Last week? This Week? Next week? Classic Bennett presser leaves more questions than answers on Souths future
Wayne Bennett has backed the Perth bid in what he predicts will be a 20-team NRL competition within a decade, while insisting his looming…
If any young sportsman would like to see the benefits of giving up alcohol just have a look at a Roosters game. It occurred to me just after the Sydney Roosters had just defeated the South Sydney Rabbitohs 36 points to 10 that their three best players, Nat Myles, Mitchell Pearce and Todd Carney had all given up the drink.
They were already stars but they looked different, played different and wow, what an improvement.
When our professional athletes are all looking for an edge, that one per center, giving up alcohol could start to rub off on more players. Slowly but surely they are starting to see some of their team mates have had their careers ruined by drinking and that it is not worth it, oh, and the added bonus, is they recover quicker and player better.
Nat Myles has gone from an over weight prop and back rower to a slim lock forward who after topping the tackle count was still able to pace it with nippy opposition backs with speed I had no idea he had.
His cleaning up in the middle third of the ground was the key reason why the Roosters were so successful against and leaderless Rabbitohs.
Roosters coach Brian Smith implemented a masterful game plan using his little men with dummy half runs at the big Souths pack, who were without any direction from their quiet 6 and 7. They are desperate for Croker to come back so they will have a talker.
The media and even the great Wayne Bennett have labeled Rabbitohs half back Chris Sandow as the “next Thurston”. For mine, the red and greens will struggle until they find a half who can organise and implement a consistent kicking game.
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