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The benefit of playing in front of a home crowd is a well-established factor in sporting events, which coupled with the fiercely tribal nature…
Imagine an NRL season that went from start to finish without silly interruptions from pointless mid-season representative fixtures. Never going to happen, right? That's…
I remember when I lived in Bendigo going to see Northcote play Footscray at the QEO and seeing Big Merv, Colin ‘Funky’ Miller and Darren ‘Chuck’ Berry turn out to play.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
Didn’t like the Boxing Day Test then?
Pitch perfect: Three-day Tests a small price to pay - batting techniques more to blame for shortened matches
Missing off and leg.
Relentless Boland rampant on SCG seamer, third umpire under fire over contentious calls as Aussies rip through India
Visitors to Australia are counted in the census figures.
Also, given Australia’s top five cities all have over a million people, and they’re pretty spread out, so not everyone is in the same place, and given how many much smaller countries in area have larger populations, how does your perception of crowdedness give you a good indication of how many million people are in Australia? Do you feel the population triples every time you go to a sporting event of concert?
How 'woke Pat' overcame 'Aussie exceptionalism' to keep calm and carry on winning as one of our greatest leaders
And to not be given out LBW.
'Clearly not out': BCCI heavyweight's bizarre take backs up Gavaskar 'optical illusion' protest over key wicket
Not quite universally, JL’s band of supporters aren’t the biggest fans.
'Clearly not out': BCCI heavyweight's bizarre take backs up Gavaskar 'optical illusion' protest over key wicket
The two coexist on Boxing Day, and I’m ok with that. I watch a day of test cricket, then after that I don’t watch the big bash. Win-win!
'Why the hell did we do that?': When the power of ODIs saw Boxing Day sacrificed for a Christmas turkey
What happens when the coach loses the playing group?
Could this expansion model truly nationalise the NRL and grow game overseas?
Can The Roar please refrain from re-posting bigoted twitter comments about Townsville or any other place. You and the OP might think it’s funny, but it’s just another stupid stereotype.
Smith shuts Hayden up with ton of class, Guha's 'primate' comment raises eyebrows
The reason most players who have over 300 games have played in the last 20 years is in no small part because there have more games per season in the past 30 years. Sports science improvements, as others have said, plays its part. Then there is the payment being better than ever before meaning that players don’t have to retire early to find a ‘real job’ that they can live off.
Despite all those things, burnout is a real thing. It affects mental and physical health and can impact quality of life. Some of those players playing many games might be dealing with more stress than they should be. Moreover, despite the fact more players are playing longer, the vast majority of players do not play anywhere near 300 games. The RLPA is advocating for them too.
If burnout is such a problem why are so many NRL players’ careers lasting longer than ever?
That’s often last thing a person hears before a nice man puts a bag over their head.
Madge just shot Bambi - Broncos legend becomes first casualty of new regime
You mean Justin’s try? Or James’ try?
The moments that really matter: How the 2015 grand final was decided well before the last-second try
Unnecessarily it may have been, but he didn’t know that when he made the decision to leave his wing. Morgan had Reed turned around, and Milford was unlikely to bring down Morgan by himself. Oates left his wing just as Reed commited to the tackle.
The moments that really matter: How the 2015 grand final was decided well before the last-second try
It was, and I was going to mention this. That, and Head’s knock in the final.
Hodgey's had his go, now it's my turn: The 20 greatest Aussie knocks of the last 50 years - Part One
I thought this article might have said something about playing the ball on the mark. That is something I’d be happy to see a crackdown on, not with penalties, but making the attacking player go back and do it properly, which slows them down enough to think twice about doing it again.
The actual mechanics of the play-the-ball are not greatly important in my mind, but I detest situations of referees using ‘discretion’ because inevitably it leads to inconsistent application of the rules. Either crack down or change the rules to simplify the play-the-ball. I think most people are in favour of the latter.
Why fixing NRL play-the-ball plague isn't as easy as penalising sneaky players all the time
A few years ago, blowouts did occur due to rule changes aimed to speed up play. My hypothesis on that is that teams with personnel more suited to these rules and who were able to adapt their tactics got a significant advantage over other teams. Fast forward 3-4 years and most teams have adapted their personnel, training systems and tactics to the new norm, and the blowouts have reduced. If a rule change does have an effect on conpetitive games it will be temporary.
Why fixing NRL play-the-ball plague isn't as easy as penalising sneaky players all the time
I take your point, but to counter that is that all supporters of AFL clubs have both men’s and women’s teams to follow. While it spreads the talent thinner, it maximises support for the competition. With the NRLW, they have kept the competition smaller, but if you follow a club that doesn’t currently have a women’s team, there is less incentive for you to follow.
The current state of the competition is a reflection of the fact that there hasn’t until now been a pathway to the top for girls. Consequently, many of the current players have come back to the game more recently. Without the years of nurturing talent, the quality is not as a high as it could be, but this will change with the next generation who see AFL football at the top level as possible.
COMMENT: It's time for the AFL to decide whether they actually care about AFLW
They are doing well for themselves as a club, but the Broncos are still wealthier. Also, a league without a salary cap probably means some pretty lax third-party rules, bringing into play the clubs with the big paying sponsors.
Panthers inherit All Blacks aura - would an NRL Best of the Rest team beat a salary cap free Penrith?
If you play two per game, you probably want a spare. As for Turbo, I don’t know.
Premiership star ruled out for Roos as Meninga swings axe to incumbent stars, ignores Ponga backflip with eye on future
I guess Hunt can cover both halfback and hooker.
Premiership star ruled out for Roos as Meninga swings axe to incumbent stars, ignores Ponga backflip with eye on future
Not if you’re unlucky.
History-making Panthers claw past Storm for fourth straight title as Munster biting allegation mars all-time classic decider
Wasn’t it a club game?
Storm GF player ratings: Bellamy's strange interchange ploy with trio barely used, Katoa's star continues to rise
The first of those is averse, not adverse.
Only way to survive NRL grand final snore-fest is via an old-fashioned drinking game
Sorry. You lost me when you said ‘risk adverse’.
Only way to survive NRL grand final snore-fest is via an old-fashioned drinking game
Thanks for the heads up but I doubt I’ll be in Bendigo any time soon. I live i NQ and Ihaven’t actually been to Bendigo for 20 years, but it was a good memory. When I was kid, big Merv was my favourite player, and I was lucky enough to get his autograph that day.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL