Kangaroos Draw

You don’t need to be a sports expert to know that Israel Folau is a talented rugby league player. He was born in Minto in Sydney’s south-west to Tongan parents, but the family moved to Brisbane while he was still a schoolboy. He grew up playing rugby league, and with his power and pace was [...]

With Cameron Smith withdrawing from the NRL All Stars game due to a shoulder injury, the man to replace him in the All Stars is the man Smith replaced in the Kangaroos: Danny Buderus. Buderus and Smith had a running rivalry before Buderus’s sojourn to the English Super League, one which brought out the best [...]

It has been in the works for almost a year now. A rumour that has had all rugby and league fans in Tasmania looking forward to a rare top-flight sporting opportunity in Hobart. Next year, Bellerive Oval (or Blundstone Arena) will host two AFL games, with North Melbourne having a new part-time home in Southern [...]

After being named Kangaroos captain in 2002, Andrew Johns was asked what he would change about himself as the leader of his national team, to which he responded something along the lines of: “I’ll be shaving a little more frequently.” Kangaroos captaincy hopeful Cam Smith looked to have followed Joey’s advice when Australia rolled England [...]

Modern perception is the England rugby league team has never been a formidable rival to the Kangaroos. But it hasn’t always been so. From the first meeting in 1908, til the 1970s, it was the Lions that held the upper hand most of the time. As with cricket in summer, in winter we wanted to [...]

Daly Cherry-Evans will give Queensland Origin and Kangaroo selectors a massive headache next season. What a debut year for Cherry-Evans – a premiership flag, the Dally M Rookie-of-the-Year, the International half-back-of-the-year, and a Kangaroo tour to England for the Four-Nations tournament. And he’s only been around for “five minutes”. “For a kid with one year [...]