Archive for September, 2019
From The Couch 2019: Finals Week 2
From The Couch 2019: Finals Week 2 Sin Bin Trigger Happy Madness: There were plenty of sin bins across the weekend. Most were deserved. The black and white nature of some though just make the game look weak and the officials look stupid. Automatic sin bins for a bit of slap or a little tickle […]
From The Couch 2019: Finals Week 1
From The Couch 2019: Finals Week 1 The 2019 Season Awards: With the regular season done and dusted, here are the Making The Nut season awards. Player of the Year: James Tedesco – All class and just continues to get better Coach of the Year: Des Hasler – Took a team that were bottom four […]
From The Couch 2019: Round 25
Hudson Young Deserves A Long Spell: Hudson Young should not be playing in Rugby League in 2020. That is how egregious his attempt to eye gouge Adam Pompey was, despite Pompey jumping to his defence and Ricky Stuart making ridiculous assertions post-game that it wasn’t a gouge. At the very least it was a […]
The 2019 Willie M Medal: Round 25
The 2019 Willie M Medal: Round 25 The Willie M Medal came down to the final weekend of the season and it is with great dishonour, significant disdain and incredible disappointment that I award this year’s Willie M Medal to Ben Hunt. Hunt pipped the awful Bryce Cartwright with Darius Boyd back in third in […]
From The Couch 2019: Round 24
Finding Love for Gal Not Easy: The imminent retirement of a long-serving player typically swells up feelings of nostalgia, of respect, of love. Even for players not all that favoured, this is usually the case. It does not seem that way with Paul Gallen. Despite playing over 300 games – all with one club […]
The 2019 Willie M Medal: Round 24
The 2019 Willie M Medal: Round 24 North Queensland v Canterbury 3-Adam Elliot (Bul) 2-Corey Harawira-Naera (Bul) 1-John Asiata (Cow) Judge: Nick Tedeschi New Zealand v South Sydney 3-Blake Green (War) 2-Adam Blair (War) 1-Peta Hiku (War) Judge: Nick Tedeschi Brisbane v Parramatta 3-Jamayne Isaako (Bri) 2-Waqa Blake (Par) 1-Michael Jennings (Par) Judge: Nick Tedeschi […]
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