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“You sign a contract, you should stick to it”: The words that will haunt Ivan Cleary

29 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is Sunday, the 16th of April 2017 and Wests Tigers coach Ivan Cleary fronts the media ahead of their clash the following day against Parramatta. For weeks, all the talk

Where has all the depth gone in the NRL’s coaching ranks?

25 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Trent Barrett recently quit his post as head coach of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. He could not stand the rejection, anymore. He had been promised things by the club and they

How to vote in the Aussie Helpers Hall of Fame Knockout

18 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS The Hall of Fame Knockout is on and you have the only opinion that matters. Four players from each decade – from the 1910’s through to the 1980’s have been selected that

This World XVII would smash the Kangaroos by 20 points

16 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It has been a very long time since any combined World XVII side could lay claim to being favourites if they ever ran out to play the mighty Australian Kangaroos. Oh

Tonga’s World Cup payback that could end a 4363 day Kangaroos record

15 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It has been a remarkable 4363 days since the Australian Kangaroos lost to a side other than New Zealand but face that prospect this weekend when they come up against the

Desperate Sea Eagles bringing Hasler back? That’s the Cherry on top

15 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis So Daly Cherry-Evans wants former coach Des Hasler back at the Manly Sea Eagles? This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Hasler and Cherry-Evans were two of the biggest reasons

Top 10 greatest Kiwi players of the modern era

12 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY A.J NASH The Kangaroos and Kiwis add another chapter to their storied rivalry tomorrow in Auckland in one of rugby league’s oldest battles. And we thought – seeing as New Zealand are on home

The ‘Professional All Blacks’ and how a Kiwi postal clerk helped create Australian rugby league

11 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD Us Australians consider men like the first dual international Dally Messenger or administrator J.J. Giltinan as the forefathers of rugby league in this country. It may then come as a shock to

Concord upgrade: Wests Tigers and Macarthur have never been further apart

10 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY SCOTT DILLON The dream of Wests Tigers becoming Macarthur’s club is dead after it was announced today by the state goverment that Concord Oval would be granted a $30 million upgrade. The upgrade finally

Eight forgotten NRL players who missed 2018 through injury

9 October, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD They include Kiwi internationals, Junior Kangaroos, a former Intrust Super Cup Player of the Year and ‘the next Sonny Bill Williams’. What do they have in common? All of them missed the

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