Sydney Roosters' Chris Smith ready to put banana slip behind him
Bananas can be expensive, but one sending an NRL footballer broke? Chris Smith knows what the feeling is like.
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Adam Pengilly
Holy Moses: New Eel stars as Rabbitohs caught on the hop
Brad Arthur said Mitchell Moses needed time - which the Eels didn't have - to settle into his new club. But a week can be a very long time in rugby league and the ex-Tiger used every day of it to help Parramatta subdue South Sydney.
Bulldogs players back Origin format, despite losing stars
The respective coaches may disagree, but Bulldogs players have leapt to the defence of the existing State of Origin format which will drain seven representative stars from their clash against the high-flying Sharks.
NRL to enforce Barba ban on return to Australia if Super League debut cleared
A 12-match NRL ban will still hang over Ben Barba should he ever return to Australia if St Helens pursue - and succeed - in having his illicit drugs suspension overthrown so he can start his English Super League career immediately.
Smith won't outpoint Cordner in Origin game management
Nine years his junior and giving away 26 games of captaincy experience to his rival, Boyd Cordner won't have the wool pulled over his eyes by Cameron Smith in the game-management stakes.
A father at 16 and saying no to Des once, Dog finally gets his day
A teenage Francis Tualau didn't know Des Hasler all those years ago. Didn't know who he was bringing with him, or who was going in lieu of him. How long he would still be away from home, trying to earn a junior contract somewhere. Anywhere. So he said no to the Bulldogs. He wouldn't do the same again.
'There were tears': big Blue Boyd emotional at captaincy call
They reckon big boys don't cry, but the Biggest Blue of them all now has shed a few in his time. And Boyd Cordner is not afraid to admit it too.
Moses endures mixed debut as Raiders snap slide
Mitchell Moses endured a mixed Parramatta debut as the Canberra Raiders snapped an alarming mid-season slide to sink the Eels at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.
From bad boys to choirboys: Charges take a dive
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.
Origin stars 'don’t want to be warring'
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.
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