Habits are hard to break. Just ask RITV after South Sydney lost their seventh game in a row.
NRL Round 21 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop by the Sea maintained his position on the footy tipping ladder but was rather less successful on the nags. You gotta love the punt!
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 21 and NRLW Round 4: Nothing much seems to have changed
Rugby league editor Ian Hauser returns from his travels in Europe and tries to work out what’s going on in the NRL these days. Round 20 results suggest that there are still no certainties in this year’s competition.
NRL Round 20 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop by the Sea is living contentedly in a Maroon world. He’s a hard man to contain.
Almanac Travel: Not so much ‘la dolce vita’ as ‘la vita educativa’ (Part 4]
Ian Hauser continues his series about recent travel experiences in Europe. This time the focus is cruising.
State of Origin 3: A Queensland gathering at the Tanunda Club (Part 1)
A dozen or so Queenslanders walk into a bar…A pensive, then happy, then raucous lot.
NRL Round 18 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Bring on the bye
South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett has never coached a team to the wooden spoon but he’ll be doing well to keep the Bunnies off the bottom over the next couple of months says RITV. And he wonders why the club would add a complication to the situation.
NRL Round 19 (and Origin predictions) – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop has a look back at Round 18 and previews Round 19 but leaves his most detailed analysis for Origin 3, coming up with an approach for the Queenslanders to win a game which has the potential to enter rugby league mythology.
NRL Round 18 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop is writing about the NRL comp, but his mind is elsewhere: Origin 3. He reports on Round 17 and looks at this weekend’s matches.
NRL Round 16 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Golden Point Heartbreak
Rabbit in the Vineyard reviews another entertaining, but ultimately frustrating, Rabbitohs fixture.
NRL Round 17 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
You have to ask: did Prop by the Sea have a hotline to Billy? [Close readers will have already pondered this – JTH]. He analyses Origin 2 and the recent NRL fixtures and has some predictions for Round 17.
State of Origin – Game 2, 2025: Origin at the Tanunda Club – the 1971 BRL Rothman’s Medallist, a (former) Cowboys cheer leader, a Rockford red, and the Maroons square the series
Rabbit in the Vineyard caught up with John Harms and a dozen or so lovers of rugby league to cheer on the mighty Maroons.
NRL Round 16 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop by the Sea reports from Perth as he gets himself fired up for Origin II.
NRL Round 14 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Déjà vu all over again – another 38-minute performance
You can imagine Rabbit in the Vineyard on the edge of the vineyard on a rainy King’s Birthday afternoon watching his boys play 38 great minutes. Thankfully he has the antidote of Barossa red.
NRL Round 15 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop looks back at Round 14 and forward to Round 15 and gives it to old mate Grubby. [Enjoy Perth Prop – Ed]
NRL Round 14 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
Prop by the Sea gives us his latest run down of the NRL. [Ripper line about Crabman – Ed]
NRL Round 13 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Opportunity lost as AJ scores his 200th
Although AJ goes over for three more tries, Rabbit in the Vineyard joins in Matty Elliott’s raspberry-blowing as his Bunnies squander another chance to secure a spot in the eight.











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