Three million viewers tuned in to say goodbye to Ramsay Street as Neighbors came to a close after almost four decades of constant drama.
The final episode of the Australian soap aired on Friday night in the UK on Channel 5, with stars including Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and Margot Robbie making one last appearance on the show that brought them fame.
Marking the end of an era, the double-episode special drew in a peak audience of 3 million as the show drew to a close, according to overnight figures.
It attracted an average audience of 2.5 million, and Channel 5 said the viewing figures on Friday night were the highest since it began broadcasting the beloved show in 2008.
Alongside Minogue, the finale also saw the return of three singers who went on to have chart hits after leaving Erinsborough. Delta Goodrem, who played Nina Tucker; Natalie Imbruglia, who was Beth Brennan, and Holly Valance, who played Felicity Scully, all appeared in the Friday night episode.
Mike Young, played by Guy Pearce, returned to Ramsay Street to give his relationship with his former love interest Jane Harris, played by Annie Jones, another shot. The pair shared a video reflecting on the reunion after the episode aired, with Jones saying: “It’s kind of a bit weird, isn’t it?”
Pearce agreed, describing the meeting as “sort of surreal.” “It’s lovely working together again. I mean we’ve stayed friends over the years and it’s sort of surreal and also very familiar and like it was just yesterday in a way”. He added that he thought the fans “might be having a little quiet smile to themselves” after seeing the pair get their happy ending together at last.
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Ben Frow, the chief content officer of Paramount UK, said: “I suspect there wasn’t a dry eye from the viewers as Neighbors bowed out on a high last night.
“We wanted to give it a fitting, respectful ending and I hope our night devoted to Neighbors achieved that.
“Last night truly is the end of an era. The response from viewers overnight has been very moving, even if they wished the ending didn’t have to come.”
He added that he hoped fans enjoyed the finale. “We celebrate the success of Neighbours’ 37 years at the top – I’m sure it will remain in people’s hearts and TV memories for a long time to come,” Frow said.
The Formula 1 debut of Oscar Piastri is now a formality following confirmation Fernando Alonso will leave Alpine at the end of the season.
The team’s current reserve driver, the Australian had been caught in something of a holding pattern behind the two-time world champion and Esteban Ocon.
It was largely thought that he would be loaned out, most likely to Williams, as something of a stop gap as Alpine renewed Alonso for another two seasons.
However, with the Spaniard now moving aside at the Anglo-French team to join Aston Martin, the path is open for Piastri to step into the drive.
The 21-year-old has been working through a busy testing program aboard last year’s A521, quietly logging laps at a host of circuits.
He’s also set to take the wheel in two Free Practice 1 sessions once Formula 1 returns from the summer break at the end of the month.
That will see him take over Alonso’s seat on one of those occasions in a prelude of the team’s 2023 line-up.
Piastri’s move has not been confirmed, though it is widely expected following strong comments from Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer and CEO Laurent Rossi.
Both have spoken positively of the young Melburnian in recent weeks, voicing their confidence in the fact he’ll be on the grid in 2023.
“We are working on scenarios for both of them to drive, and scenarios that are very plausible, very sensible, and we imagine will satisfy those drivers,” Rossi said when asked by Speedcafe.com just a week ago why he was confident Piastri would be on the grid.
“That’s why I can’t say more.”
Speaking over the course of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, Szafnauer said simply “yes” when asked if he thought the F2 champion would be in F1 next season.
ELWOOD, Ind. (AP) — A young Indiana police officer was killed early Sunday when a man got out of his car during a traffic stop and opened fire, authorities said.
The suspect was caught roughly 30 minutes later after a car chase, state police said.
Noah Shahnavaz, 24, was an officer at the Elwood police department, 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis. He stopped the driver of a Buick LaCrosse just after 2 am
“For an unknown reason, the suspect exited the Buick and fired multiple rounds, striking the officer at least one time,” state police said.
