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It's the start of Round 2 in the NRL, and your local sports duo Peters & Peters have this week been converted to Covid & Covid as the Peters household goes into isolation lockdown. Still, despite the obstacles, they have still found a way to get this afternoon's edition done, despite some social distancing issues and wifi issues that stopped other ways being used. Still, here they are with...

We've reached the first Sunday of the season, and today you can be very well assured that one Peters has definitely got the right matches to review. Well, hopefully. So to finish off round one why not check out how accurate two guys can be who know nothing about rugby league! Previewing: Eels vs Titans Cowboys vs Bulldogs. #PetersAndPeters #NRL

It's the third day of the new NRL season, and with three games to break down, it's time for Peters & Peters to get back in front of the camera and give you the good oil on all three games. Previewing: Roosters vs Newcastle Warriors vs Dragons Tigers vs Storm. #PetersAndPeters #NRL

Peters & Peters are back to offer their underwhelming and thoroughly unresearched opinions on tonight's big matches in the NRL. Come in and check it out! Previewing 11/3/22 Raiders vs Sharks Round 1 Broncos vs Rabbitohs Round 1 #PetersAndPeters #NRL

YES! WE’RE BACK!!  Following absolutely no demand for our services, and the raging success of our Big Bash League (BBL) program, Peters & Peters is back anyway, to get you through the NRL season in style. Here’s our preview of tonight’s big match! Previewing Panthers vs Sea Eagles Round 1 10/3/22. #PetersAndPeters #NRL

Round 1 is done and dusted, and if you tip like I do it was a barren and broken wasteland of rugby league. And let’s face face, it is only round one. You can’t win the comp or even lose the comp in the first round, and in many ways you can hardly judge how a team is going to finish the season on their performance in their first true matchup of the season. And there are a lot of clubs who will be l...

Welcome to a brand new season of In League With the NRL. It’s 2022, hopefully we have put covid to bed, and we can have a season where there are as few interruptions as possible. On today’s first episode, I’ll give you my exclusive preview of where all of the teams are going to finish in 2022, which gives you the jump start to get onto your bookie and bet on the exact opposite of what I say. So le...

Australia, somewhat surprisingly to some including me, won last year’s T20 World Cup, an achievement that relied heavily on players who had decided against playing any international T20’s in 2021 prior to the competition going ahead, while continuing to mine the riches of the IPL despite this. In achieving this victory, the team has set itself up for a repeat performance in this year’s T20 World C...

When it comes to regular events, we have the rising and the falling of the sun, Shane Warne cutting off fellow commentators at will as well as belittling those players he dislikes and protecting those players he loves, and Will Pucovski finding another way in which to concuss himself which cuts off every comeback he makes the second he has returned to the field. Very few of us would truly understa...

England’s 2021 Test record was one of the bleakest in the history of Test cricket, though arguably also one of the toughest. They lost a series in India where few teams have won over the past 30 years, they then lost a home series against New Zealand who were then crowned as World Test champions, and found themselves behind in a home series against India before covid issues put paid to the final T...

In several different ways over a period of many years, the governing body of cricket Australia has made decisions that have come back to bite them in their proverbial, decisions that have proved costly and embarrassing for Australian cricket and individuals involved in those decisions. And each time those things occur, most of the cricket loving public of the country say to themselves “well, hopef...

The Australian men's cricket team has had a season out of the box. They took out the T20 World Cup title, the one major competition they had never won, and did so without anyone ever thinking they were a chance to do so. They then returned home to Australia to defend the Ashes, something they did handsomely and without ever looking as though they were in trouble, eventually winning the five Test s...

Australia has finished 2021 on an enormous high, while England has sunk to depths that they haven't experienced since the dark days of the 1990's. Questions remain for both sides, but are there any easy answers? On today's final episode for 2021, we discuss just where English Test cricket finds itself and wonder how much of the blame can be pointed towards administrators concentrating on white bal...

The Gabba has never been an easy place for opposing countries to come to and win. England hasn’t won there since 1986, with a draw in 2010 their only match that has saved a whitewash since then. But if ever they were a chance, surely it had to be this year. Neither team had been firing or had much cricket, but Australia had lost their captain and keeper, two of their strike bowlers were struggling...

The day has finally arrived. The first day of the first Test of the summer. Australia's build up has been chaotic, England's has been under the radar. Rain has stooped both teams from the kind of match practice that they would have liked. But none of that matters now. If you have 20 minutes to spare and are interested in just what I can see as the strengths and weaknesses of both teams leading int...

We are a week away from the 1stTest of this season Ashes series, the first to be played in the Covid pandemic years, and as a result there is a little more up in the air than usual. Both countries have just competed in the T20 World Cup, the one expected to win it fell in the semi-final, the one expected to be making up the numbers got up and won it. As a result the preparation of both sides has b...

With Tim Paine having renounced the captaincy of the Australian Test team, now comes the problem of finding the right successor, something the selectors would have thought they had another few months to consider. But selecting the new captain is only a part of the problem that now surrounds the Australian Test team. There is also the problem of deciding on the vice-captain, the person who would li...

There has been nothing good to have come out of the last four days in the Australian cricket news cycle. The euphoria of having won the men’s T20 World Cup has evaporated. The excitement of reaching the pointy end of this season’s WBBL tournament has been buried. Even the selection of the Ashes squad and the A team squad has now been thrown into chaos. I had decided a few days ago that this podcas...

So the Australian selectors have named their 15 man squad for the first two Ashes Tests, as well as an 11 man squad for Australia A, who will compete in a warm up fixture for the Ashes squad as well as playing match against the England Lions who are also in the country to do the same thing with England’s Ashes squad. It is the earliest any Ashes squad for a home series has ever been named, and whi...

It’s a wonderful thing to be wrong, especially about such things that you think you have a reasonable knowledge of. Cricket for me is one of those things, and while I don’t have a lot of credits to back me up, I have over a long period of time found that some cricketing events back up what I think. That has absolutely not been true over the past month, where my many musings on winning the toss and...

At the moment it is the media's favourite phrase - "ASHES BOLTER!!" Every time someone takes a bag of wickets, or crushes a century, it seems that they become an Ashes Bolter. But how much of that is cricket reality, and how much is media hype? On today's episode we have a look at a few of the names mentioned as "ASHES BOLTERS!!" and discuss just how much of a chance they have of figuring this sum...

We've reached the semi-final stage of the 2020 (yes it is confusing) T20 World Cup, with four teams remaining and lots of questions to be answered. On today's episode we look back at how the also rans performed befor they were knocked out, and cast our eye over the four teams left to see what may happen this weekend.

The cricket media used to be the most reliable section of journalism. There was little hysteria with extreme results, good or bad for the local team, and the analysis of the game was generally thoughtful and reserved. In the age of social media and parts of the media more interested in clickbait than actual commentary on the game, that kind of composure is becoming a thing of the past. Instead we...

Well, it’s Halloween…. again… and here we are in Australia and despite a pandemic that has raged for nigh on 20 months, it appears everyone is dressing up and going out trick or treating once again. So here today, I want to discuss three things with you. Firstly – should Australians be celebrating a Celtic holiday that was popularised in the United States when it has basically zero to do with our...

In the past month, the Netflix South Korean limited series Squid Game has become the most watched show in the streaming platform’s history, reaching unprecedented levels of viewership. Telling the story of a dystopian present, where ordinary people with a need for money are coerced into playing kids games in the hope of a huge prize, but with a problematic future for those that lose those games, S...