There is a solution to the mundane nature of the NRL regular season – bring back the “final five”.
For we are, friends, at that time of year when the latter totally swamps the former. For the better part of the next month and a bitty, the usual NRL comp will stagger on while the Origin juggernaut swamps the airwaves, the net, print, and public attention. Is there another sporting competition in the world where the teams give over their best players to a different annual comp where the risk of injury is never higher?And therein lies the problem.
And of course, Super Rugby must do the same. You only need to know that the Waratahs – despite having lost everything but the will to live in recent times – wereAnd speaking of comps that could do with a change in format, did you even know that the A-League grand final has just been played? I was only dimly aware.
The Nadal he was ten years ago would beat the Nadal he is now in straight sets and probably hand him a small tray of donuts – 6-0s and 40-0s to boot. On the one hand, it is nothing less than sad that we should see his powers fade before our eyes in this manner, a mere shadow of the player he was.On the other hand, if you look at it with your head tilted to the right, you squint your eyes, and have the sun coming from over your right shoulder, you can maybe see a bit of inspiration in it.
It’s not for him to go gently into the night. For him to rage, rage, against the dying of the light – and enjoy it right down to the last stroke.this week noting how little I care for Olympic stats and dry analysis, and how much I love the yarns with colour, romance, chivalry and damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead-ed-ness.
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