 squad is to introduced. Event to be held at the Star Cadino. Great initiative by the Titans and well done

Yeah agree how good was the personalised email makes you feel good about where the titans have come from and even more excited where they are heading

[Whats Doing]

Yeah agree how good was the personalised email makes you feel good about where the titans have come from and even more excited where they are heading

Yep agree 100 per cent

[Hail Sezer]

https://www.titans.com.au/news/2024/...r-akp-in-2024/

Lofi reckons he’s put on nearly 10kg from last season but hasn’t lost any pace

I’m calling cap on that much weight gain but I hope he is heavier and has a heavier carry to contribute more on exit sets