Sports Prophet

I am just really pleased to see how well ANZAC Day is being observed in this country. It is truly a date in the calendar that should be embraced. The NRL are doing a great job of acknowledging the sacrifices of past and present men and women of our armed forces.

Makes his first appearance in December 2018 and then boom, 15 posts later he comes out with this piece. There’s a lot of truth to what you say.

I haven’t put my finger on how it could be done fairly but I like the idea of the Challenge Cup incorporating inter county rivalry. I think the old Lanc’s and York’s identities still have meaning and there are certain tools which can be used to give the old rivalry a bit of oomph again. Maybe at an amateur level, the early rounds are played between clubs within their own counties before being whittled down to say four or eight clubs who contest their own Magic style KO round over a weekend of Yorkshire v Lancashire match ups. And continue/or introduce the Lanc’s and York’s rivalry through to the introduction of the professional clubs, making a big deal of any Lanc’s v York’s draw. Perhaps only Lanc’s v York’s ties are televised on BBC. Audaciously, you could actually divide the competition purely on a Lanc’s to the west v York’s to the east and have the final contested by Yorkshire and Lancashire champions. If that means excluding some clubs like Catalans and London, or giving definition of why they fit in either east or west camp, then so be it. I don’t think contesting the CC final a week before the SL final is the answer. I just don’t see why you would have two major events back to back. I think it would dilute and devalue each event too much.

It can take a lot of courage and strength and is definitely not always a mistake.

I don’t lol whilst feeling exasperated. But I wasn’t lol’ing in the first place.

Yeah, I thought so too. I mentioned on a new thread that I reckon they should be supporting the Army instead of the Navy, seeing as the colours work so well for a marriage between the Bunnies and the Army.

I feel like Souths are missing an obvious trick by aligning themselves with the Navy. Their colours are green and red. Green being infantry and red being poppies as obvious mix with armed forces. Let alone a large army barracks in Randwick/Maroubra. Seems a little bit of a miss fire. An army green with red piping would look awesome I reckon.

The woman blowing The Last Post for the Rooters v Dragons game was superb. You could see how much it meant to her, you could see her tears being held back at the end as she took a big gulp. I love how the codes get behind this day so well, without making it too commercial.

You take full responsibility yet can’t bring yourself to apologise

Didn’t age well

He walks among you already

Auto correct mate. Wasn’t that funny. Did you really laugh out loud? I doubt you were lol’ing by the end of the ANZAC match

No I didn’t.

Today is Anzac Day and the football codes will be full of fixtures. The NRL does a great job of honouring the Australian and New Zealander veterans of conflict since the Boar War. Unforgotten are all the British and other veterans who have made the same sacrifices as our veterans to defend our freedoms. I hope as many of us can take the time to watch the pre match ceremony of one of today’s or this weekend’s fixtures and take time to consider how lucky most of us are to have had such brave people stand up for us all. Lest We Foget

Just as Trindall is starting to hit straps and Sharks due a tough 9 weeks to stay top 4, let alone top, he goes and makes a poor judgement like that! He will be kicking himself. Hope he isn’t rubbed out for too long. I don’t think Dykes is ready and I am really worried about our depth in the halves. Newtown have Hiroti playing in #6. With all due respect, he is not an NRL winger, let alone 5/8 or half.

Dale Finucane announces his immediate retirement whilst Wally Lewis calls on national government to fund $18m CTE research. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/dale-finucane-retirement-wally-lewis-cte-investment-plea/103758830

No doubt that £7.5k of Go Fund me dosh was put to a credible use.

I feel like such a list should prompt some sort of conversation. For me… I still like the idea of a Fijian NRL side. It’s the most prosperous nation of the smaller pacific isles and certainly produces the most talent and most of all, there would be far more likelihood of non Fijians moving to play there than non Papuans moving to Moresby. Alas, I think there are other destinations a bigger priority than Fiji. Be great to see them in the NSW Cup soon.

Another great watch.

You guys would make terrible commanders for accepting such insubordination. If it was me, that rendition of the last post would have had me sending him to the Eastern Front immediately.

Yeah, I am pretty happy for Kyle. I think he has been made a cheap scapegoat at his last two clubs. I love that he has stayed determined and just got up each time he has been knocked down. He’s by no means the best half in the comp, but I am pleased he has been given another chance and he is giving it a real good crack.

No, I am not denying it was an Ashes, it probably was, I’m just saying that other programme doesn’t confirm it. It’s a moot point with no real significance to this thread anyway.

I’m not sure there is anything more that the recent drastically improved performances can be put down to other than getting a glowingly evident, fantastic coach. What do you reckon @The Rocket?

I couldn’t quite hear, but there were two ex-soldiers disabled from conflicts presenting the match ball.

Don’t know. 1937 maybe