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It looks different
It does indeed, with the season having kicked off I had intended to get the new site up and running but I got bogged down doing work that pays me (http://www.kamikazemusic.com).
So I've moved the site over to the brilliant WordPress platform and I've slightly modified a nice theme (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/07/glassical-a-free-wordpress-theme/) and I've got all the old content in.
So while I sort out formatting all the old content properly I'm hoping to continue to develop the site's new look whilst being able to carry on posting. I shall speak to you all soon and there shall hopefully be a new feature for next week and a continuation of an old one!
Rugby League Behaving Badly
Hello again ladies and gentlemen? You all ready for the new season? – As you can probably tell Fifth and Last isn’t as I’ve been rather busy. Still I have a few new features on the way and as soon as I complete the swap to a new website content management system it will be all go!
Why the time is right to promote the growth of RL
I really should keep on top of this site, I didn’t realise there was so much spam in the comments!
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Well you’re probably wondering if I’ve died or something? Nope thankfully not I’ve just been rather absent. I am however planning a make over and general working revival of Fifth and last for next season so any fun ideas send em in!
In the meantime for the tweeters amongst you we’re on twitter @fifthandlast so go and click on the follow button!
Oh and come on England!!!!
Grand Final Quiz
Well it’s the Super League Grand Final tomorrow and as Matt Gidley, Tony Puletua and Chris Flannery bid to add a Super League Grand Final win to their NRL grand final wins here’s a little teaser from todays paper that you can test your mates on before the game.
So far there are 10 players to win Grand Finals in both the NRL and Super League so come on, name them and who they won with.
Answers after the click.
Well done Barrow
Barrow won the Championship playoff final yesterday in Warrington beating Halifax 26 – 18 and well done to them. Once upon a time it would have meant promotion but no longer.
Still watching Halifax lose reminded me of this ridiculous campaign from earlier in the season
http://www.fifthandlast.com/articles/april_2009/Mid_week_read_:_MPs_call_for_Halifax_rules_change.php
Whilst I wouldn’t want to gloat it’s good to see people spouting these ridiculous ideas getting proof of why they were ridiculous ideas in the first place. That said there’s always room for a daft suggestion or two in Rugby League, club call anyone?
Melbourne Storm to victory and Leeds club call as expected.
Look at that, headline writing like you’d get in the Daily Star. But literary genius aside there was some good rugby played this weekend and I’ll probably watch it all again on the Super League Show in a bit.
Down under Melbourne attoned for last years hammering by taking their third NRL title with a 23-16 win over Paramatta and I can’t really say much. Since the whole Setanta thing I don’t even know what channel the NRL is on over here and since I support the Warriors their poor performance this season has sucked a little of the interest out for me. Also the possible fact that last season I was in New Zealand and this season I’m not, that probably had an effect.
Still from what I’ve read it was a good game with Paramatta staging a late push but it’s rare you’ll find someone to bet against Melbourne in a Grand Final even after last years defeat.
In this hemispehere we had the play off semi finals in which Leeds got to play their pick of Catalan Dragons and Saints faced up to Wigan and well that went pretty much as expected. Leeds probably got a tougher game than they were expecting but they won and Saints had a tough run against Wigan but also won, which unusally gives us a Saints Leeds grand final, again. It would be nice if someone else could contest this at some point but yet again some came close but couldn’t quite make it. As for the actual grand final, hmmm my money would probably go on Leeds for another victory.
Club call, all rather predicatable
Well I got up this morning and planned to put my prediction for the club call on here but the site was down again, it’s one of many issues that have plagued fifth and last this year but as we near the end of the season there’ll be plenty of work going on during the close season to ensure we’re back better than ever next year.
Onto the club call, had I managed to put a post up this morning I would have been revelling in a correct prediction right now as, I’m sure, would most other people who looked at the possibilities.
- Catalan having to travel again from the south of France are surely a better prospect to play than Wigan coming over the Pennines.
- Saints and Wigan should be a massive draining game for both teams leaving whoever gets through possibly with some injuries but certainly with some tired tired players.
And so with the gimmick of the club call out of the way we can get on with the rugby and look forward to a greulling Saints – Wigan derby and also see if the minnows of Catalan can overturn the mighty Leeds!
Sorry I went off again
Sorry guys, was away briefly, should probably tell you before I go. Anyway I still managed to watch Widnes v Whitehaven in a pub, on my own, getting strange looks for cheering as I appeared to be one of only 3 people in the pub watching.
Still glad to get a result and hoping we can march on to the final.
I was also shocked when talking to a guy down at the Union club I play at (boo hiss I know, I’m only there for the drinking and there aren’t any easily accessible league clubs nearby). I’m known to refer to Union as the amateur game and said something about that and he replied
“Weird how you say that when it’s the other way round”
Me : “What?”
Him : “Well Union being professional and League being amateur”
Me: “er no League is professional”
Him: “Oh right, how long for? like 10 years?”
Me: “Nope since about 1895″
I’m sure there are many of you thinking really you should have given him a slap, I’m shocked that people outside of Rugby League, especially someone involved with the other code wouldn’t know that! Still I’ll put it down to being as thick as Jade Goody and move on.
Tipping Baby presents tips for NRL round 26 2009
Well I missed Tipping Baby last week due to the vid being posted on youtube so late. But still here we are for the last weekend – tips in the video and round up after the click as usual.
Friday, 04 September 2009
St George/Illawarra v Parramatta
Wests v Canterbury
Saturday, 05 September 2009
Cronulla v South Sydney
Manly v Gold Coast
New Zealand Warriors v Melbourne
Sunday, 06 September 2009
Brisbane v Canberra
Newcastle v Penrith
Sydney v North Queensland
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