Blog with Buzz: Bulldogs drama, Panthers issues, junior rugby league overhaul

BLOG WITH BUZZ: How NRL must act to save rugby league juniors, wash-up from the Bulldogs elections and what’s going on out at Penrith?

Blog with Buzz: Chat with The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield.

THE NRL season is fast approaching and there’s plenty to talk about.

* With junior numbers in sharp decline, Russell Crowe’s column about the need for rugby league juniors to have weight rather than age competitions couldn’t have been more timely;

* Penrith supremo Phil ‘Gus’ Gould has responded to questions over the Panthers losing their boom local juniors and other issues at the club;

* Canterbury’s lone survivor in the Bulldogs boardroom bloodshed, club legend Steve “Turvey” Mortimer, is now fighting to save his old teammate George Peponis as boss of their leagues club empire.

Check out Buzz Rothfield’s chat about all things rugby league below.

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