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From The Couch: Round 7

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on April 17, 2017 5 Comments
From The Couch: Round 7

From The Couch: Round 7 Daley Names Every Eligible Player Bar Cody Walker in NSW Squad, Manages To Mess It Up Nonetheless: Laurie Daley has no idea. Absolutely zero. That is what naming a 52-man squad for an Origin game in six weeks says. What an astonishingly ludicrous display of public ineptitude it was by […]

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 7

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on April 16, 2017 2 Comments
The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 7

The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 7 South Sydney v Canterbury 3-Robert Jennings (Sou) 2-Michael Lichaa (Bul) 1-Braidon Burns (Sou) Judge: Rohan Kendall Newcastle v Sydney Roosters 3-Josh Starling (New) 2-Joe Wardle (New) 1-Trent Hodkinson (New) Judge: Cliff Bingham Brisbane v Gold Coast 3-Tyrone Roberts-Davis (GC) 2-Dale Copley (GC) 1-Kane Elgey (GC) Judge: Cliff Bingham […]

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 6

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 6

The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 6 Brisbane v Sydney Roosters 3-Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Roo) 2-Tautau Moga (Bri) 1-Latrell Mitchell (Roo) Judge: Brendan Curran Newcastle v Canterbury 3-Sione Mata’utia (New) 2-Peter Mata’utia (New) 1-Brett Morris (Bul) Judge: Nick Tedeschi Penrith v South Sydney 3-Braidon Burns (Sou) 2-Michael Oldfield (Pen) 1-Leilani Latu (Pen) Judge: Nick Tedeschi Manly […]

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From The Couch: Round 6

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on April 8, 2017 4 Comments
From The Couch: Round 6

The End of an Era: Fans of Rugby League should watch as much of the Melbourne Storm as they can in 2017 because it will be the last we will see of one of the great Rugby League teams to ever come together. Cooper Cronk’s departure is the first rock to go in the foundation […]

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From The Couch: Round 5

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on April 2, 2017 7 Comments
From The Couch: Round 5

The Short Dropout: The short kickoff and dropout have long been advocated by these pages so it has been so great to see the Bulldogs using it. It was used almost exclusively on Thursday night and it got some great results including making Jordan Kahu look like an absolute dill. It could be argued that […]

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 5

Filed in NRL by on April 2, 2017 1 Comment
The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 5

Canterbury v Brisbane 3-Anthony Milford (Bri) 2-Brenko Lee (Bul) 1-Jordan Kahu (Bri) Judge: Rohan Kendall Sydney Roosters v Manly 3-Latrell Mitchell (Roo) 2-Daniel Tupou (Roo) 1-Frank Winterstein (Man) Judge: Nick Tedeschi North Queensland v South Sydney 3-Braidon Burns (Sou) 2-Kyle Feldt (Cow) 1-Anthony Cherrington (Sou) Judge: Darren McNamara Cronulla v Newcastle 3-Ken Sio (New) 2-Valentine […]

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From The Couch: Round 4, 2017

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From The Couch: Round 4, 2017

  Taylor Had To Go … Six Months Back: Jason Taylor had to be sacked. He should never have been hired. And after the debacle that was the move to get rid of Robbie Farah he should have been dumped at the end of last season. It was only a spineless and out-of-touch board and […]

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 4

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 4

The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 4 South Sydney v Sydney Roosters 3-Angus Crichton (Sou) 2-Robert Jennings (Sou) 1-Tom Burgess (Sou) Judge: Rohan Kendall Penrith v Newcastle 3-Sam Stone (New) 2-Jacob Saifiti (New) 1-Brock Lamb (New) Judge: Darren McNamara Brisbane v Canberra 3-Aidan Sezer (Can) 2-Jordan Rapana (Can) 1-Anthony Milford (Bri) Judge: Brendan Curran Manly […]

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The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 3

Filed in NRL, Willie M by on March 19, 2017 2 Comments
The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 3

The 2017 Willie M Medal: Round 3 Melbourne v Brisbane 3-Korbin Sims (Bri) 2-Anthony Milford (Bri) 1-Will Chambers (Mel) Judge: Rohan Kendall Canterbury v New Zealand 3-Issac Luke (NZ) 2-Ata Hingano (NZ) 1-Adam Elliot (Bul) Judge: Darren McNamara Gold Coast v Parramatta 3-Semi Radradra (Par) 2-Brad Takairangi (Par) 1-Daniel Alvaro (Par) Judge: Brendan Curran Newcastle […]

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From The Couch: Round 3, 2017

Filed in NRL by on March 18, 2017 9 Comments
From The Couch: Round 3, 2017

Bring Back the Bears: News came out this week that the North Sydney Bears were prepared to launch a bid to buy the Gold Coast Titans. It would be smart of the NRL to actually work with the Bears for a number of reasons. For starters, the Gold Coast has not been able to build […]

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