Instead of retiring a one-club icon at the Melbourne Storm, the great halfback decided to play on, eventually squeezing incumbent playmaker and Roosters favourite Mitchell Pearce out of the club. Cronk will undoubtedly steal the headlines as the Sydney fishbowl takes grip of every move he makes. Nothing but victory is expected. Watch every NRL premiership game live in 2018 on Fox Sports. Sign up here to stream for free on a two week trial > But there is another within the Roosters that deser

“What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” Yes, he did open an article with a quote from Billy Madison. But the only way to deal with fools is to laugh them off. Please enter the room, Malcolm Knox and Ben

On Saturday afternoon I experienced something absolutely strange. Almost too out there to put into words. I, wait for it, stepped into a time machine and travelled back to the early 1980’s. Before you tell me to put down the peyote – let me explain. My journey to this other time began with a train ride. In thirty minutes time I would be at Sydenham station but moving further back into the past. The closer I got the more Newtown Jets jerseys I saw. Fans from all over had begun their weekly pilg

Close your eyes for a moment and take a trip back in time. It is a sunny, winter afternoon, you and the boys have just knocked back one last schooner at the Railway Hotel. The conversation turns to footy as you cross the train tracks and head down Church Street. “How good was Tommy last week?” one mate spruiks. Another steps on his cigarette, “Not as good as Donnelly and Boyd!” The train line hugs the street as it narrows – you can hear the hum of Lidcombe Oval ahead. The smell of meat on ba

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If rugby league coaches live and die by results, New South Wales State of Origin Coach Laurie Daley is hanging from a cliff by nothing more than a couple of fingers. The Canberra legend is just two games away from three consecutive series defeats. If the Blues lose again, Daley will join Craig Bellamy (2008-2010) as the only NSW coaches to ever lose three straight Origin campaigns. The Blues lost three on the trot between 1982 and 1984 (Frank Stanton and Ted Glossop) and again between 1987 and

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A round 21 loss to the Auckland Warriors at Parramatta Stadium had the Bulldogs sitting seventh and a real chance of missing the playoffs. It was their last loss of 1995. The Bulldogs went on to win their final two home-and-away games before defeating St George, Brisbane, Canberra and Manly-Warringah to clinch an unlikely title. It was their first premiership since 1988, which was the last of four titles in the ‘80s, starting with the triumphant ‘Entertainers’ side of 1980. The day a modest s

Like a broken record, it has been churned out time and time again since 2006, followed by loss after loss. First, it was the late Graham Murray, then Craig Bellamy, Ricky Stuart and now Laurie Daley. Bill Murray had more fun in Punxsutawney. Granted, the Queenslanders have boasted some of the greatest players we will ever see and future Immortals but the Blues have fallen over themselves in mediocrity too. History will say that the Maroons had an unfair advantage. People will ask each other