There’s no doubt that North Queensland coach Todd Payten has what it takes to be a career coach – but with his immediate future in the hands of his players why would he make a blunder with the club’s talisman, writes Matty Johns.
An NRL club is closely monitoring Daly Cherry-Evans’ contract situation at the Sea Eagles and is prepared to offer the veteran a bigger deal than Manly. BUZZ ROTHFIELD’s highlights and lowlights.
In the same week that one player signed the richest deal in rugby league history, it was a battling concreter and a bookmaker’s clerk on reserve grade wages that helped orchestrate the biggest NRL upset in years, writes PHIL ROTHFIELD.
Brandon Smith has added a fresh and explosive chapter to the book of feuds between the Rabbitohs and Roosters after publicly batting his eyelids at Wayne Bennett, writes BRENT READ.
Rumours are circulating Phil Gould is trying to gain control of team selections from Cameron Ciraldo at Canterbury – and it wouldn’t be the first time he has pulled rank over an NRL coach, writes PAUL KENT.
It’s time to renew the debate over stadiums in Sydney, put a plan in place for the next 20 years and put a rocket under the state government, BRENT READ writes.
The only four-letter words coming out of Latrell Mitchell’s mouth on Friday night were said in frustration as Souths dramatically unravelled on one of rugby league’s biggest stages.
The NRL is constantly tightening its rules and punishing contact with the head. So why was Taylan May not charged? The Broncos and Reece Walsh have every right to ask what happened to protecting the head, writes Brent Read.
Leichhardt Oval has run its course. It is a relic. An eyesore, and the Wests Tigers owe it to their fans to walk away from the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ argues BRENT READ.
Rugby league once worried about an AFL invasion into Sydney’s western suburbs, but it’s turned out to be a myth, writes DEAN RITCHIE.
In the space of two questions at its multicultural round launch, NRL boss Andrew Abdo has exposed the hypocrisy of the woke politics infecting the NRL, writes Paul Kent.
Benji Marshall spent his final playing years watching Wayne Bennett, filling his notebook with coaching strategies and philosophies. But unlike Bennett, he doesn’t have 50 years of coaching experience to fall back on, writes PAUL KENT.
Penrith’s tremendous success could also be the club’s greatest downfall, as the longer a club enjoys a sustained run of success, the more complex the challenges it faces, writes MATTY JOHNS.
DEAN RITCHIE outlines the ways rugby league’s most ambitious innovation in 116 years can somehow become better next season.
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