The NRL have kicked off with style and attitude, and winners have been showered with praise and losers taunted and booed until throats and fingers are sore on keyboards across social media. But the NRL weekend can’t be completely over until someone special has had their final say. So for your rugby league pleasure, we present the AI Greg Norman NRL Finals Week 1 Review.
The Gurgler website will drown you with stats and facts about the weekend of rugby league that was soon, so why not let AI Greg Norman, courtesy of the Grok AI generation give you the full NRL Finals Week 1 Review in picture. And colour.
Note that sometimes what Grok gives and what we ask for are two different things. And those wonderful mistakes will often be included in the AI Greg Norman NRL Reviews.
AI Greg Norman NRL Finals Week 1 Review
Melbourne 26 Bulldogs 18
Somehow, despite continuing to play good enough to win, but not good enough not to make the volcanic Craig Bellamy not want to throw things through windows, the Storm march on through to another Preliminary final. Or whatever the game is called before the Grand Final.
Poor Bulldogs copped a few injury concerns, their fault for stupidly playing a fully fit side in the last weeks of the season unlike others.
But it won’t be the Storm’s fault, or the NRL, or injuries. AI Greg says it will be Lachlan Galvin’s fault.
Warriors 8 Penrith 24
Something ominous about Penrith’s low key dancing through the NRL Finals.
A shame their progress comes at the expense of the Warriors, which is actually at the expense of rugby league itself, because winning Wahs equals winning rugby league.
But their fancy footwork and moves were just too good for the Warriors.
AI Greg says it takes two to tango, but he looks unconvinced about dancing with a big cat.
Cronulla 20 Roosters 10
It was an old-fashioned ambush at Shark Park, as the unfancied form side of the competition since Origin ended were too good for the side that brought feathers to a gun fight.
The Sharks are swimming under the radar as you’d expect, and may smell the blood in the water after the big game in Canberra.
At least the game will be in Canberra where people are civilised in the crowd and the only fighting is done at Parliament House.
AI Greg ruffles a few feathers this week.
Canberra 28 Brisbane 29
A game where more was more, for the Broncos fans and neutrals.
As ever with Ashley Klown in charge, the game comes down to big calls, and the one where Reece Walsh’s leg was clipped after he took a field goal attempt and after full time had been called.
In fairness the Broncos had done well after a few sin bins and a hefty deficit to come back and win, and Reece Walsh was at the heart of everything good, and some of the bad.
