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The selection quarrels threatening to tear Maroons apart
There is turmoil at the top in Queensland, given the continuing division among selectors over the Maroons team for the second State of Origin match.
Roy Masters is a Sports Columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald
There is turmoil at the top in Queensland, given the continuing division among selectors over the Maroons team for the second State of Origin match.
Many of the players in Wednesday night's State of Origin match have been chosen more on memory than merit.
The NRL must invest in a digital strategy despite the misgivings of its clubs.
Rugby league is perceived to be hurtling towards a humiliating train wreck, with an engine piloted by a conflicted ARLC chairman, supported by five compliant commissioners and driven by 16 NRL clubs with competing agendas.
ARLC chair John Grant has defended himself against the accusation rugby league is heading for a train wreck.
If the NRL believes the scourge of cocaine is a society-wide issue, the code has its own peculiar challenges with painkillers and sleeping tablets, with the use of these medications being disproportionate to the rest of the population.
For some years now, the New Zealand players in the annual Anzac Test match have been paid by the Australian Rugby League.
Wests Tigers should have learnt from history the folly of having their best four players come off contract at the same time.
When it is put to Storm coach Craig Bellamy that Sunday's match is a grand final re-match, he sounds like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth: "What's done is done."
Fifteen months ago, Canterbury coach Des Hasler put a bizarre proposal to the Storm: an immediate swap of Melbourne halfback Cooper Cronk for two promising Bulldogs players.
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