Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NRL 2013: National Rugby League Injured List | #NRLInjuryList

UPDATED: (Wednesday May 20, 2013)
 ALL TEAMS ANALYSED FOR ROUND 11 
Predicted Origin Game 1 Teams: NSW Team QLD Team Round 10 Grades
IMPORTANT: All Late Mail from Wednesday onwards goes into the Tipping Preview
2013 NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE INJURED LIST
By W D Nicolson 

Welcome to the third season of the most comprehensive and up to date NRL Injury and Suspension List available on the internet.

We have once again sourced together a pre-season Injured List and will update it throughout the 2013 NRL Premiership.


With the pre-season only just under-way - if you can help us with any injuries that should be listed - just emailtweet us or comment below.

The NRL Injured List is updated regularly - so bookmark this page and do yourself a big favour for the rest of the season.

Our sources are Official NRL Club Sites (links available below for their official injury list), mainstream media (including the outstanding Late Mail in the Sydney Morning Herald) and most importantly - our weekly game observations - which set this list apart from anything else you can find.

The Injured/Suspended List for each team is split into two Categories: 

DOUBTS
Means a player could play this coming Round but don't be shocked if they don't  due to a niggling injury or recently diagnosed 'short term' injury.
OUT
Means a player is extremely unlikely to play this week or next week due to long term injury/suspension, but beware players sometimes do return out of nowhere. We have added ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival - back in First Grade) for 2013 but please it is a GUIDE, not an iron clad date of return.

NOTE: Players who are listed as 'DOUBTS' may have actually played the previous round but if they are still thought to be carrying an injury they will remain on the DOUBT list.


This Injury List will be updated regularly during each week of the season, making it an invaluable Fantasy and Tipping Tool alongside our Weekly NRL Previews once again.

Remember if you want game-specific Late Mail every week, then check out our Round Previews Every Wednesday and they are updated with all the very latest Late Mail on Friday.

If we are missing any players on this list - please comment below, reply on Twitter or email this address.

NRL INJURED LIST - ROUND 11:

Sunday, May 19, 2013

NRL 2013: Scouting Reports on all Origin 1 hopefuls from Round 10 #StateofOrigin

SCOUTING REPORTS: Origin hopefuls graded...
Round 10 News and Views

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 19, 2013

Do we have a winner for the NSW #6 yet?
Scouting Reports are a regular feature on www.wdnicolson.com and they generally appear at State of Origin time. It also features Full Votes from Round 10 of The @NRLTweet Player of the Year Awards. Let us know what you think of each grade via @NRLTweet or please email us.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

NRL 2013: Round 10 Tips Late Mail Predictions Preview for #womeninleague Round #NRLLateMail #NRLDT #Supercoach

ROUND 10 TIPS and LATE MAIL
Plus The Postman's NRL Dream Team/NRL Super Coach Picks

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 15, 2013


EXTRA LATEST OF LATE MAIL ADDED THROUGHOUT ROUND
ALL EXPERT PICKS AND SPECIAL FRIED RICE ADDED AS RECEIVED
Make sure you check out the Predicted NSW Game 1 Team we believe coach Laurie Daley is set to announce for the June 5 clash with Queensland at ANZ Stadium.
Plus Mal Meninga's Queensland Team has also been predicted... though injuries are playing havoc with both lineups.
Continue reading below for the Round 10 Tipping Preview.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

NRL 2013: Did Waerea-Hargreaves pay the price for soft refereeing? | Round 9 #NRLTweetPOTY Votes

COMMENT: Should the JWH-type send-off be the first of many?
Round 9 Comment and Full @NRLTweet Player of the Year Votes

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 14, 2013

World's longest set of six...
Comments are a regular feature on www.wdnicolson.com and they generally follow our weekly Set of 6 Tackles that form a Complete Set by the end of the Round. It also features Full Votes from Round 9 of The @NRLTweet Player of the Year Awards. Let us know what you think of each comment via @NRLTweet and if you would like to contribute a Comment of your own please email us.

