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Voting in 2024 Rugby League Hottest 100 now open

3 September, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS Voting is now live with your chance to vote for your favourite, funniest or dumbest footy anthems from over the years. We’ve had record replies in recent years and as always, you

Maroons legend believes the Cowboys can be a dark horse in NRL finals but must beat the Bulldogs in final round

3 September, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Queensland legend Brent Tate believes the North Queensland Cowboys are a dark horse in the NRL finals but have a huge hurdle ahead of them in the Canterbury Bulldogs. Speaking to SENQ, the former Kangaroo

Aaron Woods announces retirement

3 September, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Manly-Warringah veteran Aaron Woods has announced his retirement. The 33-year-old prop debuted for Wests Tigers and went on to represent Australia and New South Wales. “It’s just been a rollercoaster journey,” Woods said on Triple

‘Bunch of self-entitled clowns’: Rugby league world reacts to outrageous claims from Balmain Tigers director

30 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS Just when you thought you had seen it all with the poor old Wests Tigers – Balmain director Garry Leo raised the stakes on Thursday night. In the same week it was

“Time has come for us to step aside and resurrect the Balmain Tigers”: Director Garry Leo stuns with outrageous claim

30 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

The embattled Wests Tigers club has been hit with the incredible news that a Balmain faction of the franchise wants out of the joint venture. Balmain director Garry Leo made the extraordinary claim that he

Why the NRL should bring back the top-five finals format and what would this year’s series look like if we did

29 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It has been almost thirty years since rugby league in Australia has seen the top-five playoff system – last used in Super League’s one and only season in 1997. The format

‘They are ruining product and referee’s feel for the game’: Andrew Johns calls on the NRL to banish the bunker

29 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Rugby league Immortal and two-time premiership-winner Andrew Johns has ripped into the bunker and called on the NRL to step in and give control of the game back to the on-field referees. The Newcastle Knights

Everything you need to know about the 13th annual the81stminute.com Beetson Raudonikis Medal

28 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY STAFF WRITERS We are getting to the pointy end of the season! The sun is out, the smell of spring is in the air and the NRL is about to get a whole lot

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

28 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis As the days heat up and the energy of spring dances in the Sydney air, so goes the annual bandwagon migration to the Sydney Cricket Ground of the north shore elite

John Hopoate’s outrageous response after Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson reveals confrontation between former player and NSWRL boss at recent club event

27 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Former Wests Tigers winger John Hopoate, who played with the joint-venture club in their maiden seasons in 2000 and 2001, has taken to his personal Facebook page and unleashed in an incredible tirade against Wests

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