NRL tips were let down last round by the Lottoland Eagles. AFL demonstrate Port Adelaide are pretenders with a great draw. Adelaide are the real deal. Greater Western Sydney desperately need to get their A team on the park. Collingwood are trying to torture us about Nathan Buckley’s future. NRL (last round 7/8; season tally …

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I’ve left Captain Cook floating around New Zealand (it’s okay, I already know where he’ll be arriving in a couple of weeks) to read Mitchell Johnson’s autobiography, Resilent. There is much to admire about Johnson’s effort to come back from being written off as an international cricketer, a comeback that represented personal growth as much …

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Not much to report on this round or last. Adelaide and Geelong is an interesting game. Geelong could well win, and that would cement their credentials as contenders. With Adelaide (and the other top teams) it’s still too hard to say they’ve made themselves favourites for the flag. NRL really only settles into the post …

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Well, any year Queensland win State Of Origin everything else is just a bonus. Nothing much else to be said about last weekend’s results, except for Greater Western Sydney’s extraordinary effort in achieving a draw in consecutive games. That being said both competitions should now be settling into some sort of stability as representative games …

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