No excuses: Pearce deserved better from ‘sloppy’ Knights
Newcastle played like a team ready to hit the town rather than grind out a win for Mitchell Pearce’s 300th game. It’s simply not good enough, writes Paul Crawley.
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Where’s the proof? PVL fires back amid injury chaos
As leading coaches, players and doctors call for an 18th man to help deal with the growing injury crisis, Peter V’landys has denied a connection to injuries and speed of the game.
Knights star breaks apart in ‘nightmare’
One Knights player was left mentally shot after a “consistently bad” performance that gve the Tigers a win on Mitchell Pearce’s big day.
NRL Casualty Ward: When hope quickly turned to despair
In an incredible weekend of injury mayhem, where barely a team was left untouched, a Roosters playmaker suffered the most when a possible hamstring injury was massively upgraded.
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The woman who made Mitchell Pearce
HE’S now Newcastle’s Knight in shining armour but, without his ‘rock’, Mitchell Pearce admits he doesn’t know where or what he would be.
Kent: Only five teams can win the title
PAUL Kent runs his eye over all the NRL heavyweights to find out which team is title bound in 2018 and which is playing to save the coach.
Pearce’s off-season transformation complete with captaincy
MITCHELL Pearce’s incredible off-season transformation has been completed, with the star Newcastle recruit handed the Knights captaincy, alongside back-rower Jamie Buhrer.
Records tipped as footy fever grips fans
THE NRL is preparing for record crowds to launch the most open, fascinating and difficult-to-predict season in recent memory, with more than 150,000 league-starved supporters preparing to roll through the turnstiles in round one.
UPDATED: Trent Copeland’s SuperCoach team
THE SuperCoach team-churning frenzy is peaking as Team List Tuesday for round one finally approaches but resident expert Trent Copeland is doing his best not to succumb.
‘These types of things touch you’: Knights star’s close shave
NATHAN Ross played a 38-degree trial game with what felt like ‘a beanie’ on his head. The Knights winger had hair in his eyes and that’s because he hasn’t seen a barber for 10 months but it’s all in the name of charity.
Pearce’s sympathy for Ponga
KALYN Ponga has played only nine NRL matches. He has scored just three tries and has one try assist. That’s why Mitchell Pearce “feels sorry” for his new teammate ahead of his Newcastle debut.
How the NRL ladder will look at the end of 2018
THE game’s most respected voice rates the 16 NRL clubs ahead of the new season. Buzz Rothfield gives his predictions on how the ladder will sit at the end of 2018. BLOG WITH BUZZ FROM 1PM
NRL star merry-go-round settles in for season 2018
IT feels like the most anticipated start to a league season in years after all the star player movement. All these superstars have the ability to ignite their new clubs’ premiership aspirations and have fans counting down the days to when the season kicks off.
Who is the best centre pairing in the NRL?
CENTRES have arguably the hardest defensive task on the field, while boasting a diverse array of attacking skills. In the next round of our NRL power rankings, we run the eye over each team’s centre pairing. Who tops the list?
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