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
For rugby league nerds, this weekend is the true rugby league Christmas. We have a phenomenal mix of men’s and women’s games, featuring top line players representing teams from all over the southern hemisphere. There’s a World Cup qualifier in Sydney between the Cook Islands and South Africa. There’s two State of Origin matches, one… Read More 2019 Pacific Tests Tips, State of Origin Previews and Other Rep Weekend Stuff
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
Scene: C-Bus Stadium, Gold Coast. It’s the twenty-first of April and we’re in round 6 of the 2019 National Rugby League season. At around a quarter to three in the afternoon, the referee blows the whistle for half time. The Newcastle Knights are down 22 to nil after the worst forty minutes of football in… Read More Mitchell Pearce saved Nathan Brown’s career
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)
It’s that time of the year again. The weather has just turned cold and the NRL season has built just enough momentum to be interesting and has now been brought to a screeching halt. It’s State of Origin time, the world’s only all-star game that the players actually care about. Naturally, the first question anyone… Read More Rating the 2019 State of Origin teams
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
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