HG Nelson

That took an incredible effort at boardroom level to think that, you know, he used to serve a nice glass of milk stout just before the meeting came to order and the code has blossomed because they're on the stout.

He pushed the code into pub business with a chain of NRL-themed watering holes across the states, two states at least.

Magic Round, the Festival of Football 6 again, PNG Pirates, Taiwanese Oysters and the Rugby League Scratch Lotto were all part of the Abdo Master Plan.

That Scratch Lotto is going through the roof.

He unearthed, incidentally, 400,000 hibernating bears right across the nation, all of whom have, you know, following his lead, have now joined the North Sydney Western Red Himalayan Bears WACA Foundation Experience.

It's only, I think, about 150 to join, and that's just, well, the cash register ringing.

You can probably hear them in the background.

And the league, that's the rugby league, that is the NRL,

After a worldwide search has found a super Jesus to run the joint, they've unearthed the Pope of the Punt in their own clubhouse.

No surprises there because Feathers Volandi stepped forward.

Feathers has been tapped for both jobs, that is the CEO and the chair of the whole shebang, while continuing his ongoing interest in Tropfest, the World of Racing, the Everest, top-rating rugby league podcast, Three Legs on a Stool.

That's a beauty.

If you get a chance to listen to it, it's full of interesting facts and the romance of rugby league writ in every, every episode.

In passing, last week, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs drew a line in the sand, stepped up and had a good hard look at themselves.

But the club supremo, Adam Drusi,

says no one was reaching for the panic button.

And I like the sound of his comments.

His sober approach to the club in crisis has borne fruit.

After runabouts, the dogs bounce back and put away the storm tune, honk away spud, car horns 30, storm 20.

A real comeback result.