The contractual obligation season continues to introduce novel ways of providing product and fulfilling requirements to produce necessary amounts of product. I don’t know how it would be possible to study whether the injury rates players are experiencing this year are as a result of all the changes or whether they are coincidental to that. …
The NRL continues demonstrate consistency in a couple of key areas: random losses by fancied teams and coaches getting the knife. The fact that both Easts and Paramatta lost last weekend is pretty moot, because they’ll probably play a grand final later this year. Somewhere. Sometime. And I reckon Paul Green has a pretty fair …
There’s something sweet about thinking that the AFL teams relocating to Queensland for the next few months will raise the profile of the game in Queensland. The players, on the other hand might enjoy no one whatsoever recognising them. And yeah, the chances of the Grand Final not being played in Melbourne are very remote. …
The seasons for all football codes just keep getting more and more irregular. It will be interesting to see if the teams who more consistently travel and spend time away from home manage better than the teams that more consistently play at venues that allow them to commute from home. Particularly if this stretches out …
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