The Grapple

This week our heroes Grapple with the listener question- Has QLD and Billy begun to believe their own hype? Digging into Origin and discussing any needed changes. The Rah Rah boys have been given the green light to jump ship..... invoking memories of H.H. Messenger in 1908. Are the Broncos flogging a dead horse and The Annersley Effect- should it really be Charlton Heston delivering the weekly media brief on the rule interpretation buffoonery. Only here will such burning questions be addressed.

Life’s a Grapple.... Dig It.

Our heroes are dissecting the truth behind the NRL's head honcho undertaking a 'recruitment mission' to Paris, and dreaming about rugby league's inevitable and eventual foray into the Olympic games.

They are a little confused by some of the commentary around Broncos skipper Adam Reynolds' suitability for the (c) in Brisbane, and are calling a big steaming pile of BS on Brian To'o having the s**ts at Penrith.

They get the medical hats on to try and understand why confusing neurological terminology needs to be deployed to explain poor rulings by NRL referees.

More than anything, they're a pair of douche bags who don't really know asses from elbows, and you know what, neither does anyone else.

It's the Grapple and it's 25 episodes old. Get in on the ground floor, as we raise the collective bats for a glorious quarter century.

This week our star duo are made whole again as Joel returns from the Heart of Darkness- "At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier."Conspicuous by his absence is any conversation this week is the Hard Running Graeme Annersley. Are our heroes :"Graeme'd Out"? Are we suffering from the dreaded "Graeme Fatigue"? Or is it like beating yourself in the head with a needle hammer? Only time will tell.Finals predictions abound as teams fight for their survival but is the comp a two horse race?Cleary's shot a serious piece of history, the stare Nicho needs to give the Shire a chance, has PVL chewed too much BeetleNut or is the PNG deal idea "good for the game'? Battle of the felines in the AFL as Queensland echo's Princess Leia's finals words to R2.... "Help me Lions and Cowboys, you're my only hope" All will be revealed in a bum tickling weekend of sport, but before you dive in to the kick off or the opening bounce, Grapple with this pair of fools.Like Share Subscribe. The road to Grappling and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

As the saying goes, two heads are better than one, this week our heroic duo is made whole again as Joel returns from the deep, dark abyss of a Brisso winter flu.

With a full deck in our hands and systems operating at full capacity our two soldiers take aim at the Hard Running Graeme again and the fascist language contained in the NRL email out for his weekly briefings....not so brief these days.

The bunker is under siege and the reffing in the cross hairs, but just like Wyatt at the OK Corral, Gun-Slinging Graeme doesn't blink when it comes to backing his refs.

Turbo tries to play Robin Hood but the NRL does their best Sheriff of NOttingham to thwart his gestures.

Wayne under the pump, the Broncos get a sniff and Hoppa's hand gets him in the sh$t again... not literally this time:-)

Get busy Grappling or get busy dying...

After a period of inactivity (a week off) our heroes feel a disturbance in the force.... An awakening....a ripple in the fabric of reality.... Back to back Wallabies wins. This so called anomaly has ignited a battle many a League journo thought to be dormant if not extinct- The Code War.In a time of year when only the darkest off-season scandal gets the cockroaches scurrying to the typewriters, it’s the performance of the so called lesser code that has our best bards penning immaculate tributes to the likes Wright, Wilson and Valentini.

Social media awash with claims of “it’s all because of us” and “anything they do, we do better”. Our heroes call for calm and discretion using a reference that is omnipresent in its powers unity - The Three Amigos.

Equal in their rants and mood altering film references, both charges weigh on where Dozer will move dirt and Pappi’s decision to stay in Mexico.

The Summer Series is your only place for impartial (cough) discussion on all sports and the story’s you love. Get busy Grappling or get busy dying y’all