For a weekend of footy that didn’t contain any close games, the product on display was pretty much as good as it gets. A 2-out-of-3 Burgii Souths upset Easts in their local derby on Thursday night, comprehensively outgunning their more fancied opponents. Melbourne showed what they can be capable of if they put their minds… Read More NRL Recap – Round 6, 2018
The Commonwealth Games has thankfully directed a lot of local attention away just from how woefully Queensland’s two main teams are travelling right now. The Gold Coast Titans, otherwise known as the Milhouse of Queensland NRL clubs, has stepped through the gap and is winding up to take a very long sprint to finish as… Read More NRL Recap – Round 5, 2018
Funny game, rugby league. It’s a funny, funny game. I will say that what’s not funny is the Titans beating the Broncos at Suncorp for the first time in eleven years. I mean, it’s probably funny to people who hate Brisbane but to them I say: sitting in the stands, surrounded by kids and being… Read More NRL Recap – Round 4, 2018
Two fairy tales ended over the weekend. The Tigers’ fell away in fairly controversial circumstances with a golden point penalty awarded against them, ending their chances of going 3-0 in an extremely tough start to the season. The Knights were more cleanly dispatched by the Roosters. The latter are now a worry with their big… Read More NRL Recap – Round 3, 2018
The NRL machine continues to chug along, churning out mysterious results that don’t align at all with the previous week. That is, unless you are Canterbury or Souths, in which case, you’ve made your bed and 2018 will see you lie in it. The Tigers are proving that not only do coaches matter but on-paper… Read More NRL Recap – Round 2, 2018
We’re finally off and racing in 2018. Every NRL fan has finally seen their team take the field in anger for the first time. For most, it wasn’t a pretty sight with a lot of polish still to be put on their respective games. That said, there were flashes of what is to come from… Read More NRL Recap – Round 1, 2018
This is the last projections update for the year. It’s come around so fast. While I realise there’s still three weeks of finals left, in reality there’s three games left after next weekend. The Stocky is not great at dealing with small sample sizes of games, as evidenced by its relative lack of performance towards… Read More NRL Projections Update – Finals Wk 1, 2017
Results Brisbane 20 (16-8) d North Queensland 10 (13-11) Parramatta 22 (16-8) d South Sydney 16 (9-15) Sydney City 20 (17-7) d Gold Coast 16 (7-17) Manly 28 (14-10) d Penrith 12 (13-11) Melbourne 32 (20-4) d Canberra 6 (11-13) Cronulla 26 (15-9) d Newcastle 18 (5-19) Canterbury 26 (10-14) d St George Illawarra 20 (12-12) Wests Tigers 28 (7-17) d New Zealand… Read More NRL Projections Update – Round 26, 2017
Results Parramatta 52 (15-8) d Brisbane 34 (15-8) Canberra 46 (11-12) d Newcastle 28 (5-18) North Queensland 22 (13-10) d Wests Tigers 14 (6-17) Canterbury 26 (9-14) d Gold Coast 14 (7-16) Melbourne 64 (19-4) d South Sydney 6 (9-14) Sydney City 16 (16-7) d Cronulla 14 (14-9) Manly 22 (13-10) d New Zealand 21 (7-16) St George Illawarra 16 (12-11)… Read More NRL Projections Update – Round 25, 2017
Results Parramatta 30 (14-8) d Gold Coast 8 (7-15) South Sydney 36 (9-13) d New Zealand 18 (7-15) Brisbane 24 (15-7) d St George Illawarra 12 (11-11) Melbourne 44 (18-4) d Newcastle 12 (5-17) Sydney City 22 (15-7) d Wests Tigers 18 (6-16) Cronulla 26 (14-8) d North Queensland 16 (12-10) Penrith 26 (13-9) d Canberra 22 (10-12) Canterbury 30 (8-14) d Manly… Read More NRL Projections Update – Round 24, 2017
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