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Netflix, WWE Network, Stan… Rugby League on Demand? NRL needs to get with the times

9 January, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is a slow old Sunday and the wife tells you she is off to lunch with her friends for an hour or three. You’re all alone with nothing to do.

What your NRL team is drinking this holiday season

20 December, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS It is the end of another year and what better way to see it out than to let your hair down with a few drinks between friends and family? The81stMinute’s team of

Exclusive: Sydney Roosters buy happiness

19 December, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is official – The81stMinute can exclusively reveal that you can indeed buy happiness with the Sydney Roosters set to announce the signing of happiness on a five-year, multi-million dollar deal.

Ancient NRL websites we thought were dead!

13 December, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS The NRL and all affiliated clubs and organisations have had a digital makeover with new websites hitting the internet on Wednesday morning. The internet sure has come a long way – we’re

‘Smoking, drinking, acting like a 15-year-old’: The real reason Matt Moylan is now at the Sharks

10 November, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

EXCLUSIVE BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is a Saturday afternoon in Penrith – the crowd is restless. Their team, the Panthers, are having a shocker against the New Zealand Warriors. Penrith are down 26-8 and

Why the ‘Rooster for Life’ Mitchell Pearce has every right to be dirty on the ones he called family

30 October, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis You make your first grade debut as an 18-year-old and immediately impress – it comes as no surprise to club officials or your chairman. After all, you’re Mitchell Pearce – the

5 out of 13: A tribute to the great man ‘Fatty’ Vautin and the legendary Footy Show

18 October, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis I am one of the thousands who grew up watching Paul ‘Fatty’ Vautin – the loveable fool of the once much-loved Footy Show. Too young to remember the player, Fatty became

How the Nazis helped destroy French rugby league

17 October, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It has been a long, long time since France defeated Australia in back-to-back Test matches in 1978 – longer still since they last appeared in a World Cup Final. The history

Opening of Harbour Bridge began slow death of once mighty North Sydney Bears

13 October, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

@woodward_curtis There is no doubt almost everybody in rugby league has a soft spot for the North Sydney Bears – a foundation club chewed up and spat out by a game that was meant to

Roosters Fly: Cooper Cronk will never play against the Melbourne Storm

12 October, 2017 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Nothing boils quicker in rugby league than a rumour. Media types – let us call them mogwai – get a sniff and then it’s on like Donkey Kong. The mogwai repeat

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