Tag: From The Couch
Season 2008: Round 6
From The Couch Vale, Big Red…On a cold and wintry Saturday evening at the always comfortable Toyota Park, “Big Red” Lance Thompson played his last game of top grade rugby league. It was fitting that the workhorse backrower waved the game away at the venue he started at all the way back in 1995, when […]
Season 2008: Round 5
From The Couch Channeling Vince Lombardi, Panicking Like Nathan Brown…Jason Taylor did his best to channel the legend of Vince Lombardi when making the journey down from the box and calling his players into huddle mode with only twenty minutes remaining but all that was achieved was the assurance that Souths would not take the […]
Season 2008: Round 4
From The Couch Steven Folkes…It was time. It will catch us all and it has caught Steve Folkes. Graceful and with dignity, Folkes announced that he would not be seeking reappointment as the Bulldogs mentor. An association that has spanned over five hundred first grade games as a player and a head coach will end […]
Season 2008: Round 3
From The Couch Paul Gallen is a Cheap Thug…Cronulla lock Paul Gallen is a cheap thug who should be suspended for at least a month for working over Anthony Laffranchi’s nasty facial wound. Gallen seemingly tore at the face of Laffranchi after the latter was tackled in a play that eventually won the Titans the […]
Season 2008: Round 2
From The Couch The Shoulder Charge…One would hope that the NRL does not take a reactionary stance and attempt to ban the shoulder charge. There were, without doubt, a number of unfortunate incidents involving the shoulder charge over the weekend that certainly did no favours for the image of the game. There have also been […]
Season 2008: Round 1
From The Couch Non-Issue of the Week…the Riley Brown tackle. Riley Brown has been lambasted from many quarters for being the third man into a tackle that dislocated Craig Wing’s shoulder. There seems little doubt that the Roosters duo were holding him up to get smacked but to suggest it was a deliberate ploy to […]
2008 – Round 1
Non-Issue of the Week…the Riley Brown tackle. Riley Brown has been lambasted from many quarters for being the third man into a tackle that dislocated Craig Wing’s shoulder. There seems little doubt that the Roosters duo were holding him up to get smacked but to suggest it was a deliberate ploy to injure wing is […]
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