Articles by Billy Stevenson

About Billy Stevenson (781 Articles)

Massive NRL fan, passionate Wests Tigers supporter with a soft spot for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and a big follower of US sports as well.

ROUND 6: Brisbane Broncos v. Penrith Panthers (Suncorp Stadium, 15/4/21, 12-20)

April 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sometimes a team has to drop to their very nadir to recover their greatness. So it was with the Knights in the mid-late 2010s, and so it may be with Brisbane, if Thursday [...]

ROUND 4: Wests Tigers v. Parramatta Eels (Stadium Australia, 5/4/21, 22-36)

April 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

It was a perfect autumn afternoon for Parramatta’s first daytime match of the 2021 season – against the Tigers at Stadium Australia. Michael Maguire had named the same [...]

ROUND 4: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v. South Sydney Rabbitohs (Stadium Australia, 2/4/21, 0-38)

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

It’s been nearly a decade since the inaugural Rabbitohs-Bulldogs Good Friday clash, and in 2021 the Bunnies were very much the in-form team. D-Day might have been looming [...]

ROUND 1: Canberra Raiders v. Wests Tigers (GIO Stadium, 14/3/21, 30-12)

March 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

It was a decade since the Tigers played finals footy when they rocked up to front the Raiders at GIO on Sunday afternoon, although they were fielding several new players as [...]

CHARITY SHIELD: St. George-Illawarra Dragons v. South Sydney Rabbitohs (Glen Willow Oval, 27/2/21)

February 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

South Sydney had won every Charity Shield since 2013 when they met the Dragons at Glen Willow on Saturday afternoon, but they managed to top every single game in that superb [...]

INDIGENOUS ALL-STARS v. MAORI ALL-STARS (Queensland Country Bank Stadium, 20/2/21)

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Maori came away with a 36-10 win on the Gold Coast for the 2020 All Stars clash, but this year it was a 10-10 deadlock in Townsville, with Alex Johnston getting his [...]

ORIGIN 3: Queensland Maroons v. New South Wales Blues (Suncorp Stadium, 18/11/20)

November 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

The third Origin match in three weeks was also the 22nd decider, hosted at Suncorp by the Maroons, who broke the Blues’ three-game record just before it could settle into a [...]

ORIGIN 2: New South Wales Blues v. Queensland Maroons (ANZ Stadium, 11/11/20)

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Blues came away with a much more convincing game against Queensland for Origin 2 – so convincing that you had to wonder whether the post-GF slump had got to Nathan [...]

ORIGIN 1: New South Wales Blues v. Queensland Maroons (Adelaide Oval, 5/1/20)

November 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

The first match of the post-GF Origin season, and the first modern Origin match in daylight hours, came down to three tries apiece, with only a pair of missed conversions [...]

GRAND FINAL: Penrith Panthers v. Melbourne Storm (ANZ Stadium, 25/10/20)

October 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

2020 was a NRL season like no other, and in many ways it felt incredible enough to arrive at such a galvanising grand final after the lockdown earlier in the year. Nathan [...]