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From The Couch: Round 7

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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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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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From The Couch: Grand Final

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on October 4, 2016 6 Comments
From The Couch:  Grand Final

Grand Final for the Ages: For the second straight year, we have had a truly incredible Grand Final. It was a battle between probably the two best teams of 2016. And both teams absolutely delivered. Cronulla shot from the gate like a bull with its tail on fire. They were unstoppable. They brought such an […]

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From The Couch: Finals Week 2

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on September 19, 2016 3 Comments
From The Couch: Finals Week 2

Stranger Things Characters: The characters of Stranger Things and their Rugby League equivalents: Dr Martin Brenner – Todd Greenberg: Silent, manipulating all, in charge of an evil empire. Chief Hopper – Cameron Smith: Walks the line between good and evil but has the respect of all.

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From The Couch: Round 26

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on September 5, 2016 10 Comments
From The Couch: Round 26

The NRL is Killing Rugby League: The NRL is a joke. It is the least funny joke you can imagine, akin to watching the worst of The Umbilical Brothers while you are getting stabbed in the leg by Carrot Top and one of his stupid props. That is the only way to explain how on […]

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From The Couch: Round 25

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on August 29, 2016 7 Comments
From The Couch: Round 25

Happy Birthday, Rugby League: Rugby League turns 121 today – August 29 – so it is a happy birthday to the Greatest Game of All. Rugby League causes plenty of frustrations, creates plenty of drama, is full of heartache and angst but it really is the best thing in the world. There is no game […]

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From The Couch: Round 23

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on August 15, 2016 7 Comments
From The Couch: Round 23

Has Anyone On the Match Review Committee Ever Watched A Game of Rugby League? That would be the first qualification that should be checked. There is certainly nobody there with a high school degree, an IQ of a Bunker official, the common sense of a drunk rugby union coach or eyesight better than 20/60. That […]

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From The Couch: Round 22

Filed in From The Couch, NRL by on August 8, 2016 5 Comments
From The Couch: Round 22

The Bunker, Home of the Moron: Bernard Sutton strikes at less than 50-50 in the Bunker and amazingly is still employed. His performance on Sunday in the Tigers-Cowboys game was beyond absurd. Disallowing the Javid Bowen try when sent up a try and no clear evidence was bad. To award James Tedesco a try when […]

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