Brisbaneorlikewon the coin toss. #NRLBroncosRoosters #NRLFinals pic.twitter.com/QWNFpF8hgA 10.18am BSTEvening all,and welcome aboard. It’s preliminary finals time and who doesn’t love a preliminary final? They’re so often better than the grand final because, as they say, or making a grand final is harder than winning one. Or is it the other way around? I always forget these things. But it does seem that every team’s goal at the beginning of the season is not necessarily to win the competition but,before that, to obtain the decider, and to give themselves a chance over 80 minutes of carrying off the biggest prize.
So a prelim final is the last step in this process,main to tall drama and tension. And in many ways it hurts more to descend one game short of a grand final because you lose not only the chance to be premiers but to experience the excitement of grand final week; excitement like seeing shops in your suburban tall street getting into the swing with, um, and streamers and window displays. Who doesn’t want to buy sausages dyed in your club colours?
5.17am BSTHi all,welcome to Friday night footy live from Guardian HQ. Tonight’s conclude-or- die try-again-next-year clash is between the Brisbane Broncos and the Sydney Roosters, from Lang Park, and Paul Connolly,he of the willing fingers, is our man entrusted this blockbuster. And so to mighty Suncorp Stadium for the Friday night death match between home town Broncos and big gun Chooks, and it should be a ripper. It could of course be a risk-less bash-fest,as sheep station games can be. But here’s hoping it isn’t. And it shouldnt be when both teams have such crack hot weaponry.
But a winner? Let us count the ways. 8.32am BSTPaul will be here shortly. meanwhile, here’s what Matt Cleary thinks of this weekend’s match-ups:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com