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2026 State of Origin Preview

Thank goodness for State of Origin Footy.   It rescues us from the sports wasteland of February between the end of Test Cricket and the start of the footy season proper.   There’s only so many Elvis movies one can consume.   Ok, it’s maybe not that bad with cricket tragics getting the T20 World Cup to revel in, but for me at least that’s just glorified backyard cricket.   I see a future where one hand one bounce is added to the rules and 6 and out will be a thing with batters being forced into the shame of retrieving the ball from Mrs. Gattley’s Rose bushes.   Of course, there is also the Winter Olympics which we’re currently in the midst of.   Where you can get your fill of sports like Curling, Skeleton and Ski-jumping which has had some recent controversy with competitors injecting a form of acid into their penises to make them bigger.   Allegedly it gives some kind of aerodynamic advantage…I’m guessing it’s something like Australia II and the secr...