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Tim has been an NRL statistician for ABC Radio Grandstand since 1999, primarily as part of their Canberra coverage. Tim has loved rugby league since Sterlo was a kid with lots of hair but was cursed with having no personal sporting ability whatsoever. He couldn't take a hit in footy, was a third division soccer player making up numbers, plays off 41 in golf and is possibly the worlds worst cricketer ever. He has always been good at arguing the point though and he has a great memory of what happened. Follow Tim on Twitter @GorskiOPork
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When juxtaposed against the NRL’s release of each club’s relative third-party sponsorship amounts, the deregistration of Wests Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe and the accompanying massive fine of the club last year shows just how deep the divide is between the NRLs haves and have-nots.
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious” – Sun Tzu.
Before the start of the 2017 season, I declared that the Indigenous All Stars match – in its form at the time – was a “careless misuse of players and borders on being insulting to the very Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians that it is meant to be celebrating.”
The Canberra Raiders have had some superb captains; Dean Lance, Mal Meninga, Ricky Stuart, Alan Tongue and Jarrod Croker. You can now add Josh Hodgson to that list.
Sometimes I feel like if I ever see another Haka again it will be too soon.
There have been lots of NRL supporters who’ve been gleefully watching the steaming excrement sandwich that has been unfolding on the northern beaches over the past five seasons.
This Saturday evening the Kangaroos will clash with the Kiwis in a rugby league Test match. In seasons past I’ve really looked forward to these clashes as they were heated and intense affairs.
Somehow the NRL Match Review Committee managed to only charge Cameron Munster with ‘Contrary Conduct’ for kicking Joseph Manu in the head in the dying moments of the NRL grand final.
So here we are at the final game of the season. I’m not feeling a lot of love for either of these sides out there. However, both are very deserving participants.
So the NRL grand final is upon us and we should all be getting excited and preparing for the big night.
The idea of suspending Billy Slater – the best fullback I’ve ever seen – for the manner of his contact on Sosaia Feki is totally outrageous to me.
7:40pm, Saturday 22 September, Alliance Stadium. This is the last rugby league game at this ground.
There is no love lost between these sides. They really don’t like each other.
If the hysteria is to be believed, we now have the proof that the AFL is clearly better and more popular than the NRL.
Three weeks ago I would have predicted a total blow out to the Rabbitohs in this match. However, the Dragons seem to have found some pretty good form since then and now – back in Sydney – they’ve got to be a chance of beating the Rabbits.
Any way you look at this match the Panthers have a hill to climb if they are going to beat the Sharks.
Okay Josh, you’ve got me. You do get a harder time from the press than most other rugby league players.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Dragon’s season were exaggerated. They are now that most hazardous of commodities: a side with nothing to lose and a point to prove.
The Broncos host the Dragons in this elimination final courtesy of nine measly points differential. And should never have come to that.
The second of the top four finals match ups promises to be as much of a cracker as the Storm vs Rabbitohs.
It was never BBRLFC. It was fro the very beginning Brisbane Broncos LTD.
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
Let’s put it this way: anyone who targets him risks getting badly hurt. He reads well and hits hard
NRL 2019 season preview: Canberra Raiders
I’ll take that bet Scotty. They’ll make the eight. Wighton at 5/8 will be great. In attack but specially defence, repairing the Austin chasm. Bateman will star. And the absence of the two behemoth props who could only just manage 35 minutes a game each, averaged under 100 gained a game and crucial missed tackles is a boon for the Raiders. The rest of the pack can play a variety of spots and big minutes. Second half fade outs should abate.
Loser wears the others club colours for a week.
NRL 2019 season preview: Canberra Raiders
Brisbane Broncos LTD ARE a business. That’s how they were set up. Not as a football club. All the Sydney clubs were footy clubs who found themselves involved in a big business.
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
Like quadrangle and rhombus, juxtaposition is a word rarely used after school…
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
Scoop, go have a look at the Roosters crowds and ratings – as compared to those other sides – in 2017 When the 2018 draw was created.
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
Well in Manly’s case that is a reasonable position to have. I’d also be angry that they got caught.
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
Well they didn’t get deregistered…. lots thought that level of systematic cheating should have had them kicked out.
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?
I’m totally against mid season origin. For the same reason. The players aren’t as it is the biggest event in the game and they get paid squillions. As I say, no one ever pulls out of Origin. But they pull out of this game. I want this game scheduled to actime where they won’t. Where the best Indigenous and Maori players all take part and we get the best game possible. The best celebration and spectacle. That ain’t ever gonna happen in February. Therefore it isn’t done right. So why should I want my teams players risked in such an imperfect event? Why would anyone?
And BA, you can’t recover from an ACL in four weeks…
The Indigenous All Stars vs NZ Maori is rugby league's Hunger Games
Thanks for taking the time to write that.
Very moving.
Made me feel like a schmuck. Which I know wasn’t your intention.
Thanks for sharing your story. I really appreciate it.
I'm totally over the Haka
I love the haka.
I am jealous your nation has it and we have nothing comparable.
I'm totally over the Haka
SoaD, how many times do you reckon both main islands of NZ can fit inside NSW? The distances in Australia between the nations can be absolutely huge and mean there can be huge differences between the Indigenous peoples of Australia.
I'm totally over the Haka
Correct! Emcie doesn’t know his Clancy Wiggum!
Who are NRL HQ's least to most favourite teams?