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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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I don’t want to burst the bubbles of the Eels, Sea Eagles, Broncos and Sharks fans, but the stats clearly show that you are just making up the numbers.
The hysteria that has been unleashed after vision showed Canberra Raiders forward Hudson Young had hands on the face of Warriors outside back Adam Pompey has been as outrageous as it has been an indictment on the people and commentators who have whipped it up.
The news that Tom Trbojevic would miss the rest of the Sea Eagles season because of a pectoral industry is shattering for the Northern Beaches club.
Listen up snowflakes: it’s a tough old world out there. While lots of you are outraged about Addin Fonua-Blake’s post-match taunting of the Raiders crowd, you really just need to eat some concrete and harden up.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!” (Henry V, Act III, Scene I)
From a distance it is easy to find a reason to dislike the Sydney Roosters.
“Fail Mary” has replaced “Oust Doust” in Kogarah and Wollongong as the prevailing slogan.
People! Please calm down. All of this outrage and righteous indignation aimed at the National Rugby League administration is a total waste of your time.
As a rugby league broadcaster who interviews players and coaches, every now and then I get lucky and get an insight that just stops me in my tracks and makes my love for the game explode.
Did the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles not read the 2019 script?
The send-off finally made its long-awaited reappearance on Sunday night.
The Maroons were valiant right to the end. They dug as deep as any Queensland side I’ve ever seen. But they just didn’t have enough high-calibre players to prevail.
Next Wednesday night will be the climax of the strangest State of Origin series I’ve ever seen.
To this point in the season it has been the accepted wisdom of most students of the NRL that the 2019 premier would almost certainly be either the Roosters, Storm or Rabbitohs.
The cold, hard reality that New South Wales must face going into State of Origin Game 2 in Perth this Sunday is that the series is almost positively already gone.
The brazen inequity in the polar treatments of Queensland forward Josh McGuire and Canberra Raiders rookie Hudson Young shouldn’t anger or confound supporters of the various teams that play under the banner of the National Rugby League.
Once more the Queensland Maroons have shown the NSW Blues just what it takes to win an Origin match: game smarts and relentless effort.
There are a few things in the rugby league world that you can set your clock by.
“You do know I used to have a… problem… with trying to kill people…”
It’s only the end of Round 9 and already 13 of the NRL sides can pretty much be written off.
This is still aging like a fine wine! :stoked:
History shows NRL finalists are now pretty much already set
Spot on Realist271
Except for the bit where I’ve been a fan since 1982, was born in Canberra and grew up here, and I’ve barely missed a home game in the last 30 years.
apart from that, spot on.
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
Bill Bryson didn’t go to the Questacon.
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
I remember Cantona doing that. He was rightly aggrieved. I dislike Man U but I always loved Cantona.
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
Our family had the choice to move to Canberra or Stenchburg. Do you know why they chose Canberra?
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
Look, if there was a penalty try option for deliberately cheating – as there is in Union – the Sea Eagles would have conceded one in those last 60 seconds.
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
You know, I didn’t hear it. Not saying it didn’t happen, but not where I was it didn’t.
Suck it up princess: Addin Fonua-Blake did nothing wrong
Oi! I’m from the west Belcompton Badlands! You be careful what you say!
A laughing stock no longer, the Raiders are coming to beat you
Nah. Both are still brilliant.
A laughing stock no longer, the Raiders are coming to beat you
Nah. That game is 50/50. As I wrote a few weeks ago. Manly are contenders.
A laughing stock no longer, the Raiders are coming to beat you
Yes I do. Their attacking game has barely been sighted this year. It’s still out there.
A laughing stock no longer, the Raiders are coming to beat you
Did I tell you your Dogs cost me $25k last weekend? Picked all 7 other margins. Well done to your boys and the Bulldogs brilliant spirit.
A laughing stock no longer, the Raiders are coming to beat you
The players each finals bound side can’t win without