Tag: 2010
The 2010 Year in Review
Brisbane Broncos Finish: 10th Expected Finish: 9th Assessment: Brisbane finished as expected by most this year though the faithful are no doubt devastated at missing the finals for the first time since the ’91 season. They were sitting on 11-9 with a month of the season remaining and had beaten the Dragons, Melbourne and the […]
Why a Dragons Victory Will Make Wayne Bennett Rugby League’s Greatest Coach
Jack Gibson is considered by many to be the greatest rugby league mentor ever and arguably the greatest Australian coach of any sport. His record is certainly something to behold. The rugged yet highly intelligent Gibson made an impact right away in coaching. In 1967, Gibson took over as head coach from Bert Holcroft at […]
The Mad Men of the NRL
Mad Men rates as the best television shows of the last five years. It is challenged only by Breaking Bad in terms of quality dramas and sits well above other fine and eminently enjoyable dramas like Friday Night Lights, Weeds, Californication and The Sopranos. Comedies such as 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How […]
Supercoach is for Suckers and Fox Sports Fantasy for Fools
The Fantasy Football League, the unimaginatively titled home-run fantasy league I have participated in since it was formed on that brilliant Tuesday evening back in 2006, just witnessed its most thrilling match with this year’s Grand Final determined by 2.1 points. The League is winner-take-all in every sense and while the margin of 2.1 points […]
The Four Heads that Had to Roll
News Limited did the right thing in firing the Storm’s four independent directors soon after the Deloitte report into the Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal was received at News headquarters in Surry Hills. Chairman Rob Moodie and his litigious and deluded cohorts had to go. They were doing irreparable damage to rugby league and the […]
What the Hell Happened to 2010? The Midseason Review
We are fifteen rounds in to the 2010 season and the best team in the competition is destined for the wooden spoon and the competition favourites and only team to stake legitimate title claims are perennial chokers St. George-Illawarra. Players are now defecting to AFL while those who have buggered off to play rugby union […]
Savage Beatdown on Caxton Street
I am not really sure what Craig Bellamy and the New South Wales selectors thought was going to happen last Wednesda y evening at Suncorp Stadium but for any decent judge of rugby league and personal character, State of Origin II played out exactly as expected. Queensland jumped from the blocks and New South Wales […]
Lost in Transition
“I know you’re worn out But I’m worn out too” -Richmond Fontaine, Post To Wire For good or ill, you reach a number of lucid realisations when you are riding the porcelain bus after a heavy night of popping vodka and ginger ale like creaming soda on a warm summer’s evening, throwing up seemingly every […]
It Was Over Before It Began
“O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth’s sleep at all?” -Futility, Wilfred Owen There are times when I sit alone, looking deeply into my half drank whiskey as Merle Haggard or Johnny Horton or Patsy Cline plays softly in the distance and wonder what the point of it all is. I feel like […]
Class Betrayal
Rugby league is a resolute sport born entirely out of a working class ideology that prizes egalitarianism and justice for the working man. The great split of 1895 came about over broken time payments and the refusal of the Rugby Football Union, fearful that their sport was heading to the masses the same as soccer, […]
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