“They have done the right thing”: Iconic coach Wayne Bennett says venue switch a “great decision” by the NRL
The81stMinute Legendary coach Wayne Bennett has backed the NRL and says the game did the right thing in moving…
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‘Gerard Whateley should stay in his lane’: AFL’s horror start to 2025 goes on as quick-thinking NRL save their Friday night blockbuster despite Cyclone Alfred
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis COMMENT Heavy-hitting Melbourne-based AFL journalist Gerard Whateley has criticised the NRL for pushing ahead…
Roosters in Sydney’s eastern suburbs are as sexy as the Swans will ever be: Why the Chooks versus Manly crowd and Swans not selling out SCG says everything about the Harbour City
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On Friday night in Sydney’s Moore Park, the AFL and the NRL ran finals…
Code wars, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis: The Swans have won the AFL minor premiership and Giants made the top four but nobody in Sydney has noticed
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis As the days heat up and the energy of spring dances in the Sydney…
‘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…
‘Forget parmi versus parma – what’s a ‘butcho’? A rugby league fan in Melbourne for NRL and AFL grand final weekend
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Many months ago your writer was told by his wife, an award-winning dog groomer,…
Melbourne media giant sparks rumour NRL have poached Crowded House from AFL for grand final entertainment
Eddie McGuire has sparked rumours Crowded House has turned down the AFL to play at the NRL Grand…
AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan says ‘gather round’ is already better than NRL’s Magic Round as AFL prepare to play a match at 5000 capacity bush ground
BY STAFF WRITERS Mexican President AKA AFL supremo Gillon McLachlan has made a peculiar flex ahead of his…
Arrival of FIFA World Cup and a Rugby Australia resurrection can be the wake up call the NRL desperately needs
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis High above the clouds, atop the tallest mountain in the brutal Australian sporting landscape,…
‘I fear the AFL has massively underestimated the power of rugby league’: GWS Giants drowning in rugby league territory
Aussie Rules and the AFL haven’t put a dent into rugby league’s window in Sydney’s thriving west according…