Sunday, September 13, 2009

Semis week one - League Blog reflects

The NRL semis have started with a bang (as has the offseason, but more on that in another post), although I've decided what I don't like about the Macintyre system, and why I agree with Richard Branson's $1 million prize for anyone who can explain it simply. It's just not fair to our hard working footballers to expect them to play a game without knowing whether or not it is sudden death. Why else would Anthony "Marty Bella" Watmough have knocked on in the first set of six?

Exhibit 1: Parramatta's Drive By Shooting of the Dragons. The Eels must have read League Blog's Levels of Losing column, because they picked up one of the levels I hadn't, where a team comes into to another's home ground and fills it full of bulletholes. The match also provided some initial hints as to who God wants to win the footy. If Jarry Hayne is really the Second Coming, how far away is the End of Days?

Exhibit 2: Let's call it the League Blog Kiss Of Death. A certain compelling and joyous voice in rugby league claimed that Manly would win it all this year, but the most interesting part of the match ended up being whether Manly could avoid an unfortunate double entendre every time their fans said "40-nil". And is it just me, or did Matty Orford and Billy Slater in an intimate embrace at full-time look like the old Winfield Cup Trophy? (to scale) Jared Waerea Hargreaves looked very good, and must have mixed feelings about leaving Manly, but being already told by Brian Smith via text message that he's not part of the Roosters' plans.

Exhibit 3: The major storyline from the exciting Titans-Broncos game, other than that neither can win the comp, is what injury will keep Dave Taylor sidelined for the season once he joins the Rabbitohs. I vote for club foot. I also worry that the Titans' second half revival could impact on their bouncebackability against the Eels.

Dave Taylor's manager
might want to order a copy

Exhibit 4: The Brut ads. That unco footy kick by the robot gets funnier each time I watch it. And is anyone else slightly creeped out by the bimbo patiently waiting to be vaporised along with a bunch of masculine paraphernalia and turned into man spray?

Another day at the office for Brut robot
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  1. SeaEagleRock8September 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    Week One of the semis proved to be a grotesque imitation of what league should be, a parody of a true shoot-out by the top teams, a debased likeness only of what it ought to have been. In three words, Week One was a horrible, teasing, travesty. Nonetheless, the best teams won and the best losers progress, The other losers have plenty of time to start planning next year's season launch, should be a beauty.

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