This week, the Prospector reflects on the droughts many teams have gone through across the years, and who is breaking through it.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: The Blue Negligee
July 9, 2026 by 2 Comments
This week, The Prospector takes some time off from discussing NRL to appreciate the great underdog, Chuck Wepner.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: 2 World Cups: The tale of the tape
July 2, 2026 by 6 Comments
Prospector compares Soccer to Rugby League, dissecting how differently players treat the game. Soccer isn’t looking too positive this week!
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: NSW and the Gorge of Eternal Peril
June 25, 2026 by 2 Comments
This week, The Prospector questions which NSW players will survive, and which players will be thrown, into the Gorge of Eternal Peril, Monty Python-style.
Almanac Footy: The Prospector’s Pickaxe – Roy, Rod, and Ross
June 18, 2026 by 8 Comments
The Prospector reminisces about the Grand Final lunch he attended in 1987, and the notable names he met and learned from.
Almanac Footy: The Prospector’s Pickaxe – The Steeden, the Gilbert and the Trionda
June 11, 2026 by 4 Comments
The Prospector’s Pickaxe diverts this week to look at other footy codes during the downtime wait before the next State of Origin game.
Almanac State of Origin 2026: The Prospector’s Pickaxe – Blues Dynasty that never happened
May 28, 2026 by 2 Comments
Ahead of the 2026 State of Origin, The Prospector reflects on the 2025 State of Origin, and how NSW always seems to fall short.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: The Unintended Consequences of Economics
May 21, 2026 by 9 Comments
This week, The Prospector offers an interesting vision of where the world of footy may be heading as the world around us shifts.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: The Gradual Release of Responsibility
April 30, 2026 by 5 Comments
The Prospector compares the nature of enforcement on the footy grounds in the 80s and 90s to today’s more modern way of handling things.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: Tipping comps – The Good, the Sad and the Ugly
April 23, 2026 by 10 Comments
The Prospector sifts through the issues involved when you join a tipping competition. It’s a complicated situation, to say the least!
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: “Hold my trophy while I kiss your girlfriend”
April 16, 2026 by 10 Comments
The Prospector saw the unimaginable played out at AAMI Park before moving on to offer us an educational experience, shining his miner’s lamp on variations of the saying ‘hold my beer’. And there’s room also to contemplate the question ‘When is your best team not your best team?’
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: Random Souths Guy
April 9, 2026 by 5 Comments
The Prospector dug up a good ‘un when he gave a lift to a ‘random Souths guy’ recently.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: NRL is an 80-minute game. Or is it?
April 2, 2026 by 2 Comments
The Prospector swings his pickaxe at the illusion of rugby league being an 80 minute game. It’s not, but how can we make it closer to that goal without causing too much collateral damage?
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: A retrospective Draft, Poms, Defectors and Zac.
March 26, 2026 by 8 Comments
The Prospector goes into hindsight mode to offer a vision of where certain players might be now if the NRL used a Draft system for those born since 1999. Get your teeth into this!
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: Expansion
March 12, 2026 by 8 Comments
The Prospector mines the ‘expansion’ question this week to see if he can find enough top level talent to make the next two NRL teams both viable and competitive. Plus, there’s a trivia question.
NRL 2026 – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: 1976 to 2026 – ‘it’s a long way to the top’.
March 5, 2026 by 3 Comments
The Prospector digs into the past to revisit the state of the code in both Queensland and NSW in 1976. Let’s just say that the game today would have been unimaginable to the folk of those days!
NRL 2026 – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: Hope and Harsh Realities
February 26, 2026 by 6 Comments
The Prospector joins our bunch of merry rugby league men who will bring you a wide coverage of the code this season. To get the ball rolling, he offers a brutal reality check to balance the standard guff all teams bring to the start of the year. (Welcome aboard, Prospector! – Ed.)
2025 NRL Grand Final Review: Great Heights
October 9, 2025 by 4 Comments
The Prospector was there to see the Broncos corral the Storm. This was his perspective from the great heights of the grandstand.
2026 NRL – The Prospector’s Pickaxe: ‘Let’s move on’, Wayne, ‘The Wok’ and ‘The Old Fox’
Today The Prospector reflects on the styles and idiosyncrasies of several coaches and commentators from various eras.