Despite entering the NSW Rugby league Premiership in 1967, the Cronulla Sharks are yet to register a first grade title in over 40 years of competition. Despite this, the Sharks have unearthed some of the game’s finest players headed by League legends Steve Rogers and Andrew Ettingshausen. The closet Cronulla have gotten to a Premiership victory was in their three Grand final losses in 1973, 1978 and 1997.
Wests Tigers survived a bombing barrage to consolidate fourth spot on the NRL ladder with a hard-earned 24-22 win over Cronulla at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday night.
Second rower Liam Fulton bagged a double as the Tigers outscored the Sharks five tries to four in a patchy performance against a spirited Cronulla side.
The Tigers sparkled only [...] Read article
NRL preview panel for round 21 matches (all times AEST).
Friday
Canterbury Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs at ANZ Stadium, 7.35pm
Head to head: Bulldogs 72, Rabbitohs 63, drawn 4
Last clash: Rabbitohs 38-16 at ANZ Stadium (rd 4, 2010)
TAB Sportsbet: Bulldogs $2.30, Rabbitohs $1.60
FootyTab: Bulldogs +2.5
Souths appear to be back after a rough match of mostly narrow losses [...] Read article
A possible sternum injury to rising star Josh Dugan is just one of the problems Canberra face as they attempt to find an unexpected spot in the NRL final eight.
The recently re-signed fullback pulled up clutching at his torso in the 55th minute of the Raiders’ 20-13 win over Cronulla on Saturday night.
Dugan will undergo [...] Read article
Canberra remain in the hunt for a spot in the NRL finals after an unconvincing 20-13 win over Cronulla in the capital on Saturday night.
In a game highlighted by spite and dropped ball, the Raiders managed to hold it a little more with winger Daniel Vidot crossing for a try in both halves.
For the Sharks [...] Read article
New Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan says his earlier-than-expected elevation to the top job won’t take his focus away from rebuilding the Sharks into a genuine finals contender in 2011.
Flanagan was given a seven-week head start to life as the 16th head coach at the Sharks when Ricky Stuart vacated the post ahead of schedule on [...] Read article
Ricky Stuart has quit his post as Cronulla Sharks NRL coach, seven weeks before he had planned to exit at season’s end.
Stuart’s exit leaves the struggling Sharks in the hands of Shane Flanagan, who had been likely to take over the head coaching reins for 2011.
“I just feel I can’t get that extra bit out [...] Read article
Anthony Watmough helped himself to a first-half hat-trick of tries as Manly emerged out of their form slump with a 48-18 NRL win over an awful Cronulla side at Toyota Stadium.
Beaten in four of their last five games, Manly stormed to a 36-0 halftime lead on Saturday, scoring seven tries before the break.
The huge win [...] Read article
We’re heading into the business end of the season, so it’s only fair the round review heats up as well.
Tigers v Titans. Campbelltown Stadium, Campbelltown. Friday 7.35pm
Much has been said about ‘Paul’ the psychic Octopus who has famously been picking FIFA World Cup winners, but most people don’t know that Paul’s first love is actually [...] Read article
Canterbury excitement machine Ben Barba pushed his own long-term claims to the club’s five-eighth position with a sparkling display in his team’s 24-12 NRL win over Cronulla in Gosford.
The win, just the Bulldogs’ fifth of the season, moved them level on points with the Sharks, four points off eighth spot.
It was the first time in [...] Read article
Cronulla’s proposal to play five NRL games in Gosford may be history, but chairman Damian Irvine has warned big crowds are needed to ensure the Sharks continue playing out of Toyota Stadium.
As Ricky Stuart’s side prepares for Saturday night’s “home” clash with Canterbury at Bluetongue Stadium, Irvine has indicated the Sharks’ bottom line needs to [...] Read article
Back from a work related hiatus (translation: Work controls my life).
Broncos v Tigers. Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Friday 7.35pm
Whilst usually spending much of his time treating his players to wisdom and general rugby league martyr-like insight, Tigers coach Tim Sheens has decided to get a little selfish, and has treated himself to a new sports car. [...] Read article
NRL wooden spoon favourites at the start of the year, Cronulla and Newcastle are daring to dream of finals football thanks to two tremendous away victories this weekend.
The Knights, whose pre-season preparations were ravaged by the arrests and subsequent sackings of Danny Wicks and Chris Houston following allegations of drug trafficking, have now won two [...] Read article
The Sydney Roosters have proved four playmakers are better than one, bursting Parramatta’s bubble in a red-hot 48-12 thrashing of the Eels at Parramatta Stadium.
Halves Todd Carney and Mitchell Pearce, lock Braith Anasta and fullback Anthony Minichiello – who bagged two tries – ran riot as the Roosters scored eight tries to two and notched [...]
Wests Tigers survived a bombing barrage to consolidate fourth spot on the NRL ladder with a hard-earned 24-22 win over Cronulla at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday night.
Second rower Liam Fulton bagged a double as the Tigers outscored the Sharks five tries to four in a patchy performance against a spirited Cronulla side.
The Tigers sparkled only [...]
This years Four-Nations promises to be the best held in the Southern Hemisphere. Well, let’s put it out there and say ever.
With the double header and the new Eden Park, Papua New Guinea on the international scene to show their stuff against the best – also reminding the NRL that they are around for admission [...]
South Sydney’s finals charge copped a debilitating double blow with star import Sam Burgess put on report as Canterbury registered a stunning 32-12 upset NRL win at ANZ Stadium on Friday night.
As Bulldogs fullback Luke Patten scored his 100th try in the top grade to cap a mixed night, the Rabbitohs left themselves with plenty [...]
Penrith winger Michael Gordon delivered the inspiration his team has been seeking to get their NRL campaign back on track on Friday night.
Locked 16-all with North Queensland at a damp CUA Stadium, Gordon scored a sensational 55-metre solo effort to snap the Panthers’ losing streak and seal a dramatic 24-16 win.
The Panthers were made to [...]
At the start of the year I made a resolution not to blast referees this season. My resolution was made partly through a feeling that it was a tough job and having some no name blogger tapping away in fury did little to reach a productive solution of improved refereeing and two.
If the improvements that [...]
I’ve just seen the replay again of Matai’s supposed ‘high hit’ on Robbie Farah last Sunday, and need to vent. I was at the game right in front of the incident. Farah was rolling around on the ground pretending to be concussed in a performance that the Italian football team would have been proud of.
The [...]
NRL preview panel for round 21 matches (all times AEST).
Friday
Canterbury Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs at ANZ Stadium, 7.35pm
Head to head: Bulldogs 72, Rabbitohs 63, drawn 4
Last clash: Rabbitohs 38-16 at ANZ Stadium (rd 4, 2010)
TAB Sportsbet: Bulldogs $2.30, Rabbitohs $1.60
FootyTab: Bulldogs +2.5
Souths appear to be back after a rough match of mostly narrow losses [...]
Rugby league legend Benny Elias has been appointed to the board of A-League club Perth Glory.
Elias played 234 games for Balmain, 22 State of Origin games for New South Wales and 14 internationals for Australia and in 2005 was named one of the 25 greatest ever NSW players.
“Benny Elias brings a winning culture and attitude [...]
Parramatta believe they’ll be the more desperate side, the Sydney Roosters says it’s their “biggest test yet” – either way, it promises to be one of the NRL games of the year.
The league’s two form sides will clash in what is expected to be a sell-out at Parramatta Stadium and has been unusually scheduled as [...]
