Posts Tagged "State Of Origin"

For the sixth time in NRL State of Origin history, the canetoads and cockroaches will clash in Melbourne, this time in game one of the series.

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With the 2012 NRL Season just around the corner, I thought I would look into the crystal ball and outline my predictions for the coming year.

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At the dawn of another NRL season, sports fans everywhere can be heard cursing the loss of summer, but welcoming the retreat of cricket. “No more Ian Healy!” goes the uniform cry of the jubilant masses.

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The All Stars match will never be the showpiece of rugby league. People will never be as passionate about it as they are about State of Origin. It will never draw as big an audience and winning it will never be regarded by the players as one of the game’s top honours.

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Young centre Esi Tonga’s hopes of playing State of Origin football for Queensland like his older brother Willie could be crushed by a two-year representative ban.

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Some may say it’s too early for an NRL blog, since it’s 51 days till the NRL season kicks off, so it would be way too early for a State of Origin one since its 134 days till the first game…

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The NRL is claiming superiority over AFL as it seeks to improve its media rights deal. Over the past week, some interesting figures have been released, which the NRL hierarchy has seized on.

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Mal Meninga is determined to prevent any more talented youngsters slipping through the Maroons’ net after signing a new four-year deal that expands his powers as Queensland State of Origin coach.

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Queensland State of Origin coach and former Canberra great Mal Meninga denies this week’s cameo with the Raiders is part of a grand plan to return to the NRL ranks.

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Queensland rugby league boss Robert Moore says his board’s failure to sign off on a new four-year contract deal for Mal Meninga at the weekend is no cause for alarm.

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I was born and bred in North Essendon, Melbourne, in 1976, walking distance from Windy Hill, Essendon’s holy turf, the sweetest of all suburban Australian Football grounds.

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Of all the bad publicity that rugby league has suffered, surely this is the lowest ebb. Rightly or wrongly, you can pass off drunken escapades as moronic boys being moronic boys.

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At the beginning of the year, I made five fearless predictions for the 2011 NRL season. Before we discuss this weekend’s finals, it’s time to review those predictions and determine whether I have egg all over my face, or whether I can be labelled a rugby league Nostradamus.

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After listening to David Gallop talk about the Manly versus Melbourne brawl on NRL on Fox last night, I started to think about whether or not fights like the one between Stewart and Blair were really damaging the game.

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I don’t care what code you follow and I don’t care what part of the country you come from. For years we’ve been sold a story by the free-to-air networks.

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Mal Meninga came away from a meeting with the NRL match review panel on Monday impressed by how difficult their “mind numbing” job is, but he still didn’t regret his scathing column almost a month ago.

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Mal Meninga’s stunning rant against NSW powerbrokers and the NRL match review committee (MRC) is set for the courts after defamation proceedings were issued against the Queensland State of Origin coach.

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Queensland State of Origin coach Mal Meninga has refused to apologise to NSW rugby league identities who threatened him with legal action over his explosive Sunday Mail column.

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Queensland State of Origin coach Mal Meninga has declined to comment on reports the NRL match review committee has given him 48 hours to apologise for accusing them of being part of a conspiracy to stop his champion Maroons winning a record sixth consecutive series.

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NSW State of Origin coach Ricky Stuart held his first planning meeting ahead of the 2012 series on Wednesday – dousing speculation he was poised to dump the Blues in favour of a return to the NRL.

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