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Live Blog: SOUTH SYDNEY v SYDNEY ROOSTERS at ANZ Stadium
Fulltime: SOUTH SYDNEY 28 SYDNEY ROOSTERS 8 SOUTH Sydney overpowered their mortal enemies in a sizzling, incident-packed opening to the 2014 NRL season. Broadcaster Channel Nine reported the NRL...
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Rabbitohs, Dragons Steal The March On Rivals
By STEVE MASCORD OLD favourites South Sydney and St George Illawarra have been identified by rivals and their own players as the teams who have cunningly exploited the NRL’s new rules the best....
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BONDI BEAT: May 2014
Dr Who? Mockup by @drkockrash By STEVE MASCORD LIKE your clubs in England, the NRL is considering ways to hold onto players and to recruit new stars, Bondi Beat‘s spies tell us that the issue was...
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Six Highlights Of The 2014 NRL Regular Season
By STEVE MASCORD THERE Is something unnatural – even mean-spirited – about the finals. For 26 weeks, rugby league is just THERE. Some weekends, there aren’t eight NRL games but no matter how well or...
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Meet Joe Burgess
By STEVE MASCORD RUGBY league often boasts that it can replace the stars it loses with a rookie of comparable talent, almost instantaneously. But this Saturday at Alianz Stadium, the maxim will be...
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JOY OF SIX: round one 2015
By STEVE MASCORD SEEING RED OVER MOSES WHAT if Dallas Donnelly pulled up outside an NRL ground in his time travelling Delorian and went inside for a gander? What would he make of a competition where...
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NRL round three 2014: SYDNEY ROOSTERS 30 BRISBANE 26 at Suncorp Stadium
By STEVE MASCORD MITCHELL Pearce and Boyd Cordner on Friday night did their bit to decimate Brisbane’s Friday night economy. With 1:45 left in the Broncos-Sydney Roosters epic at Suncorp Stadium, most...
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The Biggest Season-to-season Form Reversals In Premiership History
By STEVE MASCORD (with research by David Middleton) THE salary cap is often given credit for the fact we have had 10 different premiers since 1998 – but you can’t thank the salary cap for what Cronulla...
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The Eight Most Intriguing Players In The NRL
By STEVE MASCORD WE are constantly told that rugby league players have become vanilla, clichéd, boring. Either that, or that they are uneducated hoodlums. The idea that they can be engaging,...
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World Club Series: SYDNEY ROOSTERS 38 ST HELENS 12 at DW Stadium
By STEVE MASCORD THE overall record of expanded World Club Championship matches was left at 60-8 in favour of the southern hemisphere by this 2016 opening night mismatch – but Sydney Roosters coach...
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