Is there a football game on somewhere, in some code, tonight? I can’t keep up. Anyway, here’s some tips. NRL (last round 4/4; season tally 75/132) Canterbury Cronulla Brisbane Gold Coast Souths Saint George Melbourne Easts AFL (last round 5/9; season tally 101/144) Richmond North Melbourne Sydney Essendon Adelaide Geelong Hawthorn West Coast Port Adelaide

Well, Queensland won the final State Of Origin game demonstrating that: there is never a huge gulf between QLD and NSW; a side that wins the first two games (and the series) has some sort of let-down in the third game; that Daly Cherry-Evans has been a very unlucky victim of team balance selection choices, …

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Worst round of picks for AFL so far, and I don’t think I’d change any of my selections if I had another chance. Let’s hope things return to normal this week. NRL is messed up by another pre State of Origin weekend. Four games and teams weakened by missing players. Still selecting Queensland for State …

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A full round of games for both competitions. Sunday night State of Origin was an interesting experiment. The idea of a stand-alone game and not a wid-week game with a round split either side of it on two weekends is attractive. Queensland are not terrible, and Ben Hunt is worth persevering with. Next year with …

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