Shaun Johnson has spent the off-season having tough conversations around mental health and he’s encouraging fans to follow suit.
Jasper Bruce
Kane Evans played 14 games for the Warriors in one season and incurred $2500 in fines and six games worth of suspensions.
The New Zealand Warriors are set to continue their exile from the home nation as their base location for the 2022 NRL season is confirmed.
Alex Conrad
Until clubs figure out why players switch clubs, they will continue to overpay for talent and salary caps and scorelines will continue to be blown out, PAUL KENT writes.
Paul Kent
As he awaits word on his availability to face his former club next weekend, Chad Townsend opens up on his Warriors return and what happened in those final 10 minutes on Friday night.
Michael Carayannis
Lorina Papali’i is an icon in New Zealand rugby league, and she hasn't spared the Warriors when reviewing how they treated her son.
Nick Walshaw
The NRL’s plan to introduce a second Brisbane team in 2023 now hangs in the balance as the game shifts its focus to the current Covid crisis.
Travis Meyn
While Cronulla’s premiership-winning halfback Chad Townsend has secured a release to join a NRL rival, Blake Ferguson is edging closer to deciding his next move.
Fatima Kdouh
He’s the Maroons star who was controversially booted by the Broncos just six games into his NRL career – but now Brisbane want Dane Gagai back.
Peter Badel, Phil Rothfield and Fatima Kdouh
It’s been almost two months since the Broncos informed Matt Lodge he was free to join another club. But Brisbane still can’t broker a transfer deal and the big prop is sick of the mind games.
Peter Badel
The NRL halves market is hotter than ever. Where will the top targets go? We look at how every club is placed for 2022.
Benji Marshall’s NRL lifeline could see the Knights secure a young playmaker while there’s a real surprise packet set for a role at the Sharks next year. It’s all in Sport Confidential.
Michael Carayannis and Paul Kent
Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma is nowhere to be seen in NSW Blues coach Brad Fittler’s State of Origin squad — and fans are furious.
Nick Campton
Stepping up from assistant to the (caretaker) main man can be a painful but crucial audition. Five assistants were thrust into the NRL hot seat in 2020, but only one of them will walk into the top job next year, writes PAUL KENT.
It’s time to hand out the marks for season 2020. Another season, another finals campaign missed, not that too much else was expected from one of the game’s perennial disappointments.
Paul Crawley
Five years after walking out on the Sea Eagles, Kieran Foran could be just days away from sealing a dramatic move back to Manly as the club reforms the core of its last premiership side.
Dean Ritchie
Generation now: From a powerhouse prop who could finish his career as the greatest forward in history to a back-rower who will become one of rugby league’s highest-paid players before he turns 21. NICK CAMPTON’s Top 10 NRL players under 22.
Dragons coach Dean Young didn’t hold back when assessing his side’s disastrous performance against a finals-bound Newcastle, while, in Canberra, Ricky Stuart was also fired up.
Paul Crawley and Martin Gabor
He’s in the midst of a fallout with Phil Gould, now high profile agent Wayne Beavis is dealing with the fury of unemployed coach Shane Flanagan — all the latest NRL chatter and more in Australia’s hottest sport gossip column.
Phil Rothfield
Eels back-rower Andrew Davey will not have to pick up his tool bag for another two years after securing a new NRL deal. Plus check out all the unsigned players for 2021.
James Phelps, Dean Ritchie, Nick Campton and David Riccio
The Warriors players have embraced living on the NSW Central Coast so much that they will likely spurn a planned move 900km north to Redcliffe if they are forced to call Australia home again next season.
The Panthers are three points clear at the top of the ladder and will be look set to be handed the minor premiership in 2020 having lost just one regular season game. Read all the likes and dislikes from Round 18 of the NRL here.
Nick Campton, Fatima Kdouh, Nick Walshaw James Phelps, Travis Meyn, Michael Carayannis, Chris Honnery & Michael Blok
It’s been a rough year for the Manly Sea Eagles, and the club is set to make a big call on coach Des Hasler’s future this week — check out all the latest NRL chatter and more.
For eight years the Warriors pinned their hopes on Shaun Johnson leading them to the promised land. When it didn’t happen, an uncomfortable divorce eventuated. Now it’s Cronulla’s turn.
David Riccio
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