George Watt

5 failed attempts to get the 1 point during GP with the Cowboys having 4 of them and the pundits noting that normal rules are completely disregarded particularly offside at the PTB. All calling for these problems to be addressed.

Haven't worn a watch since I left England back in the mid 60's AT.

Hull KR to win this is my fearless prediction!

Totally agree on protection of players. So far this year Abdo has stated that the number of head high tackles has risen by 90% as compared to the same period last year. Don't agree on reducing the sin bin to 5 mins. Maybe increasing it to 15 minutes would be an incentive for players to lower their tackle target area.

Perhaps the dumbest ever set of decisions by Cronulla that I have witnessed to score a point at 18-18 from the 70th minute of the match. Well done Tigers to take advantage.

Thanks you are correct. I mixed up 18th with 2028 regarding PNG- old age is no fun!

Surprised Perth are entering the the NRL as the 18th team. For months now V'landys/Abdo have been saying PNG would be the next team in after they came to a huge multi million deal with the Aus. Labor government.

Loving this Canterbury Bankstown performance. Bit of useless info is that the last time Canterbury won 6 in a row was back in my birth year 1938 when they went on to win the premiership.

Anyone tipping the Panthers in the past few weeks must be an extreme optimist. I have supported them for 25 years and have been tipping against them for several weeks now. They will be lucky to not finish in the bottom half of the table.

What did whinging Ricky give as the excuse for Raiders not winning this week?

Favour the Bulldogs to get him.

Hull to prevail in a tight match.

Category 1 HIA means he is unavailable for Round 4 match v Souths away.

2 dropped by McLean were more damaging as 2 Roosters tries resulted soon after. Is it too early for my prediction that the Penrith GF winning run will end this season?

Saw it awhile back and it certainly was the end of an era.

Bliss-so true and for rugby league nuts like me double so. In the 70's the ARL match of the round was played as a stand alone game on Saturdays with the other matches played on Sundays. Cronulla rarely featured in the Saturday game played at the SCG and I went to these matches and then to watch Cronulla if they were at home the following day.

Think when I started going back in 1970 it was Endeavour Field and went to every home game for 30 years. Initially there were three matches played starting around 1100am with the youth team,then followed the reserve team and finally the first team. The wife came along and we sat on the grass(she read a book) consuming sandwiches and a couple of beers until we had to stand to see the game. Loved these early years of supporting the Sharks. Ultimately in the early eighties we decided to buy season tickets which continued until 2000 when we left the Sutherland Shire to live in the Blue Mountains. May be classified as a hovel today but the venue gave me decades of enjoyment.

The A$600M Aus Gov. package is over 10 years and includes A$60M which will be allocated to the ARL Commission as a license fee for a new team and distributed among the existing 17 NRL clubs. Reported that players signed to the PNG franchise will be exempt from paying tax.

Think you mean Olympic games 2032. Comm.games are economically quite toxic here - Victoria pulled out of staging 2026 for cost reasons and Glasgow has taken those on. Don't know of any takers for the next lot in 2030.

The amount of Taxpayer money being thrown at the game here is enormous. A$ 500k by the WA government, A$ 300K by the NSW government for the new Panthers Stadium plus the millions by the Feds to support a PNG team to enter the NRL etc,etc. How much does the UK government give to RL?

Would have to think more about a fourth but three would certainly be Joe Oliver Jack Harrison and Roy Francis. Incidentally the best ever player I have watched was Brian Bevan who I first saw play at the Boulevard in 1947 in a Warrington side including Roy Francis.

Yes I am an outlier on Sterling because both Finn/ Horne played an enormous number of games. Only once watched Sterling play for Hull when they lost against Wigan in a CC final. Finn steered the Hull so called "Panzer Pack" around for years. My second team in SL is Warrington and I would not include Andrew Johns in my favourite team. How far back would you go back in naming your all time team? Would Billy Batten be included? - he would replace Leuluai in mine as he was a child favourite due to my dad talking endlessly about his exploits.

Bet a pound to a penny her fullback was Jim Sullivan! The best Wigan team performance I watched was in the 1959 CC final against Hull. Hull had a pack which was arguably it's best ever including Internationals Tommy Harris ,John Whiteley, Mick Scott plus the Drake twins and if I include my early fifties favourite second rower Harry Markham my forwards are complete Fullback would be Freddie Miller, wingers Bruce Ryan and Clive Sullivan centres Roy Francis and James Leuluai with halves Gary Schofield and Tommy Finn/Richard Horne. Schofield played in the centre for Hull but is there in my favourite team choice. Favourite ever Wigan player would be Bill Ashurst who came here to play for Penrith in the seventies and was a legend there,

If I were to name mine from first watching/supporting them from 1945 to now, maybe a couple of the above would be included.

Ezra Mam has recorded a second positive test and will front the courts next month charged with the drug offence and being unlicensed.