LAST Monday the 20th marked a year since our great friend Toby Hughes left us. I couldn’t think of anything else to write this week that had more importance or emotion than his memory so I’ve decided to ‘republish’ the words I had for “Brother Bias” 12 months ago. We love and miss you lots […]

Tom Jenkins. Photo: Panthers Media A FEW years ago, I did a guest speaking tour of the country areas of our state. My first stop was at a place I had never heard of called Boorowa. “You know Tom Jenkins is from here,” one of the crowd members said. “And that’s his brother over there,” […]

WITH the teams for the blockbusting third and deciding game of origin to be picked next Monday the 29th, I thought I’d have a stab at throwing up my NSW team as well. After going down 44-24 in game two at the MCG, I’ve made five changes from the team we watched last start. 1. […]

Photo: Pauly Foster AS we’re whistling through this season like a favourite at Rosehill some things from this past round stood out more than most. With that, here is my Good, Bad, and Ugly from the round just played. Good – The Panther Juggernaut! What a mood they were in last Sunday against the hapless […]

 Photo: Pauly Foster  WITH the origin series upon us and the Dally M judging now going behind closed doors, it usually signals the half way point of the season proper. I thought I’d have a look at every team thus far this season and give them all a rating out of 10. I’ll also nominate […]

THIS weekend’s Magic Round at Suncorp has more ‘pizzazz’ than usual with it being a full-on State of Origin selection trial added to surely fire up an already spicy weekend of NRL.  There are also players taking part this weekend that sum up the very title ( Magic) of what we’re about to witness.  With […]

Dylan Edwards. Photo: Pauly Foster IT is just over 3 weeks until the first State of Origin launches at Accor stadium in Sydney. So I thought, like lots of others, I’d predict my NSW 19 man squad for Game One. Players I have not considered through injury are Liam Martin, Tommy Turbo, Payne Haas, Bradman […]

ROUND 6 of the NRL dished up another week of upsets and blown out scorelines, yet every game had its highlight! Let’s take a look. Bulldogs v Panthers.  The Bulldogs pulled off the upset of the round – and maybe the year thus far – with a dominant display against the high-flying Panthers winning 32-16. […]

Photo: Panthers Media LAST Friday night we witnessed one of the most spine-tingling moments our great game has ever delivered. South Sydney’s modest flyer Alex Johnstone broke a 53-year record to produce a double, and in turn break Ken Irvine’s long standing most tries scored record of 212. That record has stood since 1973, the […]

AROUND mid December I got a call from a bloke named Ryan Alexander from Premium Sports Events in Melbourne. Ryan was calling to see if I’d like to replace Darryl Brohman as ‘tour host’ for 90 people for the NRL in Las Vegas.  Darryl had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had to obviously pull […]