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Foxing for a click: Why baiting fans with a psychopath is only going to alienate media outlets from supporters

20 February, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Big time fans of professional wrestling know all about the terms ‘good heat’ and ‘go away heat’. Heat is all about the reaction you can get out of a fan. To

Advance Australia Whatever: You want people that have been here for over 50,000 years to care about a song from 1984?

6 February, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The Australian Rugby League Commission has confirmed the national anthem will not be played at the upcoming NRL All Stars match after consultation with the game’s indigenous players. A final decision

Who would you rather playing rugby league? The crazy man we can ignore or the ones we can’t ignore but choose to anyway?

29 January, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Outspoken code-hopper Israel Folau has found a home for 2020 with French rugby league club Catalans Dragons confirming his signature on a one-year deal which has already sparked anger online. While

A road goes two ways: Why you have already found Josh Reynolds guilty for the rest of his life

23 January, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Josh Reynolds we have a problem. It may not be your fault and many within the game that have heard bits and pieces will side with you. There’s heaps more to

Yes we’re all a bit over the Rabbitohs versus Roosters thing but we can still learn plenty about rebuilding grudge matches in the NRL

14 January, 2020 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The South Sydney Rabbitohs announced on Monday that Latrell Mitchell was crossing Anzac Parade to become the club’s newest acquisition – ending months of speculation on the young gun’s future. Over

How the Sydney Harbour Bridge began the slow death of the mighty Bears

18 December, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @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

Who made the cut and who missed out? The81stminute.com’s Curtis Woodward picks every club’s team of the decade

13 December, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis We are almost at the end of another decade with the roaring 2020’s just around the corner. It’s been a big year on the footy field and our editor Curtis Woodward

‘World War II hadn’t been a thing yet’: A Dragons team could be about to win their first wooden spoon since 1938

4 December, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis St George Illawarra as a joint-venture has never won the dreaded wooden spoon. While the Steelers finished last in 1989, you have to go all the way back to 1938 to

Did your club score trash or treasure? We name the best ten transfers ahead of the 2020 NRL premiership campaign…so far

28 November, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is only November but the rugby league wheel never stops spinning. The NRL off-season survives on rumours, whispers and everything else in between. Latrell Mitchell’s future is apparently about to

Super signings trump the NRL: Three big reasons why the English finally have something to brag about

28 November, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It has been years since an Englishman argued the Super League was the NRL’s equivalent and actually meant it. It’s been longer still since anyone else believed them. The NRL is

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