In the Spotlight - Round 2

Oh, g'day, didn't see you there. Now that you're here, welcome one and all to the very first edition of In The Spotlight (ITS).

You may remember me from such past-times as ranting about St George-Illawarra, or the New South Wales Blues, or the Australian Cricket Team.

Don't worry all you cricket haters - ITS is strictly footy; each week I will take a no-holds barred, all-piss-taken look at who is under the pump for the coming round.

Or maybe I'll highlight a coach who wishes they were pushing trollies or scanning grocery items rather than mentoring their steaming turd of a footy side. It just depends on how I'm feeling that week or how many beers I might have downed at my desk at work.

Anyway, enough of that. In the immortal words of The Black Eyed Peas, let's get it started!

Daly Cherry Evans
I'm not sure I'm really sticking my neck out on this one (Sorry Chez, last neck joke I promise), but DCE is not in a happy place right now. Not only did Parramatta give it to his side sans-lubricant last week, but those rabid Manly fans are baying for his blood. How dare he sign for another club? All those Gold Coast knobs do all day is lay on the white sand and ogle pretty girls. He should stay at Manly, throw on a gimp mask and live in the basement recently vacated by Anthony Watmough instead.

Paul MacGregor
Mary, Mary, Mary. Lord have mercy on you if the Saints play in round 2 like they played in round 1. It's a good thing you haven't had hair since 1991 because it would have fallen out just watching the Dragons run around on Monday night. The Red V is struggling, and they need a hero. Now I don't think anything outlandish is required, just a bit of straight running - shouldn't be too much to ask from a so-called first grade Rugby League side.

The Tigers await at Campbelltown. Mary and the gang know they're going to get rolled; they're just hoping that it won't happen on the field as well as off it.

Now, I'm off to watch Ireland beat* India in the cricket**

*They won't win, but it would be nice.
** I now I said this was strictly footy, but I'm also a compulsive liar. You'll see.