Shahnavaz was a US Army veteran who had been an Elwood officer for 11 months.
“A senseless act of violence robbed this young man of the life and career he deserved,” Major Todd Jones said.
People placed flowers next to a patrol car outside the police department.
“The cop didn’t deserve to die like that,” resident Donna Williams said.
The 42-year-old suspect has a criminal record, which includes a conviction in 2006 for firing a gun at Indianapolis officers, said Andrew Hanna, Madison County’s chief deputy prosecutor.
Sheriff Scott Mellinger told The Herald Bulletin that the shooting made him go “from being prayerful to being angry.”
“Prayers. Senseless act. Please join us in holding up Elwood PD’s officers and their families,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook.
Surge, Jul 29, 2022La la la la la la laNow singing. You are on fire. Why start something you can’t do?
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Surge, Jul 29, 2022Instagram is a gram that has something to do with anythingNow who’s the one trying to troll? If you can’t take a fight, then don’t comment. I didn’t start it. You did.
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Olympus Who, 29 Jul 2022What does Instagram have to do with anything? Instagram is a gram that has something to do with anything
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Surge, Jul 29, 2022Nah I have ig you have a Pentium processor Just stop picking up fights with everyone What does Instagram have to do with anything?
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Olympus Who, 29 Jul 2022The point. But it sounds like you don’t even own a computer. Nah I have ig you have a Pentium processor Just stop picking up fights with everyone
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Surge, Jul 28, 2022Get what the joke or smthingThe point. But it sounds like you don’t even own a computer.
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SuperBaka, Jul 28, 2022Honestly in Canada, it’s still sold out everywhere and I’m not paying 1K for the con… moreyou follow twitter accounts that notify you when there’s stock available. i did that back in february last year. took a few weeks but got one eventually
i checked it out recently and there’s stock drops all the time that are easy to get. dont get sold out in mere minutes like before. and go for bundles to get best chance, but obviously only if the bundle is decent for you, or you can sell the extra games/controllers you dont want
Anonymous, Jul 28, 2022If it’s still a struggle, then you’re not really trying. I can literally get another… moreHonestly in Canada, it’s still sold out everywhere and I’m not paying 1K for the console. US has PS Direct or whatever but Canada doesn’t from what I know.
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Olympus Who, 28 Jul 2022And you don’t get it. Get what the joke or smthing
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Anonymous, Jul 28, 2022It always supports 2160p. It just never had an option to lower it to 1440p. Also it can techn… moreOh thanks for clarifying
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Surge, Jul 28, 2022On the cover they say 8k 120hz and still now they just started supporting 1440p not even 4k P… moreIt always supports 2160p. It just never had an option to lower it to 1440p. Also it can technically run specific games at 8K and 120Hz, just not simultaneously of course. 4K at 120fps is probably the most it can handle.
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xocomaox, Jul 28, 2022No clue how this was not possible before. It must have been a developer oversight?It could run games at 1440p if that was the max resolution of that game and you had a 2160p display. You just couldn’t manually select 1440p before. So 1440p displays could only do 1080p.
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Gray Wolf, Jul 28, 2022True, it is still hard to get. But not impossible. If you really wanted one you would have got it… moreIn India, the stock is filled once every month or so and it gets sold out in minutes. And its not available on Amazon so availability is still an issue here.
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Jason, Jul 28, 2022stop talking nonsense, the console is still hard to get for MILLIONS of people around the worl… moreTrue, it is still hard to get. But not impossible. If you really wanted one you would have got it by now. The waiting time is also decreased. In my country (Central European country) is around 60 days now. And you don’t need to pay upfront. You just make reservation and wait. Last year the waiting time was 120-180 days. And most of the times you needed to pay before.
Not to mention, because more and more PS5’s were bought, now even in second hand market they started appearing. True, they are 6-12 months old consoles, but in some cases the prices are quite nice.
