As noted last week, NRL Thursday night games means these are up a day early.
I came out on the wrong end of a couple of tight finishes in the NRL last week.
A weekend that started out well in the ARL stuttered badly toward the end, without giving any strong indicators about how things might go this week. What can you say about a competition in which eleven of the eighteen teams are sitting on a win ratio of 50% or less?
And Australia got as close to New Zealand in the Rugby Union as they’re going to get.
NRL (last round 5/8; season tally 98/168)
Canterbury
Manly
Brisbane
Souths
New Zealand
Cronulla (for the Ricky Stuart Cup)
Saint George
Melbourne
AFL (last round 5/9; season tally 121/180)
Port Adelaide
North Melbourne
Essendon
Collingwood
West Coast
Hawthorn
Fremantle
Sydney
Richmond (who need as much percentage out of this as they can.)
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