Leaguel Counsel EP 7
We are already a quarter of the way through the NRL season, yep that's right six games over 26 weeks minus the two byes equals one quarter.
Now this is about the time where your team is actually starting to show who they are, I think you can safely know who they really are once we are at the half way mark.
So then what have we learnt after six weeks?
To make it easy on you i'll give you a highlights package but if you want to impress your friends at the pub or seduce the local coffee lady with your abundant league knowledge then listen to Leaguel Counsel and let us get you up to speed each week.
- George Burgess and brother Tom have officially turned into powder puffs (see David Shillington circa 2014-15)
- Mitchell Moses is making James Maloney look like a defensive specialist...oh yea and the Eels were so taken with his defensive prowess they offered him $850k a season!
- BJ Leilua still has the shortest fuse in the NRL but now he is also the worlds best centre
- The Sharks are going to give back to back a really good go...and might just end up playing the Storm again in a GF replay
- Kieran Foran is back...and he is fantastic
- The Dragons are low key leading the comp
- The Eels paid $850k a season for Mitchell Moses!
- Cooper Cronk wont be playing for the Storm in 2018
- Jason Taylor was the first coach to go and the Tigers wisely swooped on Ivan Cleary to replace him
- The 2017 Cowboys injury toll could rival the 2015 Panthers
- Mitchell Moses!
Leaguel Counsel is a free flowing podcast largely covering all things Rugby League and occasionally touching on innocuous everyday stuff.
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I want to select a good fly-half.
Defence is a problem, but I don't know what should be done about it. I'd like england to stick with the felix jones system, but its pointless for me to make that claim, given I have no idea whether el-abd is capable of coaching that system. Ultimately I just have to trust him and Borthwick to come up with the best solution.
But I do know enough to say that Marcus is a worse fly-half than Fin and Ford, and that some of the issues with defence would be fixed if they prioritised a more controlled attacking and kicking game over the chaos that Marcus brings and which allows the blitz to be thrown into disarray on the counter.
Go to commentsScott Robertson is within his rights to state a case. Richie Mo'unga would have made a huge difference to the All Blacks this year. To say he and Richie worked well together at the Crusaders is a massive understatement. 7 titles speaks for itself. He then guided Brave Lupus to the Japanese League title in 2024. It worked well when Richie's fellow Crusaders great Matt Todd and team mate ,was able to play for the All Blacks while in Japan in 2018.
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