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Good news. Now I wish PS5 games would start offering a 1440p/120 FPS mode, no more nonsense 4K/60 and just 1080/120.
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Surge, Jul 28, 2022Bruh this is play stationAnd you don’t get it.
Occupation Cleric, broadcaster, writer and Communard (retired)
voting record Always Labour. “I was a party member for a while. I rejoined to vote for Keir; I rather like Keir”
amuse bouche Richard skydives. On his first tandem freefall, jumping from a plane at 10,000ft, he asked the instructor what was the worst thing that could happen. “He said: ‘Fuck it up completely and kill us both!’”
voting record Lib Dem. “To begin with it was because I liked the Oxford MP Evan Harris, one of the few scientists in parliament, and very intelligent. In recent elections I have just been passionately anti-Brexit”
amuse bouche Richard plays the EWI (pronounced ee-wee), which stands for electronic wind instrument. “It looks like a clarinet, but can sound like anything that has been programmed into it – trumpet, tuba, cello, accordion, panpipes”
For starters
CR I grew up in a world of Christian values; I was a chorister as a kid.
DR I was too.
CR I was singing the music of the Anglican choral tradition.
DR As was I.
CR But I was an atheist from the age of eight, unshakably certain that the universe was a material phenomenon.
DR That is unusual in an eight-year-old. What led you to that?
CR My grandfather’s death. I remember hearing people say well-intentioned phrases about him having gone to a better place, but I couldn’t get past the idea of him decomposing in a grave – it just seemed to me that was what was going on.
DR Do you think he is in a better place now?
CR Yes, as well as decomposing. Once I got to the other side of accepting faith then all sorts of possibilities opened up. The idea that we can endure in some way after the death of our material selves – I find that captivating.
DR Captivating, but is it realistic? The brain has come into existence as a result of millions of years of evolution, presumably acquiring what we think of as consciousness. Why would you think that something that has come into being through evolution goes on when the brain decays?
The big beef
CR At the end of my 20s, HIV took out about a third of my circle. I wanted to connect with that feeling from when I was a kid of being in chapel and loving the music.
DR Your conversion to Christianity came about because of HIV deaths?
CR That’s what got me through the door: the turmoil and devastation and thinking: where do I go with this?
DR You needed somewhere to go and the material world didn’t provide the consolation you needed, so you became a believer.
CR I suppose I did get consolation, but much more than that it challenged me fundamentally about the world. It was so extraordinarily rich and surprising and counterintuitive. And I started to read the Bible seriously.
DR What about miracles, water into wine, walking on water, things like that? I presume you believe in that.
CR Highly unlikely scenarios, and in my own experience I have never come across something inexplicably supernatural. But accepting the incarnation is the big one. If God does that, God could do anything; that’s the key for me.
DR I can appreciate the message in the same way I can appreciate a novel where I don’t believe in the characters but nevertheless can empathize with them and love them. I don’t understand why you take the gospels seriously because scholars don’t.
CR Plenty of scholars do. The gospels are very complicated, there are all sorts of things going on in them – some of it is eyewitness account, memory, oral tradition; some of it is theological. It’s very challenging sometimes, but it’s worth it because of the fruits, because of the wonderful stuff that continues to captivate me and motivate me.
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DR Is the wonderful stuff an aesthetic thing?
CR Some of it, but it’s more about the way it makes people feel fully alive, what it does to people and for people, and I’m sure a Muslim or a Jew or an atheist would be able to give you examples of that according to their own light.
DR I get that every day, from music, and the work that I do in science, from the beautiful world we live in. Part of that beauty is the fact that it is explicable, that what looks overwhelmingly like the artifice of a master creator you can actually explain, starting from simply beginning without the need for intervention from design.
CR We live in a world where Darwin seems to provide such a powerful and elegant and persuasive account of the origins of life. I don’t find anything in that that I would have to surrender in order to make a commitment.
