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Rumors abound that Sam Burgess is seeking a release from his South Sydney Rabbitohs contract to return to the UK to play rugby union.…
In light of Australia's Ashes success I've hardly written a thing in the past four months. Instead of whinging and whining I have been…
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Australian cricket's armchair selectors have had somewhat of a ground-breaking summer. The puzzling selections of Bobby Quiney against South Africa, Hastings in Perth, five…
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I am 23 years old and just missed the careers of Ian Roberts, Mario Fenech and others from the 1989 era. Since then Spud is the only other name that I can say remotely challenges him. Roy Asotasi was incredibly important to redefining South Sydney and he was immense in his first season at the club but a horrendous run with injuries meant his performances when he did get on the park did not approach the highs of 2008. Do you have anything of substance to add, a name to put forward? See above for a justification of why I (and others) consider him the game’s best forward
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
A game rated by many better judges then myself as the best individual performance in over twenty years. It is not why I rank him the games best forward but an example of his standing in the game. He is the top echelon for athleticism across the games forwards – think SBW etc. But he has the workrate of the games most durable forwards – think Paul Gallen. Not to mention his ability to play 80 minutes, play wide or tight, break tackles at will and pull of spectacular hits. He also has an outstanding try scoring strike rate for a forward. He is the only forward in the game to match the style of the spectacular play with the substance of 20 hit ups and 30 tackles a game.
I’m sure you rank somebody else higher but opinions are like…. well you know. Plus they are subjective, I don’t think anyone can argue he is in the top echelon of the games forwards though
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
Both sports are ‘tough’ in their own right and both sports are ‘Rugby’. This isn’t a code war article and the comment was little more then a throwaway line, but the fact remains that the NRL is the best/toughest/premier Rugby competition in the world and I won’t back away from that assertion
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
The club has profited from Sam Burgess just as much as Sam Burgess has profited from South Sydney
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
I would suggest that for the Burgess boys it is South Sydney or bust in terms of NRL clubs
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
Because his grandfather just died and he is in the UK for the funeral. Something about priorities I would suggest. Go and watch the RLWC Semi Final and re-evaluate your comment regarding the games best forward.
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
You can request away. I will continue to refer to it as ‘the worlds toughest Rugby competition’ though. As that is exactly what it is. 10 tackles a game? Don’t be silly, lets get to 10 a season first
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back
Yep very tongue in cheek headline. Here’s hoping for the best – can’t help by feel we’re being a little too clever for ourselves though
Is Australia sick of winning Test matches?
Very strange selection Sheek. I could understand when so many others couldn’t that we looked past UTK at this time last year but the selection of Marsh is up there with rotation in the coo-koo stakes
Armchair selectors should give Inverarity some credit
Rate Patto very highly. The best quick I’ve seen emerge in recent times. But he looks ridiculously undercooked heading to South Africa. Siddle does a job and I’d be looking for Patto to prove his fitness signicantly over the next few weeks before considering a change
Drop Peter Siddle for James Pattinson
It was the best explanation for the selections I could come up with a couple of nights ago burning the midnight oil churning this out. Purely dumbfounded
Is Australia sick of winning Test matches?
Marsh is a style over substance selection. He looks the goods but consistently doesn’t deliver. 13 years is an awful long time to ‘be hitting them well for no reward’. I can love with Doolan as long as we don’t move Watto down. He’s a top order batsman that loves the hard ball coming on to him against attacking fields. He’s no Ponting but then who is. 6 is not the answer and he’s not really an all rounder in the Botham, Flintoff sense of the matter. I rate his mediums slightly above how I remember Greg Blewett and below Kallis, both batted almost exclusively at 3&4 for their careers
Finding some method to the South African selection madness
The constant re-writing of history re the sacking of Katich has become ridiculously tiring. As you say he was 35 when his contract wasn’t renewed. He had a terrible 6-12 months before suffering a summer ending injury (at 35) and the selectors were supposed to renew his contract? Please! At 35 once something goes wrong, let alone form and health, it’s goodnight. Huge Rogers fan though, doesn’t run with the whole hard done act ala Hodge, Katich and co and is a proper old school competitor. Series to series proposition though, that’s the life of a 35 y.o Test cricketer not named Lara, Tendulkar or Ponting though
Rogers is the right man at the right time
Drops Siddle, picks Marsh at 3 and wants Doherty in the squad. This says more about this article then I ever could…
Is this the best Australian Test XI for South Africa?
Needless media hysteria. Melbourne game was a brainsnap. Frustration, plain and simple. No arguments there. The facial is a non issue. Absolutely nothing to see there. The high shot was Burgess trying to change the momentum of the game with a big hit. They go wrong sometimes and thats the chance you take every time you try and ‘whack’ somebody rather then just tackle them.
