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‘If Kangaroos and Kiwis don’t want to be there then stuff them’: World Cup doesn’t need blow arse NRL or their players

2 July, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys recently revealed that some NRL clubs were worried about sending their players to the Rugby League World Cup at the end of the season

Road to the Cup 2: Australian government, Fiji plans ahead, Jamaica has a rugby league team

14 May, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis You could almost forget there is a World Cup happening over in the United Kingdom at the end of the season such is the way the NRL news cycle spins here

How an 8-team NRL Summer League could be an answer to game development and stave off pre-season player injuries

5 May, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis We have seen some crazy concepts thrown up recently and it all started after a story leaked that the NRL was considering a two-conference premiership with all Sydney clubs in one

Road to the Cup: Benji Marshall set to wear black jersey for the first time at a World Cup since the 2008 final victory over Australia

29 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis You could almost forget there is a World Cup happening over in the United Kingdom at the end of the season such is the way the NRL news cycle spins here

Somebody needs to tell Pete: Six of the games best rivalries in recent history didn’t just include Sydney clubs

28 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

So the ARL Commission and the NRL want to bring in a conference system which will shun teams outside of Sydney? Rivalries are much more than what you think they are when it comes to

Miracle of miles: The war hero who debuted for the Kangaroos as skipper and was then sacked for being Catholic

23 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The famous story goes that the Wallabies departed Sydney on the 21st of July, 1939, setting sail for their tour of the United Kingdom. It took them 44 days to reach

The evil European Super League soccer monsters remind us just how far away the NRL’s strongest and weakest clubs are

20 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The shitstorm that has hit European football is a monumental thing. To put it in perspective, it could be the biggest story in the long history of the sport. Rugby league

The81stMinute Player of the Year now to be known as The Beetson Raudonikis Medal

7 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

The81stminute.com’s Arthur Beetson Medal is now in its tenth season. After the passing of the iconic, legendary, mortally immortal Tom Raudonikis – we have made a slight change. And we have a feeling that the

Rugby league is now V’landys’ monster: Doctor Frankenstein is trying to ‘fix’ the game and looking in all the wrong places

7 April, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist, had every intention of creating something truly amazing. He quickly realised that what he had assembled was nothing short of monstrous. The hideous monster disappeared but

Doug Parkinson dies aged 74

16 March, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Aussie rock legend Doug Parkinson died in his home on Monday night aged 74. A singer of more than five decades – Parkinson may have been best known in rugby league circles for his Sydney

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