It was a pretty thin field admittedly – not many more than a dozen entries in the Crikey NRL GF tipping comp – but no-one came close to predicting the extraordinary result at ANZ Stadium last night. Mike Cowley tipped Manly by eight and that, amazingly, was as close as anyone got to the Sea Eagles’ 40-point [...]
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Grapple with this: Crikey’s NRL Grand Final tipping comp
October 2, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Because this is an Equal Opportunity blog, we’re giving our legion of rugby league supporters the chance to win one of four Crikey 12-month subscriptions by tipping on Sunday’s NRL Grand Final – just as we did with the AFL Grand Final last week.
After weeks of grapple tackle talk, chicken wing waffle, suspensions, coaching broadsides, [...]
Ruthless Storm fans flames of Melbourne-Sydney rivalry
October 1, 2008 – 11:58 am
Now that it has become a leviathan, an irresistible force which has pushed aside every immoveable object in the NRL for most of the past three years, Melbourne Storm has officially lost its ranking as everyone’s second-favourite team.
It has become too good for that, too brutally successful. The romance of the outsider underdog has gone; [...]
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