This week we welcome back AFL.
NRL may have had something of a record set with a coach sacked after three weeks of the season. The Board of the Club in question seem to be defending this as just another step forward in their master plan.
I don’t what that says about the other nine clubs in the sixteen team competition who have managed to start the year with a one win / two loss record. Ten out of sixteen. That’s not good.
AFL will be interesting, three or four clubs are not really competitive, and then the rest are in varying degrees ascending or descending which may keep things interesting. Somehow I don’t think the final eight will be concrete one-third of the way through this year’s fixture, though the top three or four may be.
NRL (last round 4/8; season tally 14/24)
Easts
Penrith
Brisbane
Canterbury
Cronulla
North Queensland
Melbourne
New Zealand
AFL (last round /; season tally /)
Richmond
Western Bulldogs
Melbourne
Sydney
Hawthorn
Gold Coast
West Coast
Greater Western Sydney
Geelong