"GI" admitted after the All Star game: "The knee's been an issue over the last three of four years." That was a major admission considering his previous denials. It counts for little now. Still a World Cup chance: Greg Inglis may be fit for the end-of-season World Cup. Credit:Getty Images Giving a toss about time Did Johnathan Thurston try a bit of gamesmanship on rookie captain Josh Hodgson on Saturday night? At the end of regulation time, North Queensland's Thurston repeatedly asked the referee: "It's five minutes each way, it's five minutes each way isn't it?" This confused the commentators and so it should – because golden point is only five minutes each way if no-one scores.

In the last game Thurston played at club level, of course, extra time would continue until the deadlock was broken since it was a final. Canberra's Hodgson was standing in for Jarrod Croker and with all the rule changes we have in the NRL each year, could easily have been confused by the question just as much as the men from Fox. Sent off one week, hat-trick hero the next ... and suspended the one after Fuifui Moimoi scored the first hat-trick of his career on Sunday (AEDT) – despite being sent off six days earlier and not having faced a judiciary since! MoiMoi's ambitious expansion team, the Toronto Wolfpack, ran amok in their first game in England's third tier, flogging London Skolars 76-0. In England, players are sometimes allowed to continue until their hearing – which means Moimoi is yet to face a high tackle charge emerging from a Challenge Cup game the previous Sunday. "I don't really know the rules here," he told Set of Six. Coach Paul Rowley has a novel defence planned for the hearing this week – if Moimoi doesn't play, the fans won't come.

"Someone like Fui is box office," said Rowley. "The grading's wrong … to take him away, it will take people off the gate so it's going to hurt everybody." Hamburgler's ambush Here's an assignment for you all: on Thursday nights, let's see how often the KFC Bunker is shown on McDonalds Thursday Night Football. You would think the sponsors of the video ref would be none-to-happy about their direct rival supporting the coverage in which they hope to feature regularly. Or that Ronald wouldn't be too happy with the Colonel's greedy mitts getting all that exposure given the McDollars he is handing to Nine. An NRL spokesman told us: "KFC remains a valued commercial partner of the NRL. Channel Nine is entitled to form commercial partners of its own."

Fast food battle: Will the KFC Bunker be called on during McDonald's Thursday Night Football? Credit:Wolter Peeters Tell us what you really think No sooner had Discord decried the lack of good sincere quotes in the NRL than Joel Thompson gave us this after scoring a hat-trick for St George Illawarra on Saturday night. "There's a lot of people talking a lot of rubbish out there," he told Triple M. "We can't leave it there, that performance. Everyone has to be an option on every play and everyone has to fight in the play-the-ball. They've got a big forward pack. Everyone's been giving them raps, everyone's been bagging us out. It was a challenge for us forwards to win it through the middle and we came here with that aggressive mindset." Not bad, Joel. Thanks.

Theatre of the absurd "Rugby League – it can never manage the straightforward but when it comes to the bizarre and quirky, it's got that stuff perfected." So said a confused spectator at New River Stadium on the weekend upon seeing a team called "Toronto" play rugby league in Tottenham. You've got admit he's got a point. Take Jamie Soward's radio observation last Thursday that Brisbane's Tevita Pangai Jnr had his underpants exposed at one stage and the word "Sunday" was stitched into them. "That disturbs me," said Soward. Loading