Much has been made of the short preperations both Australia and New Zealand had in the leadup to the ANZAC Test in Brisbane last Friday night. There has been calls for players to be stood down from the preceeding club game, calls for Test matches to be played as stand alone events on a weekend…
Australia’s 30-6 win in Brisbane may not have been the best Test match in recent years, but both sides will have taken a lot out of the match. For Australia, Karmichael Hunt and Brent Tate showed that selectors did well to show them loyalty but other players failed to step up to the next level….
The Canberra Raiders came into season 2007 as red hot favorites to win the wooden spoon, but after a number of impressive performances against more fancied rivals, the Raiders are showing the rest of the competition that they will be no easy beats this season. One very welcome change from last season has been the…
The New Zealand Rugby League has announced a 19 man squad for Friday nights ANZAC Test Match against Australia. There are four new caps in the Kiwi’s lineup with you fullback Krisnan Inu, Brisbanes Greg Eastwood and Warriors props Sam Rapira and Evarn Tuimavave all breaking their way into the elite squad. Its a very…
Australian Rugby League selectors have once again turned their back on form and reason by selecting a number of players that simply do not deserve to wear the Green and Gold jersey in Friday nights ANZAC Day Test match. While it is understandable some players have been selected based on experience, other selections, such as…
You know, if you are going to come out and saying things about people, in any walk of life, you can expect there to be no consequences. I know that with this web site and what I say on this site that I cant expect the likes of Keiron Cunningham Craig Gower, Matthew Elliott, anyone…
Injuries and form are set to shake up the Australian Test side for Friday nights ANZAC Test match against New Zeealand. A number of players who took part in the 2006 Tri Series are likely to struggle to make the side as others in great form can not be left out of the lineup. The…
I was forced to retrieve a can of false outrage yesterday when Channel Nine ran the shocking news that Bulldogs winger Hazem El Masri has been the target of racially motivated policing! Apparently, as the story goes, Hazem and his manager were having a coffee when asked by police for I.D. Now at this point a person…
I’m not surprised and nor should you be. Anyway that has watched Canberra over recent years will see the trend and know that, for three years at least, this is what Penrith fans have to look forward to. Matthew Elliott has currently got a team with 9 current or former international players in his side….
First of all just let me say that if you want to find Nude pictures of Lara Bingle from GQ magazine, you have come to the right place my friend! More on that a bit later in this post though as we wind up another April Fools day with a more subdued attempt than I’ve…
The Canberra Raiders are going to struggle in 2007, everyone knows that. The club lost a number of experienced first grade players at the end of last year and they have not been able to replace that experience. Some people have questioned how the Raiders will recover when quite frankly, no established stars want to…
“I like being competitive and I like to have the ball in my hands,” Tahu said at the time.” That would probably be the most stressful thing; the game’s close and you want to do something and you can’t even get the ball because they’re very structured. Being a centre or winger, you touch the…
New Sydney Roosters coach Chris Anderson made the ridiculous suggestion this week that he has been astonished by the lack of skill modern day players have. Anderson said that since taking over the Roosters he has found the club full of players that lack skill, with some players unable to do basics such as pass…
When Matt Rogers decided the world should stop for him and he wanted to break his rugby union contract a year early, the Gold Coast Titans stepped forward and offered Rogers a one year contract the winger could take up ahead of his much more lucrative two year deal he had already signed with the…
As Sonny Bill Williams signed a 5 years contracted estimated to be worth about $2.5 million dollars with the Bulldogs last week, it was revealed that the New Zealand Warriors were keen to sign the New Zealand sensation but simply could not afford him. What? The New Zealand Warriors, a team based in New Zealand…
The drawn out saga over where Lote Tuqiri will be up playing may finally be resolved by next week as South Sydney prepared to table an offer on the same day the australian rugby union has set a deadline for the former League winger to sign a contract offer they have made him. In the…
In a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald new Sydney Roosters coach Chris Anderson bemoaned the fact that the game has become too much of a defensive struggle. He cites the move by Greg Inglis and Mark Gasnier from the centers and into five-eight for their respective clubs as a sad sign for the…
Not a chance. As the WCC matchup between sentellins and the Broncos draws ever closer there seems to be a consensus that this is the real deal. The match has been re-arranged to suit the Broncos, they have more prep time than previous NRL sides as do the saints and we have people predicting a…
I wasn’t shocked when I heard the allegations about Craig Gowers behavior in a King Cross night club on Saturday night. Let me take you back to 1999 when Gower was kicked out of the Australian Rugby League team after exposing himself to an Irish Tourist at a Coogee Bay Hotel. The powers that be at…
Look, I’m a fan of Russell Crowe and what he wants to do at South Sydney. While most try hard want to be celebs go to one Souths game every ten years and then feed of it for the rest of their lives like they are a loyal fan, Crowe actually attends as many games…
By now I’m guessing you’re all pretty sick and tired of the gazzillions of repetitive predictions threads we’ve had over the off season on RLFans. ”I predict sintellins will finish top and hull will finish second” yadda yadda ad infinitum. The ‘wigan points deduction’ for a magical salary cap breach that hasn’t yet been confirmed…
The RFL today released news that it will be appointing a full time coach for the Great Britain team after announcing they will not be renewing Nobles contract. Shamefully Nobles greatest achievement with the GB team was getting one of the most comprehensive systematic thrashings ever seen on home soil by the aussies in the…
Sure they had a few decisions go against them, but Great Britain was well beaten by New Zealand in Wellington on the weekend. Now, down on confidence, the Lions face an Australian side in Brisbane thats looking for revenge. So can they come back and make their way into the final? With Sean Long having…
Lets sort the hype from the actual truth of the matter. When he left Rugby League, Matt Rogers was just a winger. He wasn’t a center, not up to fullback and defiantly not a half of any sort. He was a winger, plain and simple. On top of that, he was injury prone. So he…
There is no doubting Ricky Stuart is one of the top five coaches in the game today. His coaching record speaks for itself. So why then have the Roosters effectively got rid of Stuart (The official line is that both parties split by mutual agreement), the coach who took them to their first Grand Final…
It was a perfect start by Huddersfield, the type a start a coach would even ask for because it was so ridiculously good. Leon Pryce kicked the ball back, set after set on the St Helens line, a try, keeping St Helens under non stop pressure. However the signs we’re there early on that Huddersfield…
So Im over here in Pommyland and the Challenge Cup is on this weekend. Great, I can go to my first Challenge Cup….in Twickenham….to see St Helens….take on Huddersfield…. Ummm…no. I think I’ll be saving my money on this one and going to a Challenge Cup Final next year that will hopefully provide some type…
On the same day that Danny Buderus announced that he would not be taking part in the 2006 Tri Nations in Australia due to personal reasons, Keiron Cunningham announced that he would retire from test football all together because…well, he wants to. Two international hookers of a similar age. One stepping down for the series,…
Ive said for some time now that Rob Burrow isn’t even close to being a halfback, and if you have watched his play over the last few weeks, surely now you must agree with you. Burrow’s game consists of running across field and then throwing a long looping pass to a flat footed player out wide. He…
While I may be on the other side of the planet at the moment, I could see Andrew Johns getting charge for dissent weeks ago. Surely Johns must have know he was treading a fine like a few weeks ago when everyone was getting on his case for the way he was talking to match…