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‘I’ve got a new agent over here, I’m with Isaac Moses’: John Bateman just killed Bambi in Canberra’s biggest week

2 October, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis John Bateman, how could you? This is grand final week. Canberra Raiders fans may never get to feel like this for the rest of their lives. The Raiders haven’t been to

Green Machine! You reckon the Raiders can’t win the grand final? Looks like you’re not paying attention

27 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The Canberra Raiders have qualified for their first grand final since 1994 after surviving one of the greatest finals matches in the history of the game. All the momentum was with

Rivalry classics: Eight amazing matches to whet your appetite for Week Three of the NRL Finals

25 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time. The green light flashes, the flags go up. Can you smell what the NRL is cookin’? It is preliminary

17 years in the making: They took different roads to get here but the four remaining coaches in NRL race all deserve their place

24 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD – EDITOR @woodward_curtis It is NRL off season 2002 and a fresh-faced rookie coach by the name of Craig Bellamy walks into dreary old Olympic Park in Melbourne to introduce himself to

Bleed greeeeeen! 40 reasons to jump on the Canberra Raiders bandwagon all the way to the grand final

24 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD – EDITOR @woodward_curtis Come on be honest. As if you aren’t totally behind the Canberra Raiders going all the way in 2019? What a story. What an exciting footy team! There’s so

‘F*** Joe Smith and his kids’: Ryan Matterson will be at Wests Tigers in 2020…and pigs fly

19 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD – EDITOR @woodward_curtis Firstly, let us give Ryan Matterson the benefit of the doubt. Let’s cross our fingers and hope, whatever it is Matterson is going through, he’s okay. After all, it

Forgotten rivalry classics: Eight amazing matches to whet your appetite for Week Two of the NRL Finals

18 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The Brisbane Broncos and Cronulla Sharks have joined the growing list of dismembered pretenders on the scrap heat as we surge into Week Two of the 2019 finals. Trent Robinson’s Tricolours

The case for Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and why the judiciary can clean up the MRC’s mess once again

17 September, 2019 The81stMinute 4 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD – EDITOR @woodward_curtis Channel Nine’s Brad Fittler sat down next to a relieved Jared Waerea-Hargreaves in the Sydney Cricket Ground dressing rooms just after the Sydney Roosters big win over arch rivals

To be the man you got to beat the man: Why Wayne Bennett is the NRL’s Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair all rolled into one

12 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD – EDITOR @woodward_curtis A booker in a professional wrestling company is the fella that puts the matches together. It is his job to create a “card” and it’s he that decides which

Forgotten rivalry classics: Twelve amazing matches to whet your appetite for NRL Finals 2019

11 September, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis One competition finishes and another one begins. Welcome to the NRL Finals for 2019. Only eight teams remain. This is the business end. Where dreams are made and shattered in the

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