Posts Tagged "NRL 2011"

It’s an interesting time of year if your football team has already completed mad Monday celebrations and is on the way to find trouble in Bali, Thailand or Las Vegas.

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Yesterday, Phil Gould’s article for the Sydney Morning Herald called for David Gallop to resign from his post as chief executive officer of the NRL, following his comparison of Melbourne Storm fans to terrorists.

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Another NRL season is coming to an exciting end. A great state of origin series, the Melbourne Storm coming back hard this year after all the salary cap problems. Now, an interesting dilemma could occur in the grand final in the next few weeks.

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The emotion in the lead up to Friday night’s grand final qualifier between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Brisbane Broncos has created an eerie feeling. It would normally just be a matter of looking at stats from the home and away competition, but incredibly I find myself analysing titanium plates.

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Wests Tigers will line up against the New Zealand Warriors in a sudden death elimination final at the Sydney Football Stadium tonight. Join us for live scores and blog of the NRL semi-final, kicking off at 7:45pm (AEST).

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So, it took about 3.674 seconds for Todd Carney to seriously be linked with another NRL team. Every person willing to stick up for the former Dally M medallist seems to think that because “he’s a good kid” he deserves another chance.

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As children we’re taught about responsibility and consequences. If the school bus came at 7:30am it was my responsibility to get there on time. If I missed the bus then it wasn’t the fault of the bus company or the driver, but mine and mine alone.

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The Newcastle Knights head south to take on the minor premiers Melbourne Storm in the final semi-final of the round which sees first versus eighth. Join us from 4.00pm for all the action.

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Three words were all New Zealand Warriors coach Ivan Cleary needed to sum up his side’s NRL finals effort on Saturday night: “It’s all bad”.

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If rugby league bad boy Todd Carney picks up the pieces of his rugby league career in Queensland next season it won’t be as Darren Lockyer’s replacement in the Broncos No.6 jumper.

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Manly coach Des Hasler said his side will benefit from the week’s rest and will need to improve their first half effort for the bigger matches to come.

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Farewells for Darren Lockyer will last at least another week after the Broncos downed New Zealand Warriors 40-10 in their NRL finals clash at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.

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Manly overcame a major scare to easily eliminate North Queensland from the NRL finals series on Saturday night with an emphatic 42-8 victory at the Sydney Football Stadium.

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Wests Tigers halfback Robert Lui has revealed how the pain of last year’s NRL preliminary final loss to St George Illawarra helped spur Friday night’s stunning second half revival against the Dragons.

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At the end of the 2011 NRL regular season, here are my top five tries. There were some absolute crackers this year, and a few were unlucky to miss out. I have chosen these tries based on the difficulty in getting them, rather than their impact on the game, or there would have been a [...]

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There is a high stakes game being played between rugby league and Foxtel, based largely on how similar pay television is to smoking cigarettes.

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Rugby league bodies quite rightly say they are not boxing promoters, but the volatile and brutal nature of their game ensures the hard men bred to play it won’t always behave as saints. Over the course of a century, Sydney and Melbourne have evolved different tolerances to the rougher side of football.

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The explosion of violence at the end of the first half at Brookvale last week was the inevitable result of the methodology of Des Hasler and Craig Bellamy, two of the cleverest and most effective coaches in the game.

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The Sharks, sitting in 12th, are playing for pride, while the Bulldogs currently sitting in 10th, still have a faint sniff of the finals despite being two wins out of the top eight with just four games to play.

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There was a lot of debate over the weekend about a rugby league club’s duty of care to its players. But how far does this duty of care extend?

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