News that covers Rugby League in Australia.
The players have had enough! They have had enough of seeing their best mates being told they are no longer wanted at the club. They have had enough of Brian Smiths style, his training methods and the way he is changing the very fabric of the Newcastle Knights club. You know what I say, if…
Throwing cold water on more salary cap hype by a player agent, the Melbourne Storm have rubbished claims that they will be forced to release Storm icon Matt Geyer because of salary cap restraints. Geyer has said himself that he is nothing thinking of anything beyond this season, but that didnt stop his manager talking…
Led by youngsters Issac Luke and Eddie Paea , South Sydney have pulled within two competition points of a place in the top 8 with a hard fought win over the North Queensland Cowboys. Both Luke and Paea have added unpredictability and spark to Souths side thats worked had to be a good defensive outfit…
The Canberra Raiders have made approches to two players but can only afford one of them. One player is Paul Whatuira, New Zealands Test center, a two time Premiership winner, one of the most professional players in the game, a leader and a player that gives you his best every week. The other player is…
Penrith assistant coach Matt Adamason wants a witch hunt conducted at Penrith to hunt down and punish players who allegedly want him out of the club, sick of his attitude towards them. Adamson is furious at being undermind, an ironic twist for any Panthers fan that knows enough about the club. Adamson publically came out…
Chris Andersons coaching career seems to be finally over after he stepped down with immediate effect from the head coaching role at the Sydney Roosters. After a disasterous stint with the Cronulla Sharks, being sacked as Australian coach for some ridiculous selections and a stint coaching a rugby union club in Wales, Andersons time as…
Penrith has won the race to sign Brisbane, Queensland and Australia prop Petero Civoniceva holding off the Sydney Roosters, Brisbane Broncos and Hull FC for his services. Civoniceva is the perfect player to come into the club at a time when it needs leadership and an example for the young players about what being a…
If you had any doubt about the pathetic managment at the Penrith Panthers by now then this will hopefully set you straight. After a terrible 54-14 loss to the New Zealand Warriors talk that Craig Gower was finally going to walk out on the club and head over to play rugby union in Europe came to light….
Facing the loss of three key players heading into 2008, the Brisbane Broncos have been making a lot of noise about the need to bring in salary cap concessions for players that have been at a club for over 8 years. The NRL currently allows a $100,000 concession for long serving players, but like most…
I remember once there was a train of thought that players would not want to play for the Melbourne Storm. With the option of Living in Sydney, Brisbane or North Queensland and playing at clubs with bigger crowds on offer, who would want to go and play in dreary old Melbourne and play in front…
You know…I couldn’t have put it any better than the Sydney Morning Herald did in reviewing the game. So I’m going to let them take over for a moment: MITCHELL Pearce scored a miracle try right on full-time to get the Roosters home in his first meeting with Craig Gower since their infamous flare-up at…
The National Rugby League has shown interest this week is having a second team based in Brisbane to take advantage of the booming crowds of the three Queensland based NRL sides. The Broncos, Cowboys and Titans are the top three drawing teams in the NRL and as Sydney clubs struggle to increase crowd numbers surely…
Craig Wing will join the South Sydney Rabbitoh’s from 2008 on a four year contract that will see him play in his preferred halfback position. Wing was a Souths junior and was forced to leave the club for arch rivals the Sydney Roosters when South Sydney were kicked out of the NRL competition. When the…
After the announcement that Jason Smith would finally retire at seasons end the North Queensland Cowboys management has moved switfly to sign a replacement. Young Manly five-eighth Travis Burns will join the Cowboys in 2008 on a three year deal thats see’s him head back to his home state. It’s a great move for all…
Young Panthers five-eight and former Australian test prop Joel Clinton will line up for the Brisbane Broncos in 2008 as the club has all but secured the Penrith pair to cover the loss of some of their own stars due to salary cap constraints. Having lost Brent Tate this week to the New Zealand Warriors…
Broncos center and Queensland and Australian winger Brent Tate will leave the Brisbane Broncos and join the New Zealand Warriors next season after signing a three year deal. Tate will add much needed experience, consistancy and impact to the Warriors backline. Tate’s brother-in-law Steven Price is the captain of the Warriors and it will be…
Clint Newton has asked for, and received a release from the Newcastle Knights after a “falling out” with new Knights coach Brian Smith. Newtons gripe seems to be that he wasn’t offered a contract for next season and as he told Fos Sports “Everyone wants to feel wanted and that’s been the biggest thing for me…
After a dominant display for Queensland in the first State Of Origin, and an even more dominant display in the Cowboys win against the Bulldogs just two days later, Jonathan Thurston is in the form of his career. On a night when channel 9 commentator Ray Warren was comparing Cowboys fullback Matthew Bowen to the…
The Cronulla Sharks have withdrawn their offer to halfback Brett Kimmorley in a week when the Shraks re-signed his halves partner Adam Dykes. The Sharks did have an offer on the table for Kimmorley but after recently upgrading the contracts of a number of players the club has seemingly shown the fomer Test halfback the…
You will go for many years to see a team play worse than the 2007 Penrith Panthers. The worst team I have ever seen in my lifetime was the Western Suburbs Magpies of the late 1990’s. To be fair to the Magpies, the club didn’t have much money and just didn’t have the cattle to…
Every off season NRL coaches are invited to attend a forum with the NRL to talk about issues within the game as far as rules go. This lets coaches be involved in the decision making process and get their points of view across on anything from game scheduling to rule interpretations. Wayne Bennett doesn’t attend…
Loud mouthed Dragons five-eight Richie Williams has been dropped to Premier League this weekend and Dean Young had been given the number 6 jersey by coach Nathan Brown. Young, who is returning from injury, is a good utility player, but much better playing at hooker or lock. Brown said Williams was dropped to work on…
Nathan Merritt has taken his omission really well by claiming that the reason he was not selected in the side was due to racism. Merritt appeared in Channel 9 News in Sydney this week and had this to say: “I’m not too sure what it is, maybe it’s a Souths thing or it’s a racial…
I am one of Brent Tates biggest fans. He is a whole hearted, gutsy players who decided to play on with a neck injury that would have seen most other players retire. He always produces the good no matter who he is playing for and against the best of the best at Origin and Test…
The Canberra Raiders can hold their head high today knowing they are proving all their critics wrong. The Raiders headed to Penrith this weekend without halfback Todd Carney and it seemed no one was willing to give them a chance of upsetting Penrith at home. Canberra had other ideas. The Raiders dominated the match and…
As time goes on, I’m starting to become a bit of a fan of Braith Anasta. He came into first grade under so much pressure for so many reasons. He was high profile from game number one in first grade and he has achieved so much already in such a young career. However that hasn’t…
Its been an agenda for a while now and for some stupid reason it persists despite the fact that on field results prove it would be a disaster! Now Jamie Lyon mentor and close person friend Noel Cleal Has told the Sydney Morning Herald thats Lyon is up to the job of playing five-eight for New South…
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…
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…
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…