Stats don’t lie – Tame Tigers enduring their worst season ever
It hasn’t been a good year for the Wests Tigers. Tim Simona has been de-registered for betting on NRL games. Coach Jason Taylor was sacked three weeks into the season. And James Tedesco, Aaron Woods, and Mitchell Moses have...
Cutting the Grub- Josh Reynolds exit from Belmore
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Bulldogs attempt to build on field success by discarding an off field champion
One of the best spectacles from the latest weekend in the glorious world of rugby league was the match between the Knights and the Bulldogs and the...
Why the Canberra Raiders are underperforming?
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At the start of the year many of the experts had the Canberra Raiders taking out the title in 2017, oh how wrong they were. It’s not all over yet but things just haven’t worked for...
Hasler’s Dogs of Bore need a refresher
DESSY’S Dogs have their tails between their legs, struggling to outplay the last-placed Newcastle Knights and looking abysmal in almost every other game this season. So what’s the problem?
The team, on paper, is strong. There are rep players scattered...
2017 NRL: Newcastle Knights’ Biggest Problem Is Nathan Brown
Should the Newcastle Knights sack Nathan Brown?
Many seem to forgive Newcastle Knights head coach Nathan Brown for the clubs’ woes over the past two years of football. With an inexperienced squad and a football department deep in debt, Brown’s...
2017 NRL: NSW Must Adjust Their Attitude if They Are to Change Their Origin...
There is a sense of what could have been about this Origin series for New South Wales.
After game one they were heavy favourites having outplayed a Queensland side that was on the verge of being forced to make the...
2017 NRL: Who Underperformed and Who Improved the Most in the Origin Series
So, another State of Origin series has come and gone and for the 11th time in 12 years Queensland hoisted the shield. The 2017 series looked promising for Laurie Daley's New South Wales who demolished and old, run down,...
2017 NRL: Why the Blues Will Bounce Back and Win
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FOR struggling NSW Blues fans the feeling is the same as we approach Origin from one year to the next.
The team is named, you get optimistic. The highs of a win, the lows of a loss, and the disappointment...
2017 NRL: Is a Lack of Club Loyalty Ruining the NRL?
I think it is fair to say the 2017 NRL season has been hijacked by shock announcements of players swapping teams mid-season and new signings for 2018. This season has been messy as countless players have shuffled teams while...
2017 Super League: Where Does the Future of Magic Weekend Stand?
With speculation over where next year’s Magic Weekend will be held growing, we take a look at four possible venues that could host the event in 2018.
Newcastle
The city of Newcastle has hosted the event for the past three years...
2017 NRL: Manly Allegations Set to Reignite Conversation Around Salary cap
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If allegations of salary cap breaches at Manly, or any other club currently being probed, are substantiated in the future, they might just become the dumbest club in the history of the game.
In every case of systematic salary cap...
2017 NRL: Why the NRL Should Take Games Away From ANZ
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So, this is an easy one. Crowds just aren't showing up to ANZ Stadium. Week after week two teams meet in front of a largely empty stadium sucking the ambience out of a match no matter how important or...
2017 NRL: Ben Hunt vs DCE – Was the Right Choice Made?
The selection of Ben Hunt in the Queensland side for the Game III decider against New South Wales reeks of pure Broncos bias. Ben Hunts’ form since his error ridden Grand Final performance in 2015 against North Queensland has...
Who’s the Best Option to Replace Johnathan Thurston?
Who is Queensland’s best option to replace Johnathan Thurston?
How do you replace one of the best players of all time? It’s not easy to do, just ask Anthony Milford. But as head towards the third and final State of...
Finest Origin series of modern era poised for thrilling finale
Queensland’s victory in Origin two will go down as one of the finest in recent memory. After the first game of the series, all the talk was centred around why the Blues were on the verge of a series...
Why Paul Green is right to derail the Hess Express
Over the past fortnight, Cowboys premiership winning coach Paul Green has copped criticism by declaring forward prodigy Coen Hess, not ready for the demands of State of Origin football.
In what’s to be another unpopular opinion, I share these same...
2017 mid-season predictions
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Now that we've reached the halfway mark of the season, it is time we took stock of the first 14 rounds of the Telstra premiership and began forecasting what is to come at the back-end of...
Queensland’s Loyalty Formula In Need Of Drastic Re-Write
For over a decade the Queensland State of Origin team has prided itself on loyalty. A tried and tested formula once reknown for its long running success, is in need of a drastic re-write. After a comprehensive 28-4 loss...
Why Michael Maguire is on borrowed time at South Sydney
After yet another humiliating loss on Friday night, Michael Maguire’s days at South Sydney are numbered.
Or at least they should be, given the way many clubs within the NRL have chosen to deal with coaches when they hit hard...
Bennett’s gamble pays off, Eels’ 2016 salary cap rort comes back to haunt them
When it was announced in December last year that Benji Marshall would be joining the Broncos on a one-year deal, many fans were left dumbfounded, wondering how exactly Bennett planned on fitting him into a seasoned outfit. The halves...
