Confirmed footage of a prop outmarking a fullback in an aerial contest

Origin I has been run and done, half the players don’t remember Wednesday night due to HIAs, New South Wales are a rudderless rabble, and speaking of rudderless rabbles, the leading story in Rugbaleeg is that St George-Illawarra have become a bigger rabble than Wests.

As if Jason Ryles giving the Red V the metaphorical finger (Just to go back to Melbourne) wasn’t bad enough, business is so bad that St George Bank won’t even sponsor St George anymore, after 40 damn years.

Says a lot about the rubble the current Dragons have reduced themselves to, that was a sponsorship that made complete sense, like Steggles sponsoring the Roosters.

I wonder who’ll sponsor the Red V now, because it can’t be Westpac given they own St George Bank…

Why not go back to Penfolds?

It worked very well for 18 years, and with the joint venture struggling, they can play on the Illawarra element and release a Penfolds Kembla Grange at WIN Stadium.

See?

IDEAS.

Now, looking at the games for this week, with Manly, Newcastle and Parramatta all having a bye, leaving us with 7 games:

– The Tigers play the Raiders at Campbelltown in the Tim Sheens Derby, as Ricky Stuart decides to rest Jarrod Croker to ensure his 300th game is in Canberra, also ensuring Tigers fans don’t throw headgear and plastic bottles at him.

– The New Zealand Warriors, regressing to the mean every week, host the Redcliffe Dolphins (Minus the Hammer and Tom Gilbert) at Go Media Stadium, which I thought was some stadium out in a town like Dunedin or Christchurch, but it turns out they bought the naming rights to Mt Smart Stadium not even 2 weeks ago.

– The Titans host the Rabbitohs on the Gold Coast, and not even missing Origin I could ensure Latrell Mitchell would come back from injury, and the only Mitchell to feature in a Myrtle and Green jersey will be Shaq Mitchell

– The Sharks host the Broncos at Shark Park on Saturday night, on paper the game of the round given most of the players that featured on Wednesday night will feature, especially Nico Hynes and Payne Haas after being psychologically abused by Brad Fittler’s interchanges, although I’d put a huge doubt on Selwyn Cobbo

– The Roosters host the Bulldogs at Central Coast Stadium, and if the Roosters field the James Tedesco that played on Wednesday night, then they are stuffed and plucked with a capital F, because from what I saw, he’ll suffer the same fate as Fatty Vautin in 1990.

– The Cowboys host the Storm in the Channel 9 game on Sunday afternoon in Townsville, and it wasn’t all that long ago that Channel 9 wouldn’t even broadcast Cowboys games, let alone have them on Sunday afternoon… That magically seemed to change circa 2004 when the Cowboys finally made the finals.

– And the lucky last game of the round sees Penrith host St George-Illawarra out in the mountains, and that’s probably where the remains of the Dragons squad will be found after the Panthers are done with them, given they seem to actually live up to their reputations when they aren’t wearing a sky blue jersey against 13 angry Queenslanders.

Now, enough garbage, I’ve put the games into my random tip generator that never seems to bloody work, so here’s the Round 14 tips

Round 13 Score = 3/5, Progress Score = 59/101 (59.4%)

Round 14 =

Round 14 Lock of the Week

Well, folks, when you’re right 52% of the time, you’re wrong 48% of the time!

Oddly enough, my accuracy on the Lock of the Week is now closer to 52% after the last fortnight.

Alright, this week’s Lock of the Week, and I was just thinking, how many teams have I not picked as Lock of the Week that usually win every week…

That’s right, Souths!

Which means I’ll have to dig up something involving a Rabbit, and after a toss-up between Eddie Rabbitt and Jefferson Airplane, the answer just had to be the band that turned the plot of Alice In Wonderland into one hell of an LSD trip: