The Cowboys star is facing further sanction from his own club on top of the NRL penalty. But he will only have to pay one of the fines in a quirk of the new industrial deal.
Mal Meninga has called in an unassuming Roosters back-rower to Australia’s train-on squad as Kalyn Ponga inches closer to a Test debut.
Hailed as a true pioneer,Lionel Morgan played for the Kangaroos five years before Indigenous Australians were allowed to vote in his home state of Queensland.
Mal Meninga knows Latrell Mitchell wanted to play for Australia,but the Kangaroos coach hopes the Rabbitohs star gets away from the game after finger surgery.
The rugby league icon doesn’t view his backing of the Yes campaign as an example of sport and politics intertwining.
South Sydney’s biggest star was named in an Australian train-on squad,but will visit a surgeon this week to determine if he needs surgery.
Latrell Mitchell would be forgiven for wanting to escape to the bush after a tough few weeks,but Mal Meninga knows Test football could be the best way to cap a trying year.
The Kangaroos coach was stunned by criticism of the national team captain from some NSW supporters after the side’s loss in Origin I.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis,the NRL will trial a program that will see the prices of Australia’s men’s and women’s jerseys almost slashed in half.
Another clash between the sides,which met in last year’s decider in Manchester,is being pitched as part of a revival of the “Four Nations” concept.
A New Zealand playmaker joins a Titans side that needs a bigger impact from their hulking marquee man this season.