By Casey O'Connor
While the Aussie Men’s Cricket team continues to make hard work of things in Pakistan (some of it their own doing ) the women are hitting it for six in the T20 World Cup across the ditch.
As we wrap up Spin, the girls have a fight on their hands against the Proteas.
We have slipped seamlessly into the NRL and the start of the AFL season was as exciting as the early rounds of the NRL.
Broncos fans are singing the praises of Adam Reynolds and so they should be after last weekend’s win. Craig Bellamy and the Melbourne Storm have the boot of Ryan Papenhuyzen to thank for a win in Bellamy’s 500th game. What a sensational game. In fact, fans have been treated to a smorgasbord of outstanding games very early in the season.
I do wonder how long it will be before the NRL power brokers and decision makers follow the AFL and invoke a serious penalty for player back chatting. The AFL ruling came to the fore in round one and I doubt it will take long for coaches to deal with their players folly.
Would a serious penalty or sin binning be enough to silence some of the serial offenders in league. We may never know but it would be good to test the water.
In the meantime, I am looking forward to another big weekend of league and look forward to following the Lions journey this season. On the local front it is crunch time for our local cricketers and teams in the local Grand finals. Good luck to all players this weekend.
Casey
CASEY’S NRL TIPS ROUND 3
Dragons, Warriors, Roosters, Panthers, Storm, Raiders, Broncos, Bulldogs
