Manly have advanced to the second week of the NRL finals and ended Canterbury’s Cinderella season with a come-from-behind 24-22 win in their elimination final at Accor Stadium. The Bulldogs controlled long stretches of Sunday’s match but a 45-metre runaway try from left centre Tolu Koula helped put Manly on top in the final 10 … Read more
Newcastle prop Leo Thompson has received a one-game ban for his high shot on North Queensland’s Kyle Feldt and looks set to miss the start of the Pacific Championships. Thompson was charged with a grade-two careless high tackle for flying out of the line to hit Feldt late in the 28-16 elimination final loss that … Read more
Canterbury superstar Josh Addo-Carr faces an uncertain future after his second sample reportedly returned a positive result for cocaine. The fallout from Addo-Carr’s alleged positive roadside test to cocaine took a new turn on Friday with multipe reports of the positive oral sample. The 29-year-old was pulled over on Friday night while driving in the … Read more
Cameron Munster has been through the wars this year but says his body is in pristine shape ahead of the finals. Munster was resigned to having hip surgery at the end of the season when he went down in agony in Magic Round with an adductor tendon tear that led to him missing 10 weeks … Read more
The Penrith Panthers might be celebrating the return of their superstar co-captain Nathan Cleary for finals, but they are also preparing the departure of James Fisher-Harris and Jarome Luai. It looms as a bitter-sweet moment for the club and enforcer Scott Sorensen gave a rare glimpse of all the emotion that is running behind the … Read more
Melbourne Storm premiership winner Cameron Munster and wife Bianca have announced the safe arrival of their third child. Their first daughter was not due until well after the NRL finals, which begin this weekend, but made “a grand entrance seven weeks early”. “In absolute awe of the new addition to our family. Blake Maria Munster,” … Read more
Josh Addo-Carr has allegedly returned a positive roadside cocaine test only days out from Canterbury’s fairytale return to the NRL finals. Police pulled the star Bulldogs winger over around 10.45pm on Friday night while he was driving in Wentworth Point, a suburb in Sydney’s inner west. Addo-Carr is alleged to have tested positive to cocaine … Read more
Newcastle will weaponise their status as the NRL’s “ugly ducklings” after clinching the last top-eight spot and ending the Dolphins’ finals dream with a 14-6 win in the shootout for eighth spot. The Knights spent only two weeks in the top eight before round 27, but Sunday’s win in Newcastle locks up an elimination final … Read more
Cronulla coach Craig Fitzgibbon has played the underdog card ahead of the NRL finals, but hopes one day the Sharks are held in the same regard as their top-four rivals. The Sharks on Sunday completed the perfect warm-up for their qualifying final against Melbourne, beating Manly 40-20 in one of their best performances in months. … Read more
South Sydney have confirmed seven players will depart the club as they embark on a rebuild under incoming coach Wayne Bennett. Tom Burgess (Huddersfield) and Damien Cook (Dragons) bid farewell after Friday night’s loss to the Roosters with the pair’s departure to new clubs already known. But haflbacks Dean Hawkins and Dion Teaupa, winger Izaac … Read more
