Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:41 pm  

20 mins of entertainment crammed into an hour .....

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:47 pm  

I enjoyed it, however when they had the 9 a side matches I would have liked to witness more of the matches than MG, Fittler and Lam speaking. Matty Goreman is a monster, how he managed to back up and carry a teammate in a fitness test just days after a heart op is unreal. Good to see the English lads doing well and progressing, Frixou is massive and had a trial at Salford.

I'd like to have known more about the players and how they managed to get to that stage. Most interesting back story from what we heard for me was Kevin Reed from the USA.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:46 pm  

Really enjoyed watching it. Guess we'll get to know the players more now they've been whittled down a bit.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:51 pm  

Episode 2 is on now! Thought it was going to be weekly so surprised to see it on now.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:57 pm  

Episode 2 - they have a trained psychologist on the team, yet still left a guy on the rooftop for 30 mins who was clearly freaking out. I guess it made good TV, but surely would have made more sense for the pro to talk to him, rather than Adrian Lam (I'm guessing she wasn't there for the task which in itself seems an odd ommision ?)

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:01 pm  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

Episode 2 is on now! Thought it was going to be weekly so surprised to see it on now.

Every Thursday + Friday after the game.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:34 pm  

One of the English lads went out tonight. Was a tad harsh on him seeing as he didn't have chance to play in the game due to injury. I bet the captain feels guilty he swapped him into the bottom 3.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:28 am  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

One of the English lads went out tonight. Was a tad harsh on him seeing as he didn't have chance to play in the game due to injury. I bet the captain feels guilty he swapped him into the bottom 3.

I didn't quite get it. The coaches didn't put him in the bottom three yet when he got swapped they then voted him out. It did seem really harsh.

Really enjoying the series so far. I think they could tweak it and improve it by showing a bit more of the matches and maybe a bit more of the players down time but overall it certainly beats watching most other rubbish on the box.

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:17 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I didn't quite get it. The coaches didn't put him in the bottom three yet when he got swapped they then voted him out. It did seem really harsh.

Really enjoying the series so far. I think they could tweak it and improve it by showing a bit more of the matches and maybe a bit more of the players down time but overall it certainly beats watching most other rubbish on the box.

I thought it was the rest of the team that pick the bottom 3, the captain can then choose if he wants to swap one of them out. the coaches then decide from the bottom three.

I'm enjoying the series, the captain's runs so far have been brutal!

Re: NRL rookie reality TV series : Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:54 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I didn't quite get it. The coaches didn't put him in the bottom three yet when he got swapped they then voted him out. It did seem really harsh.

Really enjoying the series so far. I think they could tweak it and improve it by showing a bit more of the matches and maybe a bit more of the players down time but overall it certainly beats watching most other rubbish on the box.

I think the coaches come to a decision of their weakest rookie. But the players vote for the bottom 3 so then the coaches select their lowest rated rookie from the bottom 3 and he leaves.

I think the coaches may have binned off Elias if the bottom 3 had Karo been kept in it. Freddy didn't seem impressed with him running it on the 5th twice and said that if he wants to play union he should go back to it.