I am sick and tired of people trying to bring down Joshua Hodgson. The man is carving up opposition defences in the NRL.

Joshua Hodgson had another fine game for Canberra again yesterday. He was one of the top 2 players on the field. Elliot Whitehead also did well for Canberra.

Gee Whiz Read my post again. Ii didn't say Hodgson had a bad game. Eliott Whitehead had a shocker. Maybe he can be forgiven as he was playing out of position wearing No6. Whitehead had a knockonathon.

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the raiders folded alarmingly in the last quarter. i can't remember when i last saw a team fold like that

Sarcastic ****

Canberra Raiders would have won for sure if the imbecile Francis-Paul Nu'uasala had not foully knocked down Titans forward Ryan "Jesse" James in the last minutes, leading to a Titans penalty and a Titans try. Francis-Paul was obsessed with Ryan James, with whom he had been fighting earlier. Canberra coach Richard Stuart needs to demote Francis-Paul to NSW Cup for a week as punishment for sabotaging his team's win.

Gareth Widdop played quite well today in St George's match against Penrith. I didn't see much of interest from Michael Cooper, though he did what was asked of him.

Hodgson had another cracking game for the Raiders in a 60 point thrashing of Wests.

With Roby looking in form and Clark in the wings we really have some world class options at dummy half right now.

Hodgson is one of the best players in the comp at the moment. I'll bet there's few NRL sides that wouldn't like him in their team.

what is going on with the Burgess twins this season? both not living up to previous form, especially tom

I would say George has been worse than Tom so far. But Tom's mind is clearly on getting a move to grid iron. Neither of them to play for England on current form but they (well, George if Tom decides to bail) have time to turn it around and I'm sure they will.

The Burgess brothers are playing in a side out of form and far too formulaic - the players cannot think for themselves they have to play Maguire's way. Tough to shine in that situation

Hodgson is quite rightly getting the wraps atm but Whitehead was really good yesterday, he came up with some skill that only a few back rowers can match.

Joe Burgess has scored a few tries in reserve grade. The team, the Wyong Roos are currently in 6th.

I spoke to him, what a nice lad.

Bloody quick too.

Do you think he will get another chance at first grade this season?

Just watched the Raiders game. That was quite a show from Hodgson! Whitehead wasn't too dusty either.

yeah i like what whitehead is doing at the moment - growing into the nrl nicely, and showing some utility value too

Hodgson was official MoM from Fox Sports. He won the Returned Serviceman's League Centenary Medal.

I think he is playing NRL today against the Dragons in front of a massive ANZAC Day crowd.

Joseph Burgess played today but got few opportunities.

Gareth Widdop played today and scored a try from his own grubber kick. Gareth was so dominant that he won the RSL Centenary Medal for the MoM. He has rediscovered his best form now.

So out of eight games played this weekend, Englishmen played in four games (Souths vs Brisbane, Canterbury vs Gold Coast, Canberra vs Wests Tigers, St. George Illawarra vs Sydney Roosters) and have won MoM in two of those four games. This augurs well for the upcoming international season.

I saw the last 25 minutes and Burgess was quite inolved bringing the ball back and solid defence, made a good jinking run that should have led to a try but the half got greedy and went himself with an overlap, and The Roosters halves tried a few cross field kicks for him late on that were quite abysmal when it looked on. Hopefully he gets more chances because what i have seen he hasn't let anyone down so far.

Hodgson is top of the Dally M leaderboard on 13 points, 3 points clear of anyone else.

He certainly hasn't let anyone down so far.

If Joshua Hodgson can keep this up for the remaining two thirds of the competition he will win the Dally M Player of the Year and that will be sensational for English rugby league. He looks almost certain, barring injury, for the Dally M hooker of the year.

Coach Ricky Stuart spoke very highly of him in a press conference on the weekend, naming him as the most consistent player, who had been strong in preseason training, and as the benchmark for the other team members to follow.