![Did that really happen? Blues halfback Trent Hodkinson celebrates in 2014.](/web/20160702121057im_/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/content/dam/images/z/s/d/y/6/image.related.landscape.460x307.gp4wvz.png/1464352724785.jpg)
Hope the Blues believe, because I'm not sure I do
The Year of The Hodkinson feels not only like something that didn't happen, but something that couldn't have happened.
The Year of The Hodkinson feels not only like something that didn't happen, but something that couldn't have happened.
But at least he made the NFL, didn't he? Or you could say, the whole thing was a marketing scam to suck in all of us who wanted to believe the best of people.
The best rugby league team in the world is not Australia, or New Zealand. It's Queensland. They know it, you know it. Mal knows it. Question is: How can he change it?
The further you were from the game, the better last year's day-night Test match was.
Rugby league's capacity for self-hatred is in direct proportion to its capacity to get over-excited about a new season.
It's rare to love both rugby league and politics, but a crossover is possible.
Pearce has been stood down for the benefit of the mob, and now he will perform the charade for the mob too. One day, he will do it again, because he never believed he did anything wrong in the first place.
This night was always going to be about more than just rugby league.
Mate against mate should be tearing tearing Queensland apart, but it's a lovefest.
Rugby league is the greatest game of all - but it's under threat from within and without.
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