COMMENT
JWH belts Rose in the head... Rose is 6'2
Waerea-Hargreaves gets sent... and RIGHTLY so.

The downside for the Roosters prop and his team-mates is that he might be the straw that broke the NRL's back as it were in relation to how High Tackles are policed.

You see the Send-Off has gone into the obsolete part of the the refereeing handbook... through a combination of fear from on-field and off-field officials to overly influence a result, and rather more subtly - with the addition of the free interchange taking some of the sting out of having an injured player on the receiving end of a high shot.

As a result, the NRL and its officials built a rod for their own back that would eventually start to beat them mercilessly the moment the referees started to march players for borderline intentional high tackles.

JWH has time to hit Rose anywhere... ANYWHERE
Then last night with a high shot on Manly's George Rose, Sydney's Jared Waerea-Hargreaves overstepped the line... and not for the first time either - which ALWAYS does and ALWAYS should count against any benefit of the doubt being given to him.

Watch the high tackle here

The apologists will claim there was 'nothing in it'... but that only holds weight if 'nothing in it' means a player cocking his arm, targeting and connecting flush with a 6'2 individual's head.

Waerea-Hargreaves plays with an edge - and this year in particular he's found a way to harness that into positive energy in attack - but he's got a history of 'nothing in it' hits defensively.

And now finally, the referees involved in the Manly-Easts Monday Night Football game - made a statement.

A long overdue statement.

Monday, May 13, 2013

NRL 2013: Blue Fergo? #Setof6 | Round 9 Complete Set + #NRLTweetPOTY Votes

COMPLETE SET: Blue Fergo? Gould's Joy Ride, Hope for Cellar Dwellers, Walter's beauty, Souths for JJG? Quotable Quotes
Round 9 News and Views and @NRLTweet Player of the Year Votes

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 13, 2013

This is a regular feature on www.wdnicolson.com - every week we will post a Set of 6 Tackles that form a Complete Set by the end of the Round. It also features Votes from Round 9 of The @NRLTweet Player of the Year Awards. Let us know what you think of each topic via @NRLTweet

ROUND 9 SET OF 6: Plenty to digest this week - read on below for more... |

Saturday, May 11, 2013

NRL 2013: Why Canberra set Dugan up to succeed at the Dragons #Setof6 | Round 9 #NRLTweetPOTY Votes

1st TACKLE: Dugan is a Dragon... and how the Raiders made this happen
Round 9 News and Views and @NRLTweet Player of the Year Votes

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 11, 2013

If it wasn't for the Raiders... would Dugan be a Dragon?
This is a regular feature on www.wdnicolson.com - every week we will post a Set of 6 Tackles that form a Complete Set by the end of the Round. It also features Votes from Round 9 of The @NRLTweet Player of the Year Awards. Let us know what you think of each topic via @NRLTweet

ROUND 9 SET OF 6: Rest of the 9th Complete Set is published Monday and Tuesday |


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

NRL 2013: Round 9 Tips Late Mail Predictions Preview | #NRLLateMail #NRLDT #Supercoach

ROUND 9 TIPS and LATE MAIL
Plus The Postman's NRL Dream Team/NRL Super Coach Picks

2013 NRL Premiership

By W D Nicolson - May 8, 2013


EXTRA LATEST OF LATE MAIL ADDED THROUGHOUT ROUND - Updated Sunday
ALL EXPERT PICKS AND SPECIAL FRIED RICE ADDED AS RECEIVED
Also make sure you check out the Predicted NSW Game 1 Team we believe coach Laurie Daley is set to announce for the June 5 clash with Queensland at ANZ Stadium.
Plus Mal Meninga's Queensland Team has also been predicted... easy as that may be.
And remember they both have massive DT/SC implications.
Continue reading below for the Round 9 Tipping Preview.

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