{"id":110067,"date":"2021-08-01T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110067"},"modified":"2021-08-01T21:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:57:19","slug":"bradman-name-to-again-star-in-australian-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110067","title":{"rendered":"Bradman name to again star in Australian team"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRADMAN NAME TO AGAIN FEATURE IN TESTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A little under a century ago, people around the country were starting to say 'This Bradman kid could play for Australia'.<\/p>\n

And now in 2021, I'm prepared to say the same thing.<\/p>\n

Not The Don and not cricket, but Bradman Best of the Newcastle Knights in rugby league.<\/p>\n

The stocky centre was just all power and speed as the Knights upset Canberra<\/a> at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

It was a remarkable performance by Best, still only 19 and coming back from an injury layoff.<\/p>\n

The teenager carved up the Raiders out wide and it seems not so much a case of if he will wear the green and gold, but when.<\/p>\n

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DWZ BREAKS WORRYING WINLESS STREAK<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There was no happier player in the Warriors' team after the stunning upset over the Tigers than utility back Dallin Watene-Zelezniak.<\/p>\n

A mid-season transfer from the Bulldogs, the luckless DWZ hadn't won a game all season before the brave Warriors fightback.<\/p>\n

Watene-Zelezniak's season read 13 games, 13 losses until the Warriors clawed back from 10-0 down to score a famous win.<\/p>\n

And DWZ played a major role in the win, running for 173 metres, more than any Warriors player on the night.<\/p>\n

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ROOSTERS' BIG IMPROVER RUNNING RIOT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are few more improved players in the NRL this season than Roosters back-rower Sitili Tupouniua.<\/p>\n

With the Roosters down on troops, Tupouniua has really come to the fore and was outstanding in the splendid win against the Eels on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The rangy back-rower is having a field day running off playmakers Sam Walker and James Tedesco and bagged his fifth try in four games against a bitterly disappointing Eels outfit.<\/p>\n

Tupouniua has now scored 11 tries for the year – remarkable considering his career tally was just six tries in 36 games coming into 2021.<\/p>\n

Only one forward has scored more meat pies than him so far this season – Titans colossus David Fifita.<\/p>\n

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KEVVY EASES CRUSHING PRESSURE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Broncos' 37-18 win over the Cowboys has taken some of the massive pressure off the shoulders of embattled coach Kevin Walters.<\/p>\n

All season, critics have questioned if Walters was the right man for the job as the Broncos lurched from one disaster to the next.<\/p>\n

But the Broncos have now won four games, one more than in all of last season, and scored the most points they have all year against their arch rivals.<\/p>\n

It's baby steps, but the Broncos can now say they've improved on last year and the real test for Walters will come in 2022, when he has a better roster at his disposal.<\/p>\n

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WIGHTON LOSES HIS WAY FOR RAIDERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jack Wighton's strength is his running game – but he seems to have lost it this season as the Raiders tumble towards an early end to the year.<\/p>\n

Wighton made just four runs for 35 metres in his team's dreadful upset loss to the Knights yesterday.<\/p>\n

Playing at five-eighth, where he was so good last season alongside Englishman George Williams, Wighton struggled big time.<\/p>\n

He seemed more intent on trying to set up his outside men and kicking – and was only average at both – as the Raiders were totally out-enthused by the Knights.<\/p>\n

For the Raiders to have any hope of making the finals, Wighton needs to get back to doing what he does best – running the football.<\/p>\n

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SMITH CASHING IN AS LATEST STORM SUCCESS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you were asked to name the top try-scoring centre for 2021 at the start of the season, I doubt anyone in rugby league would have chosen Reimis Smith.<\/p>\n

But Craig Bellamy has waved his magic wand and after 20 rounds, the unheralded Smith leads the game's glamour centres.<\/p>\n

In his first season at the Storm, Smith touched down for his 13th try against the Panthers yesterday – already the most tries in a season in his career.<\/p>\n

Smith is making the most of the service of the likes of Jahrome Hughes and Cam Munster and is another of 2021's big improvers.<\/p>\n

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