Something I discussed in the last podcast was the issue of sport analysis.
When a team is playing, how do the viewers come to their conclusions regarding a player's performance? Does it help you if you've played in their position and know what they should be doing? Can you make enough detail about a player's performance by the tv broadcast alone? Does the media opinion of these players impact on your own?

I'm interested in all answers! Post a comment below.

An Australian correspondent has sent us this exclusive footage of several Rugby League players who are about to have their lives rocked in a new group-sex scandal.

It's too graphic to just have on the front page, so hit the jump.

Stacey Jones the really-rather-good-a-few-years-back halfback has just resigned re-signed with the New Zealand Warriors for the 2009 season.

I do worry that this is like the Warriors of old who signed players like John Kirwin Kirwan, seemingly for a laugh or to pull in punters. Still big comebacks have happened before.

Quick uniform note: I had never noticed those shorts-logos before.

I didn't even know Dom had $45,000: Massive bet placed on Knights to win NRL [Stuff]

Over on Beer and Sport they've got a great video of the pre-game ceremony of the NZ Maori and the Australian Indigenous rugby league teams. It's more hardcore than any haka I've ever seen.

THEY'VE GOT SPEARS FFS!!!

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The man on the run from Australian Rugby League, Sonny Bill Williams, received a "terse" 62-word text message from his former coach Steve Folkes (who you might remember from these headlines).

Including such heart-rending lines as "you hav allowed others to run yr life" the message ends with Folkes calling Williams "accountable". But with 62 words, one wonders exactly how terse really it was.

If I was his angry ex-coach (who had earlier shocked the team by announcing his departure at the end of the season) my terse text meassge would run like this:

Get fucked Communist!

Why "communist"? He left Australia to earn millions of dollars playing a different sport in France, I think it's pretty obvious.

Sonny Bill gets terse text message in a battle [Stuff]

ps. that is a pretty bloody awful headline

Things like this would be why we renamed the Dick of the Week Hall of Fame, the Willie Mason Hall of Infame.

Those Alternate Rugby Commentary guys are at it again. This time they line up, Dropkicks favourite, Willie Mason.