Tag: From The Couch
Season 2009: Round 7
From The Couch Saturday Afternoon Football: It was delightful to see Saturday afternoon rugby league again. How hard is it to schedule a game at 3.30 every Saturday afternoon? It would be one more live match for Fox Sports, it would be another day game for punters and it would be a throwback to […]
Season 2009: Round 6
From The Couch That’s Entertainment: Rugby league can, at times, get bogged down in structure, controversy and ill will. There are some players who do things on the field, however, that make it a joy to watch the sport. They can do what few others can. Through courage, skill, athleticism and smarts, they make […]
Season 2009: Round 5
From The Couch Origin I: The time has come to start thinking Origin and if you are a New South Wales selector, you better be thinking change. I, of course, have no faith that this will be the case so have taken it upon myself to name a team that would surely be more competitive […]
Season 2009: Round 4
From The Couch Hit The Showers You Grub: Paul Gallen managed to sink his already filthy reputation further into the muck on the weekend when he hit Ben Roberts in the throat with a vicious elbow/forearm jolt off the ball. The Cronulla captain, at least for the meanwhile, has dually been cited and will spend […]
Season 2009: Round 3
From The Couch Down and Out at Brookvale Oval: Manly turned in one of the least intelligent and most arrogant displays of rugby league in recent memory when going down to the Penrith Panthers on Monday night. It was an embarrassing display from the defending premiers that sent their title defence into a tail spin. […]
Season 2009: Rounds 1 and 2
From The Couch Is NRL Headquarters Sydney’s Newest Crack Den? The NRL has again made the wrong decision in deducting Canterbury two competition points for fielding fourteen players in the dying moments of their clash with Penrith. Canterbury at one stage had fourteen players on the field though at no point were all involved with […]
Season 2008: Round 30
From The Couch Harry Bath… Rugby league lost another icon of the game over the weekend when the great Harry Bath passed away. Bath was one of the great players of his era, an innovator and a star, before taking those qualities to the coaching ranks. A skilful ball-player and one of the great goal-kicking […]
Season 2008: Round 29
From The Couch The Greatest Press Conference of Them All… Well, Craig Bellamy and Brian Waldron did not leave anybody in doubt as to what they were thinking at the post-match press conference last Friday night. Bellamy and Waldron unleashed on the NRL and the judiciary panel over the suspension of skipper Cameron Smith. Bellamy […]
Season 2008: Round 28
From The Couch Nine Fucks It Up Again… Channel Nine did rugby league and their network another great disservice by not showing one of the great modern day classics live (or at a reasonable hour for that matter) into Melbourne despite the fact the Melbourne Storm, the defending premiers, faced elimination. It was one of […]
Season 2008: Round 27
From The Couch A New Top Eight… The McIntyre System, simply, is ridiculous. It is inherently unfair, confusing and convoluted and if I ever find this McIntyre bastard I will whip him until his ears bleed for concocting such stupidity. One needs only look at the weekend just gone to see how absurd the system […]
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