Don’t burn too much gas with the ball
Penrith will be hyped up and full of adrenaline, but they have to be careful against Souths in the preliminary final on Saturday. They will need plenty in defence to win this, says Matty Johns.
Opinion
Snooze and you lose: Wake up call for slow-starting Souths
This is not Newcastle or Parramatta, this is the minor premiers and Souths better not let the Panthers skip away early or this much-anticipated preliminary final could end a real fizzer.
How the NRL won over a diehard AFL fan
Could the NRL really win over a diehard AFL fan? Tim Michell explains why he’s fallen for rugby league this year and why he will be watching Melbourne Storm — not the AFL preliminary final — on Friday.
‘Truly extraordinary’: Ranking the NRL’s best halves
Has there ever been a year when all four set of halves playing in the NRL preliminary finals have been in better form? But they can’t all be voted the best, writes Paul Crawley.
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Milford must be main man for Broncos
THE chance has arrived for Anthony Milford to stamp his authority on this Broncos team, writes DARREN LOCKYER.
Kent: JT needs to be reminded of his greatness
JOHNATHAN Thurston is the game’s most honest competitor and perhaps its greatest ever. The challenge for Cowboys coach Paul Green is finding a way to remind him of his greatness.
Johns: JT critics slow on the uptake
JOHNATHAN Thurston is 34, he’s achieved everything in the game, is coming off a shoulder reconstruction and has a young family. Is it any wonder he’s started slowly? But that doesn’t mean he’s finished, writes MATTHEW JOHNS.
Please, Parra, we’ve been here before
DISCO isn’t the only thing that died in the ’80s. Just ask fans of Parramatta. With our team winless after five rounds, they are being dissected and delivered last rites. But this is nothing new, writes NICK WALSHAW.
Greatest challenge Smith has faced
IT is clear that for the first time in his career Storm champion Cameron Smith is playing frustrated. And there’s a good reason, writes PAUL CRAWLEY.
Meninga: Form is temporary
JOHNATHAN Thurston will be an Immortal one day. But right now he is not. He is mortal. He is a human being. But he is a champion and his class is permanent, writes MAL MENINGA.
Broncos need Milf to lead from No.7
WAYNE Bennett has already said Anthony Milford and Kodi Nikorima will be Brisbane’s halves for the rest of 2018. But that doesn’t mean the pair can’t change, writes TRAVIS MEYN.
Buzz’s Blues team for Origin I
FIND out who’s made the cut in Phil Rothfield’s New South Wales team for State of Origin I as the unpredictable 2018 NRL season makes Brad Fittler’s job all the more difficult.
Kent: The NRL ladder no one saw coming
THE 2018 NRL season is one of the most unpredictable in living memory, and the root of the bold new world can be found in the perils of the year before, PAUL KENT writes. BLOG WITH KENTY FROM 1PM.
Brown and Greenberg should be ashamed
WOULD NRL boss Todd Greenberg have been more defensive if Nathan Brown’s below-the-belt attack on Wayne Bennett was directed at a match official or a female staff member?
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