DR You’re the kind of vicar who is much harder to argue with because that’s a reasonable point.
sharing plate
CR I’m fascinated by Mendel, who was in both camps, I guess, in that he was a theologian and an abbot. He exercised pastoral responsibility in his community for him, but he was also an extraordinarily significant person in the development of our understanding of biology. Did you know Janáček played the organ at his funeral?
DR I did not. Have you visited his monastery?
CR I haven’t.
DR I have. The library contains his copy of On the Origin of Species with underlined passages. It’s pretty clear I read it. It also has a remarkable collection of English schoolboy fiction – Percy F Westerman and Biggles.
for afters
DR When I did Desert Island Discs one of the things I chose was Mache Dich, Mein Herze from Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Sue Lawley, who was doing it at the time, couldn’t understand. It’s just sublime music.
CR I suppose I want to light on “sublime” Richard.
DR I don’t know what the dictionary definition is; you’re probably one up on me there. Bach was a genius. When there was some talk about what to send out into space as a sort of advertisement for humanity, one scientist, I forget who, suggested the complete works of Bach, but then said, “but that would be boasting”.
CR Indeed. And on every manuscript I believe Bach wrote “for the greater glory of God.”
Takeaways
CR I think there is this idea in our public discourse that the force of your opinion and the force of your feeling and the passionate adherence to a belief is what validates it, and I don’t think that’s true. I’d much rather talk something through, look at inconsistencies and incongruences.
DR What is difficult to argue with Richard is he is not swayed by factual evidence; he it is feeling that matters. Feelings are important, but they don’t tell us what is true.
The Rev Richard Coles’ Murder Before Evensong is published by Orionat £16.99. To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply. Richard and Richard ate at the Colony Grill, London.
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Australia have secured their spot in the Commonwealth Games T20 semi-finals in emphatic fashion, thrashing Barbadosby nine wicketsat Edgbaston.
Alana King was denied a hat-trick and her first international five-wicket haul when skipper Meg Lanning put down a simple chance at slip, but the leg-spinner still led the way with 4-8 from her four overs as Barbados were bowled out for 64.
“That’s cricket right – no-one means to drop it or anything,” King said of the missed chance.
“It’s just the way the game goes, I’m happy that I can contribute in the way I can.”
Beth Mooney was stumped for two in the second over of the Australian chase, and Alyssa Healy was sluggish early, crawling to four from her first 14 balls faced.
But Lanning (36no off 21) was in no mood to muck around, belting four fours and two sixes, including 25 runs from Deandra Dottin’s first over.
Meg Lanning was in a hurry in her unbeaten 36 // Getty
“I was just keen to contribute really,” Lanning said.
“That over from Dottin I got a few loose balls to put away and I got a little bit of rhythm which was nice.”
Healy (23no off 24) then joined in the fun with back-to-back boundaries, as the experienced pair saw Australia home in 8.1 overs.
Sent in by Australia captain Lanning, Barbados’ hopes largely rested on the shoulders of star openers Hayley Matthews and Dottin.
Matthews (18 off 13) started brightly, smacking four boundaries off Darcie Brown, but the teenage quick had the last laugh, getting the better of the Barbados captain with a short ball that was miscued high and safely into the hands of Grace Harris.
Dottin struggled to get going, finding the boundary just once before she was trapped on the pads by King, out for a 22-ball eight.
No other Barbados batter reached double figures as Australia made regular inroads, King leading the way as she bowled Aaliyah Alleyne (8) in the 13th over, then found herself on a hat-trick in the 15th when she removed Shakera Selman (0) and Shamilia Connell (0) with consecutive deliveries.
The Australian fielders crowded around the bat and King drew a thick edge off the bat of Keila Elliott, only for Lanning to fumble what should have been a straightforward catch.
“I’ll have nightmares” Lanning said of the dropped chance, which went slightly to her right chest-high.
“I wanted to dig a hole and jump in as quickly as I could.
