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Dean “Bulldog’” Ritchie has covered rugby league at The Daily Telegraph, and now CODE Sports as well, for 33 years. From the Super League war to NRL grand finals, State of Origin clashes and World Cups, Bulldog has written about the biggest issues in the game and broken many of the most important stories.

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Dean Ritchie

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Maroons

2/6/13 The Queensland Origin team are in camp at Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast, they hold their last session in...

Daly won’t rock QLD’s Origin boat

DALY Cherry-Evans is prepared to wait another three years to become Queensland halfback – because he doesn’t want to “rock the boat.’’

Knights

Men at work: Fluro bright knights

NEWCASTLE officially unveil a new-look jumper featuring fluro-orange, the colours worn by working class miners.

Blues

Maroons out to steal NSW camp

THEY pinch our star players and rising juniors, now rotten Queensland has the audacity to try and steal our facilities.

Dragons

Creagh craves Red V redemption

DRAGONS captain Ben Creagh has given a brutal assessment of his side’s performances in 2013 – and promised an attitude change.

Roosters

Roosters are ‘underdone’: Williams

WORLD Cup commitments and the Nines has prompted Sonny Bill Williams to claim the Roosters are “underdone” for the WCC.

Roosters

Great Britain rugby league coach Steve McNamara poses for a portrait at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Coogee, Sydney. Steve is he...

Pom gives Roosters the edge

ENGLAND coach Steve McNamara is plotting against the very players he guided and mentored during league’s recent World Cup.

Rabbitohs

Origin may have kept Sam in NRL

RUSSELL Crowe has revealed that a NSW State of Origin jumper may just have kept Sam Burgess from exiting rugby league for union.

Sharks

Sharp ready to step-up as coach

PETER Sharp looks ready for a full-time coaching return to the NRL with Sharks coach Shane Flanagan suspended for a year.

Sharks

Carney defiant on Cronulla bans

CRONULLA star Todd Carney has branded the ASADA probe a “nightmare” but says his embattled club isn’t counting on losing players to bans.

EXCLUSIVESea Eagles

Inside Manly’s dysfunctional board

EXCLUSIVE: Bitter, toxic and aggressive. We lift the lid the most dysfunctional boardroom in Australian sport.

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