Honestly, my only interest in watching the one-time juggernauts these days is whether or not the opposition can put 50 points on them.

It's a bit like looking on as a train plummets off a cliff, hoping that you might get to witness a couple of passengers emerge from the wreckage, before they burn to death.

Tonight the Bunnies are on track to raise their bat for the half-century, only for Cody Walker to knock on with a try begging, leaving the full-time score reading 46-0.

Sitting in the opposition coach's box, the Old Fox is no doubt full of sympathy for his former club.

THE Daily Telegraph runs a feature on the "hottest players in the NRL", which presumably will be hard to beat in this year's Walkley Awards.

According to one of the judges: "Men think that having big muscles and going to the gym will make them more likeable to women. But women exist through a female gaze obviously ... girls tend to go for guys who are nicer, who are funny and have personality, not simply based on their looks."

Another adds: "We have all looked at it on a deeper level of not just aesthetically what they look like, but thought about the kind of person we think they are.

"Men and women just look at things in a different way.

"Men focus very much on a woman's body, whereas we have looked at the guys' personalities."

That sounds fair enough, although one of the judges is a bloke, and the story doesn't explain what criteria he used to make his selections.

I'm a bit confused, but as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm just relieved they're not viewing rugby league players as sex objects, because if anyone tossed up a "20 hottest players in Super Netball" or "20 hottest women in tennis", there would no doubt be outrage.

FOR the first time in his career, Canberra coach Ricky Stuart is relieved to have lost after accidentally fielding an 18th man against the Dragons as replacement for concussed centre Sebastian Kris.

"Fortunately we didn't win," Sticky says.

"There would've been a big blue tomorrow if we had've won. It would've been disappointing to see what would've happened."

Ricky appears to be keeping his cool, but if he owns a dog, it's entitled to be nervous.

Meanwhile, they'll have to send out a search party for Michael Maguire's mutt after the Wests Tigers' 66-16 hammering from Melbourne Storm.

Poor old Madge. In hindsight, once the scoreline hit 50-0 maybe he should have taken a leaf out of Sticky's book and sent on a few ineligible players. It's not as if there was anything to lose.

IT'S funny how things get lost in translation.

It's a different code, admittedly, but I am intrigued to learn of an American website's coverage of English rugby union.

Their headline in the sports section reads: "Leicester Tigers prostitute charged by RFU after Bristol incident".

The same website had apparently previously run a headline: "Bath whore announces medical retirement from professional rugby".

Seems as if the Yanks aren't quite up to speed with rah-rah terminology, in particular the position of hooker.

Nonetheless, I like it and feel it could easily catch on in rugby league.

I mean, for many years rugby league hookers were referred to as "rakes", because they had to rake for the ball in scrums.

These days they don't even pack into the front row, so clearly it's time to update the rugby league lexicon.

Anyway, I'll be interested to see what headline the Yanks come up with when Cameron Smith - the greatest hooker of all time - is inducted as an Immortal.

UNNAMED Brisbane players take aim at embattled coach Kevin Walters in the Courier-Mail.

"I find him awkward to talk to," one player says.

"I don't know how to communicate with him."

It's a bit of a shame the players don't put their name to their comments, because then Kevvy could get straight to the point by saying: "You're sacked."

Broncos captain Alex Glenn adds: "We're getting beaten by 40-plus points every week, bro.

"It hurts, man. It's not in the Broncos' DNA and that's the shattering part to be honest."

Fair dinkum. At least when the Knights were wooden spooners three years in a row, they copped it sweet, without sooking.

NBA superstar Ben Simmons looks set to be traded by Philadelphia 76ers after stinking it up in the play-offs series.

It gets me to thinking ... I wonder if the former South Newcastle junior would consider switching to the greatest game of all?

Then again, with an annual wage of $40 million, I reckon even the Roosters would struggle to squeeze him into the salary cap.

QUEENSLAND bolter Reece Walsh recalls the moment coach Paul Green informed him he would be making his State of Origin debut this weekend.

"I was actually at the movies with my missus and my family watching Fast and Furious 9 when I saw the call come from Greeny," Walsh reveals.

Typical Queenslander.

Let's face it ... is there anything ruder than people who don't turn their phones off in the cinema?

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