Daly Dollars: Daly Cherry-Evans did the right thing by taking the cash and the power and signing with the Titans. The present may be bleak at the Gold Coast but there is room to build a future. The same can’t be said of Manly and in particular Cherry-Evans at Brookvale, who clearly seemed to have alienated … Read more
The NRL Should Apologise: The NRL should apologise to Brett Stewart and Manly. The inconsistency shown in penalties handed out to Brett Stewart in 2009 and then Todd Carney, and more tellingly, Benji Marshall, has been absurd and the justification for same ludicrous. Brett Stewart is a player with a good record of behaviour who was … Read more
A Sad Day for Rugby League: Rugby league suffered one of its darkest days last Thursday when word came through that Immortal Arthur Beetson had died, aged only 66, of a heart attack. It was the premature end to a life devoted to rugby league. Sadly, I never got to see Beetson play. I saw none … Read more
Rugby league fans should take note: this is the most definitive list in ordering rugby league talent anywhere. No other publication will lay it out so explicitly and no other writer will delve so deep. No punches are pulled and no feelings are spared. These are the top 50 players from 2010 in order of … Read more
Douchebag Tale #1: To me it seems completely untenable for Todd Carney or Nate Myles to ever play for the Roosters again. Of course, both probably will. That is The Way of the Roosters. The two, along with Frank-Paul Nu’uausala, were out on the drink only seven days after the playing group at the Roosters agreed … Read more