Tag: From The Couch
From The Couch: Round 23
Image: 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 […]
From The Couch: Round 22
Image: Canberra Raiders, I Am Available: Canberra Raiders chief executive Don Furner announced last week that a full review would be conducted into the abomination that has been 2011, a complete and utter disaster by any measure. In the past, the likes of Warren Ryan and Michael Hagan have been called in. And, of course, […]
From The Couch: Round 21
Image: A Champion Says Goodbye: In the list of great Canterbury players, Andrew Ryan will sit comfortably in the top 20. The word champion is overused but the Bulldogs skipper is one in the most genuine of senses. So it was with a great deal of sadness to hear Ryan announce his retirement on Monday. […]
From The Couch: Round 20
Image: Stop the Clock, Bring in the Bucks: It is rare that I ever agree with David Gyngell. He runs the station that has consistently raped rugby league for the better part of the last twenty years. He feels his station has some divine right to broadcast rugby league yet he does not believe his […]
From The Couch: Round 19
Image: The Axe Falls at Belmore: It came as no surprise. It was the decision that had to be made. As sad as it was, the Canterbury board had no choice but to tell Kevin Moore he would not be coaching Canterbury in 2012. This is a results-based game (despite claims by the Canberra board) […]
From The Couch: Round 18
Image: Origin III Analysis: Well, this was the easiest game of the series to breakdown. Queensland murdered New South Wales. They relied on class and emotion and it worked. The Blues were never in the contest. After all of Ricky Stuart’s mind games, the mysteries over selection and the like, the Blues were ill-prepared for […]
From The Couch: Round 17
Image: Let the Heavens Open and the Wrath Begin: In over 20 years of watching rugby league, rarely have I been as angered as much as I was on Saturday night. And let’s make this perfectly clear: I am an angry man when it comes to matters rugby league. The decision to bench David Stagg […]
From The Couch: Round 16
Image: Origin III Selection Notes: My first thought when Ricky Stuart named a 20-man squad: the 17-squad team named by the idiotic cricket selectors before the opening Test of last summer’s Ashes disaster. Simon Katich said about that ridiculous selection notion three weeks back: “it reeks of indecision”. That is exactly what we have heading […]
From The Couch: Round 15
Image: Origin II Wrap: What a game, what a monumental shift in the Origin landscape. Ricky Stuart rolled the dice and he came up trumps. New South Wales signalled their intent to play “small-ball” with team selection but just how small that would be didn’t become apparent until last Wednesday when NSW props received just […]
From The Couch: Round 14
Image: Origin II Thoughts: Well, we’re back to Sydney after a bottler of a series opener that saw Queensland dominate the match but just sneak home on the scoreboard. If the Blues side remained, for the most part, the same, there is no doubt New South Wales would have been the play as a marginal […]
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