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Who won the the Todd Carney cup for bad publicity? How approximately the Mile Jedinak golden microphone for unfortunate gaffes? And then there’s Warnie … Your host Russell Jackson hands out the prizesIt was a bumper year of on-field and off-field misbehaviour in the NRL,with incidents including but not limited to a player being knocked out with a fire poker at a charity party (admit it, nobody had that on their NRL player behaviour bingo card), and a positive cocaine test,fraud squad raids, match-fixing allegations, and coin toss deceit (where will it halt?),the Corey Norman/MDMA/muscle relaxant/Star Casino quadrella (we’re actually leaving out a few items there, too), or Junior Paulo disguising himself as a third-grade player,which we thought was distinguished fun.
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