When Mark Twain talked about lies, damned lies and statistics, he clearly wasn’t referencing the 2024 Super Rugby champions, the Blues. Their 41-10 win was not only a superb exhibition of wet-weather, finals football, it tied directly to every meaningful metric. Wrap your head around the Chiefs being forced to make 221 tackles to the […]
NSW need to change their tactics around shutting down Reece Walsh or the State of Origin shield will be heading back to Queensland for the third year in a row on Wednesday night at the MCG. Their plan backfired big time in game one when Joseph Suaalii was sent off inside seven minutes for his […]
By now there have been hundreds of articles written on why it is a silly idea and why locating an NRL team in Port Moresby won’t work. It’s time we turned our minds to the positive. If we had to do it, what needs to happen for it to work? With reality suspended let’s go […]
After their dire 1-1 draw with Denmark, I was wondering how to describe this version of Gareth Southgate’s England. ‘Southgate-ball’ has no ring to it whatsoever, whilst ‘ready salted crisps of tactics’ might be witty but won’t escape the realms of pub jokes. Well, whatever “this” is, it isn’t working. Southgate has committed the same […]
For the maths nerds out there, 58.82% of teams played this round with seven sides putting their collective feet up. And for many fans who are not quite as precise with their percentages, the interest level in the five matches for the round equated to three-fifths of bugger all. There was not just a lack […]
