BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is Saturday morning and the crisp air somewhere between Cattai and South Maroota cuts through the open car window and over my face. I’m peering down at my phone, watching the sevice bars on my Samsung drifting away. What was I going to do? My hands began to tremble as […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Three weeks ago, the South Sydney Rabbitohs put on the performance of the season when they blew passed the Melbourne Storm. It had many, including yours truly, believing they were untouchable – that no team could come near them. That victory against the Storm was the perfect mix of speed, power […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Will the Sydney Roosters claim another minor premiership? Can Wests Tigers fight their way into the finals? Are the Dragons gone? Let’s get out the crystal ball and have a look! Round 23 Big Games Rabbitohs 22 – Broncos 18 Wests Tigers 34 – Dragons 16 This will not please anyone […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis There are some rugby league sayings that never leave you. “Nobody is bigger than the club” and “never assume” come to mind. Oh how they ring true right now as we watch the bitter dispute unfold between Wests Tigers and the Penrith Panthers for the ”services” of coach Ivan Cleary. On […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis In what looks like one of the most remarkable power plays for a current star in rugby league history – the Penrith Panthers have reportedly offered former coach Ivan Cleary a four-year contract to return to the club that sacked him in 2015. Panthers current halfback is Nathan Cleary and is […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Sitting down last night to watch the Immortals inductions on Fox Sports, I couldn’t help but keep playing The Rolling Stones’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ over and over in my head. I was prepared for whomever the NRL decided to announce. All along I believed Dally Messenger, Frank […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis IS BRAD ARTHUR A PROTECTED SPECIES OUT AT PARRAMATTA? Why is nobody talking about Parramatta coach Brad Arthur and his failure to spark the Eels in 2018? This team went within a whisker of upsetting the Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park in week one of last year’s playoffs before being bundled […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Wests Tigers went into last Friday night’s game against the battling Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs as hot favourites. They were walking on sunshine after beating top four teams St George Illawarra and South Sydney in respective weeks. What could possibly go wrong? Go wrong? With Wests Tigers? Just the usual. You could see […]
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BY STAFF WRITERS Who didn’t love the 1990’s? What a time to be alive. We had Rams and Magpies and Crushers, oh my! Okay so maybe you didn’t love the whole Super League War. But come on, the rest of it was pretty cool! We’ve come up with 100 things we loved about footy in […]
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BY A.J NASH It is Fox Sports’ Retro Round so we thought we’d jump on board. Why not!? It just so happens, one of rugby league’s greatest clubs, feature this Saturday on steelesports.com.au when The81stMinute Call Team heads to Liverpool for Mounties versus the North Sydney Bears. Sorry Mounties – we’re talking about the Bears […]
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