Monday Buzz: Phil Rothfield reveals his weekend highlights and lowlights

Wests Tigers’ embarrassing SCG drubbing took an ugly turn at fulltime, with Adam Doueihi abused by a disgruntled fan. Phil Rothfield’s weekend highlights and lowlights.

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Phil Rothfield reveals his weekend highlights and lowlights in Australia’s best sports gossip column Monday Buzz.

HIGHLIGHT

The countdown to the Roosters v Storm blockbuster. Friday 7.35pm. AAMI Park, Melbourne. Don’t touch the set, don’t touch the dial, don’t go anywhere.

LOWLIGHT

Blowout score lines across the competition as the finals-bound heavyweights showed the enormous gap between the top and bottom sides and raised more questions around there being enough first grade quality players for 17 teams next season when the Dolphins enter the competition.

SPOTTED

A nasty incident at fulltime on the fence at the SCG on Saturday with Wests Tigers star Adam Doueihi involved in a nasty verbal exchange with a disgruntled fan.

Adam Doueihi was allegedly abused by fans at the SCG.

SPOTTED

The Dally M Awards will have a horse racing feel this year, not that independent commission chairman and Racing NSW chairman Peter V’landys had anything to do with it. Chief executive Andrew Abdo has booked the very flash function room in the Winx grandstand at Royal Randwick for league’s night of nights in grand final week.

SPOTTED

More dunny drama in Newcastle ... comedian Steve Philip placed this plaque in the toilet cubicle at the Delany Hotel where Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann were filmed last weekend.

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A plaque at the Delany Hotel.

Kalyn Ponga was ruled out for the season follow a concussion. Picture: Cameron Spencer/Getty

Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann leave a cubicle.

SHOOSH

Which key Parramatta Eels backroom official has walked out on the club over a disagreement with head of high-performance Trent Elkin?

SPOTTED

More proof over the weekend that Broncos front-rower Payne Haas is worth nowhere near the $1 million a season that his manager Tyran Smith is chasing. You can’t blame the NSW Blues forward for the poor performance against Storm, but, as the club’s forward leader, he should have had more impact.

Payne Haas isn’t a $1 million player. Picture: NRL

COVID CASE

The NRL’s Head of Football Graham Annesley will do his weekly media briefing from his home via Zoom. After two and a half years of avoiding Covid, the great man has finally succumbed to the virus.

360 VIEW

Catch you on NRL 360 on Fox League on Monday night with Braith Anasta, Paul Kent, James Hooper and Cooper Cronk to discuss all the biggest issues out of Round 23 of the competition.

Originally published as Monday Buzz: Phil Rothfield reveals his weekend highlights and lowlights