Brawls, threats and pain: Why Knights young gun had to leave Sydney
A ransacked home on Christmas Day was enough for Knights youngster Jermaine McEwen to know he had to get out of Sydney if he was going to build on his promising rugby league career.
A ransacked home on Christmas Day was enough for Knights youngster Jermaine McEwen to know he had to get out of Sydney if he was going to build on his promising rugby league career.
The Melbourne Storm have received a massive boost ahead of their Manly Sea Eagles clash, with a star set to return a week early from a broken hand.
The Eels cameback to beat the Dragons, the Dolphins blew the Titans away and the Broncos stunned the Wests Tigers. Recap all the action and see the eight things we learned from Super Saturday.
Broncos coach Michael Maguire got some revenge over his former team, but the win has come at a potentially massive cost, with Adam Reynolds injured as Brisbane blew the Wests Tigers away.
Adam Reynolds has no interest in playing for any NRL club other than the Broncos, but with salary cap space tight and plenty of players pushing for upgrades, the champion half’s hand may be forced.
Titans coach Des Hasler has slammed the NRL’s high shot crackdown, claiming it spoiled the contest, as Isaiya Katoa stared to relieve some pressure on Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf.
He once called the NRL’s independent doctor the ‘great abomination’ of rugby league. Two years on and a leading neuroscientist has kept receipts of Gould’s concussion rants.
Former Dragons star Zac Lomax has got one over on his old team, as Parramatta claimed their first win of the season in the first golden point match of the year.
Western Australia Premier Roger Cook has accused the NRL of viewing his state as a “potential cash cow”, with Perth expansion plans on the brink of collapse.
Why Brad Arthur won’t re-sign with Leeds, the mind-blowing cost of a Wallabies ticket, better half Ashleigh Camenzuli dishes out on Panthers star Isaah Yeo and more in Saint, Sinner, Shoosh.
The Rabbitohs growing casualty ward means coach Wayne Bennett will need to decide between handing Lewis Dodd his first NRL start or giving Latrell Mitchell a crack in the halves.
The NRL is aware of fan and player frustration over the high tackle crackdown which is seeing matches being brought to a standstill for incidents missed by the on-field referee.
Panned by experts for buying too many “utilities”, Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has lifted the lid on the recruitment strategy implemented by the club’s brains trust.
A wild brawl between two South Sydney Rabbitohs and Roosters fans broke out at Accor Stadium on Friday night. Watch the footage here.
As if the loss to the Cowboys was not bad enough, the Panthers have added insult to ignominy with a bungle on captain Isaah Yeo’s commemorative jersey.
Arguably rugby league’s best ever rivalry added a new chapter thanks to pure grit while the defending premiers sink to new lows. Recap an interesting Friday Night Footy with eight things we learned.
Decimated by injury, the Rabbitohs produced the bravest performance of the season, as Latrell Mitchell made a triumphant return from injury to break the Roosters’ hearts.
A stunning Cowboys comeback has condemned the four-time defending premiers Penrith to a fourth-straight defeat for the first time in 12 years and spoiled Isaah Yeo’s 250th NRL game.
Wests Tigers fullback Jahream Bula explains the viral video of him and Broncos star Reece Walsh, revealing how his Brisbane counterpart helped inspire his own rugby league dream.
This Saturday, Zac Lomax will face his ex-teammates for the first time – and he won’t be the only player looking to get one over his former friends. BRENT READ and MICHAEL CARAYANNIS go inside one of one of biggest player swaps in recent memory.
By the end of the year Payne Haas should be the highest-paid forward in rugby league history, the question is which club will have found the cap space to make it happen.
Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf has backed his fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow to reverse his form slump as the team searches for their first win of the season against his partner Jaime Chapman’s club.
Broncos boss Dave Donaghy has provided a hands-off edict to rival clubs over Payne Haas, torpedoing fears he could quit the club they ramp-up plans to keep their superstar prop.
He was in Queensland’s extended State of Origin squad last year, now Brisbane youngster Brendan Piakura has been struggling to crack Michael Maguire’s starting line-up.
The Roosters are fully committed to growing the game in the US – formally putting forward a pitch to play there a second time in 2026.
Cronulla’s premiership hero Andrew Fifita says he wouldn’t be doing his job as a dad if he didn’t help grow women’s rugby league, as he prepares for a coaching stand-off with twin brother David in Saturday’s Tarsha Gale Cup clash.
Carolyn Campbell may not be a household name just yet, but that’s sure to change with the new chair of the NSWRL insisting she is here to promote change – not tick a box, writes PAMELA WHALEY.
Rather than play down the emotion and fiery history between bitter rivals South Sydney and Sydney Roosters, coach Trent Robinson is leaning right into it.
Canberra forward Hudson Young became the first player sin binned under the NRL’s high shot recalibration, but then helped set up one of the team tries of the season as the Raiders pipped the Sharks at the death.
He guided the NRL back from the brink of bankruptcy and dethroned the AFL from its perch as Australia’s most watched sport, but Peter V’landys says he has much more he wants to achieve yet.