Without a doubt, Australia are the strongest rugby league nation in the world. The National Rugby League (NRL) is a class above England’s Super League – although the British sides are catching up. The influx of Australians now plying their trade in Super League has helped to develop the game over in England and Wayne…
South Sydney Rabbitohs are Australia’s most successful side, having won more premierships (21) than any other club in the country. However, Michael Maguire’s current crop of players are struggling to find their best and have just completed a miserable 2017 campaign, which has seen them once again fail to rediscover their best. The Sydney-based club…
Melbourne Storm are leading the pack in the 2017 NRL and they look the favourites for silverware later in the year. Craig Bellamy and his side seem to have put last season’s Grand Final defeat to the Cronulla Sharks behind them and are currently holding a two-point lead at the top of the table as…
A sea of England’s finest players have made the move to Australia in recent years, with the likes of Sam Burgess and his brothers excelling in the NRL along with others including Gareth Widdop, James Graham and Elliot Whitehead – to name a few. Whilst there are numerous traditions of the English game – particularly…
Australia have dominated world rugby league throughout the professional era, from the World Club Challenges, through to the international stage, where they have won three of the last four World Cups since 1995. The 15th Rugby League World Cup is just around the corner, with Australia set to host the event alongside New Zealand and…
The 2017 Rugby Super League season got underway back in February and, with 14 matches currently played, it is panning out very differently to the previous season. Reigning champions the Wigan Warriors are mired in mid-table, with just seven wins so far, making them seem unlikely to retain their crown. Of course, some fans like…
AS a Bulldogs fan I know just what it’s like to feel frustrated. Our brand of footy for much of last year and this year has been boring, predictable and down right annoying. Fans have asked for change because of just that – our style. They want to see some fluid attack. They want to…
Will The Canterbury Bulldogs Play Any Differently In 2017? The definition of madness is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. The Bulldogs have promised to change how they play a few times, and nothing has ever come from it. Will they really change this season, or has…
This is an NRL Season Preview like NO other… It is a very light hearted look at the season ahead. So much so…. For every prediction I get right (16 club position predictions, 48 individual team predictions) I will give $10 to my local volunteer fire brigade, and the bigger more out there predictions I…
News that former Newcastle Knights winger James McManus is set to sue the Newcastle Knights over a career ending series of concussions was met very harshly by the NRL community. Straight away, with very little evidence at all being made public, many came to the conclusion that McManus was doing the wrong thing. You also…
The St George/Illawarra Dragons official Twitter feed has begun the process of unblocking supporters of the club, a fantastic move which will be news to the ears of many Dragons fans. This is fantastic news. A couple of weeks ago I wrote and article questioning Why Have The St George/Illawarra Dragons Blocked So Many Of…
We all love a good list of sporting look-alikes, and this is without question the best ones you will ever find when it comes to the greatest game of all, Rugby League! From old timers, to modern day players. Commentators, journalists, coaches….they are all here! Simply click the list below and take a look at…
A few days ago I wrote an article asking readers Which Sydney Based NRL Club Would You Choose To Relocate and included a poll that allowed readers to have their say. Here are the results of that poll so far: Incredibly, readers chose the Wests Tigers, Sydney Roosters and Cronulla Sharks as their favourite options…
I grew up as a child of the video game era. I’ve always played them, always enjoyed them. I remember when I started to hear about Bungie’s new project called Destiny, the screenshots reminded me an awful lot of Halo, but the concept of an RPG style FPS was intriguing. The previews looked interesting, and…
I love a good history lesson. When you learn about history, you learn about people. You learn about us. You learn about human nature, how we react to our environment, why we make the decisions we make, and how we deal with the consequences of those decisions. History puts a context on modern day life….
Channel 9 has reported that Josh Dugan has instructed his manager to start shopping him around, including to French Rugby Union clubs, after reportedly being unhappy at the latest offer put forward to him to extend his stay at the St George/Illawarra Dragons. At 26 years of age and with a wealth of representative experience,…
DOOM is the latest remake of the classic first person shooter that started it all by id software. Having grown up playing the original Doom, and then Doom II, every other incarnation of the game, including Doom 3, I was interested to see how the modern day version lined up with the classics. I was…
There is a very strange trend among people to claim that the earth is in fact flat, and that there is a conspiracy in place to lie to, well, everyone, to make sure we all think the earth is in fact spherical. I tend to think a lot of these people are really just attention…
UPDATE: The Rugby Football League have made the following announcement: The Rugby Football League can confirm that Widnes Vikings and Wigan Warriors have reached an agreement to play their Betfred Super League round two fixture tonight (Friday, February 24) at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes. The clubs have agreed that this will become a…
If you support a club in Sydney the chances are even you feel like there are too many NRL clubs based in Sydney. Sydney is the most saturated sporting market in Australia, and for good reason. It is the economic powerhouse of the nation, with the biggest corporate base to draw upon along with having…
You want to watch live NRL games streamed online and for free? Not everyone can afford Foxtel, and as we have seen recently, the biggest live sporting events are starting to gather big audiences via illegal online streams on both Facebook, Youtube Live, as well as through any number of traditional illegal streaming services. A…
Talk is cheap, promises mean nothing, and the only team who will claim to have got the job done in season 2017 will be the one that lifts the premiership trophy over their heads on Grand Final day. A few teams should be looking at this season as being a bit of a turning point….
The World Club series was played over the weekend and both Super League clubs beat their NRL counterparts pretty easily. As always, and no matter what the result is, the analysis of the series and of the Australian game has been hyperbolic, ridiculous and ill informed, especially on behalf of the English media. Would you…
English Rugby League is dying. If you have been reading my web site for any length of time you knew that years ago. I was the first to write about the financial implosion and mass death of clubs that sadly eventuated. I wrote about Rugby Union swamping the game in its so called heartlands when…
When ever I read about a concept that I initially hate the sound of, I stop reacting. I stop reacting and start to actually think about things from the other side of the argument. News today that the NRL is starting to openly talk about moving the Newcastle Knights, a club they own, to Ipswich…
Over the last number of years social media has become a fantastic platform for clubs to deal directly with their own supporter bases, bypassing the traditional media outlets to speak straight to the paying customers. It took a while for NRL clubs to fully grasp the reach they could have on social media, but now…
After an incredible year that saw the Cronulla Sharks break their long standing premiership drought, the team is back again and looking to become the first true reigning premiers since the Brisbane Broncos of 1992-1993. Ironically, the first opponent of the 2017 season for the Cronulla Sharks will be the Brisbane Broncos. Both teams are…
You are not a Rugby League supporter, you are the supporter of an NRL club. You don’t care about the sport of Rugby League, all you care about if how well your NRL club performs this season. You will not enjoy any Rugby League match your watch this year except for those involving the club…
Channel 9 is reporting that the St George/Illawarra Dragons have signed Brisbane Broncos halfback Ben Hunt to a 6 year deal worth over $1 million per season starting from 2018. If those are the actual figures on his contract, that is an outrageous amount of money. Good luck to Hunt if it is true, but…
Ben Hunt is off contract and is looking to get the best deal he can. If that means moving from the Brisbane Broncos, he will move. Hunt would tell his manager to get the best deal available for him. He would mention clubs he would enjoy playing for, some he would not want to play…