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“If it bleeds, we can kill it”: Blues dragged QLD by their nose and scorched the earth with their limp carcass in Game II at MCG

27 June, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis New South Wales Blues fans across the great state woke up on Thursday morning blurry-eyed and maybe just a slightly bit confused. What the hell happened? On one of the craziest

Beetson Raudonikis Medal 2024 – Round 16

25 June, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

Beetson Raudonokis Medal 2024 After Round 16 21 Dylan Edwards20 Daly Cherry-Evans15 Scott Drinkwater15 Jahrome Hughes14 Reece Walsh14 Zac Lomax14 Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow12 James Tedesco11 AJ Brimson11 Sam Walker10 Nicho Hynes10 Matt Burton10 Eli Katoa10 Isaiya

NRL WA boss says Perth franchise with Bears in the box seat and big meeting on Wednesday in Melbourne will reveal all

20 June, 2024 The81stMinute 2 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis General Manager of NRL WA John Sackson has revealed we could have confirmation of expansion within the next fortnight and that it may include a partnership between the Perth-based bid and

“Money for old rope”: Send NRL-ravaged Origin season to the bush, or Auckland, and create ‘mini’ magic rounds

19 June, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Like clockwork this time of the year – two warring factions position themselves each side of a battered down, weary old fence. It’s State of Origin season and so it goes

“Feels like a seismic abuse of power and how certain clubs are dictated to”: Lachlan Galvin needs to bite down hard, man up and get on with 2024

13 June, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Just a few short months ago, Wests Tigers’ baby-faced rookie Lachlan Galvin, stood in front of media and declared he was ready to be the leader of a club renaissance. Despite

The 100 greatest players in State of Origin history

4 June, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Think of all the names and the legends that have graced our fields representing New South Wales and Queensland since the inception of the State of Origin concept back in 1980.

NRL Indigenous Round: The greatest 100 Indigenous Australian rugby league players of all-time

22 May, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis They are some of the most talented rugby league players to ever play our game. An Immortal in Arthur Beetson, the class of Johnathan Thurston, the intimidation of Gorden Tallis, the

Secret meetings, “retired” board members and a birthday present Brad Arthur will never forget: How Eels chairman Sean McElduff got it all so wrong

21 May, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Fourteen months ago, in March of 2023, Parramatta Eels Chairman Sean McElduff proudly told the world that his club had re-signed head coach Brad Arthur until the end of 2025. Granted,

‘If rugby league is a supermodel – the NFL is fashion week in New York, Paris, London and Milan all rolled into one’: Why gridiron will be the NRL’s next big threat

14 May, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Less than a month after announcing their historic development academy on the Gold Coast scheduled for September, on Anzac Day no less, the NFL has confirmed its first Australian via the

Reward one-on-one leg tackles, allocated positions, fair catch: Six ideas better than banning the long kick-off in the NRL

2 May, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On Anzac Day at Allianz Stadium, Mosese Suli was knocked senseless on the first play of the game when he got himself caught in a poor position against a charging Jared

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