HG Nelson

It was just great to see.

I think big man Burton played a blinder for the Honkers.

Sadly, we couldn't see him in action too much on Wednesday night, came on late in the game, but he was incredible just wandering on and just, you know, causing fear and mayhem.

And still with the Carhorns, the Lingo of League guru, Gus, produced the, you know, the report on the dogs.

which had roughly the same ambition of the now much talked about report into St George, into the dog's form slumps, that is, and declared the boom recruit Lachlan Galvin is not a halfback anymore, but he thinks he'd make a better number seven.

I think, you know, as soon as we get some sense and make Galvin a lock,

the code will be better.

The whole code will lift and people will think at last, it's only has prevailed.

Incidentally, Guru Gus, very cutie on Wednesday night's end off, about the Wednesday night's end, he appears to have lost his voice.

I must confess I turned off after the ponga's long goodbye, amazed that the maroons held on for so long until the final second, really.

But do you know what the nation's greatest poets say?

Beware, a wounded Queenslander, he won't let you down.

So we look in, well, with some, what would I call it, enthusiasm to Origin 2 in Melbourne.

And last week, St George, that is obviously the last week, meaning not last weekend, before last weekend, the St George Centre of Excellence was opened in Wollongong by the PM in front of a club faithful and innocent by Sanders.

In a tight 50, the PM, well, he confirmed the tax exemptions for the pirates who were camping out on Bunnings Island.

Some of the first stakes have gone in on Bunnings Island and the joint's starting to take on a rugby league feel, as in, you know, they put up a couple of goalposts with a black dot on the crossbar, et cetera, all that sort of stuff.

It looks very professional.

But the PM made no mention of the frontline role of rugby league in China deterrence, no mention of the Kofusi line or even making the obvious connection between, and this is what I wish somebody would make at the highest level, the expense of AUKUS and the value for money option rugby league to do the same thing.

I mean, that's where the rubber will meet the road.

I mean, I think it's 600 billion for AUKUS and only 600 million for the rugby league.