Hungry Shark puts hand up to be goalkicker
Shaun Johnson’s move from the Cronulla Sharks to the Warriors has left a vacancy in the crucial job of goalkicking.
Bulldogs
Panthers focus on two they can’t afford to lose
Coach Ivan Cleary has revealed how he will rebuild a premiership winning Penrith squad ripped apart by off-season departures.
Buzz: Star’s backended deal causes drama for Dogs
It remains one of the most contentious positions on the new-look Bulldogs roster, and it’s made even more interesting by one player’s 2022 contract, writes PHIL ROTHFIELD.
Why Hook’s Moneyball will reignite Dragons
Burning Questions: Bargain-buying Dragons have a great chance of not only making the bookies eat their prohibitive odds but also making plenty of noise as a finals contender.
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10 players, five spots: Pay’s Bulldogs dilemma
Canterbury coach Dean Pay still has a host of selection headaches to resolves just five days before naming his NRL side for round one.
Pre-season power rankings: The cellar dwellers
As the first NRL game of the year ticks ever closer, Nick Campton ranks every team in the league. In the first instalment he analyses the teams with plenty to prove in 2019.
Fans slam NRL plan to shake up finals format
NRL teams that finish as low at 10th on the premiership table will get the opportunity to play finals football under a proposal to revamp qualifying rules for the playoffs. But the fans aren’t happy.
Kent: Flawed wildcard system rewards mediocrity
It is easy to feel uncomfortable with the NRL’s new wildcard concept. It is even easier not to like it at all. Basically, it’s rewarding losing teams, writes Paul Kent.
Speedy recruit set to bump Hoppa to centres
Will Hopoate has spent the off-season training at centre, opening the door for Canterbury to play rising recruit Nick Meaney at fullback.
Crackdown: NRL star’s humiliating CCTV punishment
The biggest crackdown on player behaviour in rugby league history begins today with North Queensland Cowboys veteran Scott Bolton facing the game’s most bizarre punishment.
Martin is an accidental kicking phenomenon
Rhyse Martin produced the greatest goalkicking season in the NRL era in 2018, but had fate never handed him the tee, his talent may never have been discovered.
‘I f**ked up’: Buddy opens up on going ‘downhill’
Yileen ‘Buddy’ Gordon was supposed to help rebuild the Rabbitohs. Fourteen years later, and after a run-in with Phil Gould and a school visit shocker, he’s finally returned to Redfern.
Stuart’s Wighton gamble pays off
Ricky Stuart’s polarising decision to shift Jack Wighton to five-eighth looked a foolish decision, before a match-winning performance against Canterbury temporarily silenced critics.
Hopoate’s triple threat for 2019
Trios of siblings are not new to rugby league – think the Mortimers, Walters and more recently the Jennings. But 2019 could be the year of the Hopoates.
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