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Alright Wests Tigers… let’s talk about the elephant in the room

7 May, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Winning the premiership is every club’s goal. It is the very reason players roll out of bed in the morning and do what they do. It’s what every club aspires to

Melbourne Storm show first cracks in 2019 campaign after a weird old night in Cronulla

3 May, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The Cronulla Sharks have held on for a victory in Friday night football against the powerhouse Melbourne Storm on a soggy evening in Sydney’s south. Papers tomorrow will tell a story

It is time for the Brisbane Broncos to sack Darius Boyd

2 May, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Sometimes in rugby league, you are the last to know when your time is up. For Darius Boyd, it was never going to be the same at the Brisbane Broncos once

‘Rip straight back through the guts of the Blues’: A NSW tragic picks his Queensland 17

1 May, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It appears the once mighty Queenslanders need all the help they can get putting a side together for State of Origin I on June 5th in Brisbane. The recent retirements of

How is Kodi Nikorima the right halfback for the Warriors if Shaun Johnson wasn’t?

30 April, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The New Zealand Warriors were applauded for letting enigmatic playmaker Shaun Johnson leave at the end of last year. Johnson wasn’t happy with the amount offered to him to re-sign in

The kid from President’s Cup that would oust Wayne Bennett from the throne as emperor of the Broncos

29 April, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Wayne Bennett first locked eyes with a kid named Anthony Seibold in the early 1990’s when Seibold was a nobody in the lower grades at the Brisbane Broncos. Bennett was the

Gutsy loss to the Storm could be the making of the once mighty Warriors

25 April, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Nobody is going to read this. Not worth the clicks it’s written on. Unless you are a diehard ex-pat Kiwi or living in New Zealand and a dead set rugby league

WATCH: Five classic Roosters versus Dragons clashes on Anzac Day

24 April, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY STAFF WRITERS It is one of the biggest days on the annual rugby league calendar and it gives us the chance to pay our respects to our soldiers – past and present. For the

The 123 days, 9426 kilometres of torture that spells doom for Wests Tigers in 2019

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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Wests Tigers will live up to their tag as the nomads of rugby league in the coming months with fixtures scheduled for Tamworth, Melbourne, Townsville, Canberra and Newcastle. Sure they will

Phil Gould has made the Penrith Panthers a juggernaut but he’s also their biggest threat

19 April, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis In the mid 1990’s, Sydney City supremo Nick Politis talked Phil Gould into coming over from the Penrith Panthers. It made sense. Gould was, and still is, a rugby league genius.

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