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Origin star saw axing coming

Maroons utility Ben Hunt says he deserved to be axed from last year’s State of Origin series decider and has credited new Dragons coach Anthony Griffin for his recall. The versatile 31-year-old will play in the number 14 jersey on Sunday night at Suncorp Stadium in his first Origin game since being dropped for Harry Grant ahead of Queensland’s win […]

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All 18 AFL teams to be in Victoria as Crows, Port flee SA

Adelaide and Port Adelaide will make a late dash to Melbourne on Wednesday evening to avoid any potential COVID-19 lockdown in South Australia. Club sources and the AFL have confirmed to The Age that the league has made the snap decision in case SA Health officials decide to impose a lockdown. Taylor Walker’s Crows will join the Power in leaving […]

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Collingwood appoint Luke Ball to coach selection panel

Collingwood have appointed Luke Ball to the sub-committee to select their next senior coach. The 37-year-old joins Collingwood chief executive Mark Anderson, general manager of football Graham Wright, football director Paul Licuria and board member Peter Murphy on the sub-committee. Luke Ball has joined the Pies’ sub-committee.Credit:Sebastian Costanzo Ball’s appointment finalises the sub-committee for the Pies, who are on the […]

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‘This won’t shut down the NRL’: Bulldogs players in isolation after visiting COVID-19 exposure site

For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys insists the NRL competition won’t be suspended despite three Bulldogs players being forced into isolation after attending a Bondi pub now listed as a COVID-19 exposure site. Dylan Napa, Brandon Wakeham and Aaron Schoupp have undergone immediate COVID tests after attending the Royal Hotel […]

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Jake Trbojevic ruled out of Origin II with hip injury

For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Jake Trbojevic has been ruled out of the second State of Origin match. The star Manly forward suffered a hip pointer injury at training and called Brad Fittler to tell the NSW coach the news on Friday morning. Jake Trbojevic is out of Origin II with a hip injury.Credit:NRL Photos Fittler […]

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Teague vows to get Blues back to ‘where they should be’

Carlton coach David Teague insists the Blues have the right personnel in key positions and also maintains faith in his team’s on-field defensive tactics, as the club prepares for a “super review” of its football department. The Blues have engaged Geoff Walsh, an experienced former club administrator, former Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich, who was involved in the review of the […]

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Why NRL expansion is a double-edged sword for a Queensland

Queensland’s State of Origin teams have traditionally been a cutting edge against the outside world, akin to Australian cricket teams in the 1930s when we needed to show the Poms we could do more than grow wheat and sheep. Stand in a taxi queue after a NSW humiliation at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium and the locals, bloated from four-hour lunchless luncheons, […]

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