Tag: From The Couch
From The Couch: Round 4
Image: Newcastle Do The Right Thing: The members of the Newcastle Knights did the right thing and they did it in style, selling the club to mining magnate Nathan Tinkler. The vote was overwhelming, 97% of all voters giving the green light for the sale to proceed. Only old grumps, weird fringe-dwellers and little Hitler’s […]
From The Couch 2011: Round 3
Image: A Champion, A Legend, An All-Time Great: Darren Lockyer should and will be remembered as one of the modern day greats who, in the last thirty years, only Andrew Johns and Wally Lewis can call themselves his peer. When you leave the likes of Mal Meninga, Alan Langer, Steve Price, Brad Clyde, Shane Webcke, […]
From The Couch 2011: Round 2
Image: The Necessity of Monday Night Football: The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that there would be no Monday Night Football after the new television deal was negotiated with clubs pushing for the Monday night game to be slashed because crowds are traditionally down. There is no more short-sighted organisation in sport than that of […]
From The Couch 2011: Round 1
Image: 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 […]
From The Couch: The Countdown to 2011
Image: Five Young Guns to Watch Kalifa Faifai-Loa: In two appearances for the Dragons in 2010, Faifai-Loa gave every indication that he would turn into a superstar winger. Moving to North Queensland was a smart move as he was going nowhere behind Brett Morris and Jason Nightingale. Faifai-Loa will need to create plenty himself but […]
From The Couch: Finals Week 1
Image: Billy Slater, Champion: It was wonderful to see Billy Slater win the Dally M Medal, a surprise and a most pleasant one at that. Slater finished the season off with a flourish and is a more deserving winner than pre-poll favourites Benji Marshall and Johnathan Thurston, both fine players but who have not been […]
Season 2010: Round 30
Image: From The Couch Grand Final Wrap: The drought is over, as they say, and fans of St George-Illawarra have been engaged in a much deserved celebration since the Dragons routed the Roosters 32-8 in what proved a Grand Final mismatch. The rains did not come for everyone, however, with Brian Smith still searching for […]
Season 2010: Round 29
Image: From The Couch Parramatta Fire Daniel Anderson: No club deserves misery more than the Parramatta Eels and no team is run by a bigger bunch of clowns than the Parramatta Eels. The Eels this year went into meltdown after everybody at the club bought into the idea that the club actually were the team […]
Season 2010: Round 28
Image: From The Couch Baby Toots Should Have Nailed It: Canberra fans will long remember Jarrod “Baby Toots” Croker’s penalty miss that cost the fast finishing Raiders a chance at a preliminary final berth. Croker was almost directly in front and only 25 metres out but he shanked it hard as he choked badly under […]
Season 2010: Round 27
Image: From The Couch That Scrum: Robert Finch may be quitting in a few weeks but he should do the honourable thing and quit right now after his justification of officials Shayne Hayne and Matt Cecchin over the farcical scrum that allowed the Roosters to equalise the Tigers and subsequently defeat them in extra-time. He, […]
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