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The season previews are starting to roll out, spring practice is out of the way, media days are in progress and, despite the season still a couple of months away there are plenty of great games to look forward to – and maybe book some tickets for.
Fox Sports has become an easy and understandable target for many sports fans, especially recently. And now ESPN are beginning to leave many fans scratching their heads.
This week saw the release of the Ashley Madison account data, a dating site for married individuals looking for an affair. This has resulted in a few strained marriages around town.
Every season we go through the talk of the NRL draw not being fair, as fans of one team battling for a spot in the eight feel aggrieved that another team had an easier run.
Both Bellamy and Robinson have benefited greatly from Peter O’Sullivan.
And coaches don’t look after the salary cap
Trent Robinson: The best coach of the modern era
Only Lomax showed ticker, the others are already on holidays
For Dragons fans, 2021 can't come soon enough
nope, incorrect decisions will be the same amount. It’s just one incompetent fool instead of two
Raiders' Stuart puts heat on referees
Who is going to take Norman? It’s one thing to offer him to other clubs, its another for there to be a taker. A team would take Josh Reynolds ahead of him
For Dragons fans, 2021 can't come soon enough
“the guys have nothing to play for but pride”
and they showed none of that yesterday
For Dragons fans, 2021 can't come soon enough
Only 2 players in the top 10 hit more then 50% of fairways, and five in the top 22
But he was 3rd in Strokes Gained off the tee
Bryson DeChambeau blitzes the field to claim US Open title
I’m not only sure, I’m certain
The good, the bad and the ugly: Part 1 (the bottom eight)
Dean Pay was sacked for no other reason then he could not coach. The players did not improve under him, the game plan was poor and they struggled to score points. Didn’t we have offseason talk about how they were gong to turn it around this year because of the their last 3 games last year (which was the same as last year and the year before)?
And he is a club legend that walked out on the club as a player mid contract.
The good, the bad and the ugly: Part 1 (the bottom eight)
they’ve quit for the season. The NRL might have to implement a mercy rule before next week
Eight talking points from NRL Round 19
Add coach giving player the bird to the list of the weird things 2020 has given us
Absolute gold as Craig Bellamy reacts to Cam Smith passing his career try tally
Paying big money for a prop is fraught with danger, and the busts far outweigh the successes.
All Kane Evans will do is replace a player on the bench. If he was any good the Roosters would have kept him
The Warriors’ forwards will be in the NRL’s top echelon next year
Clubs live up to their means and don’t have an original thought. Give them $10 million and they’ll spend it. Give them $50 million and they will spend it. And if one club has an assistant coach, every other team while hire one so they aren’t at a “competitive disadvantage”. If Penrith come out and say they hired a person to monitor the biorhythms of their players most clubs will do the same thing by the time next season starts
It’s the assistant coaches' turn on the merry-go-round
because it’s beyond Lewis’ skillset and thinking ability
Su'A lauded for 'skewering' Lewis... then gets binned
Agreed. Can’t have Titans so high, only poor coaching from Denver won them that game (and Denver were missing their best player)
I wouldn’t have SF 17 spots ahead of the team that beat them
Be wary of NO, Brees’ arm has little left in it. The second half of the season might be the end of him
Detroit were up by 10 with 4 minutes left and went for a 50+ FG? WTF??? He gets it and its still a 2 possession game, he misses it and Chicago get the ball midfield.
Pittsburgh defence was awesome, and Ben was more rustier then my first car. They will only get better.
Without running my numbers 1. KC 2. BAL 3 SEA
NFL Power Rankings: Week 1
I don’t think Manly will consider the Dragons as out of Sydney
Fonua-Blake requests Manly release
They are professionals, with most of them on about $250,000 a year. If they can’t get it right and continue to do so then they deserve to be thrown to the wolves. They aren’t kids on 60k dealing with an entitled customer
I hate the Bunker
You didnt put the guy who should be hooker – Mahoney
Who Queensland should pick for Origin this year
the issue isn’t just restricted to the NRL. Soccer has VAR blowups all the time. MLB has decisions that baffle people. NFL are still trying to define on replay what is a catch. Cricket can be pot luck on LBW decisons.
The only one that seems to work is tennis, and that is because it rules on 1 thing and 1 thing only
I hate the Bunker
If a team wants to waste a CC on a strategic move to slow the play then that is to their detriment in the long term.
But I want to see more DWZ challengers.
I hate the Bunker
I thought the biggest injustice of the week was Henry getting another game
NRL flags bunker changes after wrong call
The biggest problem is we keep introducing new layers, but have the same issues. We keep getting more interpretations, and more people making decisions. The refs are crap, so lets bring in the bunker. The crap ref is now too old to ref, so throw him in the bunker.
Now people are calling for 3 bunker refs, and majority rules on the decision. We’re now just making up jobs to give to people
Strip it back. I’ve been saying for years that all we need is 1 ref, 2 touchies (who actually do what they are paid to do), 2 in-goal refs.
NRL flags bunker changes after wrong call
“The truth is that media companies pay more for sport than what it’s worth”
and that price is known and budgeted for. You can’t run a sport if you don’t know how many subscribers you are going to have at any point in time, and how long they stick around for. For the time being many sports will run a subscription only service in areas outside of their main market, and that money is cream.
Online streaming is part of the future, but it cannot dominate
Robinson has cultivated an excellent staff around him. Fitzgibbon is the most sort after assistant in the game. Taylor may not be the greatest NRL coach, but he has found a niche as as assistant and NSWRL coach. There are wraps on Nathan Cayless and Robinson brought him in. Daniel Anderson has taken 2 different clubs to a GF, and he looks after retention and recruitment. Former Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is “special advisor”. I think former Swan Tadgh Kennelly is still there teaching skills under the high ball. At one stage they ate organic, with the chef coming in and providing them meals after training and to take home.
Trent Robinson: The best coach of the modern era