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Great article, Peter. Well played.
HOLMES A COURT: Sorry FIFA, there's no World Cup in the Congo
Agree 99% eagleJack. But my disappointment is balanced slightly by the thought that Choc could use the rest to get rid of maybe 32 or 33 of his 45 niggling injuries!
As for the tackles, they really were chalk and cheese, the main difference being that Watmough continued to drive Myles into the ground after he was put into danger. Reynolds did no such thing. Once again, Manly fan speaking here.
Watmough to miss Origin III
No. Yes. No. Refs call. Yes.
SPIRO: SANZAR confirms Steve Walsh should have told the TMO to shut up
TMOs, Video Refs, DSRs, call ’em what you will. They are never going to achieve perfection, and slow motion, rather than clarifying things, often muddies the waters even more. I don’t mind the use of video to get a different angle on things, but if they don’t give any new information at normal speed, then it should go straight back to the ref’s original decision, which was taken at normal speed because, funnily enough, the game is played at normal speed, and not in slow motion.
51 years later, they’re still trying to work out what the Zapruder film means, and every week-end we have guys in video booths looking for magic bullets. In this case, the TMO seems to have convinced himself, but what does it say about Steve Walsh’s confidence in his own eyes that he was not able to brush the TMO off? Or was he just too scared of what the match review panel might find after a forensic RE-examination of the film (or if that angle from behind the grassy knoll showed up)?
SPIRO: SANZAR confirms Steve Walsh should have told the TMO to shut up
It’s Super League, not NRL, and it didn’t even turn out to be a game winner, but this effort by Pat Richards is always worth a look:
Where does Daly Cherry-Evans' epic match-winning field goal rate in NRL history?
O’Connor more of a Langlands type with the extravagant step. For Gasnier-like blistering and effortless acceleration I’d nominate Steve Renouf and Dale Shearer, both beautiful to watch in their prime.
Who else was as good as Reg Gasnier?
Will he be happy to play second fiddle to Gareth Widdop? If he is, then it’s more likely to work than him and Todd Carney in the same team, I reckon.
Benji Marshall signs with St George Illawarra Dragons
Well said, Rebecca, and well played, Ryan, for providing the link.
A racist and a homophobe? Put the pitchforks away, gang
It’s part of Spiro’s M.O., unfortunately.
SPIRO: Good luck to Benji going back to NRL - he'll need it!
—oh, and, of course it would rule out most of the Cups races, so DEFINITELY NOT going to happen, but can we still get rid of the G1 2 yr old farces?!? (don’t mind me, just talking amongst my selves)
Gordon Lord Byron a big winner for sick Aussie racing
Surely the only races worthy of being called Group 1s are unrestricted WFA races, but that would rule out the Golden Slipper, all the Guineas and Derbies, and the Mares-only races, so definitely not going to happen. G1 2 yr old races are a joke, though. Plus, I don’t think I’ve picked a Slipper winner since Marscay, so there’s that 🙁
Gordon Lord Byron a big winner for sick Aussie racing
Not a bad idea. Bing throwing a Kookaburra from the outfield to the bare-handed catcher at home plate!
Rugby’s major league kick in the pants
And if NSW hadn’t been involved in the Final, I can see your point about Cricket NSW. But as things turned out, I can’t see any way they would want Michael Clarke involved. Even if he isn’t playing at Manuka, it wouldn’t sit right the NSW and Australian captain singing “Take me out to the ball game!”
Rugby’s major league kick in the pants
Because it might have drawn attention to the fact that the final of the major domestic competition of “Australia’s national game” can’t be played at the home ground of it’s historically strongest team because it was booked for a club game of “America’s pastime”, which will attract around 80,000 over two days versus about 500 over five days? Do you think any TVs in the dressing rooms at Manuka on the weekend will be tuned in to the SCG? And vice versa? Obviously, cricket had no way of knowing NSW would be hosting the Shield final when MLB came knocking (not that it would have mattered when they got out the chequebooks), but it’s a tad embarrassing, I expect.
Rugby’s major league kick in the pants
Great stuff, Justin, but could you edit the Callanders out of those videos? 🙂 I didn’t mind Ken back in the day, but putting up with his insufferable son on TVN for so long has now cruelled the family name for me.
Top five best Aussie two-horse duels in the last 20 years
Hmmm…maybe not Black Caviar at 2040m. A couple of 1020m races, on the other hand…
Top five best Aussie two-horse duels in the last 20 years
Faf was probably grateful to be able to walk off rather than being carted off.
Australia vs South Africa: day two wrap from Centurion
Faf ball was better, I reckon. Smith will probably think he could have ducked under that one. Faf had no chance.
Australia vs South Africa: day two wrap from Centurion
Stopped reading at “Stopped reading…”
Super Bowl XLVIII: who the bloody hell should you go for?
Clint Newton was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, US of A
US pulls off upset league win over France
If Australian’s Rugby Union honchos aren’t looking at ways to address the dearth of quality front-rowers, they are not serious. The fish rots from the head.
Woeful woeful Wallabies, lion-hearted Lions
So “risk management” is the new euphemism for match fixing, which is basically what you were baldly saying in your first post. I think as you work on your career as a conspiracy theorist, this will be a great learning experience for you. You can cast a much wider net with euphemisms. Leaves so much more to the imagination.
And, point of order, saying “slightly influence the chances of the result falling their way” is a few magnitudes short of “This is why you will NEVER see a Cowboys vs Warriors GF NEVER EVER…”.
Penalties count, but not for home sides
This is conspiratorial genius! Ch9 and the NRL have just discovered Souths after 20 year-or-so years of letting them bobble around at the bottom of the comp and even trying to kick them out of the comp. Meanwhile ‘unpopular’ teams like the Dragons and Eels have been forgotten by the evil duo of Gyngell and Smith (or should that be von Clausewitz and Macchiavelli). Smith has worked this all out after 6 months and at the same time as crippling the game by his reactionary response to the SOO biff, which is, of course, a distraction from this competition rorting by those crafty manipulators at 9. It’s all starting to make sense!
Of course, this doesn’t leave much room for all the other great conspiracy theories, like how the NRL, through the refs, is favouring the western Sydney teams to fight against WSW and GWS, or favouring Melbourne because it’s such an important market, or favouring the Sea Eagles because, you know, there the only team north of the harbour (and the pull such big crowds to finals games), or favouring the Broncos because they rate so well on TV, or, as the ever-alert Jaceman has so accutely pointed out, simultaneously favoured the Warriors for that crucial New Zealand market, or (insert your most-hated team, or the market that you believe is absolutely essential to the well-proven financial and strategic gurus of the NRL, here)…
And, you know, Queensland winning SOO 7 times in a row is all part of the conspiracy because it just gives NSW that chip on the shoulder that has made SOO so big up north. ‘Cos, you know, there’s no way that bunch of Qld no-hopers won the 2nd SOO by blowing NSW off the park with near-faultless footballl in the first 20 minutes. I mean Inglis, Thurston, Smith, Slater, if you can’t beat them it’s got to be a rort, right?!? If the banana benders can win 70 series in a row, they’ll have to change the capacity at ANZ to 500,000!
Penalties count, but not for home sides
That would make you fairly neurotic, I expect, especially if you start off thinking you’re perfect.
By the stats, it's the Waratahs