A game for league’s dinosaurs

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GEEZ, old leaguies must love March.

Sitting at home in front of the box, can of Resches atop their oxygen tank, as the season gets underway just like, years ago, it played out all year - tough, intense, groggy.

A night where blokes are more likely to finish in hospital than on highlights reels.

And, sure, we know things will change as the weeks go by.

Sonny Bill Williams finding his flick, Adam Reynolds his feet ... and how you stop Greg Inglis with a month of footy under his belt is anyone's guess?

Rabbitohs fans celebrate. Source: Getty Images

But for now, as players search for rhythm, for cohesion and confidence, the dinosaurs can pull those dentures from the bedside table and smile.

Immersing themselves in games where Steedens get spilled, passes miss the mark and players shake those little birds from around their melons. Games that, all up, contain more crunch than your kid's breakfast cereal.

Take Roosters prop Frank-Paul Nuuausala, on Thursday night ushered from the field late in the first half -- shaking away the mist as he went - after a solid collision with Luke Burgess.

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Sonny Bill Williams of the Roosters is tackled. Source: Getty Images

Then seconds before halftime, when defending Souths red zone, it was Burgess who suffered a knock . . . stumbling backwards before eventually falling over completely as a sweeping play moved passed him.

And in between?

Well, Ben Teo was penalised for a shoulder charge that sat Sonny Bill Williams on his arse. Sam Burgess charged like a waterfront restaurant. And young Rooster Dylan Napa, he went about business as you'd expect a hulking redhead intent on proving his worth.

Playing for a Cup named after a hero of the 1960s, Ron Coote, both teams acted accordingly.

It was promising, if not pretty. Willing, if not exactly well-oiled.

South Sydney Rabbitohs fans show their support. Source: Getty Images

A night where Inglis, a superstar for whom all the early Dally M betting cash has gone, dominated with power.

While he would eventually finish with three tries, it was the first the old blokes will be talking about in the front bar this morning.

Sitting around discussing how this hulking fullback from Macksville - "that's in bloody Queensland, incidentally" - pushed through one, two, three, four Roosters to find the tryline.

And, yes, come fulltime it would be enough. But only after the Rabbitohs cruelled as many tries as GI did defenders.

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Like when Issac Luke crossed early, only to be called back for an incorrect play-the-ball from John Sutton. And Luke Burgess, who was twice denied - first for a double movement, then later a knock on.

But what mattered was how, after the break, he returned to take his place on the field.

Part of win straight from the streets of Redfern.

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