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It’s okay for the media to defend a pedophile priest but footy players having sex is bad?

4 March, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Rugby league is the beast the used car salesman keeps you away from. You keep looking back over your shoulder and he keeps blocking your view. What is it about this

Ten of the best goalkicking forwards of the modern era

1 March, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS They are rare – very rare. Goalkicking forwards. Is there anything better? As rare as hen’s teeth but still one of the great visions in the modern day game. Why should the

The musty underbelly of rugby league is being drained and some are desperate to keep breathing

1 March, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Rugby league was turned on its head yesterday when the NRL announced its new policy for players facing serious criminal charges. On Thursday afternoon in front of the media at League

The night I came face-to-face with an NRL superstar, completely naked in someone else’s bathroom

27 February, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It was New Year’s Eve 2008, somewhere between 3am and something else. I was heading back toward the Novotel Hotel in Wollongong. Full disclosure, I had lost my shoes and had

Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: H

27 February, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS It is about half past (whatever o’clock) and you’re standing around the bonfire talking footy. The topic gets to fantasy footy teams and old mate throws up a cracker: “What about teams

Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: A

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Why the people’s game of rugby league continues to grow even when scandals hit

25 February, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis ‘How many more scandals can the NRL handle?’ That was the burning question and the title of a story that ran on popular opinion website The Roar after another off-field indiscretion.

Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: S

22 February, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

An ode to the rugby league football – a man’s best friend

21 February, 2019 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis They are the busiest little workers in all of rugby league. Every weekend they’re kicked, squeezed and slammed but never complain. As old as the game itself. Behold, the mighty, yet

Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: J

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