Well, last week I wrote “I’ll pick Queensland in the State of Origin. It all depends on the forward packs. Queensland’s doesn’t look as strong in attack, but they are solid defenders, so that may blunt NSW’s advantage. Or not.” The Queensland forward defence was dominant, particularly in the second half. A well-earned win, with …
Just when everything was settling back to how it should be with NRL and AFL correct tip ratios we enter the winter silly season of State of Origin and bye rounds. I’m a bit sad North Melbourne robbed me of a perfect round by sacking their coach. That only works for one round, though. This …
It feels a bit more normal when the correct AFL tips outnumber the correct NRL tips. That being said, at the point in the season where the cumulative AFL games played has taken over the NRL total I’m still well behind with AFL tips which has never happened before. My grandson is going to watch …
Nothing out of the ordinary last weekend, really. The NRL’s ‘Magic’ round apparently was magic because more people probably watched it live than any other normal round of rugby league in living memory. Hopefully the teams that sacrificed home ground advantage and lost appreciate the extra money in their bank accounts. The AFL seems to …
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