Joe Schmidt hasn’t made it easy on himself. He could have looked overseas to any number of foreign-based stars, including Marika Koroibete and Samu Kerevi for his first Tests in charge of the Wallabies. He didn’t. He could have selected NRL-bound backs Carter Gordon and Mark Nawaqanitawase. He chose not to. He could have called […]
NRL Round 16 looked pretty straightforward on paper but turned into carnage for teams with finals dreams as the bottom clubs ran amok – let’s work through it in your talking points. That were diabolical I went in pretty hard at New Zealand last week – but maybe it wasn’t hard enough. The Warriors were […]
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 […]
