Season 2013 sure has had its fair share of ups and downs. It is almost hard to believe we are only a few weeks away from the finals series. But what would 2013 have looked like in a perfect world?
You know, like if rugby league was where it should be. Here is the 2013 season review in a perfect world:
What a year 2013 has been. You could say it has been… perfect?
The New South Wales Blues locked up their 34th straight State of Origin series with a commanding 26-10 win in game three at ANZ Stadium with two of the state’s biggest superstars wreaking havoc on the hapless Queenslanders.
Fullback Greg Inglis was at his damaging best for the Blues scoring a brace of tries including a sizzling 100-metre dash to the line skittling Billy Slater and Johnathan Thurston in the process.
It seemed the Blues might have been without Inglis after being clipped across the face several times by the desperate Queenslanders. But Inglis bounced back to his feet time and time again to prove how tough rugby league footballers really are.
Minto-born Israel Folau returned to the NRL in 2013 and slotted straight into the Blues side scoring a freakish try in the decider in Sydney.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs skipper Sonny Bill Williams celebrated his tenth straight year at Belmore in style with a devastating backend to the season helping the Bulldogs into the top eight in the process.
Another side headed toward September football is Geoff Toovey’s Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles who defeated the Central Coast Bears over the weekend in Gosford.
Toovey was so pleased with the refereeing performances over the weekend that he dubbed them the saints of the NRL and added that rugby league was the perfect evolved sporting contest because of the outstanding job the officials do.
The West Coast Pirates hosted the first-placed Canberra Raiders on Friday night in front of a bumper crowd in Perth. In a tight contest the Raiders got home on the back of superstars Todd Carney, Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson.
Fans were asked to take the annual survey once again in 2013 and there were no real surprises.
Rugby league supporters agreed that ticket pricing was very affordable; games were played at respectable hours and the national reserve grade competition featuring veterans like Scott Prince, Matt King and Benji Marshall was getting them through the gates at an earlier time in the day.
Some Brisbane fans were upset that their Broncos were yet to see a Friday night game in 2013.
In the player poll, 100% of players were happy with the shoulder charge while 85% of players were impressed by the professionalism of new NRL CEO Tommy Raudonikis.
Oh how perfect it would be…
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