As part of a series profiling the expected Round 1 sides for all 17 NRL clubs in 2024, it’s time to see if Manly can improve on their 2023 – and finally live up to their potential. Summer is a great time to be on the Northern Beaches. Most parts of the year are a […]
Come let us bury Rugby Year 2023. Wallabus Annus Horribilis began with great promise. Let us be more precise: January began with a great number of promises by Eddie ‘Sumasshu Gurabu’ Jones. He was indeed unbeaten when February began, making January the apex of the Australian rugby year. This columnist may not tip Super Rugby Pacific […]
Junior sports across Australia, from rugby league to cricket suffer from a dearth of umpires. Umpires, referees, whatever they are called, exist to adjudicate on any rule breaches that might occur, advertently or otherwise. Often match officials command respect and loathing simultaneously. Regardless of whether the decision is correct, all match officials deserve respect if […]
Young fast bowlers can only dream of emulating the career of shooting star Spencer Johnson, rising from landscape gardener to IPL millionaire. If he were a baseball player Hollywood moviemakers would be drooling over this theme of their next movie: overnight sensation starts career promisingly, overcomes career-threatening injuries to be in demand by franchises around […]
The NRL is highly unlikely to allow Joey Manu to flit between a Roosters deal and a Japanese rugby contract if he tries to do double duty in the future. But it’s going to happen eventually. And if any club could make it work, it would be the Roosters. The ARL Commission, engaged in an […]
