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From The Couch: Round 19

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From The Couch: Round 19

From The Couch: Round 19 Tigers Crucified By King Clown: Greg Alexander called it “garbage”. Fans across the game no matter who you support declared the Tigers had been robbed. It will go down as the worst call of the season from a referee so wildly incapable of fulfilling his very basic duties that he […]

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From The Couch: Round 18

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From The Couch: Round 18

From The Couch: Round 18 The 2022 Series Loss is Brad Fittler’s Fault Fully and Completely: When Brad Fittler burst onto the NSW coaching scene, his strange hippie tendencies and out-there idiosyncrasies was a positive for a team that was bogged down in rigid conservatism. Five years on and two lost series when the Blues […]

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From The Couch: Round 17

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From The Couch: Round 17

From The Couch: Round 17 Luke Brooks Is a Dumb Player: When  you lack any relatively elite athletic skills in the NRL, you really need to be a smart player. So it somewhat defies belief that Luke Brooks has survived a decade in the NRL – and has been touted by some morons as an […]

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From The Couch: Rep Weekend

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From The Couch: Rep Weekend

Blues Bounce Back: New South Wales bounced back in style in Perth, winning the second game of the series 44-12. Brad Fittler made mass changes and they generally worked. Matt Burton had one of the all-time great debuts and has locked in his spot in the side for a long-time to come. Api Koroisau did […]

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From The Couch: Round 15

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From The Couch: Round 15

  Freddy Knows He Got It Wrong: The one positive outcome from Brad Fittler making sweeping changes to the Game 2 team is that he has conceded how much he got wrong in the opener. Sadly, he has not really identified what he got wrong, at least not fully.  There was a blow with Jack […]

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From The Couch: Round 14

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From The Couch: Round 14

Terrific Tuesday: Two coach sackings in a single day makes for truly a special day and seeing two clubs try to smother it under the shadow of Origin is truly special. The inevitable finally came last Tuesday with the Warriors sacking Nathan Brown and the Tigers finally pulling the pin on Michael Maguire’s extended life […]

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From The Couch: Round 13

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From The Couch: Round 13

Farewell Rabs: The voice of Rugby League is no longer. Ray ‘Rabbits’ Warren has called it a day after a stunning career in the Greatest Game of All that has seen him call 45 Grand Finals and 99 Origin matches among many more achievements. While we could argue long into the night his best call […]

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From The Couch: Round 12, 2022

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From The Couch: Round 12, 2022

Freddy Jumps The Shark: The arrogance displayed in the naming of the NSW team was truly something to behold and suggests the Blues are cherry-ripe for the picking. The centre situation is a complete debacle, picking a player in Jack Wighton that is not going overly well out of position ahead of a premiership winning […]

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From The Couch: Round 11

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From The Couch: Round 11

From The Couch: Round 11 A Proud Day for Australia: For the first time since 1945, Australia has elected a Prime Minister whose first sporting love is Rugby League. Anthony Albanese’s love of Rugby League and credentials in the game are as pure as the driven snow, the first Prime Minister who can lay such […]

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From The Couch: Round 10

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From The Couch: Round 10

From The Couch: Round 10 Rugby League How To Vote Card: If you are voting on the big issues of Rugby League next Saturday – as I assume we all are – then here is how Scotty from Marketing and Albo stand up: Genuine Love of League Morrison: 5 Albanese: 10 ScoMo has used the […]

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