“I don’t know – I tried my best and I dropped it.
“I was just disappointed for Kingy. She was bowling so well and to let her down like that was not ideal.”
It mattered little to the Australian’s cause, however, as Barbados were bowled out on the final ball of the innings for 64.
Tahlia McGrath (3-13) and Ashleigh Gardner (2-6) were the other multiple wicket takers.
Australian XI: Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning (c), Tahlia McGrath, Rachael Haynes, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Jessica Jonassen, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
THE GREEN. RYAN: OVERNIGHT, PITTSBURGH POLICE SAY A MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON THE NORTH SHORE. OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AROUND 1:30 THIS MORNING AND FOUND A MAN SHOT TWICE NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ANDERSON AND EAST GENERAL ROBINSON STREETS. THE VICTIM DIED AFTER PARAMEDICS TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. HIS NAM
Man killed in North Shore shooting
Updated: 9:09 AM EDT Aug 1, 2022
Pittsburgh police are investigating a deadly shooting on the city’s North Shore. Officers responded to the area near Anderson Street and E. General Robinson Street for reports of a shooting around 1:30 am Monday. There, they found a man who had been shot twice. He was taken to the hospital where he died. The man’s name has not been released. The investigation is ongoing.
PITTSBURGH—
Pittsburgh police are investigating a deadly shooting on the city’s North Shore.
Officers responded to the area near Anderson Street and E. General Robinson Street for reports of a shooting around 1:30 am Monday. There, they found a man who had been shot twice.
He was taken to the hospital where he died. The man’s name has not been released.
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The latest release of Linux 5.19 has more of an Apple angle than usual, with Linus Torvalds releasing it using an M2 MacBook Air running a version of Linux ported to Apple Silicon.
Linux, like other operating systems, receives updates periodically, with the open source software being no exception. Linus Torvalds, the driving force behind Linux, recently released version 5.19 of the operating system, enabling maintainers of the different Linux variants to incorporate the changes.
spotted by AsahiLinux, Torvalds has passed comment about the use of Apple products in an email to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Posted on Sunday, Torvalds writes “the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop,” referring to the use of Apple Silicon.
Torvalds doesn’t specifically name the model of Mac he is using. But, Asahi Linux claims it is an M2 MacBook Air running its port.
“It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a long time [sic] time, and it’s finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team,” Torvalds continues. In July, the Asahi Linux for Mac project released an update that added Mac Studio support as well as experimental M2 support and fixing Bluetooth.
Torvalds mentions that there has been arm64 hardware running Linux for a while, but that “none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now.”
This marks the third time Torvalds has used Apple hardware for Linux development. He previously did so “for powerpc development on a ppc970 machine,” then over a decade ago with the MacBook Air as it was “the only real thin-and-lite around.”
He admits its usage has been limited, as it hasn’t been used “for any real work” so far. It has been used for “doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging.”
Torvalds anticipates using it while traveling “and finally dog-fooding the arm64 side too.”
Viewers of Hunted Australia have been left furious over an ‘unfair’ twist that saw one half of a team get caught on Sunday’s episode.
Bondi couple Lavinia and Nick spent two weeks completely off the grid by avoiding friends and family, and not using the bank cards given to them at the start of the competition.
But eventually the pair found themselves in need of money because they were getting ‘cold, tired and hungry’.
Viewers of Hunted Australia have been left furious over an ‘unfair’ twist that saw one half of a team get caught on Sunday’s episode
However, just as they went to withdraw the cash they were entitled to spend, as per the rules of the game, the Hunters decided to throw a spanner in the works.
They froze the pair’s ATM card in a bid to catch them, even though all the other teams had taken advantage of this emergency cash resource.
In CCTV footage, Lavinia made several attempts to withdraw cash without luck.
The Hunters cheered back at HQ as she struggled to work out why one of their few lifelines had been taken away before they could even use it.
