Ben Barba is set for a shock switch to the English Super League less than four months after sensationally quitting the NRL after testing positive for cocaine.

Greg Inglis is aware of the support he has from the rugby league community — and he is overwhelmed.

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Josh Reynolds couldn't knock back the big money on offer to join Wests Tigers, although the decision to leave Belmore will cost the Bulldogs playmaker a lucrative sponsorship.

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An injury to Nate Myles couldn't dampen Manly's night as they thrashed Gold Coast 30-10 in a match packed with State of Origin hopefuls.

The 25-year-old Sydney Roosters winger remains his own worst critic despite his more than 100 first-grade games, a Test and multiple NSW Origin appearances.

The NRL's sometimes bad boys off the field are turning into choirboys on it with a staggering reduction in the amount of players charged for on-field indiscretions.

The game's highest profile players have warned they don't want to be "warring with the NRL" over collective bargaining agreement differences during the State of Origin series as Sharks veteran James Maloney reinforced strike action was a long way off.

Tohu Harris is back and he has a lot to make up for after injury robbed him of much of his NRL season.

He was once touted as a potential replacement for Paul Gallen himself, but Josh Jackson has endorsed Boyd Cordner – the man he will eyeball all afternoon on Sunday in a final State of Origin audition – to lead the next generation of Blues.

Peter Sterling believes Mitchell Pearce is "a much better proposition" to become the NSW halfback than at any other time in his career and won't carry the baggage of previous defeats if given another crack at State of Origin.

Semi Radradra has given the greatest indication yet that he'll be back playing for Parramatta this time next year following his French rugby stint.

The debate over whether Josh Dugan is a fullback or a centre will be determined by Cronulla after the representative star signed a four-year, $3 million deal with the premiers from next season.

It shapes to be a long second half of the season for Ivan Cleary as Wests Tigers lost 36-0 to the Broncos, James Tedesco endured a forgettable evening and Josh Aloiai suffered a gruesome leg injury.

Andrew Fifita has lobbed the first verbal volley in the State of Origin war of words warning a beaten-up Queensland - "this is our year."

In what looms as the biggest threat to John Grant's reign as ARLC chair, a meeting of all 16 NRL club chairmen has been called in Sydney next Tuesday.

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Jarrod Croker's "phenomenal" achievement comes as no surprise to Ricky Stuart.