The Grapple

This week our Humble Heroes are back on deck in the bunker and spewing forth truth bombs for those whose ears are lucky enough to bath in the self-righteousness. Only the most critical of questions being asked in a forum that has zero space for whim, levity or hoopla.

Does Madge have the Broncos cherry ripe, or has he run the arse out of Ghem, Dunny Drinker and friends too early?

Will Nicho miss the first week of the finals or will the MRC show that they actually have allowed the injury severity to dictate the grading?

Will the MENSA hopeful at Fox Sports finally work out the word 'Mitigate" means and why won't Joe Scmidt listen to our positional ideas?

Dripping with faux hubris, wrapped in borderline truthful outrage and always as insightful as the bloke who controls the Sky Racing volume at the Brekky Creek front bar on a Saturday.

Just like all good art, The Grapple raises more questions than it answers.

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A rolling Grappler gathers no moss.

Our heroes reunite for a fearless and graceful series of pirouettes through an array of Winter ending sporting shenanigans.

The NRL's penultimate round has penultimately proven that the NRL actual top 4, which is actually a top 3, is penultimately better than anything below it- especially the Raiders and Penultimate-rith. The Broncos and Cowboys submitted the final evidence required for such a conclusion in their match, that was played in the.... what's the word again for the second last of something? Anyway, it was the defence of two teams worthy of second last, and last. The fact one of them is 4th is a stirringly head scratching statistic.

Dominos are falling everywhere in the NRL, and it’s not just in the coaching ranks. Josh Hannay is a domino superglued to the Lino, and his quest a the Titans is dissected on a logistical, physical and emotional level by our two totally unbiased toward Hannay tyros. 
Explosive reporting around the NRL from the News Corp extended family is both shocking and frequently chicken little'ish. Pulling up sore at training is not the equivalent of a suddenly fallen sky. But let’s print it that way anyway and keep the lot of us on our toes. 

Dastardly allegations also threaten the Perth Bears pre-birth good ju ju- not necessarily their own doing. The devils are inside the walls, those walls in this case being a demountable at Gold Coast titans HQ. 

Elsewhere, commentators are talking up the rise of Los Pumas, who everyone already knows have been good for years. Or doesn’t throwing 60 on the wallabies count as good anymore? Speaking of the wallabies.. anyone up for a test? They’re a bit light on numbers, as current and future coaches mull the opinions of many outside the sanctum, which are basically ‘PUT SUALI’I IN THE 15.’

Life as always remains a grapple. Dig away at will.

This week the NRLs very own Friday Night Lights.

Heidelberg United are giving the Aussie Cup an almighty fright

Tino hitting the open market to make a quid

and this week redemption is pronounced Joe Schmidt!

The team sees their linchpin goes down to short term injury and once again the next man up policy is enacted with Luttsy steeping into the fray. As is the case with the great man Olympics are on the cards in all iterations.But Rugby League is never far off, Joe Schmidt’s and Harry’s Heroics in the Highvelt,  giant skaters Heidelberg United and other great sporting upsets. Get some Grapple into ya with the best hour ten on sports you’ll hear this week.

The Grapplers are BACK after a mid winter hiatus

AND bugger me drunk if a a cavalcade of narratives dont await us

THE NRL irons out its contenders with a weekend of truly chaotic stuff

The Boomers cant win the Olympics, but sure as shit cant lose the Asia Cup

SO STEP ON UP… DONT BE SHY… TIME TO GRAPPLE WITH TWO GOOOOOOOD

LOOKING GUYS

This week Our heroes wax lyrical about the beginning of something new for our smaller marsupial national team and speculate on the potential demise of the SuperCoach of our era. Speaking of marsupial converters we talk the best from Rah Rah to League along with our absolutely abysmal the Dolphins were against the roosters. 

A rare Sunday Session from our openly idiot sporting gurus.  Enjoy this special instalment with a like….. a share …. A subscribe or even a review. 

Love is a GrappleField   

Roll on, roll on, the footy is rolling into a new phase of wild interpretation

Kevs gone from the outhouse to the hopping heart of the nation

Frizelle gives Des the ultimate lack of endorsement

So constable hasler might look for a gig back where it all started… in law enforcement

This week our heroes grapple with the questions that are tugging on your shirt and curl us during those lonely week nights trying to drift off to slumber. 

Questions like “ was Des really a police officer?” “ What school did the fella who photographed Jack Ruby assassinating Lee Hervey Oswald go to?” and “how many pages would constitute a 3 game coaching contract?”

Once our two warriors for justice are done mopping up the answers of those singeing queries, in their spare time no less, they will draw a line in the sand…… by trying to locate the lines already drawn in the sand by the NRL Rules Crackdown Committee (committee  may or may not exist).  To avoid these multiple lines the sand being washed away by the tide or turned into  phallic shapes they have founded a review board. Largely (but not entirely) incorruptible, and based on honour, code and duty. The KLIEN AND MISCONDUCT COMMISSION . The KMC will review the reviews of rules reviews. Reviewing and interpreting interpretations and recommending recommendations….. all in the sport of growing the game. Grow our audience, tell your friends.

Life’s a Grapple … and then the KMC is on your case. Cue Law and Order sound effect 

The Red Coates descend upon Brisbane – Independent fire at will

The Wallabies rue the loss of Robbie V

Another Red team, A finals appearance for the  Dolphins could be on the Bill..

