This time, rugby league was minding its own sweet business when Peter FitzSimons, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, held last week's Penrith-Parramatta NRL semi-final up against the Wallabies' Test win over South Africa.
Fitz, you go first.
"When you switched from the rugby to the NRL finals last Saturday night to see the Eels-Panthers match wasn’t it just a teensy-weensy bit dull?" he started.
"I mean, a Sydney suburban slug-fest between two teams situated 25 kilometres apart was fine, and the skills of the likes of Nathan Cleary a wonder to behold, but after the international grandeur and wild flowing mercury of the Boks-Wallabies match, didn’t the NRL feel ever so slightly ... suburban and staccato."
Suburban and staccato?
After working out a staccato wasn't a type of coffee – we league types are dumb, after all – I read the piece again to see if I'd missed something
A second read only confirmed Fitz is in need of a HIA. I've been watching league finals for a loooong time and that game was up there with the best I've seen.
Whatever the opposite of staccato and suburban, this was it.
It was tough, it was skilful, it was fast, it was absorbing, it was controversial and it was in doubt right until the referee asked for the ball back.
If this is what teensy-weensy bit dull looks like, can we have more of the same this weekend and repeat the order for Sunday week's grand final?
I absolutely can't stand this idiot. Obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. Thought this would be a fun read for you guys in these boring times.
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He's a mile-wide douche. If you listen to his opinion on anything and do the exact opposite you'll be correct. It's astonishing how wrong he is ALL the time. Ipso facto the Panthers/ Eels game was amazing.
Hahhahahah I can't stand the prick. Thinks he's an expert at every sport an absolute imbecile and WTF does he wear on his head?
I heard him described once as a dumb persons smart person.
Both him and his mrs are total imbeciles.
Fair go Snake…….He’s an amazingly successful Journalist and written more top selling books than many Australian writers and his wife is a very successful TV personality and they have one hell of a beautiful Family so they must be doing something right so calling them imbeciles is way out of line ,don’t you think?
What you say is true fanalia, he is a real character, Think his wife is a left greenie as well. Can't deny their success story.
All that said I agree with Snake, which is not always that easy.
Fitzy is a rugby man through and through, I can understand that.
BUT as an alround sports journalist he shows an amazing lack of understanding of many other sports he chooses to commentate on. An example of a better journalist than him woud have drawn out the irony of the Westies fighting out a local derby in Rockhampton and the leather patch brigade seeing a Test revival for Australia....what a great weekend for the two rugby codes.....but no he chooses to devide everyone with his East is better than West mentality, he should be ashamed!
He's a deadset fuckwit, as is anyone that's bought his books. There's lots of fuckwits in the world , hence lots of book sales.
I don't mind a lot of what he says, but that was just dumb wishful thinking. The only good thing about rugby at the moment is it's still way better than AFL. What a boring joke AFL is.
And yet that little suburban shindig outrated that grand international affair by the length of the straight.
Pythago NRL, "A shallow dive into the 2021 parra eels" is worth reading. I don't know how to bring it up.
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