Rugby league survives on opinions – who’s playing well, who’s not, and why. These are the fuel sources for conversations that burn in lunch rooms, offices and work sites along Australia’s east coast.
The Immortals concept is proof that if you stick around long enough, you’ll get respect.
Legendary rugby league scribe Ian Heads reckons Brian Bevan should be the next Immortal. His comment was reported yesterday by Phil Rothfield in the Sunday Telegraph, and Heads is spot on.
Rugby League Week have released the results of their annual players poll. The most surprising result of the survey was that 25 of the 100 players polled would consider switching to AFL within the next five years. The major question this poll prompts is, who are the players considering taking up AFL?
NRL players haven’t been deterred from punting on games by last year’s betting scandal, according to the results of a confidential poll.
Melbourne’s stars knew the club was rorting the salary cap, according to a poll of NRL players. The annual Rugby League Week players’ poll has found 62 per cent believe the Storm’s players would have been aware their payments breached the cap.
Storm v Cowboys. Olympic Park, Melbourne Friday 7.35pm: Fresh from Karmichael Hunt’s AFL defection, the Cowboys venture to the heartland of the Game of The Sherrin with a potential scandal of their own on their hands.
ARL chief executive Geoff Carr says Karmichael Hunt forfeited his right to a share of the representative players’ retirement fund when he “sold himself to the highest bidder outside rugby league”.
Rugby league’s first match officials poll has installed Brett Finch, son of NRL referees boss Robert Finch, as the NRL’s biggest sook and worst behaved player.
