Archie’s NRL Team of the Year
Red Bull has had a shot at naming it’s NRL team of the year. So I will too. There are not many similarities among them. Here is mine. Starting Side 1 – Kalyn Ponga Has carried Newcastle to the finals on his shoulders. A brilliant player who has had perhaps his ever best season in […]
Billy Will Be Off to Melbourne – You Can Bet Your Life on It
The news that Billy Slater has quit as Queensland not long after he said he was staying on makes what we told you would happen a month ago an absolute certainty. Billy is off to Melbourne to coach the Storm. There has been no announcement about it yet, but you can bet your life on […]
Did Brett Kenny Really Force This Ball? – Only the Bunker Could Tell – If They Had One BackThen
I was having this argument last night with an old mate of mine last night about the worth of the bunker in the NRL. He said it was a load of shit, and implored me to ring PVL and beg him to ditch it. I told my mate he was full of it. The jury […]
It’s All Over For the Broncos – This Season and For Quite a Few to Come
The Cowboys were brilliant in beating the Broncos tonight and ending any hope they had of making the finals, but the Brisbane team were the architects of their own demise. Reece Walsh is a sensation, but he makes too many bad decisions to lead a side as playmaker. His election to grubber kick on the […]
My All Time Origin Team – Not His
Rugby league writer Dean Ritchie has this morning named his best all-time State of Origin team (above). I reckon he has got it mighty wrong, just as New South Welshman always do. Here is my team. I would back them to beat Ritchie’s any day of the week. ——————————————— 1. Billy Slater 2. Jarryd Hayne […]
And You Say You Understand Footy – You’re Kidding Mate
This is what supposed rugby league expert Adam Pengilly wrote on Foxsports this morning, in an article bagging Laurie Daley and his blues. The bloke is an idiot who doesn’t people whose blood runs maroon. No mate, we don’t have JT, Cam, Cooper and Billy, Not out there on the playing field anyway. But we […]
A Pineapple and a Pumpkin
Mary Fowler is absolutely beautiful. And talented, and sweet, and rich, and loving, and loyal, and kind, and everything else good in a person too. She is a prize off the top shelf. Nathan Cleary won her. God only knows how. Talk about punching above your weight. I wish I was him. If only Mary […]
Don’t Say You Weren’t Told
Remember us writing this? Spot on we were. Billy Slater is a master coach, the next Jack Gibson or Bennett. Laurie Daley is an absolute bum. Great player, but couldn’t coach a pig to be dirty. None of the Blues want to play for him. Because tactically he doesn’t have a clue. And doesn’t understand […]
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man – And Here He Comes
You’re about to see something special tonight. Reece Walsh is coming off the bench, but he’s coming, don’t you worry about that. And he is going to rip Origin 2 apart. Walsh did it in the Broncos run home and in the Grand Final. Tonight he is going to do it again. In a few […]