Unrelated to the NRL premiership itself, it’s been a good week for rugby league headlines (except for Ottawa). Here’s what you might have missed: The Downer Rugby League World Cup 9s Pools have just dropped 🔥 #RLWC9s pic.twitter.com/myg2AxZONn — NRL (@NRL) July 22, 2019 The LRLF announces that misconduct charges against three Lebanon heritage players… Read More NRL Tips – Round 19, 2019
In last week’s tips, I talked about potentially going to watch India play Colombia at a suburban junior footy ground in Brisbane. I ended up more or less live tweeting the match. FT at WJ Scott Park, Holland Park. 🇮🇳 India 30🇨🇴 Colombia 16#INDvCOL pic.twitter.com/TN0QvgxgYK — Liam (@pythagoNRL) July 14, 2019 Despite Colombia’s experience, the… Read More NRL Tips – Round 18, 2019
Between Souths Logan (12th of 14, 3-12-1), Brisbane (14th of 16, 6-9) and Queensland (lost both men’s series and women’s game), rugby league is at serious risk of no longer speaking to me. Fortunately, there is a light. This Sunday, kicking off at 3PM, India will play Colombia at WJ Scott Park in Holland Park.… Read More NRL Tips – Round 17, 2019
The plight of the Broncos this year has been annoying for me personally – especially on social media – but the Broncos’ now inevitable (probably long overdue) transformation into a western Sydney-style football club has been infuriating, as well as completely avoidable. A western Sydney-style football club is a club that hasn’t won a premiership… Read More NRL Tips – Round 16, 2019
Here are the tips for this weekend’s action: National Rugby League Intrust Super Cup
Just to get it out there, here’s a couple of thoughts from the representative weekend: It’s shit watching both Queensland teams be terrible. I have enough terrible teams in my life (thanks Broncos and Souths Logan), I don’t need my rep teams joining the list without some upside of the game overall. For example, Australia… Read More NRL Recap – May/June 2019
The RLIF had a meeting in Singapore earlier in the week, revealing some details about what the international calendar might look like moving forward. Of course, the main outcome, that the powers that be have acknowledged the need for a calendar in the first instance, should be considered something of achievement. We don’t know what… Read More NRL Tips – Round 14, 2019
I have now read every Origin perspective Twitter has to offer and have synthesised my own searingly hot take of Game 1, 2019. Queensland played well but not exceptionally so. Plenty of opportunities presented themselves to blow the game open (Napa should be dropped for not grounding the ball properly) and the Maroons only won… Read More NRL Tips – Round 13, 2019 (featuring Origin hot takes)
The Origin period is a tough time for tipsters. The systems that we’ve been using for the last eleven weeks start to break down over the next six weeks, as selections play havoc with overall team quality and on field cohesion. Word to the wise is that the Elo rating systems (Archimedes and Eratosthenes) and… Read More NRL Tips – Round 12, 2019
If you have a keen eye, you might have noticed a change of advertising on the blog in the last week or two. I had an idea last year that there’s lots of rugby league logos around that go by the wayside and that some might look good on a cap or a t-shirt. I found… Read More NRL Tips – Round 11, 2019
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