Last Sunday was the other code of football and while we don't follow it, just help knowing a bit about it. It was ironic that it is predominately a New South Wales sport, this year at finals time the two best teams were from Queensland. The Brisbane Broncos and the Townsville Cowboys. The game was still held in Sydney.
We were interested in the outcome and so at first were switching back and forth to at least keep up with the scores. Not looking too good for the Cowboys, it was 16 to 12 for quite some time.
Our program finished and there was nothing else that we wanted to watch so we did the last twenty minutes of the game. Finally the was a break through brought on by a very clever underhanded pass and some-one scored a try right on the full time buzzer. Making the score after 80 minutes 16 all. JT (Jonothon Thurston) had to kick it through to win the game. As the try was scored way out on the wing, it was a pretty difficult thing to pull off. The ball sailed through the air with everyone holding their breath, it was looking good and then the ball hit the inside of the post so no conversion! It was still a draw.
The way that the NRL determines draws at the finals by the Golden point, which I don't quite understand but it seems that they play until one team kicks a goal. Good old JT made a magic pass (this was after Brisbane had a chance and missed it) and then there was a goal making the Cowboys the winners 16 to 17.
I did have a soft spot for the Cowboys as they had not won a premiership in years besides its an Aussie culture thing to go for the underdogs.Go the Cowboys!
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