Brett Stewart deserves some love, but I wasn't quite sure how to give Stewart the love he deserves. This season I've watched Stewart carve up many opponents, at 30 years of age, Stewart is playing as well as he ever has. I toyed with ideas where I would rank the fullbacks in the current game and give Stewart a ranking just below Greg Inglis, but it just didn't feel right, rankings, lists, top 10s and all that shit are just straight up lazy and don't do Stewart justice. So I just got in touch with my heart, Stewart deserves a tribute from the heart.

The Snake

Oh how you slither and slide

I hate snakes, there's nothing good about them as they roam the dirt

But The Snake, well I can't stop my love affair

There aren't many who have called Billy Slater their peer

There aren't many fullbacks who are as good at passing as they are as running

There aren't many who have lingered in the upper echelon as long as you

Which is why when I see a snake, I don't mind

Where I used to squirm, I now just picture you

That blank look on your face, that lack of emotion

That ice-cold lack of emotion

I swear you don't smile after scoring half your tries

But that's all good, I wouldn't either

If I had scored 160 tries, I wouldn't either

If the only current player with more tries than me was Billy Slater, I'd look chill as fuck as well

There's something about snakes though

My knowledge of our planet's history isn't that flash

But snakes are reptiles right? And reptiles are kinda like those dinosaur things, right?

So like, snakes have existed for yonks, right?

Maybe that's why you are The Snake

Because like a snake, you are a throwback to simpler times

While kids these days are immensely crazy thanks to this crazy world

You are an old school player, tough

You are the Manly Sea Eagles

When I think of the Manly Sea Eagles, I think tough, clinical, winners

That's you

Anyone who can mix that old school rugged vibe with immense skill, has my heart

You've passed that on to Manly's next generation

You'll pass it on to those hundreds of players who will join your club next year

It even looks like you've put your beef with Daly Cherry-Evans aside

Even when that beef was there, you both combined like professionals

He kicks, you chase, he passes, you catch, good things happen when you too are in unison

You blew away that beef

C4 to your door, no beef no more

The Snake deserves some love, as Manly floats up the creek

Without a paddle, or is The Snake the paddle?

The guiding force, the man with the skill, but the man who shares a grip of the torch

And the man who just simply doesn't give a fuck