Watching Jarryd Hayne’s performance over this State Of Origin series has made me think a lot about the players in our game that are natural leaders. The amazing thing about Hayne is that, 12 months ago, he was a very different person. A good athlete, a great player, but off the field he was starting…
Ditch digger or professional footballer? Hmmm, I know which one I would choose. With that in mind I can’t think of too many reasons for putting my choice in jeopardy, especially when one of those reasons is because I’m so fucking boring that a need to snort junk to have a good time. Thats just…
Remember when I said we’d be in for a lot of comedy value as Super League clubs started talking contracts with players, well, its under way! Some interesting things going on this week with young (Under 35) English halfback Richie Myler telling Salford to show him the money. Myler is a very average player, he…
The Sydney Roosters are in dead last place on the NRL ladder and its not looking like they will get any better any time soon. The side has completely given up, they are carrying millions in bad contracts and the players they hoped would kick on never have. The one area the Roosters have looked…
Stop, wait, stop what you are doing right now! The Broncos just haven’t had a good training session for a while so we are all going to just stop what we are doing and wait until they are ready to play ok. Yeah….right…. Its funny how Brisbane have always felt that the world revolves around…
See what I did there? So Joel Clinton is talking to a girl in Melbourne for some time and when he finds himself down there he hooks up with her in the teams hotel before the match against the Storm. Two adults engaging in consensual sex, sounds normal. However by doing this Clinton has breached…
Its a rare club that one can never, ever leave. In fact it was so rare that until recently there was only one member. Now, Nate Myles has shat his way into Rugby League folk law. It not eye gouging, its not drug taking, its not foul play ever even being a poor player. Its…
The Brisbane Broncos registered Tonie Carroll on Monday with the NRL and have named him on an extended five man bench for this weekend match against the New Zealand Warriors. No, I’m serious! The Broncos are on a bad losing streak and are out of the top 8 after a few months of terrible football,…
Death, Taxes, Super League clubs dying to sign an import… Ah yes, its that time of the year again, silly season in England just throws up so much comedy value. Whether its Sean Long’s utter desperation in his voice as he tries to convince people he wouldn’t be crushed if St Helens didnt re-sign him,…
There is a bidding war right now going on for the services of St George/Illawarra prop Juston Poore with a few clubs throwing around ridiculous amounts of money for his services. The best part is that Poore is rumored to be leaning towards taking a massive offer from the Sharks, who have no money, but…
Its be a great month for the Cronulla Sharks and it has only gotten worse today. Its been revealed that forward Reni Maitua has Tested positive to a banned substance. The test was taken three weeks ago and while some media reported that it was for either Cocaine or Ecstasy, Channel Nine and the Daily Telegraph are…
Some dirty bastard takes a picture of Willie Mason having a piss, and he is the one that gets fined. Imagine what thats like for a moment, to know that you can do somnething a bit silly and wake up the next day, not only to find it splashed all over the front page of…
French Rugby League was doing really well until a bit of money started to be generated by it and the French game was infiltrated by English coaches and officials. These leeches walked into a growing area that was showing great promise and started to tell the French how to become even more competitive….like England. It…
St Helens has announced that it has signed Sydney Roosters center Sia Soliola on a three year deal. The top team in Super League has signed Soliola from the second last placed side on the NRL ladder and will feature two overseas born centers next season. Now normally, a Super League club signing an overseas…
Its amazing how the World Cup was such a success for everyone except England and France, both of which basically killed off any hope that they were heading in the right direction. Its been known for decades that the English game is all but dead, however the pathetic performance of France was shocking to all….
Normally, I find nothing more exciting than a Test match. I grew up in an era of very good Test football where it was a real pinacle of the game. The mid season “ANZAC” Test though, its just not doing it for me any more. We throw two teams together with a five day preperation,…
Australian Test selectors have made few changes to the team beaten in last year World Cup Final. The team that wasn’t good enough will be given a chance to get some sort of false redemption against the World Champion New Zealand Rugby League team in Friday night in Sydney. New Zealand have made a few…
Rugby League began at Brunel in November 2007, when a few freshers who felt disenfranchised by the rugby union set-up at university thought about approaching the university about creating a separate rugby union side where they would feel comfortable. Before approaching the university with the idea however, they were convinced to instead set up a…
The Cronulla Sharks made a very tough decision when they decided to move half of their home games to Gosford. The Cronulla Sharks, more than any other team in the NRL, are a club thats very much grounded in its local area. They call its “The Shire”, and for many years the area turned up…
I’m a big fan of Mike Stephenson. Sure his call of the game on Sky Sports is over the top, but I think he knows who butters his bread and that he has made a very nice career on TV for being the bloke that goes over the top. Thing is, people see this persona…
The Penrith Panthers today extended Matthew Elliott’s contract through to the end of the 2011 season, despite the fact the highest position the clubs has finished under his coaching is 12th place. In charge of a club that has a wealth of talent, one that hand picks the best players from the worlds biggest junior…
Well the mid season Test match is not far off now and its time to start thinking about who you would select in your Australian Test team. Its sad to think that politics will come into play when picking the actual side. The Queenslanders will not be happy untill all 17 players are from Queensland…
There is a lot of talk lately about the poor form Darren Lockyer finds himself in early this season. While the Broncos have been a bit up and down this year, despite the fact they keep finding a way to win, Lockyer had really only shown a few glimpses of his usual for and thats…
I’ve always been a fan of Terry Campese. Even when he was struggling, I felt like he had what it takes to be a very handy player. To go from possibly being without a club in the middle of last year to making the 2008 World Cup squad was an amazing rise. He’s still raw…
So its Penrith at home hosting the Brisbane Broncos. The Broncos are one of the hottest teams in the NRL, sure they have played ugly at times, but they have also played the most outstanding football in the 2009 season as well. So to start the game Penrith look dangerous. They get a penalty 5…
The Warriors can never just settle, they always have to have something going on. We won’t go over history because we’d be here for years, so lets just look at 2009. The team is set. They had an amazing run in the 2008 finals, they got within one game of the NRL Grand Final, many…
There, I said it! Well we all know Parramatta suck, and have sucked for quite some time. So what is there problem? Well the current situation the club finds itself in wasn’t helped by former coach Michael Hagan. He was a terrible coach, a terrible leader and even now having moved on, he is publicly…
It might be something in the water, it could be a small gene pool, what ever the case England’s Rugby League players are covering themselves in glory like, very similar to the famous 2 girls 1 cup video. As Super League Imports all the criminals it can find from other competitions it seems in this…
I’ve always said my priorities as a fan lie in this order: The game of Rugby League, My Country, My State, My Club. That order is basically what allows me to have unbiased views on the game. Sure I rant and rave about Penrith every so often, but most of the time I’m being critical…
St Helens standoff Leon Pryce and and Warrington Wolves fullback Stuart Reardon have both pleaded guilty to assault. The BBC Reports that the two players had been drinking before they forced their way into the house of Reardons estranged wife, he assaulted her while Pryce assaulted her current partner. They did this after hearing that Reardon’s ex…