Axed Tigers coach Jason Taylor has claimed he was a "scapegoat" for the lingering contract negotiations involving the club's "big four" while telling skipper Aaron Woods and State of Origin No.1 James Tedesco it would be "really disrespectful" if they turned their back on the club.
Bookmakers had adjusted betting markets almost two hours before news of the Panthers axing of three of its backline stars for breaching team protocol emerged, with the NRL waiting to hear if there was any suspicious wagering on the clash against the Rabbitohs.
Anthony Cherrington would stare down and look at his aching knees, throbbing ankles and yearn for just one more NRL game. Wondering if it would ever come. When told almost eight years after his last it would happen, he just cried.
The NSW government's $40 million investment to upgrade training facilities across a number of the state's NRL clubs has riled one club, who argue they have been severely disadvantaged in funding their own centre of excellence.
The days of ducks and drakes are dwindling with NRL coaches significantly reducing the number of times they draft in players outside their initial top 17 under a League Central crackdown.
In the same week Manly's civil war was cooling with a meeting that became public, a private gathering with perhaps even greater significance was taking place.
Manly's maligned recruits Akuila Uate and Curtis Sironen played leading hands as the Sea Eagles used a rarely seen combination play between centres on different sides of the park to snap the Roosters' unbeaten start to the season.
"I just woke up one day and thought, 'cricket wasn't for me'."
He was painted as money-hungry when he switched allegiances to represent the Kangaroos, but Semi Radradra wants to delay his exit to French rugby for a final rugby league fling.
Des Hasler has virtually had the measure of every NRL coach he will come up against this season, but Wayne Bennett is the last man he will want to see riding into town with speculation about his future intensifying.
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