Sport Con: Dragons shut down Storm’s hail mary
SPORTS CONFIDENTIAL: The Melbourne Storm have failed in a last-ditch bid to get some help for finals and have missed out on getting a star Dragons enforcer early.
SPORTS CONFIDENTIAL: The Melbourne Storm have failed in a last-ditch bid to get some help for finals and have missed out on getting a star Dragons enforcer early.
The NRL is considering a dramatic change which would see matches go beyond the 80 minute mark in a bid to combat teams exploiting set restarts.
Cody Walker hates losing, but the return of superstar fullback Latrell Mitchell has turned things around for both the Souths five-eighth and the team.
The NRL has owned up to a series of blunders at the end of South Sydney’s win over Newcastle that will leave Knights fans fuming.
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The highest-profile recruit of the entire summer, Mitchell’s future at fullback is under fresh scrutiny as Wayne Bennett conceded he may move the 22-year-old to the centres following the Bunnies loss to Brisbane on Friday night.
Kotoni Staggs raced over for a scorching treble as Brisbane downed the Rabbitohs 22-18 but the Queenslanders paid dearly for the victory with a Broncos star suffering serious injury.
Anthony Milford’s wonder try was witnessed live by a total of no fans while Souths coach Wayne Bennett sat behind the goalposts on a weird night at Suncorp.
South Sydney Rabbitohs star Latrell Mitchell was criticised by former teammate Cooper Cronk for a midweek trip to Taree, but now Mitchell has hit back.
Rabbitohs master coach Wayne Bennett has laughed-off the coronavirus threat, joking that players ‘kissed him’ ahead of Friday’s clash with the Broncos and that he had nothing to fear.
Faced with the choice of being stuck indoors in virus-hit Sydney or heading home to go fishing and to hand out footies, Latrell Mitchell took the obvious choice.
The Broncos have left no stone unturned as they look to avoid the coronavirus, with both Brisbane and the Rabbitohs facing unusual sleeping arrangements amongst other measures ahead of their big clash.
Russell Crowe wants “revolutionary thinking” to save the NRL season – and believes the first step could be playing games in the high humidity of regional towns.
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