To Have Your Heart Broken and Come Back: That’s what it’s all about – and why I’ll be watching Edmed this weekend

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Tane Edmed is not the reason the Waratahs lost to the Highlanders. Except to the extent that, you know, he kind of is. A bit. It’s complicated. One the one hand, obviously he’s not. The Highlanders scored 23 points, and Edmed was not the reason for them all. The Waratahs, conversely, could’ve scored more than […]

Try, try and try again: How much of the scoring in the NRL’s opening round was sustainable?

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Welcome back, NRL – all 51 tries of you. 50 might have been a little more cute, and that late penalty try for the Cowboys was certainly on the generous side from the Bunker, but an average of 6.3 per game is pretty good going at the time of year when, theoretically, attacking combinations are […]

Bought not bred: Stray Bulldogs have lost their way by losing sight of what made their club great

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The Bulldogs look like a club without a soul. A team of mercenaries and cast-offs with very few players at the club because it was their first choice.  Much has been made of the fact they have completely overhauled their roster so much that no member of the current squad was at the club in […]

AFC Cup interzonal semis preview: Is the comeback on, or will the Mariners coast through the second leg?

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As ‘Dune: Part Two’ takes the box office by storm, Central Coast Mariners will continue a sweeping epic of their own on Thursday as they travel over 9,000 kilometers to Bhubaneswar, the Temple City of India, and face Odisha FC in the second leg of their AFC Cup inter-zone play-off semi-final. The path to the […]

Seventh heaven for City as Rudan no-shows presser after horror defeat

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Under-pressure Western Sydney coach Marko Rudan has failed to front up for his post-match press conference after a 7-0 thrashing from Melbourne City, the heaviest defeat in the club’s history. Aurelio Vidmar’s charges inflicted further pain and misery on Western Sydney with an extraordinary blitz at AAMI Park, taking a 4-0 lead at half-time then […]