A list of puns related to "Australian Rugby League"
With Souths' win tonight (finishing with a 20-4 W-L record), they join Melbourne and Penrith (both 21-3) with 20+ win records for the 2021 season. Previously, the 1995 ARL season was the only time in which multiple teams won 20+ games each in the regular season, with Manly and Canberra both going 20-2.
Rugby League Project has these players as the only ones to score at least 6 tries in a game before tonight:
Frank Burge (Glebe) - 8 tries/Jun 19th, 1920 - Glebe vs. University, 6 tries/Jul 1st, 1916 - North Sydney vs. Glebe
Roderick O'Loan (Eastern Suburbs) - 7 tries/May 11th, 1935 - Sydney vs. University
David Brown (Eastern Suburbs) - 6 tries/Aug 10th, 1935 - Sydney vs. Canterbury, Aug 31st, 1935 - Balmain vs. Sydney
Alan Ridley (Western Suburbs) - 6 tries/Jul 11th, 1936 - Western Suburbs vs. Newtown
John Lindwall (St George) - 6 tries/May 3rd, 1947 - St George vs. Manly Warringah
John Troy (Newtown) - 6 tries/Jul 8th, 1950 - Sydney vs. Newtown
If you want to count international play, Valentine Holmes has also scored 6 tries once, against Fiji at the 2017 RLWC. Hugh McGahan has also scored 6 against PNG in 1983 (per u/lachjeff).
TL;DR Frank Burge and David Brown are legends for doing it twice.
League Information Services previously brought up George Green at 38 years, 8 months and 20 days as the oldest known premiership player when he won in 1922 with North Sydney: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/gallen-eyes-off-96-year-nrl-record
To put it in perspective, currently 38 other players have played 300 first grade games in league history. 88 of those wins did come during the Stormβs asterisk era for those who enjoy that stuff, but still an insane stat.
Unlike my last post, I donβt think this is total bollocks but correct me if Iβm missing someone (again). Atkinsβ feat was for Gold Coast, Stuntzβs haul was for Easts and Nashβs was for Canterbury-Bankstown.
For those of you desperate for some live sport, the Australian Rugby League kicks off again tonight and there are a number of games being broadcast in the USA and Canada.
I think it's being broadcast live so the games are probably kicking off at like 2am and possibly replays later at a more reasonable time. But if youre keen for some sport be sure to check out some real football ;p
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