The Grapple Podcast on Sport 101.5 2018-03-15
Segment 1:
Welcome panel and as usual we’ll analyse, dissect and bisect all the major rugby league news stories, grapple with the top issues during the program, speak with Macca later to preview round 2 plus a new segment – the Flashback – randomly select a day in rugby league history to see what happened on that day and just so happens that our 1st flashback is the 15 March 2002 with the Roosters and Rabbits in game 1 of the season- 2002 some memorable names and characters with the Roosters no. 16 very close to home
- So let’s start with the highlights of round 1 and check on the panel’s fearless predictions for 2018:
- JT-300th game, come back kings-Panthers/Titans, -Gus Gould great job as the puppeteer, Knights golden point victory, Tigers upset win over competition favourites the Roosters-go Teddy and over 38,000 fans turned up at the double header in Perth
- Panel predictions 2018
| Name | Premier | Dark horse | Go backwards | Best buy | Coach sack |
| Macca | Cowboys | Rabbits | Titans | Maloney | Warriors |
| Bocky | Cowboys | Eels | Raiders | Heighington | Griffin |
| Mooney | Eels | Knights | Panthers | Hayne | Griffin |
| Patchy | Storm | Knights | Manly | Pearce | Griffin |
| Craigo | Cowboys | Titans | Sharks | Lodge | Griffin |
| Robo | Roosters | Knights | Broncos | ||
| Gordo | Storm | Tigers | Warriors | McLean | Brown |
- Check on the coach sacking meter
- Should Peter ‘The Shark’ Beattie, the new ARLC Chairman, Commonwealth Games head honco and former Qld premier be demoted to kindergarten after his amazing blunder earlier this week?
- Should Todd Carney be granted an NRL contract? Well Jillaroos star Ruan Sims believes no.
- Saturday night will see Billy Slater bring up his 300th NRL game when the Storm tackle the Wests Tigers at AAMI Park.
- Wallabies ace Israel Folau is refusing to rule out another code switch as he weighs up his future after six seasons in rugby.
- Roosters, young superstar Latrell Mitchell has re-signed with the club along with Joseph Manu and Nat Butcher. The trio of young guns have been signed through till the end of the 2020 season.
- Cronulla captain Paul Gallen has denied the Sharks deliberately targeted the injured knee of North Queensland co-captain Matt Scott during the Cowboys 20-14 win on the weekend.
- A great week for the Warriors is about to get a whole lot better with an American millionaire set to buy the club. Hawaiian businessman Richard Fale has agreed to take control of the club in principle and could take charge as early as next week. Current Warriors owner Eric Watson has been trying to sell the club for months without any luck – until now.
- Highly-rated teenager Adam Doueihi has been handed his NRL debut after South Sydney halfback Adam Reynolds was ruled out for up to a month following knee surgery.
- The New Zealand Rugby League is putting the pressure on superstar Jason Taumalolo to backflip on his decision to represent Tonga at international level.
- The Bulldogs have decided to hang on to experienced prop Aiden Tolman after earlier shopping him around. With James Graham gone and Dave Klemmer and Aaron Woods set to be missing for the State of Origin period, the Dogs have realised that they will be skinny for front row depth and will need Tolman.
Segment 2 6.22-6.38- Local rugby league update –SCGRFL, Brisbane RL and ISC
Sunshine Coast Gympie RL
Div 1, 2A and u/18 A – round 1 last weekend; Div 2B and U/18 Div 2 not starting until after Easter; 8 teams in Div 1
Caloundra 36 d Gympie 20; William Toloi-3 tries and Robert Barwick 5 goals for Caloundra;
Jordon Ah-One-Remfrey-3 tries for Gympie
Maroochydore 8 d Kawana 6 Rohan Messer and Arden Lankowski try apiece for Maroochydore;
Khan Ahwang try for Kawana
Beerwah 24 d Caboolture 18 -5 tries to 4; Clifton Law- hat trick for Caboolture, Scott Maddick try; Beerwah 10-8 at half time. Win to Beerwah in Div 2, close loss in u/18 Div1 28-24
Sun Mar 11 2018
Nambour 36 d Noosa 4 Mitchell Ward and Luke Murtagh doubles for Nambour in their 8 tries
2A:-wins to Kawana over Stanley Rivers, Mary Valley d Caloundra 48-6, Coolum by 4 over the Swans, Beerwah big win over Caboolture and Noosa d Nambour 26-16
U/18 Div 1: Caloundra over Stanley River, Kawana over Swans, Beerwah made it a clean sweep over Caboolture 28-24 and Noosa over Nambour 34-10
SCGRL Round 2 – March 17th
Division Team 1 Team 2 Venue Time Day
Division 1 Caloundra Beerwah Bribie Island 7pm Sat.
Division 2 A Bribie Island Caloundra Bribie Island 5.30pm
Division 2 A Stanley River Beerwah Bribie Island 4pm
U18 Div 1 Bribie Island Caloundra Bribie Island 2.30pm
U18 Div 1 Stanley River Beerwah Bribie Island 1pm
Division 1 Caboolture Kawana Caboolture 6pm Sat.
Division 2 A Caboolture Mary Valley Caboolture 4.30pm
Division 2 A Coolum Kawana Caboolture 3pm
U18 Div 1 Kawana Caboolture Caboolture 1.30pm
Division 1 Gympie Noosa Gympie 6.30pm Sat.
Division 1 Maroochydore Nambour Maroochydore 5.30pm Sat.
