Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Thirteen. That’s the magic number of wins a team will likely need if they want to play finals footy in the NRL this season. It’s a damning figure for one-time premiership favourites the Roosters, who will need to win six of their remaining […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A last-minute penalty try was enough for NSW to score a dramatic 18-14 victory over Queensland in Townsville on Thursday night, but the Sky Blues fell agonisingly short of denying the Maroons victory in the two-game Women’s State of Origin series. A penalty […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key posts 6.45pmYour view: Who wins? 1 of 1 Your view: Who wins? Stanley back, but Cats face ‘daunting’ finals challenge Geelong’s ruck woes have eased with the return of Rhys Stanley for Thursday night’s clash against third-placed Melbourne, but the struggling Cats […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. South Sydney will keep Latrell Mitchell on ice for another week as Cody Walker pushes to return from a quad strain that ruled him out of a last-minute NSW Origin audition. Mitchell’s recovery from an ongoing calf issue that has ruled him out […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s been three weeks since Sky Blues co-captain Isabelle Kelly left the field coughing up blood and struggling to breathe in Origin I, but the star centre has only just broken her silence on the incident, describing it as distressing and scary. “It […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Sydney Roosters have granted Matt Lodge permission to leave the club immediately after the prop forward’s management requested a release from the final year of his deal. The Roosters left Lodge out of their NRL team last week, and he is no […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The team that could do nothing right could suddenly do nothing wrong. Yes, there is a caveat here, Carlton were playing the Suns, a team as reliable as Jetstar. Finally something to cheer about for the Blues.Credit: AFL Photos But this was a […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brisbane midfielder Jarrod Berry has avoided suspension in a win for the bring-down tackle, but not before the AFL came under fire from confused experts over umpires’ enforcement of dangerous tackles. The match review officer determined Berry had no case to answer for […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL knew before Marlion Pickett did that the police wanted to speak to the Richmond player about aggravated burglaries in Perth last summer. The league was contacted on Wednesday last week by Perth’s Midland Police saying they wanted to speak to a […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This time last week, Tallyn Da Silva was scaffolding for about $20 an hour. It’s not unusual for Da Silva to squeeze in two or three labouring shifts between his footballing commitments, but this isn’t any ordinary week. On Saturday, the 18-year-old will […]