sidelined

So Karmicheal Hunt is ditching league for the AFL. He has copped a serve from The King and it is obvious the challenge he is looking for is how much more money his manager can squeeze from him. The AFL can rightly crow about the coup but in a few years I predict this experiment [...]

An interesting week where one major player decides to seek the filthy lucre in the Land of the Rising Sun and another is about to be welcomed back into the fold. A shame for Souths as Wing should have been at the club for life. A classy player whose propensity for injury prevented him from [...]

Origin is over (though Gus is still wanting a fourth game) and the run the finals is officially on. 8 rounds to go and intrigue floats around both ends of the table. Seven teams are looking over the shoulders at the moment hoping that they won’t be the ones with the wooden spoon. Nine teams [...]

Well didn’t Nate Myles put the NRL into the pooh? The Central Coast is unfortunately now a stop on the “Bad Boys of League” tour. Round 18 features the final origin shortened round. Origin III:The Final Rites isn’t really being met with that much interest down here. Yes, there is the academic interest in whether [...]

Brett Seymour dumped by the Sharks for another alcoholic indiscretion. Two Roosters players get involved in a nightclub stoush. This season has pretty much followed a sadly predictable patter. Not what David Gallop’s approach with the Roosters is. Their behaviour pretty much reflects their position on the ladder. But it is not all doom and [...]

How about we put last night behind us? Yes I know that north of the border (and in outposts like Wollongong) you are all still celebrating. And did Anna Bligh say today “I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum.” Probably not but it is what [...]

Who’d want to be Tony Zappia at the moment? He goes from one calamity to the other with the farce quotient rising each time. Expect an announced soon that the Sharks somehow lost money after they answered an email from Nigeria. Another Origin affected round with only five games. Makes it all the more harder [...]

Drama heading into round 14 as Karmichael Hunt becomes a victim of the zombie plague and the Broncos are refusing to play their scheduled game on Friday. David Gallop has galloped up the Brisbane to sort things out. In the meantime, time is running out for a few clubs to make a claim for a [...]

A strange experience. For the life of me, the period between 8 and 10:30pm from Wednesday night has been erased from my memory. I have no idea what happened but I’m sure it was nothing important. A slightly abbreviated round with only 7 games so lets get into it. Please note that no-one from the [...]

Twas the round before Origin and all through the comp, refs were being isolated as swine flu they may have got. A wise precaution if you like and if you want to panic further the line starts over there. Though there are rumours that the NRL has drawn up contingency plans to postpone matches if [...]