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Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: L

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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: U,V,X,Y,Z

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Alphabetical all-time rugby league XVII: N

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Club legends that should have never played against their first loves

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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Some players become ingrained in a club. Whether as captain, the superstar playmaker or because of the blood, sweat and tears they’ve spilt for the team and their fans. Sometimes, for

From the Vault: Anthony Mundine proves there’s more to the man than ‘The Man’

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FROM THE VAULT – 2014 BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is early 2011 and 75-year-old Happy Tenana is laying as comfortably as he can in his bedroom in Auckland. Happy has cancer and is in

Mavericks, Volcanoes, Pumas & Dolphins: What your club almost called themselves

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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Melbourne Mavericks The ‘Storm’ brand is now synonymous with the Victorian capital and the club is one of the most powerful of any code in the country. Premierships, a legendary coach

New South Wales Blues’ greatest ever Origin strips

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BY STAFF WRITERS New South Welshmen across the state spat out their corn flakes this morning when the NSWRL announced the Blues would be wearing a navy blue ‘alternate’ strip for Game II, 2019 to

Who is running the National Rugby League? Todd Greenberg or Isaac Moses?

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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis David Klemmer is as Canterbury as they come. Bulldog to the bone. The big prop even supported the Belmore club as a young boy. So why now does he want out

Hey Penrith: People are starting to resent you but that isn’t such a bad thing

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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Long ago in a distant land, the early 2000’s to be exact, your writer spent many a Sunday afternoon at Penrith Park. A mate of mine couldn’t bring himself to support

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

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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

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