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
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 part of our excitement about the Sydney and especially Melbourne Spring Racing Carnivals and all that they entail, Making The Nut is pleased to bring you a ten-part ‘Turf Heroes’ series, where Cliff Bingham will look back fondly upon the great memories these champions thoroughbreds embedded in his mind. Part six of the series … Read more
This story was first published on Punting Ace in 2008 This weekend, at Radio City Music Hall, the NFL will hold its 73rd draft. All thirty two teams will have finished with all the research, the workouts, the film study, the interviews, the measurements and the forecasting and will be complete and with crossed fingers and … Read more
One issue that has been brought back to the forefront of my attention as a result of reactions to Making The Nut’s February 9 piece about Kelli Underwood and the role of women in sports coverage is that both female sportspeople and female journalists/ broadcasters rarely get the best of it when it comes opportunities … Read more
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 the … Read more
As we head towards the rugby league finals, the Milestone takes the Delorean forward another decade this week, this time focussing on rugby league in the 1980’s. This Week in History1986, September 21Canterbury win through to the Grand Final to take on arch-rivals Parramatta in the latest chapter of their ongoing battle for supremacy in the 1980s. … Read more
Clint Gutherson struck as a highly astute buy by the Parramatta Eels. Five rounds in and it looks like he is a total bust. He has been dreadfully underwhelming with poor hands and worse judgment. The Eels have nobody who deserves his spot so perhaps it is just time to bite the bullet and bring … Read more
It is not often that my mind drifts to the words of nineteenth century Congregationalist clergymen but every now and then, when the stars are in retrograde and the need to reassert one’s self becomes prominent, wise words from yesterday can prove comforting and can get to the nut of your problem. Rummaging for and … Read more