NRL 2025
‘Really scary’: Welch retires due to back issue and warns about concussion dangers
Christian Welch has urged NRL players to trust doctors and keep seeking the best practices for treating concussions.
- Christian Nicolussi, Dan Walsh, Robert Dillon and Roy Ward
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These men have sat on the NRL fringes. They are too good to stay there
One of the game’s most luckless players, who has suffered another harrowing setback, is among those declared too good for the NRL’s periphery.
- Nick Wright
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We’ll never see a centre like Reg Gasnier again. Here’s why
Bradman Best and Stephen Crichton are extraordinary talents. But in today’s game, theirs is now the least important position on the rugby league field.
- Roy Masters
A year at Souths, then back to Tigers? Bud Sullivan explains NRL’s strangest deal
The Rabbitohs recruit is happy, 11 kilos lighter and finally feeling wanted after eventually picking up the call from Wayne Bennett.
- Dan Walsh
He brought the world of rugby league to tears. Now he’s playing for Mum
There wasn’t a dry eye at the Dally Ms when Tyrone Munro spoke about his late mother. If only she was here to see her boy play in his first Indigenous All Stars game.
- Christian Nicolussi
Wallabies convert suffers NRL setback, as legend’s son plots shock move
A high-profile rugby convert’s NRL berth has been put on ice, while the son of a club great is firming for a surprise positional shift at a veteran’s expense.
- Nick Wright
The captains’ view: The club – and the player – who can bring down Penrith
Captains and senior players from all 17 clubs give their verdicts at Monday’s NRL season launch.
- Christian Nicolussi
The Roosters have lost $6m and 1200 games of star power. But don’t tell Teddy they’re rebuilding
The Tricolours skipper is happy to be written off before a ball is kicked, but expects “everyone to still be talking about us either way.”
- Dan Walsh
With his parents locked up, Payne Haas is now brother, mum and dad
While being the cornerstone of the Broncos pack, Payne Haas has had to simultaneously play the roles of brother, mother and father his siblings.
- Adrian Proszenko
‘I know I can be anything’: Why Reece Walsh thinks he can be the best player in the game
In a rare one-on-one interview, Reece Walsh talks about dealing with the spotlight, his plans for 2025 and striving to topple Nathan Cleary as the NRL’s best.
- Christian Nicolussi
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