Everyone believes that to win at slots, you only need pure luck. While that’s not wrong, knowing the game’s Return to Player Percentage (RTP) gets you closer to that goal. This is because a higher percentage gives you a better chance of seeing more returns on your spins. If you’re a player in Ghana checking … Read more
The Grand Final of Our Nightmares: This week is not a good week to be a scalper. Nor is it much of a week to be a Rabbitohs fan. The NRL has jacked up the price of tickets but their true value may not be worth the paper they are printed on. In economic terms, the … Read more
As we wait for season 2011 to get underway, the Making The Nut team will take a look back over the last 20 years to name the 20 best players at all sixteen teams. Merged teams will take account of both clubs pre-merger and the only rule is that a player must have played at … Read more
As we wait for season 2011 to get underway, the Making The Nut team will take a look back over the last 20 years to name the 20 best players at all sixteen teams. Merged teams will take account of both clubs pre-merger and the only rule is that a player must have played at … Read more
This Week in History:1997, September 28Newcastle upset the favoured many in the ARL Grand Final, as meanwhile Brisbane defeat Cronulla the night before to win the Super League premiership. The seconds ticked down. Newcastle attacked the Manly line. Future immortal Andrew Johns ignores field goal calls and heads down a narrow blind side. Suddenly, on … Read more
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
Suddenly, the name made perfect sense. It had always been a clever portmanteau; distinctive and memorable. But, now, the melding of two obvious pop culture references into The Brian Jonestown Massacre had been cast in perfect relief against Anton Newcombe’s overriding objective when he formed the band way back when. “One of my super-duper goals was to … Read more
From The Couch: Round 19, 2019 Coyne Goes … And So He Should: Mark Coyne stepped down from the Australian Rugby League Commission on Saturday and not before time. It was something he should have had the decency to do the moment he was arrested. No position can be held to a higher standard. These are … Read more
It’s funny where you can garner life lessons from. They can come from the musings of great historic philosophers, right through to a seemingly off-hand remark from a casual acquaintance that parks itself in the forefront of your mind as having much greater significance than you first gave it credit for. And in rare cases, … Read more
It is Monday morning, Sydney time and Ricky Ponting will almost certainly play his last Test innings at Perth in a few hours. And I feel more than a tinge of sadness, despite the bad feelings I have often had towards him. There was once a time when Ricky Ponting did little but infuriate me. … Read more