The Open Championship at Port Rush.. Aussies struggle on that Irish Tee…

Time to Grapple..and yes indeedy it is the grappliest of times. A rush of roaring red in Brisbane and a gush of it from Broncos head knocker Brendan Piakura. Swanning dolphins and swirling question marks around the defensive capabilities of its superstar self driving racecar Herbie. A verdict on the plummeting cowboys from a heavily emotionally invested Alum. And Australian crickets slaughter-yard approach to key talent development. 

And grapple, we shall.

EPISODE MAROON 5: THE ORIGIN STORY OF ORIGIN STORIES

Another Origin series goes to plan

Big Pappi showed he is the man,

The Lions played the Brumbies, Canberra Stadium was full

And Christian Horner finally given the ass by Red Bull..

It’s important to be balanced and resist bias in the world of sports podcasting. So we will discuss the Lions, formula one, maybe even a bit of cricket. We might even list a few Clive Churchill medallist’s of days gone by.

We will also take this opportunity to credit the NSW Blues and their compassion for rival captain Cam Munster ahead of the Origin decider, and the class of an outfit that didn’t quite hit its potential in 2025.

Aside from that; this week is all about one thing.

QUEENSLANDER 

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER 

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER 

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER 

QUEENSLANDER

QUEENSLANDER

That is all. 

Let us grapple. 

The Lions are roaring… and Owen Farrell is never boring

4 tours of duty.. and the Wallabies are in the crosshairs

The decider countdown is on.. Who's gonna be happy..

In Origin 2 the Blues were crappy.. Will they handle the comeback of big Papi.

In an age of constant media scrutiny and attention this week our heroes delve into the real reason why Super Gaffa  Billy Slater did an Uncle Wayne and recalled an Origin stalwart to bolster the stocks for game 3. Is it disloyalty?  Have they departed from the "pick and stick" culture that no one from north of tweed has ever expressed publicly? Or have they just picked a bloke in form in a position that is lacking? The truth is out there and our very own Mulder and Scully get to the bottom of it. 

We exclusively reveal that prior to his Origin selection Gem Shibasaki was in fact only on a train and trial deal at Red Hill. His selection now giving Dave Donaghy and the Broncos accountants hives with no doubt a hefty rep footy bonus coming his way.

And on the world stage we reveal that nepotistic Flanno is vindicated by another coach biasly picking his son. British and Irish Lions coach, League Legend Any Farrell has sent an SOS to his son Owen to join the tour down under. Owen is England's highest ever point scorer, former  Captain and this is his fourth Lions tour.  This kind of equal alignment with the Dragons situation allows Flanno to flip us all teh bird right?......right????

Dear God if life gives you those kinds of Lemons you just gotta Grapple......

We love Selwyn, according to Madge

Yet here’s 2 signings… wearing the same badge..

A bloodbath in Barbados.. Or just a slow start..

And Wayne redefines working into the grave.. Cos hes a bit of an old fart.

The future of wayward Broncos star Selwyn Cobbo is revealed by the Grapplers, who have both joined dots and gleaned insights from the very innards of the Brisbane Broncos publicity (or lack thereof) machine. It opens a discussion on gifted players who just didnt want to do it, and sparks a few yarns of what might have been/what was and what never eventuated.

State of Origin is 2 weeks away but who gives a sh*t, speculation over who will fill the Maroon middle is rife, almost as rife as a startling comparison of the Cowboys and Titans sides.. And the question of ‘who would you pick?’

Our heroes run the rule over coaches on the chopping block, PNG’s future and the future of a 75 year old supercoach who’s only just getting started might just involve the opening of an NRL sponsored casino.

The Lions are here, and the mail is they’re pretty full of themselves, but dont you need to be?

For the record- Mary Fowler is NOT going to ditch the WSL to play in PNG.

Life remains a grapple. Dig it.

The Maroons live to fight another day

Cant wait to hear what Woodsy has to say 

Fort the rest of the Rugby League media, Crow is on the menu 

And where the hell was Spencer Leniu?

Plenty to Grapple with as our heroes digest a significant Queenslands bounceback on a sodden and miserable Optus Stadium, honouring the ‘born for it’ nature of freshly minted skipper Cameron Munster. The West ignites in a near sell out, perhaps providing an easily spinnable statistic pertaining to its people being far more than fair weather footy fans.

On the field, a far more palatable performance is unpacked, the stars celebrated, the villains reprimanded. In the coaches box are the personal sleights that defined the buildup, and the broader media role in perpetuating stories that inspire players to put themselves on media bans. These are also unpacked, alongside the one stat every journo in the country will lean on throughout the buildup.

Because QLD have never won a series after losing game 1 at Lang Park. Just wait for it.

And from one showpiece to the next.. the British and Irish Lions will roll out a semblance of a squad for its first few hitouts ahead of the Wallabies tour. 

Meantime the LA Lakers are up for sale if you have a spare $10 billion USD to throw about, not bad for a club Gerry Buss spent less than $80 mil on back in the late 70’s.

10 billion good reasons to like, share and subscribe to this completely biased and utterly unbalanced piece of auditory media. 

Life’s a maroon tinged grapple. Dig that shit.