Reds 2014

[USARugger]

He's been running just as well as pretty much any Australian lock over the past few weeks anyway.

I think @Scrubber2050 's point holds some water though. Forwards are still often catching the ball a little flat-footed. At times this is because the previous ball-carrier did not get over the line or was hit behind it but at other times that isn't the case.

We look so, so much more dangerous after 2-3 phases of the forwards actually hitting the ball at a gallop and not a canter. Guess I've got next week on my subconscious, huh?

@Braveheart81

What are you referring to (serious question)? If the Reds org are sponsored by or promoting any sort of pseudoscience I may actually write them.

 

[Scrubber2050]

We don't have any there at the moment

 

[Braveheart81]

@Braveheart81

What are you referring to (serious question)? If the Reds org are sponsored by or promoting any sort of pseudoscience I may actually write them.

I was probably a bit over the top in my previous post, but it is definitely true that there has been very little clinical research into krill oil and the few studies that have been done have been very short term and using only a very small sample size.

The advertising should be "we think this does x as well as fish oil but we're not really sure."

 

[gel]

I really think that people are starting to be dicks in trying to find fault now.

How about Powerade, @Braveheart81?

 

[EatSleepDrinkRuck]

Really? I didn't think Braveheart was being c^%ty at all.

It seems a very important, valid point that there are not many peer reviewed scientific papers for a product sold by a sponsor of the team that we are discussing.

 

[gel]

Oh do fuck right off.

Its a little dig, and you and he know it.

 

[EatSleepDrinkRuck]

Seriously guy? Check your sarcasmo-meter.

I was agreeing with you 100% - its funny how much people enjoy shitting on the reds with only a 1/4 of a decent season under their belts...

 

[tranquility]

Yeppppp. It's all gone Pete Tong in here.

 

[Braveheart81]

It really wasn't.

As someone who takes fish oil products because I have an arthritic condition, I have done a fair bit of reading into krill oil since it came on the market in such a big way and asked several doctors about it.

The overall consensus is that there is very little research into it and as it is sold as a supplement there is very little regulation around what can and can't be said when advertising it.

I have no issues with the company involved and only in relation to this product which is sold by many similar companies.

 

[TOCC]

Only just thought of this because I was talking about him over on the Rebels thread, but the Reds look like they could use a guy like Sean McMahon. Not entirely different to Ah-Wong I guess. You boys really just look like you're missing a big outside runner at the moment. Simmons and Horwill are carrying solidly, but they're not exactly explosive runners who are messing up defensive lines and patterns. Likewise Quirk and Schatz. Not sure how long McMahon is contracted for down here, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if he gets a call from the Reds at the end of the year.

You will be able to quote me on this from that start of the season but I said Sean was one of the best talents to slip through the Reds system in recent years, but the issue is that it came down to either him or Browning, and I still think the Reds made the right decision for the long term.

Maybe he could have swapped with someone like Quirk, it's a difficult one.. I guess the thing for the Reds is at least they have recruited Whitaker from the Rebels, he obviously did a good job last year so it should be a breath of fresh air for the Reds.

 

[gel]

Seriously guy? Check your sarcasmo-meter.

I was agreeing with you 100% - its funny how much people enjoy shitting on the reds with only a 1/4 of a decent season under their belts.

How am I supposed to know that you are not being serious?

I don't know you and can't tell if you are being sarcastic. Put a friggen wink or something next to it if you're joking.

TBH, have a look at a lot of the comments over on twf (specially that forum hound from rockingham with a zillion posts), the roar, or even in these here threads - it is just one big pile of vomit spewing forth from force and tah fans.

How am I supposed to know that you may well be one of the (seemingly very few) well intentioned?

 

[RugbyReg]

You will be able to quote me on this from that start of the season but I said Sean was one of the best talents to slip through the Reds system in recent years, but the issue is that it came down to either him or Browning, and I still think the Reds made the right decision for the long term.

Maybe he could have swapped with someone like Quirk, it's a difficult one.. I guess the thing for the Reds is at least they have recruited Whitaker from the Rebels, he obviously did a good job last year so it should be a breath of fresh air for the Reds.

Cordingly?

 

[No4918]

I was probably a bit over the top in my previous post, but it is definitely true that there has been very little clinical research into krill oil and the few studies that have been done have been very short term and using only a very small sample size.

The advertising should be "we think this does x as well as fish oil but we're not really sure."

Not over the top, I thought it was very funny. Chill guys, I doubt BH81 is so daft as to blame the performance issues on a sponsors product.

Agree with regards to the benefits, or lack there of. Always annoys me when Dick Graham states it helps them recover in the ad. For anyone interested, there is an increasing amount of research coming through about the supplements industry and proclaimed benefits. None that I have seen is supportive.

 

[EatSleepDrinkRuck]

How am I supposed to know that you are not being serious?

Sorry brother - I just realised that I'm still wearing these Badger and Force tags so that would have been extra confusing.

We really need a win against the ponies this week - it could get to be a rought season otherwise

 

[USARugger]

I was probably a bit over the top in my previous post, but it is definitely true that there has been very little clinical research into krill oil and the few studies that have been done have been very short term and using only a very small sample size.

The advertising should be "we think this does x as well as fish oil but we're not really sure."

Oh okay, I can live with that.

Not worth opening the Pandora's Box of Omega-3s research but even if most of the claims turn out to be crap (helps with recovery..good one, Dick) it's a pretty benign compound unless you've consuming it in ridiculous amounts.

 

[Braveheart81]

Oh okay, I can live with that.

Not worth opening the Pandora's Box of Omega-3s research but even if most of the claims turn out to be crap (helps with recovery.good one, Dick) it's a pretty benign compound unless you've consuming it in ridiculous amounts.

It's probably a million times more effective than the product of a previous sponsor of the Western Force.

Apologies for opening this unnecessary can of worms in the Reds thread. Honestly, it wasn't with the aim of having a go at the Reds.

 

[Train Without a Station]

Whatever BH. You guys are sponsored by Volvo. Basically the lamest cars going round!

 

[Braveheart81]

Whatever BH. You guys are sponsored by Volvo. Basically the lamest cars going round!

My first two cars were hand-me-down Volvo 240s.

Are the Reds sponsored by the truck and bus division of Volvo rather than the cars?

 

[Pfitzy]

This sponsorship thing at the Reds is starting to smell a bit fishy....










I'll see myself out. Anyone seen my coat?

 

[Train Without a Station]

I believe Jeep is a minor sponsor based on all the lads social media shout outs.

Clearly wins in the "shit marketing catchphrase" aspect, with "You bought a Jeep!?"