With the 2024 NRL Season well and truly over, I've left these last few post here to remind us of that Fabulous Four-peat while I prepare for your NRL Season 2025...

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

...And here's your NRL GRAND FINAL RESULTS BOARD... Your NRL Round #01 Selection Board follows in March 2025...


.... ...And as we did for the AFL last weekend, inspired by the Paris Olympics, here are our very own NRL Medal Winners for 2024... BTW, BZ, BC saving your run to the last throw of the dice...!

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.................... Maybe I shouldn't have changed to Daylight Saving at 0200 this morning, Melbourne Storm could've done with an extra hour of play...



BTW, every defeated Team needs something to keep their spirits up after such a catastrophic loss... MELBOURNE STORM, I give you our Wooden Spooner for 2024, Mark 'Sully' Sullivan...!

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

What can I say , just getting prepared for next year. Thank you all.

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Mark Sullivan
R106204
Ex-CPOETC3
28th MOBI Intake
Jan 70 to Jan 82
Nirimba x 2 , Cerberus , Derwent , Stalwart , Yarra , Platypus , Watson , Vampire

Thanks Rick for organising, chasing up and running the show.

BZ

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Yes, thanks' Rick for you hours of graphic work for those great presentations.

Thanks' also for you fellow participants for enjoying a bit of fun.

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).

....and it's a ditto from me!

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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
R94714
Ex-CPOMTP(D)5
Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th)
Jan'65 to Mar '88
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.

Thanks Sully, Pony, BC, Smiley, et al... my pleasure... Hope to see you all back for more gratuitous sex and violence with Thugby Tipsters 2025...

I remember thinking the fans exiting the match had just come from a MAGA Rally, I swear I heard 'em chanting "4 More Years..! 4 More Years..!"

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

I heard from a Storm tragic (at the game), that there were two instances, after the match had finished, where a couple of Penrith supporters attacked a couple of Storm supporters. Unusual, for supporters of the winning team inciting violence........

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

Hey, they're "Panfer Fans"..!

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane