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The Year in Rugby League Football, 2022, Part 3: The World Game

Rugby league came back to life in 2022. After two years of pandemics and cancellations and postponements in 2020 and 2021, we finally got a real year of football. World Cup We made it. It looked for a while like we wouldn’t get a World Cup. There seemed like a good chance that the gods… Read More The Year in Rugby League Football, 2022, Part 3: The World Game

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 pythagonrl1 Comment

Big brain essay #3: Internationalism

It’s BiG bRaIn EsSaY week on pythagonrl.com. I’ve written a series of approximately 75% thought-out, unpolished essays about somewhat obvious and/or somewhat unhinged things that probably belong on The Roar but I’ve decided to use my own platform to get off my chest. Once again, the international game remains an after thought of the sport,… Read More Big brain essay #3: Internationalism

February 17, 2021February 16, 2021 pythagonrl

Primer – Introducing Pythago World Rankings

While the recent RLWC was on, I couldn’t help but notice that the RLIF had Scotland pegged as the world’s fourth best team. Scotland hadn’t won a game since 2014 and even that was against Ireland. Since then, they’d lost to Australia, England, Ireland, Wales and France. I also got frustrated because a fifteen second… Read More Primer – Introducing Pythago World Rankings

January 16, 2018March 5, 2018 pythagonrl

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