PVL has seen the money the feds put into PNG and told the Western Bears that they want that from them. What a slime bag.
Brought my membership this morning to see my Phins play. Last 2 years i’ve got a silver membership to suncorp games only, but this year i’ve upgraded to platnum 11 covering games at suncorp and redcliffe. Also brought a ticket to friday night at Magic Round to see the phins play as well.
Now need single game tix to go on sale for the game aginst the Titans in April and the Broncos home game in August, and perhps convincing the wife i need a quick trip to auckland to see them play over there
How many games are at Redcliffe this season?
Two. Against the tigers in round 3 and the raiders in round 27
I’m currently on a quest to see my Sharks at the four furthest points on a compass.
Have seen them play in Perth, Townsville, and I’m off to Vegas in a few weeks for the Penrith game. Hope to get down to Melbourne to see them play the Storm (maybe this year).
Will also try and get to see them play at all regular NSW/ACT venues too.
Im planning on doing the same but brisbane to perth is a slog (5.5 hours in a narrowbody)
I did it twice last year and im not keen to do it for a while. Id be keen on vegas though if thr phins play over there
Every team will get a game in Vegas by 2028. Great time of the year to go too, only 23 degrees not too hot.
Read: How to be let down by my team in person at the four furthest points on a compass. 
Do we have to do this Vegas shit. I’ll tolerate Magic Round but this Vegas crap is too much. You’re appealing only to Australian, Kiwi and Pommie tourists and drunken bums. PVL thinks the game can go global. I hate to say it, but he’s dreaming. Even trying to get Dictator-in-Chief Trumpy to come along is going to end up in disappointment, he’s too busy turning the US into Nazi Germany.
Well, I’m 1 from 2 so far… (Sharkies did beat the Bunnies in Perth when I was there in 2023, but the Cowboys won last year). I’ll probably end up being 1 from 4 (Penrith and Storm will be hard to beat) but it’ll be a good experience, particularly Vegas with 4 games all on the one day.
It’s all about the gambling $$$… PVL reckons he can capture 1% of the American sports betting market with the NRL… but I have to say I think he needs to push that decimal point a few places to the left!
What else do you expect from a money-hungry grub from a racing background. I’ve seen him in person, he looks like a poor imitation of a Mafia guy.
What American is going to be betting on the NRL? Only people who will bet on anything and needs help.
As I said elsewhere, NRL is nothing more than a niche sport globally, and sadly, I’m thinking that’s the way it might stay.
And the same with every sport everywhere…our sporting tastes are pretty much set in stone globally forever and ever.
Americans will watch their sports, southern states here will follow the AFL and up north we’ll follow the NRL, and that’s the way it will stay.
Global grooming brand Wahl has become a major sponsor of the Dolphins.
ive delt with him in a business sense. he makes slime look classy
they are offering free haircuts at the dophins family morning this saturday…
At the time, correct; that record would later be surpassed in 2016, the middle year of a wooden spoon hat-trick.
Their only won that season (2016) was by two points against the Wests Tigers, which ultimately cost the joint venture a finals berth. More than eight years on and it’s the Tigers who are now coming off three straight wooden spoons and, despite their acquisition of Jarome Luai, I can’t see them playing in September anytime soon.
The 2005 season saw the Brisbane Broncos win ten games in a row, the most by any side that season, but they would crash out of September in straight sets, as they also did in 2004.
best year EVER for the game! 
(15 wins in a row for the mighty Sharkies and the first of - hopefully - many premierships to come).
2016 was well and truly the Year of the Underdogs! Remembering the Western Bulldogs also smashed a 62-year premiership drought by upsetting the Sydney Swans in the Grand Final.
And also a streak where long time droughts were broken in NRL Premierships
2014 was Souths first win in 43 years
2015 was Nth Qld’s first ever win (joined in 1995)
2016 was Cronulla’s first win (entered in 1967)
But since 2016, only three teams have won premierships (Storm and Roosters twice each, Penrith 4 in a row after that).
I reckon, just like tennis had its Big Three (Federer, Nadal and Djokovic), it seems like we have a Big Three in rugby league (Storm, Roosters and Panthers). Between them:
- they have won 13/14 minor premierships since the start of the 2011 season (only outlier was the Bulldogs finishing in top spot in 2012), and the last 12 consecutively dating back to the start of 2013;
- as you’ve pointed out, the three teams have combined for the last eight premierships; and
- only six Grand Finals in the NRL era (1998-present) haven’t featured either team (Broncos vs Bulldogs in 1998, Knights vs Eels in 2001, Tigers vs Cowboys in 2005, Sea Eagles vs Warriors in 2011, Souths vs Bulldogs in 2014 and Broncos vs Cowboys in 2015). The last nine deciders have featured at least one of the two, three of them between two (Roosters vs Storm in 2018 and Panthers vs Storm in 2020/24).
Wouldn’t be surprised if this year’s Grand Final again features one of the three, but I think it would be refreshing if none of them feature.
The tennis trio however, is out of thousands of players, when in the NRL it’s only amongst 16/17 teams.
The AFL doesn’t have the same issue of dominance to that extent, whereby such dynasties are short lived and are usually followed by a drought (Hawthorn and Richmond are two prime examples). The draft is the probably the reason for that.