How many television sports broadcasters, journalists, pundits, podcasters and ex-players have ranted in the last forty-eight hours about the sin binning of Hudson Young and the subsequent penalty against Canberra? Well, let me be the one and only person in the whole world who says, “I don’t care what you all think. You’re just dead wrong.” For me, the penalty against the … [Read more...]
The NRL Bunker and forward passes – here’s the perfect solution!
Last week every newspaper, sports news web site and Rugby League media program across the land ran a “NRL has gotta do something about forward passes” story. Journalists and footy pundits were incensed. A recent run of tries scored from “blatant” forward passes got all those experts incensed and keyboards tapping. What a load of old bollocks. Most of the complaints … [Read more...]
Nathan’s Future – Will Cleary Jump Ships to The Super League?
I saw half a dozen media articles last week that suggested that Nathan Cleary is considering a possible future career jump to the Super League. Really? The Super League? I doubt it. He’s a talented bloke and, no doubt, money isn’t everything to the best Rugby league player in the world, but do the pundits seriously expect us to believe that Nathan would be willing to halve his … [Read more...]
Didn’t see that coming! – NRL Grand Final 2023
Socrates doesn't normally comment on common, garden variety, pro sports news... but he got his analysis so wrong, on this occasion, that he couldn't keep himself away from his keyboard. How did your prediction go? Did you predict the NRL Grand Final scenario? Over to Socrates for his description of the one he got wrong. The third scenario… the one I didn’t see coming… was … [Read more...]
New State of Origin Format Proposal – Exclusive!
A senior Australian Rugby league official recently leaked to Socrates that the ARL are looking at experimenting with the State of Origin team selections for future interstate matches. While not being totally dissatisfied with current arrangements the official argued that it was experimenting with selection rules that turned interstate Rugby League fixtures into the success that … [Read more...]