Departing Eels shrug off calls to change transfer system
While NRL coaches want the player transfer system changed, departing Eels forwards Marata Niukore and Isaiah Papali’i have revealed the upside of keeping the status quo.
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Free Agency rating: Parra set to plummet
The Eels got what they needed in the pre-season free agency period, but can they fill the gaps next season? We rate every club’s gains and losses.
Dream believer: Junior’s senior job to lead Eels back to glory
Some of his teammates may have decided to leave at the end of 2022, but new Eels co-captain says his decision to re-sign until 2026 was based on achieving his premiership dream.
NRL reinvention: Surprise switch for Bulldogs enforcer
Jack Hetherington lives his rugby league life on the edge and now he could literally be playing there as Canterbury coach Trent Barrett weighs up a move for the hardman.
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Blindside: Yow Yeh’s heartbreaking Broncos exit
He literally gave his leg for the Brisbane Broncos but Jharal Yow Yeh’s 13-year association with the club has come to an emotional end. PLUS the NRL stars sitting on COVID-19 goldmines.
Eel’s eerie premonition: ‘What if it ends tomorrow?’
Parramatta back-rower Ryan Matterson feared this day would come, when rugby league was taken away. Now the isolated Eels star is in daily sessions with the club’s welfare manager.
NRL’s rivers of gold might dry up forever
The coronavirus pandemic might forever change how NRL clubs do business with a $113 million river of gold set to dry up, possibly permanently.
$20m in 10 days: brutal cost for NRL’s off-contract stars
NRL’s off-contract superstars will be the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with the game’s most in-demand player set to lose a whopping $1.25m. SEE THE LIST HERE
NRL considering historic grand final shift
The mastermind behind the NRL Nines has tabled a proposal to the ARL Commission that would deliver one state its maiden grand final which would go head-to-head with Australia’s most iconic sporting fixture.
NRL in dogfight to protect players’ golden egg
Peter V’landys says the code’s greatest assets – the players – have suffered enough and the ARL Commission chairman is willing to go to extremes to avoid more damage to the game’s lifeblood.
NRL’s strict new COVID-19 lockdown laws
A confidential six-page document obtained by News Corp reveals the strict new guidelines every NRL club and player must adhere to and the consequences of breaking the new rules. SEE THE BIZARRE LAWS HERE
The NRL’s failed five-year plan
Way back in 2012, the NRL produced a strategic plan to plot the game’s development – but how many of those key growth targets have been achieved? It’s all in SAINT, SINNER, SHOOSH.
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