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This week in sport Mayweather kept winning, the Cowboys kept whinging, the Wallabies stopped losing and the Heineken Cup stopped existing (possibly).
Wallabies s(crap)
Well, the Wallabies won one. You beauty! It wasn’t pretty but to run the cliché into the ground, a win is a win.
We can’t underestimate that in Test rugby, any win is special. Argentina may not carry the ranking of the All Blacks or South Africa but they are their country’s best.
Have pride Wallabies fans. The game itself may prove to be a turning point for the Wallabies.
We have a poor track record in the wet against teams that scrap. Think Scotland twice and Ireland in the World Cup.
This was a win with character. It was wet, windy and played in a half empty stadium, however the Wallabies showed a solidarity not seen in a long time.
We scrapped and the dirty work was done tough.
Great to see Argentina and Bordeaux number 10 Nico Sanchez in good form as well.
Bring it back with you Nico, we need it.
Lucky number seven?
It’s always the comeback line any time a leaguie calls rugby boring – we rah-rahs say, “All your game is is one, two, three, four, five and kick.”
However this weekend in the NRL finals match between North Queensland Cowboys and Cronulla Sharks they decided that they would kill that argument once and for all.
“One, two, three, four, five, six and try!”
two refs, two touch judges and a video ref all miscounted and Cronulla scored on the seventh tackle.
Rightfully, the Cowboys faithful have been up in arms. As it stands though, Cronulla are through and the Cowboys are on holidays.
Go team…eam…am…m…m (echo)
There was somewhere in the vicinity of 18,000 in Perth for the Wallabies v Argentina. Just 32,000 at Allianz Stadium for a rugby league double header bonanza.
The weather in Perth may have been a factor but still 18,000 is a bit weak when they don’t see a lot of international rugby.
In Sydney, however, there is no excuse.
Four teams playing in one of the best stadiums to view live rugby league, it’s the finals, it’s the Roosters home ground and they sell beer there!
Is Foxtel coverage so good people don’t need to feel the live experience? Are tickets too expensive?
Something needs to be done.
60,000 glaringly blue empty seats at a game involving supposedly Australia’s best supported rugby league team, South Sydney, and the carry over champs, Melbourne, says there is a problem.
Is Mayweather money?
For those of you who’ve seen the cult classic movie ‘Swingers’, being ‘money’ meant you were pretty awesome (“and you don’t even know it”).
Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is an amazing athlete. He can throw punches faster than anyone around.
Pity is, in 2011 he was convicted of throwing them at his ex-girlfriend with his children watching on. He is not money, he is scum. Only in Boxing can you do that and still be revered as a legend.
On Saturday he beat Saul Alvarez and banked $44 million in the process.
If Anthony Mundine does ever achieve his dream fight against Mayweather, I genuinely hope Mundine takes him to school, and then takes a good chunk of his money too.
Au revoir Heineken Cup?
At the time of writing this could be the last season of the European Rugby Cup, or the Heineken Cup as it is better known.
The English and French clubs are threatening to go it alone next season and have invited any other clubs that want to participate to put their hand up.
Under their newly proposed structure they want to make it harder to qualify, believing at the European level it should be about quality of matches, not quantity.
The current structure sees six teams from the French top 14, six from the English Premiership and 11 of the 12 teams involved in the Celtic league, which attracts teams from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Italy.
It’s this disparity between the competitions and where the all the TV rights money goes that has led to English and French clubs wanting to breakaway.
Interesting times ahead.
Join The Roar rugby editor Christy Doran, former Wallaby Matt Toomua and a cast of regular and special guests as they look at the biggest issues in the game on The Roar Rugby Podcast. If you’re looking for great odds on the next game check out Aussie bookmaker PlayUp. Chances are you’re about to lose. Set a deposit limit.