'I still enjoyed them': Gordon smiling after seasons from hell
He's watched the supplements scandal rip the heart out of the Sharks and was collateral damage in the Eels' salary cap-stricken season from hell, but Michael Gordon is still smiling.
He's watched the supplements scandal rip the heart out of the Sharks and was collateral damage in the Eels' salary cap-stricken season from hell, but Michael Gordon is still smiling.
Premiers Cronulla have asked the NRL to break with tradition if they are to miraculously secure a top four spot and schedule their first finals game on Sunday week to ensure they aren't shackled by a short recovery period.
Blake Ferguson is adamant his pre-State of Origin drinking session with Josh Dugan wasn't responsible for Laurie Daley's axing as NSW coach, remaining hellbent on returning to the Blues fold next year.
St George Illawarra will ramp up efforts to lure New Zealand international Adam Blair to the club after becoming frustrated with their pursuit of English firebrand James Graham.
Shane Flanagan is adamant Andrew Fifita wouldn't have received a penalty if he was tackled in an identical fashion to Boyd Cordner, leading to a last-gasp goal that all but ended the Sharks' top four hopes.
If trying to be the first back-to-back premiers in almost a quarter of a century wasn't hard enough, the Sharks are about to carry another monumental rugby league burden into September after slipping outside the top four with a last-gasp loss to the Roosters.
It was supposed to be a day of celebration for James Tamou at a new club hyped as premiership fancies, but in the end he just sat there in bewilderment.
Laurie Daley's gone, but who are the men next in line to take on the job of coaching NSW?
Shane Flanagan is itching for a grand final rematch with Melbourne.
A double-header of sudden-death games hosted by fierce western Sydney rivals Parramatta and Penrith could be used as a headline act during the first week of the finals.
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