Sam is far less a discipline concern to Souths then JWH is to Easts and he led them to a comp this year. Move on. Its far too easy to be suspended in the NRL already, come out to bush footy and that tackle would get a stern word and penalty, never to be thought of again
Bighead Burgess needs to cut out the crap
These top sides don’t hang onto to their ‘Golden Generation’ of players longer then they need too. When a side goes through a period in which they, on a historical basis, ‘over-achieve’ there is a tendency for this to happen. Spain could possibly be heading down that road in a number of key positions? For Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Italy – they’ve always been an elite side and they expect they always will be, so there is less inclination to hang onto past glories
Just how good are Belgium looking for the World Cup?
I’ve been banging on about this crop of Belgium talent to a mate for a couple of years now. He offered me 100-1 on them winning in Brazil about 2 and a 1/2 years ago. Had to have a $100 on it.
They have an outstanding crop of young midfielders and wingers and four top quality centre halves. Definitely a weakness at left and right back seeing Vertonghen is more a natural CB.
And for the record on my FM13 game, c’mon we all play a bit right, Belgium did a Spain and won at back to back world cups with the Euros in between. In reality Brazil is probably 18 months too early though.
Just how good are Belgium looking for the World Cup?
Spot on Brett. LBW decisions are the biggest DRS farce. Given out by a mm, give me a break
There's no logic in denying the DRS
In its current format it takes away from the game. The split second moment of taking a wicket is seemingly gone forever replaced by 15 seconds debating whether or not we’re going to review a decision and then watching replay after replay. In every other format of cricket around the world except for international games the umpires finger means your out, moving away from that fundamentally weakens the game.
If you want a DRS, which I’d be happy without, put it in umpires hands. Have an out, a not out and review available to umpires. A raised finger should still mean the batsman puts his bat under his arm and kicks the ground as he walks off the field, while the bowler celebrates like a maniac.Cricket!
There's no logic in denying the DRS
Dylan Walker will play for Australia, I think most will agree he goes alright for an 18 year old playing in the toughest defensive position at NRL level. As I get older I begin to appreciate ‘first past the post’ competitions or playoff series’ a little more. Souths panicked and lost a prelim final this year, the year before they lost their half and were lost. Maybe something similar will happen next year or maybe it won’t. Kudos to you for the article though, I doubt a similarly titled article of any of the other 15 sides would get a fraction of the response
Rabbitohs no chance in 2014
The NRL was set back 30 years by the Super League War. Before that we were in a somewhat similar position to the AFL.
The NRL has set itself up with a broadcasting deal that sets up their next deal very nicely. There is no need to spend that money just because its there, but a far greater need to consolidate the sports financial and grassroots security while taking a much longer term view towards expansion. Some people just cant stand the hole money burns in their pocket!
And to be fair the Telegraph article is concerned more with contingency plans if the Sharks were to become insolvent due to breach notices, more so than there is any plan to relocate sides.
Expanding horizons: an NRL phobia that must be overcome
You play sport to win. You watch sport to be entertained. Neither stakeholder owes the other anything
What's ugly about winning?
Seriously, there are at least 1/2 a dozen debatable ‘penalty’ moments a game that do or don’t correctly or incorrectly lead to a whole set of tackles for a side to make rather than a tackle count mistake. As with any refereeing decision Cowboys have only themselves to blame – make the 7th tackle and no one hears about the mistake.
During my teens I was a brat on the footy field. I was well known amongst association referees as a pain in the backside and constantly argued, whinged and whined to referees not unlike say a Jamie Lyon, or Geoff Toovey.
But then I grew up, realised they’re doing the best they can in a shitty job and that the world doesn’t revolve around me. No one was out to deliberately punish me or rip me off, except perhaps those referees that were so sick and tired of my attitude.
Now whenever I perceive that a referee has made a mistake I set out to minimise its impact – make 6 tackles and get the ball back, because that’s all I can control. I also might line up in the defensive line next to the referee and whisper that I’m owed a square up with a laugh. They generally take that attitude better. There are a number of captains and coaches in the NRL that need to grow up and accept that referees like all of us make mistakes and in the end all is even on the swing or roundabout, the only uneven thing about it is how you react…
11 questions for NRL conspiracy theorists to answer
Matt. Greg Inglis was contracted to the Melbourne Storm. Thus irrespective of the NRLs salary cup rules Melbourne were legally obliged to honour that contract unless a mutually beneficial agreement could be reached That such an agreement was reached is immaterial to the debate as such an agreement will also be negotiated in this instance. Also Inglis had signed a statement of intent to play for the Broncos but a contract had not formally been lodged at the NRL when he sent off his infamous ‘it’s raining’ text message to Andrew Gee which ultimately led I him reneging on an agreement to link with South Sydney. Cheers for the woeful attempt at criticism though.
Sam is not stabbing Souths in the back