Division 2 A Maroochydore Nambour Maroochydore 4pm
U18 Div 1 Maroochydore Nambour Maroochydore 2.30pm
Division 2 A Noosa Bye U18 Div 1 Noosa Bye
Brisbane Rugby League-round 1 this weekend
Sat Mar 17 2018
Diehards V Tigers 4pm Live
Sun Mar 18 2018 Seagulls v Panthers 4.45pm and Live Magpies v Dolphins 4.45pm Such was the success of last year’s sponsorship, In Safe Hands has extended its partnership with BRL A-Grade as major sponsor for the 2018 season.
ISC: Round 1 completed last weekend
| Date | Home | Away | Venue | |
| Sat 10th | Sunshine Coast 22 Falcons | Burleigh Bears 34 | Sunshine Coast Stadium | |
| Sat 10th | Mackay Cutters 12 | Townsville Blackhawks 56 | BB Print Stadium Mackay | |
| Sat 10th | Northern Pride 12 | Wynnum Manly Seagulls 24 | Barlow Park | |
| Sat 10th | CQ Capras 15 | Easts Tigers 14 | Browne Park | |
| Sun 11th | Redcliffe Dolphins 15 | Souths Logan Magpies 16 | Dolphin Stadium | |
| Sun 11th | Norths Devils 24 | Tweed Heads Seagulls 12 | Bishop Park | |
| Sun 11th | PNG Hunters 22 | Ipswich Jets 12 | National Football Stadium |
Bears led 24-0 at half time; 7 ties to 4
Carlin Anderson 8 goals and 1 try for Blackhawks
FG in 77 min for Capras
Guy Hamilton penalty goal to Magpies in 79 minute
Ase Boas- try and 3 goals
U/20’s
| Ipswich Jets-bye;
Burleigh d Falcons 28-24; Blackhawks d Mackay 30-6 Capras d Easts 22-14 Victorian Thunderbolts d Western Mustangs 52-10 Redcliffe and Magpies played an 18-all draw, Norths d Tweed 20-10 |
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U/18’s: Mal Meninga Cup Burleigh d Falcons 52-22; Mackay d Blackhawks Capras d Easts, Thunderbolts/Mustangs drew 34-all Magpies d Redcliffe, Norths d Devils and Ipswich bye |
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ISC round 2 this weekend
| 17/03/2018 | 12:00:00 PM | North Ipswich Reserve | Ipswich Jets | Townsville Blackhawks |
| 17/03/2018 | 4:00:00 PM | Pizzey Park | Burleigh Bears | Redcliffe Dolphins |
| 17/03/2018 | 6:00:00 PM | Barlow Park | Northern Pride | PNG Hunters |
| 17/03/2018 | 7:00:00 PM | Browne Park | Central Queensland Capras | Norths Devils |
| 18/03/2018 | 3:00:00 PM | Suzuki Stadium | Easts Tigers | Mackay Cutters |
| 18/03/2018 | 3:00:00 PM | BMD Kougari Oval | Wynnum Manly Seagulls | Sunshine Coast Falcons |
| 18/03/2018 | 3:00:00 PM | Davies Park | Souths Logan Magpies | Tweed |
Segment 3: The Flashback and preview NRL round 2 with Macca
The Flashback- randomly selected and our 1st flashback- Friday 15 March 2002-opening game of the season at Aussie Stadium as was called then-SFS- between Rabbits and Roosters 7.30pm-35,316 crowd-Bill Harrigan referee- Roosters winning 40-6-check out no. 16 for the Roosters- said he is close to home
| Match Scoresheet | ||||
| Tries | Brad Watts | Ryan Cross | ||
| Brad Fittler | ||||
| Craig Fitzgibbon | ||||
| Bryan Fletcher | ||||
| Shannon Hegarty | ||||
| Luke Ricketson | ||||
| Craig Wing | ||||
| Goals | Scott McLean (1/1) | Craig Fitzgibbon (6/7) | ||
| Brad Fittler (0/1) | ||||
| Teams | ||||
| Fullback | 1. | Wade McKinnon | 1. | Brett Mullins |
| Wing | 2. | Scott McLean | 2. | Shannon Hegarty |
| Centre | 3. | Russell Richardson | 3. | Ryan Cross |
| Centre | 4. | Andrew King | 4. | Justin Hodges |
| Wing | 5. | Brent Grose | 5. | Anthony Minichiello |
| Five-Eighth | 6. | Owen Craigie | 6. | Brad Fittler (c) |
| Halfback | 7. | Brad Watts | 7. | Paul Green |
| Front Row | 8. | Glenn Grief | 8. | Adrian Morley |
| Hooker | 9. | Jason Death | 9. | Simon Bonetti |
| Front Row | 10. | Paul Stringer | 10. | Andrew Lomu |
| Second Row | 11. | Andrew Hart | 11. | Bryan Fletcher |
| Second Row | 12. | Adam Muir (c) | 12. | Craig Fitzgibbon |
| Lock | 13. | Luke Stuart | 13. | Luke Ricketson |
| Bench | 14. | Shane Rigon | 14. | Dallas Hood |
| Bench | 15. | Duncan MacGillivray | 15. | Michael Crocker |
| Bench | 16. | Paul McNicholas | 16. | Chris Flannery |
| Bench | 17. | Adam Peek | 17. | Craig Wing |
| Coach | Craig Coleman | Ricky Stuart | ||
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