The Penrith props totally blew the Roosters off the park in the opening finals game. The Tricolours believe Jared Waerea-Hargreaves’ return will ensure that won’t happen again.
From off-field dramas to being plagued by injury,each of the nine teams have reasons for not playing finals this year.
Bird informed Tigers representatives on Friday he will take up a deal worth around $400,000 a year with the joint venture club from next season.
Two of the Tricolours’ most important players have become the 11th and 12th Roosters to have suffered rugby league’s most feared injury since 2020.
Unbelievably,this was the fourth time since 2020 that two Roosters players have suffered torn ACLs in the same match.
Coach Trent Robinson confronted the Canberra skipper after a fiery encounter left two key Roosters stars with potentially season-ending injuries.
The premiers will drop to fourth on the ladder if the Roosters and Cronulla win their matches on Sunday,while the Giltinan Shield is headed back to Melbourne.
TV footage showed Crichton react when laying on top of former Bulldogs player Flanagan. He later appeared with blood on his nose.
When they signed him from Wests Tigers,Manly weren’t merely looking for a sidekick for Daly Cherry-Evans. But it took a while for that to sink in.
Video footage on social media shows a well-known Canberra fan being accosted by an unruly mob of Bulldogs fans on Sunday night following Canterbury’s win over the Raiders.
Josh Papalii will play his 300th game for the Canberra Raiders on Sunday,but six years ago was tempted to join Souths in 2018 as a back-row replacement for Roosters-bound Angus Crichton.