Well after a slow start they are now up to 6th in the NRL after beating St.George at the weekend with a golden point.

Sounds like Madge is again making a big impact - hope they keep it up.

Waney is better

They had a bye last round. Still pretty decent after a poor start.

With the players Madge has at souths, I wouldn't be shocked to see them win the NRL in the next 3 years. Maybe even this year.

They are looking good this year and you cant half tell that Maguire coaches them. The transformation on the field has just been like when he took over at Wigan. They have some cracking players too such as Inglis which obviously helps!

Burgess, Inglis, Luke, Taylor, King... I struggle to see how that team isn't already in the top four. I wish SL was as competitive as the NRL.

To be fair Burgess has only just come back from injury and Inglis has missed games. I think Luke is overated though and King hasnt been that good at all from what I have seen and his defence is awful at centre. Taylor is some player though but is not really a Maguire type player.

Indeed. Some of the best players in the world play in teams at the bottom of the table. The only way that could happen in SL is if everyone spent to the cap limit.

That is why spending to the cap should be one of the main criteria of staying in SL.

Spot on. Paramatta dead last on 4 points with Jarryd Hayne (spelling?) as their starting full back, would never happen in Super League.

10 or 12 team Super League. Said this in a massive post on the VT a while ago. The beauty of the NRL is that a major free agent from the top of the table will quite gladly go to the bottom on the table if the money is right. In super league, let's take Tomkins for example, if he was OOC tomorrow and Wigan couldn't afford to keep him because of the cap, his realistic options are Hull, Leeds, Saints, Warrington, Catalans. Maybe add Huddersfield into that, but those of the main teams. Add in another french team, who would be attractive with tax breaks and whatnot, and you'd have league pretty even across the board.

Souths are not good enough in the halves to win anything IMO. Maybe if they had kept Sandow (although he's been terrible so far this year).
They have some great players but aren't nearly as creative as the likes of Storm, Warriors, Manly Etc.

We're does every1 watch nrl always wanted get into it tried the 30min skysports highlights show but it's crap just way too short

Quote ="bowvey"We're does every1 watch nrl always wanted get into it tried the 30min skysports highlights show but it's crap just way too short'" www.rugbyleagueontv.co.uk/ (how do people still not know about this?) Or betting websites usually have them live (I think).

Quote ="bowvey"We're does every1 watch nrl always wanted get into it tried the 30min skysports highlights show but it's crap just way too short'" www.rugbyleagueontv.co.uk/ (how do people still not know about this?) Or betting websites usually have them live (I think).

There is a certain website i've heard you can download every single NRL game in high quality in under 20/30 minutes. Doing this is how ever legal. (check you pm's)

Nice one mate £7p/m for premier sports is steep ontop of all u pay sky

I pay 7.99 and not a penny to sky.

I got rid of the movies (£icon_cool.gif and got Premier Sports. Brilliant swap if you ask me.

Where just doing the basics right.

When people say with our roster we should be doing better they aren't looking at our pivots.

Last season we had Wesser, Sutton, Sandow and a out of form Luke.

Now we have Inglis (wasted at centre as Sutton can't give him any good ball), Sutton, Reynolds (rookie of the year up to now) and Lukes back to his best from.

Maguires tided up the ruck area and is getting the best out of our inexperienced players, Farrell, Reynolds, Tyrrell, Starling, Everingham and Hunt had a fine debut playing out of position on the wing.

Sheldon, what's the general feeling of the Rabbitohs fans over there with regard to Maguire and his methods?

A few where a bit worried about his tactics in and around the ruck, but with the nrl clamping down on the wrestle it hasn't materialised. We are a lot better there but we have really struggled there in the past few years. Where actually a very entertaining side to watch.

He's identified our gun players and were getting the ball to them in good positions, hardly ground breaking but it just hasn't happened in the past few seasons.

He's made himself available to the media, which always helps, and comes across very well.

"Aww look"

This belongs on the NRL forum, not here.