If you celebrate everything, you're celebrating nothing: NRL must show us respect and shut up about Respect Round
The NRL has outdone itself by floating the possibility of a Respect Round in 2023, whatever that means.
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Ben Pobjie is a writer and comedian whose promising rugby career was tragically cut short the day he stopped playing rugby and had a pizza instead. The most he has ever cried was the day Balmain lost the 1989 grand final. Today he enjoys the frolics of Wallabies, Swans, baggy greens, and Storm.
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The NRL has outdone itself by floating the possibility of a Respect Round in 2023, whatever that means.
Rugby league has taught us so much in 2022, perhaps.
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Yes obviously.
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The lock’s job is to get the pill. And give it to the halfback. We’re just pharmacists really.
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I guess many great talents were lost in the days when there was no living to be made. Not just in rugby either.
If Australia is looking for big men, let's not neglect the old and the fat
You’d be first picked in my side.
If Australia is looking for big men, let's not neglect the old and the fat
I can safely say that, like every Australian player who has ever joined an overseas club, he’s actually rubbish and we don’t need him.
Wallabies in danger of losing Hanigan to ambitious French club just as forward enters his prime
He’s a second or third cousin of mine.
If Australia is looking for big men, let's not neglect the old and the fat
From your mouth to the NRL’s ear, Mike. I’d applaud an increase in send-offs. It’s funny that back in the days when the game was supposedly wilder and rougher, referees were much more willing to properly punish foul play.
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She’s got great eyebrows.
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Now you’re getting it!
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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I must admit when I hear him commentate thoughts start to drift to “surely this guy can’t have been any good”
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The Graham/Graeme XI:
Gooch
Smith
Hick
Pollock
Thorpe
Yallop
Manou
Swann
McKenzie
Dilley
Onions
Quite a few good batsmen left out. It’s a name that gravitates to the willow.
What’s in a name? The all-time great Steve XI
I only dispute your claim that Matt Hayden wasn’t a great batsman.
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Procter gets the new ball ahead of Neser.
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It’s a weakness to have to have two keepers with Rhodes, who was only just an adequate 7, batting at 6 – though Smith and Waugh compensate to some extent for the uber-long tail. For some reason I thought that a Steve XI would be stronger. Handy pace attack though. Shows how both Matt and Steve are relatively recent names to come into fashion – no Matts or Steves in Bradman’s day.
What’s in a name? The all-time great Steve XI
Yep, love the kid’s attitude.
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NRL Round 7 Talking Points: With big wins come big losses, and which coach is the game’s biggest sook?
I think Anzac jerseys should be the regular club jersey with a small commemorative patch sewn on. Nothing more.
NRL Round 7 Talking Points: With big wins come big losses, and which coach is the game’s biggest sook?
It probably goes without saying that a losing coach will whinge more than a winning coach, but I reckon what really turbo charges a whinging habit is a coach who is used to continual success suddenly finding his team struggling. It’s an alien feeling and he’ll lash out.
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You have to be mature in a pub, they don’t serve minors.
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Tom Waits – strong at the breakdown
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Oh yes all true. Just something I muse on from time to time.
MVP Dylan Edwards is the man Penrith's system might not be able to cover