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    Development Victoria wins Affiliated States Championship

    http://www.melbournestorm.com.au/default.aspx?s=vrl
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    Victoria, QLD Could Bid For Grand Final

    Fair enough - think my Sister and bro-in-law will be at the GP too. Though, I don't think your description adequately describes either of the teams playing in the SL game in Barcelona. Some Warrington fans may claim Matt King is over-paid but he's clearly not "past it"... Aside from he and...
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    Tomane to Gold Coast

    Ok. Bit of an over-reaction... I have no idea what the figures are... sounds like you don't either. Go find them and then we can have a discussion about the relative effects of a salary cap, draft, free agency, different sporting markets for talent, etc. You do also realise that NRL players...
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    International Alcohol row leaves Australia and New Zealand considering Four Nations boycott

    This really isn't that big a deal... Clubs of all codes deal with it several times a year when travelling to France to play matches. Leeds Rhinos, who are sponsored by Tetley's (the beer not the tea), change the beer's name on their shirt to "Thirsty?" written in the Tetley's logo style when...
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    Victoria, QLD Could Bid For Grand Final

    Pretty sure the Sweeney report ranks every Rugby league event below Altona Public School's Athletics carnival in terms of popularity... I just can't see how you can possibly rank sporting events and the popularity and participation rates in certain sports based solely on telephone interviews...
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    Victoria, QLD Could Bid For Grand Final

    Suncorp holds 30,000 fewer people than ANZ Stadium in Sydney. Suncorp couldn't hold any of the crowds that have attended the NRL Grand Finals since 1999. The Grand Final should NEVER be held in Queensland until they can provide a stadium capable of holding the crowd that can be accomodated in...
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    Sharks lose major sponsor

    Trouble not over for the Sharks yet... The CEO seems to be on the way out after the release of that incredible (by which I mean terrible) taped conversation that has been reported in the media. Tony Zappia had a great reputation as Football Manager at Parramatta - seems so strange and...
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    Development Victoria wins Affiliated States Championship

    In great news for the game in the State, Victoria won it's first-ever Affiliated States Championship in Melbourne on Saturday. (For those that don't know, the championship is made up of the best players from the local competitions in each state.) The final, at Casey Park, was contested between...
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    Crazy NRL/AFL game idea

    That's right. And I would agree that those players would need to have the right stamina to be able to run up and down the field many times over during a match to get into position. Though, you'd obviously be interchanging them. Any hybrid game would pretty clearly have a lower amount of off...
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    Recruits of the year

    They had some AFL player advising the NSW Wingers on how to defend against Folau in the air. It will be interesting to see whether Folau's main weapons in attack end up being nullified by some out of the box thinking from opposition coaches.
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    State of origin 2009

    Yes, and in Sydney it gets shown at the same time as the NRL one (on Nine HD) which is probably why NRL fans may expect the same thing when they're in Melbourne (and want to watch it). It won't result in the end of the world or the destruction of Victorian sporting culture as we know it.
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    Crazy NRL/AFL game idea

    Or any decent amateur teams, really. IMO the idea I came up with it is probably more a modified version of Rugby... but it would be interesting to take the idea and in practice see how other elements of Australian Rules could be included in the basic idea of modifying the off-side rules and...
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    The Footy Show

    Fair enough - I guess the Storm should have done better too, as they're basically the defacto VRL. Though, I can't see what else the ARL can do (aside from the TV times which is the NRL's job). They play showpiece rep games in the city each year, after all, and things have certainly...
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    Crazy NRL/AFL game idea

    Depends on the rules. The hybrid rules I've described would probably only eliminate the larger props. The reality of Rugby league in the 21st century is that players are mainly built so they can alternate quite easily between different positions - for example, 3/4ers and the backrow or...
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    Crazy NRL/AFL game idea

    You'd have to trial the rules with a real game to see in practice how it would work. It would be interesting to see how often in practice the punt (or a forward spiral pass / handball) would be used to give possession to the "rovers" who are able to run beyond the initial defensive / attacking...
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