NRL Depth Swoop - Centre
Top Dogs
Michael Jennings - Blessed with lightning quick speed and footwork, Jennings is the type of centre you want to build your side around.
Michael Jennings - Blessed with lightning quick speed and footwork, Jennings is the type of centre you want to build your side around.
Matchup - Tom Symonds vs Alex Glenn. Two hole runners who don't make too many mistakes and do a good job whether it's running a decoy, shoveling the ball wider or hitting a gap
Mystery Doctor - Jonathan Thurston gave us touches of class and silky smooth crispness that will ensure that the Cowboys are always a chance.
Round 20
Dramas a plenty
Poor Mick Potter, salt rubbed in to the wound by Gareth Widdop's wizardry
JT and DCE, who compares? Not many
If any, Cowboys back to back in Sydney?
Who would have thought?
Who's more distraught than Ricky Stuart?
Try stand in front of Konrad Hurrell, yeah yeah go on do it
Manly standing atop of the table all alone
Behind closed doors, who knows how they stand, together or divided, they're in the zone
Hunting for the throne, unlike the Titans who need to get Anthony Griffin on the phone
Melbourne's forwards set the tone for the Big 3 to make it look easy peasey
Props to the props, Fifita to Tagataese
Drizzy
As the Warriors fan, it's my job to stay optimistic, keep the faith and just keep a smile on my dial about the Warriors ... well it's not my job it's my lifestyle, if that's possible.
Any time the topic of NRL expansion comes up in discussion, it's that lovely Aussie twang that infiltrates your ears.
It seems like yonks ago when Stephen Kearney rolled out a fresh crop of Kiwi rugby league players to take on the Kangaroos in the ANZAC test match.
Matchup - The big boppers. The Knights will be out to prove a point and the likes of Willie Mason and Kade Snowden will take the lead and look to make a statement against Sam Moa and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
Chief Biggums - Johnathan Thurston was back to his mercurial playmaking self leading the Cowboys to their first away win of the season over the Sharks.
The NSW Cup Warriors put in a gutsy effort to defend a 6-4 scoreline to beat the Wyong Roos over the weekend.
Oh true, Uncle Benny's heading back to Brissy
Really, is he? What about that poor lad Anthony?
Every sport has a period of wheelin' and dealin' which has great consequences on the rest of the competition's players and coaches.
28-22. It feels like 36-4 or something like that. The loss feels much bigger than it was which is probably a lowkey good thing for any Warriors fan.
The NRL Warriors were not the only Warrior team to have a dominant performance on Saturday night. The NSW Cup Warriors convincingly defeated the second-placed Wentworthville Magpies 30 - 6 in the final curtain raiser to the NRL game.
Matchup - Andrew Fifita vs James Tamou. Two big boys with a bit of footwork and skill. Both are key players for their teams and with Fifita returning from injury, it'll be great to see them line up against each other.
Welcome folks to the Niche Cache NRL Diggity Depth Swoop. Simply put, we'll rank the NRL's players and put them in to levels.
Chief Biggums - Matt Moylan - despite being one of the new cats, he had the composure of a veteran in the Monday night clash against the Broncos. He scored a try, whacked a few would-be defenders and slotted the winning field goal after dropping a bomb only a few minutes before.
State of Origin comes and goes. It's a big bulldozer that fires up its engine nearly halfway through the NRL season and clears anything and everything in its path.
Remember the start of the season? When that new look Parramatta Eels side just looked a class above our Warriors lads, they looked enthusiastic, energetic, aggressive, skillful, tough and just looked like a new breed of an NRL side.
If you met someone from a distant land and they asked you a bunch of questions about Australia, you'd probably be like "uugggh". As a New Zealander you'd just be annoyed they were asking all these questions about Aussie, but you can offer a simple answer. You can point to State of Origin, more specifically Game 3 and say "that's Australia".