By Jake Niall Joe Daniher, Nick, James Sicily, Jordan Dawson and Charlie Curnow make the mid-year All-Australian team.Credit: Getty/Marija Ercegovac Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Patrick Cripps was deemed by the umpires to be the premier player of 2022, 12 months after a similarly powerful inside midfielder, Ollie […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Manly’s Tom Trbojevic has been given critical clearance to play one more club game ahead of NSW picking their Origin II squad after a head knock which was initially set to rule him out this weekend. Trbojevic was collected high in last Wednesday’s […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A barely blooded NSW No.7 or a battle-hardened veteran, back for his first Origin in seven years, will be tasked with saving the Blues Origin campaign as Jarome Luai conceded Nathan Cleary’s series-ending injury could impact his own selection chances. A six-week hamstring […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In numbers 7/10 – SCORE 7 – WINS 5 – LOSSES 7th – LADDER POSITION Back-to-back defeats of 50 and 51 points to start the season had many – including the Bulldogs’ brass – wondering what had gone wrong. That the Bulldogs conceded […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In numbers 8/10 – SCORE 7 – WINS 5 – LOSSES 6th – LADDER POSITION Many AFL pundits had Essendon pegged for a bottom-four finish this year, but at the halfway point of the season, this young side looks a finals contender. The […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In numbers 5/10 – SCORE 6 – WINS 6 – LOSSES 11th – LADDER POSITION After 12 years in the competition, and with coach Stuart Dew in his seventh year at the helm, the Suns set themselves a clear target at the beginning […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In numbers 4/10 – Score 4 – Wins 7 – Losses 1 – Draws 13th – Ladder This was always to be an all-in year for Richmond. The arrival of two ready-to-go midfield recruits in Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper was designed to […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jordan De Goey has never made it through a full season of games so on that score there was a sense of inevitability that something would come up to result in De Goey missing games. This is, though, a forgivable lapse of thinking […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. North Queensland have kept their season alive with an emphatic 45-20 victory over Melbourne at home following a second-half blitz and hat-trick to club debutant Semi Valemei. Neither side could be split after the opening 40 minutes with the score locked at 14-all, […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mal Meninga has been stunned by criticism of James Tedesco from people in NSW, declaring the Blues fullback would still be the first player picked for Australia as well as captain. The Kangaroos coach also said the heavy Penrith influence in NSW’s attack […]