Its official the Illawarra Steelers have dissapeared

Well with the retirement of Trent barrett and Luke Patton we have finally seen the end of an era. Trent and Luke are the last players to have played first grade for the Illawarra Steelers. It was a sad demise as you don't see any signs of the Steelers these days except for their socks every now and then at WIN games.

The NRL keen to cellebrate these great servants of the game and also recognise the 300 game veteran Brett Kimorley recognised the achievement by......... putting a link to a story on the website.

Still I can see why Brett retired - to start with he couldn't read the clock at the ground on Monday night. Instead of calling for the ball and having a shot at field goal he let Michael Ennis roll the ball into the in goal with less than a minute remaining. I was listening to the coverage and heard the crowd do the count down 10, 9, 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 ... I thought either they are pointing out what happen to Bo Dereck as she got older of Kimorley has made a huge mistake in his timing. In the end it turned out to be both.


In Other News
Pakistan has been caught betting on games with player managers confessing that they fixed the unlosable Sydney test.....what a surprise not. What is a shock is the fact that bookmakers acctually take bets on anything to do with Pakistan Cricket. How obvious was it that they were throwing the Sydney test. Having the entire team sitting on the boundry for a couple of tail enders and bowling wide of teh wicket

Thanks fully this incident will be fully investigated by a retired judge. I'm sure justice will be done after having seen the transcript of the investigation into ... Captain Salman Butt (fielded the team on the fence for tail enders0 and wicket keeper Kamran Akmal (dropped four simple catches) in the Sydney Test.

Mahomed Amir (the judge) faced the players both making accusations “So,” he said, “I have been presented, by both of you, with a bribe.” Both Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt squirmed uncomfortably. “You, Salman, gave me $15,000. And you, Kamran, gave me $10,000.”

Mahomed reached into his pocket and pulled out a check. He handed it to Butt … “Now then, I’m returning $5,000, and we’re going to decide this case solely on its merits.”