Queensland will be slippery customers ... but I’m tipping Blues to rain supreme

Queensland will be slippery customers ... but I’m tipping Blues to rain supreme

The forecast wet conditions look set to be a major factor in the Origin opener,and the winner will be the team which adapts best. Here’s how they should play it.

  • byAndrew Johns

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Cooked Chooks? Victor ‘The Self-Inflictor’ just one reason Roosters aren’t firing
Analysis
NRL 2023

Cooked Chooks? Victor ‘The Self-Inflictor’ just one reason Roosters aren’t firing

They have a stacked roster,the best home ground in Australia and a coach who is a proven winner. So what’s wrong with the Sydney Roosters?

  • byAdrian Proszenko
Thrilling last-gasp win over Roosters caps roller-coaster week for Dragons
Dragons 24 Roosters 22
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Thrilling last-gasp win over Roosters caps roller-coaster week for Dragons

St George Illawarra’s recalled centre Zac Lomax kicked an after-the-siren conversion to end a miserable six-game losing run at the Roosters’ expense.

  • byAdam Pengilly
‘As low as I’ve seen’:Why Tedesco is filthy at Roosters’ effort areas

‘As low as I’ve seen’:Why Tedesco is filthy at Roosters’ effort areas

It’s a team that includes some of the best attacking talent in the NRL. So why do only the Tigers and Cowboys have worse attacks than the Roosters in 2023?

  • byAdam Pengilly
Big-name Bulldogs and Roosters recruits headline $7m in returning talent

Big-name Bulldogs and Roosters recruits headline $7m in returning talent

Angus Crichton leads a trio of representative Roosters forwards coming back via reserve grade as Canterbury,Parramatta and Canberra all welcome the returns of big guns up front.

  • byDan Walsh
NRL Masters:Who is the best golfer at your footy club?

NRL Masters:Who is the best golfer at your footy club?

The US Masters takes place next week,and The Sun-Herald tracked down the best golfers at every NRL club – and photos of some of them playing – before they tune in to watch the Augusta action.

  • byChristian Nicolussi
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Sweet-stepping Suaalii shines after Tedesco concussed in Roosters’ win over Eels
Roosters 28 Eels 20
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Sweet-stepping Suaalii shines after Tedesco concussed in Roosters’ win over Eels

In his first game since announcing his defection to rugby union from 2025,Joseph Suaalii showed why he’ll crash through the $1 million per year barrier in the 15-man code.

  • byAdam Pengilly
Turbo-charged attack:Tom Trbojevic takes over the first receiver role

Turbo-charged attack:Tom Trbojevic takes over the first receiver role

Manly have taken a play straight out of the Sydney Roosters and James Tedesco playbook.

  • byChristian Nicolussi
‘I feel sorry for you blokes’:The Wayne Bennett speech that got Dolphins flying
Opinion
NRL 2023

‘I feel sorry for you blokes’:The Wayne Bennett speech that got Dolphins flying

Ahead of the Dolphins’ showdown with the Broncos,Bennett’s full-time speech after the emotional first-up win over the Roosters can be revealed.

  • byAndrew Webster
Sydney Roosters extend Tedesco’s contract beyond 2024

Sydney Roosters extend Tedesco’s contract beyond 2024

The Sydney Roosters have announced a deal to keep skipper and fullback James Tedesco at the club until at least the end of 2025

  • byMichael Chammas
The two outback kids who made Latrell Mitchell smile

The two outback kids who made Latrell Mitchell smile

The Rabbitohs star welcomed a pair of gatecrashers at Redfern on Monday.

  • byChristian Nicolussi