Tag: NRL
From The Couch: Finals Week 1
Lovebirds: It was with a fair bit of shock – and a good deal of yelling – that I was met with quite a scene on Friday night at the Sydney Football Stadium with NRL boss David Smith and bollocks beater and all-round hypocrite Phil Rothfield enjoying each other’s company throughout all of the […]
From The Couch: Round 26
The Willie M Team of the Year: Honouring Rugby League’s most consistently mediocre for 2014. To get the full results of the Willie M Medal, click here.
The 2014 Willie M Medal: Round 24
In an incredible weekend for the Willie M Medal, the top three in voting all received votes to make the Medal essentially a three-moron race. Cliff Bingham gave Joey Leilua three votes for his stinker against the Broncos, where he was given an absolute bath. And in the shambolic Sharks-Raiders clash, Josh McCrone got three […]
From The Couch: Round 23
Ballboy-Gate: Only in Rugby League. Only in our great game could we put in place a rule that swings on what a 12-year-old boy does. Only in Rugby League could a grown man who works as an official for the code blame the kid for the defeat. The 40/20 as it currently stands is utterly […]
From The Couch: Round 22
Bellamy Blow Up: Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy had every right to serve it up to referee Ashley Klein … just as John Cartwright should have left the NRL with a mighty up-yours to Henry Perenara and Matt Cecchin. The refereeing in the NRL has returned to the lows of the Robert Finch/Bill Harrigan days. […]
The 2014 Willie M Medal: Round 14
It is hard to fathom why Jarrod Mullen is constantly presented as a State of Origin prospect at the start of every year only for him to play himself out by the time NSW selection rolls around. Mullen is an average first grader at best. He provides little leadership while his kicking game is far […]
From The Couch: Round 13
Tears and Fears in the Capital: It should have been a good week in Canberra – none other than the New York Times declared the city a hipster haven, a natural beauty, the place to be – but the free agents clearly haven’t read the piece with the Raiders’ recruitment plans in tatters after […]
Lattes or lagers?
Today in the Sydney Morning Herald, Adrian Proszenko has written an article about the self imposed alcohol ban which the Sydney Roosters have put themselves on for the remainder of the 2014 season. You can check that story out here. The reason that the Roosters have imposed this ‘booze ban’ is to get themselves back […]
The 2014 Willie M Medal: Round 12
A couple of Canberra Raiders players have both put themselves in the hunt for the Willie M Medal with Jack Wighton moving into a tie for second while Josh McCrone is only five points from the lead. Sadly, this comes in a week when Wighton is touted as a potential Origin bolter while McCrone could […]
From The Couch: Round 12
The Right Decision: Well done to the NRL judiciary for not bowing to public hysteria and downgrading Josh Reynolds’ dangerous throw charge. Those comparing it to the tackle that damaged Alex McKinnon know nothing of Rugby League and are nothing but cheap and nasty scaremongers. Reynolds simply went in for a tackle around the […]
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