Why John Grant's leadership is set to derail the NRL

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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.

Rugby league not heading for a train wreck: Grant

ARLC chair John Grant has defended himself against the accusation rugby league is heading for a train wreck.

The NRL's dangerous legal drug habit

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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.

Rugby league's debt to New Zealand's trailblazers

For some years now, the New Zealand players in the annual Anzac Test match have been paid by the Australian Rugby League.

Wests Tigers fail to learn the lessons of history

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Wests Tigers should have learnt from history the folly of having their best four players come off contract at the same time.

Chase for Tedesco shows why No.1s are the No.1 players

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."

Hasler's offer to get Cronk to the Dogs

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.

The set of six killing coaches

It's been a bloody March for the NRL coaching profession.

The trouble with rugby league agents

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The NRL will inevitably move to ban agents from simultaneously representing both players and coaches.