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With three weeks until the 2019 NRL season starts, many of us are filled with hope that our team will do really well. Maybe they’ll even challenge for the premiership.
With three weeks until the 2019 NRL season starts, many of us are filled with hope that our team will do really well. Maybe they’ll even challenge for the premiership.
The hole left in North Queensland’s squad following Ben Barba’s sacking has been filled by New Zealand international Jordan Kahu.
I’ve looked at the draw for the upcoming NRL season so many times now I’ve almost memorised it.
Statistically, two or three teams that finished in the top eight in the previous season usually drop out of the top eight in the next season.
In 1997, as we know, the Australian rugby league scene was a divided wasteland with two professional opposing competitions taking place.
The years are starting to roll on since the Broncos’ last title in 2006. What are the main factors behind the drought for one of Australian sport’s most successful clubs?
Jack Bird was Wayne Bennett’s prize signing for 2018, but after a dismal first season in Brisbane – thanks in large part to shoulder and sternum injuries – his future at the Broncos is in doubt.
Despite denials by Wayne Bennett during the 2018 season, it was clear that his coaching career at the Broncos was over.
Amongst the assaults, scandals and big name player exchanges, the 2018-19 NRL pre-season will be remembered by the dramatic and long-winded coaching swap between South Sydney and Brisbane, which saw Anthony Siebold head to Suncorp and Wayne Bennett return to Sydney.
Anthony Seibold faces a daunting task taking over from Wayne Bennett at the Broncos.
Anthony Seibold faces a daunting task taking over from Wayne Bennett at the Broncos.
Anthony Seibold faces a daunting task taking over from Wayne Bennett at the Broncos.
It’s a scenario made for reality TV: take a veteran coach who’s won everything, wrest control of a football side from his fingers and transplant him to a new location. Then, take a young, up-and-coming coach and parachute him in the opposite direction.
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He’s been touted as one of few reasons for Australian rugby fans to be optimistic about the future, but young star Izaia Perese is on his way out of the 15-man game and headed to rugby league.
Now he has secured his NRL future, Brisbane prop Matt Lodge has set his sights on State of Origin.
New Brisbane coach Anthony Seibold won’t seek to smoke the peace pipe with Broncos greats who protested his appointment, saying he hoped to win them over with results.
The inevitable has happened: Wayne Bennett has come to Rabbit land and Anthony Seibold has rejoined the Broncos for 2019. Thus ends the most unedifying will-he-won’t-he episode in NRL coach history.
When the Broncos board sacked Wayne Bennett yesterday, it simply proved the 68-year-old coach had far too much grey matter in public perception, and wasn’t just the colour of his hair.
Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett has been sacked by the club and replaced with former South Sydney Rabbitohs coach Anthony Siebold effective immediately.
The NRL will introduce a shot clock for sloppy coach swaps, aligning the practice with the game’s other time-restricted aspects like scrums, dropouts and being CEO at Manly.
The NRL will introduce a shot clock for sloppy coach swaps, aligning the practice with the game’s other time-restricted aspects like scrums, dropouts and being CEO at Manly.
The NRL will introduce a shot clock for sloppy coach swaps, aligning the practice with the game’s other time-restricted aspects like scrums, dropouts and being CEO at Manly.
With three weeks until the 2019 NRL season starts, many of us are filled with hope that our team will do really well. Maybe they’ll even challenge for the premiership.