While the NRL boss insists that the Dolphins becoming competitive when they join in 2023 is paramount,there is a growing need to broaden the game’s talent pool.
The Warriors are so incensed at attempts to stage a Kiwis Test match in New Zealand before their own long-awaited homecoming that the club will consider not releasing its players for the international fixture.
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck will make his professional rugby debut for the Blues on Saturday,and lessons from Benji Marshall and Sonny Bill Williams’ switches have been heeded.
It felt like the tide was turning against the All Stars game with a spate of big-name withdrawals. But a few minutes of pre-game television was enough to understand why it has to stay.
It is believed former Canterbury grand final player Frank Pritchard has a collapsed lung and other major health issues as a result of the virus.
Melbourne superstar Brandon Smith says his mind is made up on where he will be in 2023,and has given the biggest hint yet it will be at the Roosters.
Organisers are considering playing warm-up games in Australia to accommodate the NRL grand final as the feud over the withdrawal of Australia and New Zealand is put to bed.
A trans-Tasman tug-of-war has broken out for the services of Josh Schuster after the junior Blues representative was chosen in a Kiwi squad for the World Cup.
The world champions responded to criticism after a poor Rugby Championships by beating New Zealand and reclaiming the world no.1 slot.
Phil Gould once said,‘when the big dog barks,they all bark’. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is still very much the alpha male at the Roosters,relentlessly guarding family and teammates.
After announcing their World Cup boycott,Australian coach Mal Meninga and New Zealand counterpart Michael Maguire say they still want to play Tests in 2021.