Booms and busts: Your NRL club’s best and worst of 2023
For every Reece Walsh breakout season, there’s been a Josh Schuster down year. These are the players who have soared to a new level and the big guns who have failed to meet expectations.
Knights
Knights eye big-money moves as cross-code star released
Newcastle’s failed Kalyn Ponga experiment has forced cross-code star out of the club, freeing up half a million in salary cap space for two of the Knights’ biggest stars.
NRL run home: Finals match-ups; best, worst ladder finish
With two rounds of the NRL regular season remaining, we reveal every club’s best and worst ladder finish and the week one finals scenarios.
Axed: NRL dumps senior refs over Souths-Knights farce
One of the game’s leading referees has been dumped for three matches for his role in the eight-tackle set debacle that helped land a hammer blow on South Sydney’s finals hopes.
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Kent: What tends to destroy all hope
From Ricky Stuart to Andrew Johns, Darren Lockyer and Greg Bird, history is littered with absentees that can mean the difference between winning and losing a premiership, says PAUL KENT.
Parra legend urges more from star
Parramatta hasn’t won a premiership for 35 years, and their finals success could rest in the hands of one man.
Knights star’s life-changing 15-hour, 1500km trip
Knights playmaker Jake Clifford has shifted his focus back to Newcastle’s elimination final against the Eels after a “crazy two days” which changed his life.
Ponga lifts lid on ‘crazy’ mental toll
Newcastle fullback Kalyn Ponga is fit and ready to fire in this year’s NRL finals after struggling mentally last season with a shoulder injury.
Jones weighs in on 17th team as Titans fight expansion
The call on whether to expand the NRL to a 17th team is weighing heavily on the minds of ARL commissioners.
NRL heroes: Download your team’s finals poster
To celebrate the run to the NRL grand final we have created a series of souvenir finals posters. Click here to download your “heroes” poster.
NRL star’s 1300km dash to make daughter’s birth by less than hour
Newcastle Knights halfback and Townsville boy Jake Clifford was granted an exemption from his team bubble to travel for the birth of his daughter.
NRL horror show comes at worst possible time
The Newcastle Knights have hit a snag on the eve of the finals series, suffering defeat at the hands of the struggling Brisbane Broncos.
Tigers to make call on Maguire, key players
Big decisions loom at Wests with the review into the football department and coach Michael Maguire underway. Plus the latest on the James McManus concussion dispute.
’Champions stand up’: Coach hails matchwinner Pearce
The finals race is almost over, with just one spot in the top eight left up for grabs after a rare Mitchell Pearce field goal toppled the Titans.
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