Phil Rothfield looks back on the 2016 NRL season’s 50 most dramatic moments
WAS it Mitchell Pearce’s Australia Day breakdown, Robbie Farah’s Wests Tigers war or perhaps the Eels’ dodgy deals? BUZZ ROTHFIELD picks his biggest moments of NRL season 2016.
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EVEN for the always-eventful NRL, season 2016 has to go down as one to remember — for some great and some not-so-great reasons.
This was the year of Joey Leilua’s unbelievable behind-the-back pass, of James Maloney’s last-gasp sideline conversion to maintain Cronulla’s winning streak, and Johnathon Thurston’s breathtaking flick pass that took the Broncos out of the game in the all Queensland semi-final.
And on the flip side ... There was Mitchell Pearce’s Australia Day viral video, Andrew Fifita’s support for a convicted killer, Corey Norman’s sex tape and Parramatta’s salary cap scandal.
And it doesn’t end there ... Check out the gallery with all of Buzz’s biggest moments from a rollercoaster NRL season.
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