The 100 greatest players in State of Origin history
The81stMinute BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Think of all the names and the legends that have graced our fields representing…
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NRL Indigenous Round: The greatest 100 Indigenous Australian rugby league players of all-time
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis They are some of the most talented rugby league players to ever play our…
Secret meetings, “retired” board members and a birthday present Brad Arthur will never forget: How Eels chairman Sean McElduff got it all so wrong
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Fourteen months ago, in March of 2023, Parramatta Eels Chairman Sean McElduff proudly told…
‘If rugby league is a supermodel – the NFL is fashion week in New York, Paris, London and Milan all rolled into one’: Why gridiron will be the NRL’s next big threat
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Less than a month after announcing their historic development academy on the Gold Coast…
Reward one-on-one leg tackles, allocated positions, fair catch: Six ideas better than banning the long kick-off in the NRL
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On Anzac Day at Allianz Stadium, Mosese Suli was knocked senseless on the first…
The Kiwi sprint champion, Wallaby and Wests Magpie that followed his brother into the Korean War
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On the eve of the 1995 State of Origin series and his fame reaching…
“A ruthlessness that has come back to bite Trent Robinson and the Bondi glamour club”: Why Michael Jennings should be stuck on 298 games for the rest of his life
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis In October of 2020 and just hours before Parramatta’s semi-final against the South Sydney…
Go Wests Tigers? Nah, just go (South) West, Tigers: Spiritual home is in the sky and it’s going to the place that’s the best
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On a freezing cold Monday night in Campbelltown in 1996, Andrew Willis’ fifty-metre field…
‘Drowned by speculation’: Time for Shane Flanagan and his Dragons to zip it, batten down hatches and let footy do the talking
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis New St George Illawarra Dragons coach Shane Flanagan had a fairly low base to…
Benji wasn’t wrong picking boom youngster Galvin but selections around him and way team played has already let other players down
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Ahead of Wests Tigers’ first match of their 2024 campaign – the rugby league…