Viewers flocked to Twitter to express their anger and frustration, labeling the Hunters’ decision ‘unfair’.
Bondi couple Lavinia and Nick spent two weeks completely off the grid by avoiding friends and family, and not using the bank cards given to them at the start of the competition
Eventually they found themselves in need of money because they were getting ‘cold and hungry’ – but when Lavinia tried using an ATM, she realized the Hunters had frozen her account
‘I gotta say that freezing the bank account is wildly unfair,’ one viewer tweeted.
‘Hey freezing their bank accounts… is that fair?’ another added.
Meanwhile, several viewers accused the Hunters of ‘cheating’.
Viewers flocked to Twitter to express their anger and frustration, labeling the Hunters’ decision ‘unfair’
‘Hey freezing their bank accounts.. is that fair?’ one viewer tweeted
‘The Hunters canceling the bank cards is cheating… everyone else on the run can use theirs still,’ one wrote.
‘Here’s a card with $500, but you can’t withdraw it all at once, and we’ll cancel it at any time we choose to. This show is addictive but utter bulls**t.’
‘Don’t think it’s fair that the hunters cancel or freeze bank cards. It’s a game and that feels like cheating… too much power and now manipulation!’ another fan tweeted.
Several viewers accused the Hunters of ‘cheating’
‘Here’s a card with $500, but you can’t withdraw it all at once, and we’ll cancel it at any time we choose to. This show is addictive but utter bulls**t,’ one fan tweeted
Another viewer wrote, ‘Don’t think it’s fair that the hunters cancel or freeze bank cards. It’s a game and that feels like cheating… too much power and now manipulation!’
The shock twist comes after last week’s ‘unAustralian’ betrayal which saw aunt-and-niece duo Karen and Brittany get caught after being tipped off by their bus driver.
Also on Sunday’s episode, friends Puneet and Kris dropped by the remote country property of one of their contacts, but fled after becoming suspicious the Hunters where on their tail.
The Hunters managed to capture the pair, as well as Nick, leaving his partner Lavinia on her own with no money.
The Hunted team is still tracking down five contestants – Stathi and Matt, Jake and Rob, and Lavinia – who are on the run with just a few days left.
The Hunters managed to capture friends Puneet and Kris, as well as Nick, leaving his partner Lavinia (pictured) on her own with no money
The Hunted team is still tracking down five contestants who are on the run with a few days left
A prize of $100,000 awaits the winners, but they must first evade an elite team of ‘hunters’ comprising former intelligence agents and police officers
Hunted is a thrilling series which began following 18 contestants who must go on the run and avoid being captured for 21 days.
A prize of $100,000 awaits the winners, but they must first evade an elite team of ‘hunters’ comprising former intelligence agents and police officers.
Hunted Australia continues Monday at 7.30pm on Channel 10
Hunted Australia continues Monday at 7.30pm on Channel 10
I can’t help but think that the Titans are using enigmatic forward David Fifita in the wrong manner.
On his day, Fifita is one of the NRL’s most damaging ball runners – thus his million dollar price tag.
But Fifita seemed to put all his effort into defense in the 36-24 loss to the Raiders.
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He topped the tackle count for both sides with 35 – a positive considering the heavy criticism of his play as being lazy.
But in attack, Fifita made just 10 runs for 73 meters, one of the poorest hauls for either forward pack.
If I was Titans coach Justin Holbrook – fighting to save his career – I’d tell Fifita to let other blokes do the defense and concentrate on his attacking game.
Axed Newcastle flyer gets last laugh
Knights fans keep copping more and more heartache in 2022 – and yesterday’s loss to the Bulldogs was particularly painful.
Star for the Bulldogs – who scored a convincing 24-10 win at Newcastle – was a player dumped by the Knights this season.
In-form winger Jacob Kiraz, who scored a hat trick and ran a game-high 259 meters, was in the Knights system last season before being shown the door.
