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Having a mix of good and bad games is pretty stiff to be worst buy

Predicting the 2024 NRL season - Panthers' era over, Dragons to get spoon, Cowboys rising - and the stars under most pressure

Why? He played 11 games this year. A hooker in rehab all year wasn’t going to help them.

Chooks and Cheese not a recipe for success: Brandon shaded by Sandon when it comes to Roosters rakes

Olakau’atu smoky to nab one of the back row spots and he didn’t even get a mention!

Dally M Medal: Who should win all the awards - Mr Consistency main threat to 'near certainty' Johnson for top honour

AJ, you’re making a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Look back at home many golden point games have been decided in the opening set and it is close to 0. Panthers should be complemented on how well they organised their set of six to get them into a position to take a shot. Others have already highlighted that the scoring team would receive the ball back anyway.

In saying this, I have always been a fan of the golden try concept.

NRL Round 8 preview talking points: Bin everyone, don’t let a coin toss decide a game and remember, sport is not war

It was 36 degrees on Thursday and he was coming back from injury Tony, give him a couple of weeks 😂

'The way you're going, you're going to have a short career': How DCE's tough love inspired Schuster to kick on

Of that Round 1 team Koula will surely remain in the centres with Vaega getting the other wing spot. Have also read that Jurbo may play prop with Bullemor at lock and Karl Lawton could potentially be fit. Weekes ahead of Johns too for the utility role.

Manly 2023 Outlook: Seibold starts under pressure as Sea Eagles seek to repair broken club

No Hodkinson ACL injury for DCE’s first start, he moved to the Dogs end of 2010

25 in 25: Best rookies of NRL era - Folau, Slater, DCE, Hayne, Haas, Smith, Anasta, Reynolds, SBW?

Glenn Stewart did most of his best work (including that Clive Churchill) on an edge, just with the number 13 on his back. Watmough was the one playing through the middle.

25 in 25: Best lock of NRL era - Gallen, Burgess, Taumalolo, Kennedy, Carroll, Stewart, Parker?

Tim, I think you need to take the loss here and look at this more rationally. Answer me this, if any other coach did what Ricky did on the weekend would you have still written this article?

Sticky situation: NRL should enforce a few more rules in Operations Manual after Stuart's spray

Tim, I think you need to look at this without the lens of a raiders fan. What Sticky said was inexcusable and on both Twitter and here you seem to keep looking for ways to excuse it.

Sticky situation: NRL should enforce a few more rules in Operations Manual after Stuart's spray

I have no issue with it and hope others follow suit to create a super competitive world cup. I guess the catch 22 here is that if Tonga and Samoa keep improving then they will eventually fall into tier 1 status (You could argue that Tonga should already be after their recent results and ranking). If that occurs you will see players side with Australia and the island nations will return to also rans.

Paul Kent mentioned last night that the tier 2 status will be reviewed in December thus big performances from Samoa and Tonga in the world cup will likely see them move up.

Brian To’o's Samoa call is everything that's great about rugby league

Was also critical on Twitter suggesting Jake’s legs tackles were costing NSW field position from quick play the balls and were responsible for Qld’s first try.

'One hell of a player': Cleary masterclass leads NSW to crushing win to set up Origin decider

Great analysis Mike! Saab is no threat to losing his spot to Tafua or Vaega (who I don’t believe is in the top 30 anyway) but he is in real danger of losing it to Tuipulotu when Turbo returns.

Tui has shown he has the ability to make the tough metres out of his own end which the team had been missing. Saab’s speed and ability to finish off a line-break is also negated by Koula being in the team.

Manly were right to drop Harper but right-edge problem goes way deeper than him

It all depends on media bias. NRL360 never mention Ricky and it is known he is close with Kenty. On the flip side 9’s WWOS put a Twitter post up regarding coaches under pressure and Barrett was nowhere to be seen, with his boss working for that channel.

Interestingly, it was the three coaches you mention in this article that we’re pictures in the WWOS post.

'Small' NRL clubs may not get close calls, but their coaches don't get calls for their heads either

Wait isn’t Manly the team that has complained to PVL that the ruck is too slow? e.g Turbo can’t rip them apart like he did last year. Why would speeding up the ruck be something that could go wrong for Manly?

Four tiers in one season: The NRL drawn and quartered

Manly have won 4 out of their last 5 without Turbo but no one ever seems to bring that up

Mr 42%: Turbo makes world of difference to Manly's win rate as Koula gets call-up

Someone got paid six figures for that ‘so real, it’s unreal’ campaign. It is woeful.

Don’t freak out, it’s only one game: NRL Round 1 talking points

Thoroughly enjoyed the series Tony!

The rugby league club graveyard: Balmain and the unhappy third merger (Part 10)

Great read! Looking forward to the rest of them

The rugby league club graveyard: The first casualties (Part 1)

Super stiff on DCE who was man of the match in game 1 last year and led ‘the worst Queensland team in history’ to a series win.

And why are Gagai (who has played 17 origins not 11 and won the Wally Lewis Medal) and DCE being compared with Prince and Bowen? That isn’t really explained.

Is Daly Cherry-Evans Queensland's version of Mitchell Pearce?

At first I thought this was satire, but I am astounded that Cleary getting picked for origin seems to be the hill you want to die on. Regardless of past performances, who would you pick at halfback ahead of him this year? If it is no-one then what is the point of the article? He is leading the Dally M’s and is widely considered a top 4 player with Teddy, Turbo and Munster.

I won’t touch Klemmer as I haven’t been taking a great interest in his form this year and can’t be bothered looking into his numbers against those picked.

Where's Klemmer and why Cleary: Two of my greatest gripes ahead of Origin

I agree, credit where it’s due. I was quick to bemoan Hadley and also had private intentions to boycott the show. Alas, I couldn’t help myself and ended up watching. I found Hadley quite measured with some well thought out discussion.

Fox League's decision to hire Ray Hadley is baffling

I like your idea about country footy, although there has been a bunch of games played regionally this year without forcing the clubs.

I don’t see any glaring issues with magic round concept at all. Plenty of teams move home games to neutral venues every year. I dare say teams probably nominate to be the home side to take their share of the ticket sales.

The NRL must even up the magic round disadvantage

Didn’t it more evolve from copying the UK Super League concept?

The NRL must even up the magic round disadvantage

What draw are you looking at? Manly only have 3 games left against the top 5 this season.

There final 10 games include the Bulldogs and Raiders twice, Tigers, Sharks, Cowboys and the Dragons.

A tale of two rebuilds: Dragons versus Bulldogs

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