Will Sinclair's Roar Profile

Absolutely nothing in it – good hard footy, and unfortunately young Shiel has put himself in a dangerous position. Hopefully he will learn from this incident about how better to brace himself in contact.

MRP and AFL caught in a Cotch 22

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AFL

2017

Love your work, Mark!

Honestly, the Wests Tigers to Perth suggestion was probably the intellectual low point in the rugby league world this year, but it would be a capacity field.

Some peaceful, radical and ridiculous solutions to solve all the NRL's woes

Of course it doesn’t annoy me.

Anti-Broncos is the correct stance. Like being anti-ISIS, or anti-Nazis.

So we should support the Roosters just because they're from Sydney? I think not!

Not for a Tigers fan, Matth!

Adam Blair!

I forgot that one! Thanks.

A reason to hate BOTH the Storm AND the Broncos!

Gee, ask a hard one!

The Broncos are easy to hate mainly because I live in Brisbane, and get pretty sick of the sycophantic and constant media coverage. You honestly wouldn’t know there were any other teams in the NRL when you live up here (and then we turn on channel Nine and get Fatty, Locky and Wally as Broncos cheerleaders). It’s tedious.

Throw in the fact their fans are unbearable, and they get every possible advantage in the world – sponsorships, Friday night games, access to a great stadium etc etc and they are impossible to like.

The Storm! Where do you start with the Storm!

There’s the obvious, of course – the fact they perpetrated the greatest systematic cheating in Australian sport, and then had the hide to act like victims. They recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary of their 2007 premiership, which was stripped! Just terrible stuff.

And essentially everything that is bad about the modern game grew at the Storm – the wrestling, the grapple tackles, the choker holds, the chicken wing tackles, the elbows applied to knees and ankles… they are as consistently grubby as any team you will ever find in any sport anywhere in the World. And, of course, they get away with it all – for some reason the referees are just so used to seeing the Storm’s tactics that they ignore them.

People who support the Storm are the same people who are cheering for Cobra Kai at the end of the Karate Kid.

Same with the Roosters. Impossible to like.

So it’s basically the Cowboys or I’ll be taking the kids to the beach on Grand Final day!

I’ll happily support the Roosters if they can deliver me a mysteriously well-timed third party sponsorship arrangement that they were in no way party to organising.

Two words:

Jason. Taylor.

There are only two men who can bring back the Bulldogs' bite

Also, there is a realistic possibility of nuclear war…

Sorry Brisbane and Sydney fans, but a Storm vs Cowboys grand final should have everyone salivating

Can’t wait Baz – just finished reading the book again for the first time in about 15 years.

Brilliant.

Nuclear War v Bulldogs Premiership…

Now there IS a tough one.

Ironically, I won’t be watching the Finals on Friday night either.

If I wanted to watch a horror show about an evil creature with the ability to shapeshift, manipulate opponents and tear people’s arms off then I would watch Cameron Smith and the Melbourne Storm.

But I am going to the movies to see IT instead.

Gold

Gotta put my hand up and admit that I DON’T actually want World War 3 – I was only joking.

Obviously if I was forced to choose between an eternal nuclear winter and seeing Cameron Smith winning a Premiership, I would choose the latter.

Probably. Almost certainly.

Probably.

I’m not saying the four teams remaining in the NRL are difficult to support, but…

I will definitely be cheering for Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump to start World War 3 in the next couple of weeks so the NRL Grand Final is cancelled and I don’t have to watch any of them lift the trophy.

LOVED that Royal Symphony win.

It’s just such a mark of a good horse that they can lose momentum several times, but pick themselves up, take a gap in the field and respond to win.

Stars rise on spring carnival statement day

Racing

Not sure Mitch Moses was “hopelessly out of form” at the Tigers as much as he was tanking as part of a sustained, childish tantrum in an effort to get released to the Eels.

Five talking points from Parramatta Eels vs North Queensland Cowboys NRL semi-final

It’s difficult to remember a day of racing with more standout performances than Saturday.

On any other day, any one of the runs you have mentioned would have been worthy of heaped praise – but the great wins just kept on coming.

Just a wonderful day of racing.

Very much looking forward to this actually.

2017 Davis Cup: Belgium vs Australia preview

Tennis

Those were the good old days!

I remember some great games in the 1990s finals at the SFS – games between Norths and Balmain and Manly and Canberra and Penrith. Great stuff.

Just further supports my theory that the game has been on the slide since they brought in the Melbourne Storm.

Ridiculous prices are strangling live rugby league

Man – I have heard this from SO MANY Swans fans. The saltiness is at Dead Sea levels in the Harbour City.

“I don’t understand what Richmond fans are getting so excited about. They’ve only finished the regular season in third then demolished a team they’ve traditionally struggled against to secure a home Preliminary Final. Which will be played at the MCG in front of 100,000 people. Nothing to get excited at all!”

I mean, I get it. The Swans are doing extraordinary things, and their fans probably feel like they deserve more credit. But surely there is enough love to go around?

Finally Tiger Time is here, but Richmond must again rise to the occasion

Maybe the IPRC is actually going to be integrated with the NRC?

Can’t think of anything else that makes sense… why would Twiggy be committing financially to two rugby tournaments that are in direct competition?

Will Twiggy's IPRC step on the toes of the NRC?

Greenberg is wildly incorrect.

I remember attending Finals at the SFS in the late 80’s and early 90’s and having to stand up because there were literally no seats available in the Members. And the rest of the ground was absolutely packed to capacity.

We went to see Balmain v Souths in 1989 and had to stand at the back of the Members – like hundreds of other people – because there were no seats. At Norths v Penrith in 1991 there were people sitting in the aisles. Even in 1998 (I think) at Parra v Bulldogs it was absolutely packed to the rafters.

The crowds issue is absolutely MASSIVE for the NRL. To only get 16,000 people to a significant match like a semi-final is incredibly poor.

There were more people at the Shute Shield Grand Final, and comparable crowds at some Shute Shield semi-finals, and that’s amateur footy.

I believe that you’re 100% correct under the current interpretation of the rules.

But, to my eye, the way the rules are applied is wrong. Peachey had a chance to catch the ball, he was trying to catch the ball, it hit him in the shoulder/chest and went forward. That’s always been a knock on, and still should be. This concept of being able to “chest” the ball forward and not have it a knock-on is crazy, I reckon.

Finals series illustrate the gulf between AFL and NRL

Heady days indeed!

On NYE, any Richmond fan in their right mind would have happily accepted a 2017 season that ended with a loss in the Prelim Final at the MCG.

But now… the door to the Big Dance is wide open, and there may not be a better opportunity for this group of players to make themselves legends. It’s all on a knife edge. What a time to be a Tiger.

#gotiges

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