Kennedy Cherrington missed out on a NSW jersey in 2024, a year in which her NRLW season was also cut short by injury. After the stinging setbacks, the recalled star is in the best shape of her career and primed for Origin redemption.
Ahead of Thursday night’s women’s Origin opener, the NSW team’s moniker ‘Sky Blues’ has been dropped after threats of legal action were made by the A-League’s most successful club, who go by the same nickname.
Laurie Daley is back in the hot seat as NSW Origin coach and is already confronting a huge dilemma – whether to drop a winning captain.
The women’s State of Origin series kicks off next week, but scheduling remains a hot topic with the players forced into tight turnarounds with no proper footy under their belts.
NSW women’s coach John Strange has named four debutantes in a new look Blues squad ahead of the State of Origin series opener against the Maroons on May 1.
Broncos fullback Reece Walsh has all-but been ruled out of State of Origin Game 1 with the Broncos announcing big news on Sunday.
Reece Walsh has been criticised by some over his underwhelming start to the NRL season for Brisbane. Queensland coach Billy Slater points out what he’s seen from the Broncos star.
An interesting subplot to the Spencer Leniu-Johnathan Thurston saga has emerged after Payne Haas, whose Broncos teammate Ezra Mam was racially abused by the Roosters prop, endorsed a post from the Roosters enforcer.
Queensland Rugby League boss Ben Ikin has called for the NRL to ban players from switching between tier-one and tier-two nations as the QRL locks in the venue for its 2025 Origin fan day.
It will be a new look Queensland side to the one that lifted the women’s State of Origin shield in 2024, with a number of series regulars omitted and six potential debutantes. See the full squad.
Laurie Daley has made is clear he’ll be picking players for his NSW side who can walk into camp with confidence in their game. It’s why an Easter showdown is set to intensify NSW’s fullback battle, writes DAVID RICCIO.
The Cowboys’ patchy start has NSW incumbent No.9 Reece Robson under pressure to hold onto his jersey for the upcoming series. See how every contender stacks up.
An Aussie music star who performed at the 2020 NRL grand final has launched an astonishing attack on the code that helped launch her career. That and more in Sport Confidential.
Just two months ago NSW star Jaime Chapman suffered a broken back when a tackle went horribly wrong – Pamela Whaley reveals Chapman’s incredible comeback story.
Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/state-of-origin