As he prepares for his 300th NRL game, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves will run out with the rare distinction and special pride of never having been dropped in his 15 years at the Sydney Roosters. And that speaks volumes at a club as stacked as the Roosters. Much has been made of Waerea-Hargreaves’ impending milestone, given the […]
The pressure on Darren Coleman over the last few months was both foreseeable and unsurprising. Much has been written about Coleman not having enough time, about Australian Rugby not learning. Only half is on the mark. The truth is that Coleman is set up to fail in a role where learning on the job doesn’t […]
Over the past couple of years, the NRL has introduced so many new rules that I am genuinely struggling to keep track.But there’s no point in introducing new rules if they are not enforced or worse, if the only consistency we can count on is inconsistency. One area where we are increasingly seeing inconsistency is […]
Matthew Nicks simply must move away from conservative selections and be more adventurous with his tactics to truly repay the faith shown in him with Adelaide’s two-year contract extension. Coming out of 2023, the Crows were almost the consensus dark horse of the league. They’d missed finals in controversial circumstances and had shown a powerful […]
Through Lewis Hamilton’s dominate period in Formula 1 with Mercedes, where he won six world titles in seven seasons, many struggled with the predictable domination week to week and questioned the benefit of it to the sport as a whole. A similar feeling is immersing Formula 1 as we speak, with Max Verstappen on a […]