The powerful flanker punished the Knights for their decision in classic style, scoring twice in the opening 10 minutes to put the Bulldogs on the way to their well-deserved win.
An unknown at the start of the year, 20-year-old Kiraz is having a fine season and must be in the running for the rookie of the year award.
Kiraz gets a double
Sheens’ big call
The wily old fox Tim Sheens has pretty much left Brett Kimmorley to his own devices since he took over the reins at the Tigers.
But one move Sheens did suggest was shifting halfback Jackson Hastings to lock – and what a success it has been.
The Tigers have averaged 24 points per game since Hastings became a middle forward and the versatile former Rooster and Sea Eagle was superb in the upset win over Brisbane.
Sadly, nothing is easy when you’re a Tigers fan – and Hastings was the victim of a shocking tackle that resulted in a broken leg late in the win and he is out for the rest of the year.
The big positive for the Tigers was the form of halfback Jock Madden, a late replacement for the enigmatic Luke Brooks.
Don’t be surprised if Brooks is granted a release over the summer and Madden is given his chance on a permanent basis in 2023.
Broncos star in strife for ugly tackle
Talakai re-captures career-defining form
Siosifa Talakai’s performance against Manly in round seven remains one of the talking points of season 2022.
Rampaging Shark Talakai destroyed the Sea Eagles, running for 262 meters and scoring and setting up tries like they were going out of style.
A back-rower moved to the centers, Talakai has had his ups and downs since then, reflecting how hard a positional change can be.
But against the Rabbitohs in Saturday night’s golden point thriller, Talakai was back to his devastating best.
He made 225 meters – his most since that career-defining game against Manly, and was the difference between two very closely matched teams.
His ground gaining was nearly 50 meters higher than any other player on the park – and those precious meters made it possible for Nicho Hynes to boot the deciding field goal.
Hynes wins it for Cronulla in Golden Point
Questions remain over Eels despite win
Who would have thought that Parramatta would thump Penrith 34-10 – but then cop criticism after the game?
But that was the case in the local western derby at CommBank Stadium on Friday night after a somewhat bizarre game.
The Eels were dynamic in the first half, charging to a 30-4 lead with some scintillating football.
Even before Nathan Cleary was sent off in the 18th minute, the Eels were well on top at 12-4.
But the second half was a real downer for Eels fans – their team didn’t go on with the job and remarkably, the 12 man Panthers side actually won the half.
The Eels scored just one try in the entire half – in the dying moments – whereas Penrith scored one and had two disallowed.
When Parra are on song, they are very good – but need to go for 80 minutes, especially against a team down and out as the Panthers were.
Slater says Cleary doesn’t deserve big ban
Manly to pay price for week of turmoil
Rarely does a team make 18 errors and still win the football match.
But as we all know, Thursday night’s Manly v Roosters clash was no ordinary game.
Missing seven key players who took exception to Manly wearing the rainbow jersey, the Sea Eagles were realistically never going to win.
But they gave it a red hot go, holding a strong Roosters side to 20-10.
You could almost guarantee that had the seven played, Manly would have beaten the Roosters, who were off their game for much of the night.
Sadly for Manly, I can’t help but think that those two points will come back to haunt them in the battle for finals spots.
Manly rainbow meeting held amid fears of ‘rift’
Melbourne’s troubles not over
The Storm’s four-match losing streak is finally done with – but the headaches for Craig Bellamy aren’t over yet.
The Storm downed the Warriors 24-12 – but the win wasn’t as comfortable as the scoreline suggests.
Melbourne only scored four tries to the Warriors’ three, with the Kiwi team unable to kick a goal all night.
And the three Warriors tries – all to winger Edward Kosi – exposed real problems on the Storm’s right side defense that are certain to be tested by rival coaches in coming weeks.
Throw in a couple of blokes on report, a couple more injured and it was far from the usual clinical Melbourne win we have been so accustomed to watching in recent years.
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