leeroy*NRL* wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 6:44 pm
Quolls2019 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:05 pm
Storm 0, what a magnificent example of rugby league at is most average…the norm…and a finals game too.
you do realize many sports around the world you can be held to zero ??
in fact it happens alot in sports of many codes..
only AFL folk would not understand this.
Your team can shit as wooden spooners.. and still put 60points on a side.
you just do not see this in other sports
interesting the games will prob rate identical that night.
for one being a complete blowout
and the other coming down to final seconds...
Ahh the 2 different Leeroys:
Leroy the NormallyReasonableLeeroy & then
Leeroy the UnReasonableLeeroy
Yes, zero scores can happen in many sports, but at the elite levels?
Most sports have an emphasis on scoring, and scoring well.
Only soccer and baseball have regular zero scores at the elite level, maybe why neither sport are popular here.
At junior levels, yes zero scores, and thrashings with zero scores, even in Australian rules, happen, but normally indicates a massive imbalance between the teams, and is normally only enjoyed by the most obsessed fans of the winning teams.
Sport is a battle and a massacre (unless its Collingwood) is enjoyed by few.
In most elite sports a zero score is not, enjoyed, popular or normal.
Your comment that AFL fans don't understand 0 scores is a generalisation that is unworthy of you.
Just because it doesn’t happen at AFL level, doesn't mean we don’t understand it, can happen often in some junior leagues.
Most sports at junior levels have a grading system to minimise this very thing so that each team has a chance of winning and reduce massacres as much as possible.
Australian rules is played to score, no offside is the biggest factor in this, and at the elite level, the AFL, the number of high scores with very close games is a great demonstration of the effectiveness of the game.
Rugby League has changed it’s scoring system many times to increase it’s scores not reduce them and especially not to zero.
Do 0 scores happen at NRL level?
Yes, been some this season, but they cannot be seen as common.
And in the finals, where the best play the best, a zero score can only be seen, by reasonable people, as, at the very least, disappointing if not a failure.
The 2019 finals had 2 0 games the Parramatta playing in both.