sidelined

The long national nightmare is over! Footy is back! Let fans throughout the land rejoice. We have an independent commission, a new TV rights deal to be negotiated, Manly to hate and the simple joy of the greatesst game of all. So with a factional of faceless men doing the stats this week lets get [...]

The traditional prognostication on the make up of the eight. I’m not that much in favour of using last year’s form as a guide. Given the rule of four as well as injuries and just inexplicable poor form, some teams once bookies favourites will have a horrendous run. I can’t say who but it will [...]

The ARL commission has dumped the McIntyre system for the finals series and replaced it with the system the AFL uses. What does this mean for your team in 2012? Well for fans of Souths, Gold Coast, Easts, St George, Manly, Penrith, Broncos and Bulldogs you won’t need to worry too much. For the other [...]

I’ve been thinking about the top eight for 2012. But something in the back of my mind seemed to say that each year, 4 teams that were in the top eight one season, fail to make it the next season. I call it the rule of four. Don’t believe me? Let go to the stats!

This is kind of long, but the rugby league season is still a month away so what else are you going to do? If I do say so myself, I was a gun tee-baller as a kid for the Toronto Tigers. Modesty does not prevent me from mentioning I was selected as 1st base for [...]

In Australia the response to quite a lot of companies when working out how to deal with the Internet is to cry for some sort of government intervention, usually via legislation, to stop the percieved threat. Doing so reveals the utter lack of vision by some of Australian’s leading businessmen. Faced with the threat of [...]

Footy is back! That long, miserable summer (mainly because of decidedly non-summer like weather) devoid of league action is over. Tonight we can warm ourselves in front of the tele watching some of the NRL’s in action.