Tag: NRL
Trying to find the greatest rugby league team of the last decade might be a little too difficult. But you can still try, right ? A little imagination never hurt anyone.
Four elimination games with those winning teams facing off in semi final games and than a final. The Melbourne Storm’s winning sides of 2007 and 2009 were not considered.
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Cameron King is a name you should already know. King is the definition of a superstar in the making. Groomed for years to be a future Australian captain. But instead of 2011 being his year, it turned into the year from hell.
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The 2012 season cannot come and go fast enough for the Sydney Roosters with the news that rising superstar James Maloney is on his way to the glamour club in 2013. But Maloney will dive straight into the deepest of deep ends when he wears the number six jersey that legendary playmaker Brad Fittler made famous.
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John Zebelon Taia is your modern day rugby league backrower. At 6 foot 1 and 110 kilograms, Zeb Taia could be that extra ingredient that Wayne Bennett and his Newcastle Knights need to really be a force in 2012.
Taia isn’t a new face at the Knights and wont get the media attention that the likes of new boys Darius Boyd and Kade Snowden will soak up. But Taia is that dangerous x-factor that coaches fear.
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The Wests Tigers will arguably have the most devastating second row in the competition next season with Kiwi international Adam Blair set to pack down with English counterpart Gareth Ellis at Concord in 2012.
But the pair have barely had time to muster combinations yet with Blair and Ellis both on international duty in the Gillette Four Nations for their respective countries.
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Recently I had a long chat to one of the foundation players for the Melbourne Storm and he gave a great insight into the formation of their club culture which, salary cap irregularities aside, has seen the club establish itself as a force in the National Rugby League. Consistently making finals and taking underperforming players from other sides and helping them realize their full potential.
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He has foot work like Darius Boyd, power like Akuila Uate and blinding speed like Jharal Yow Yeh. But does anyone remember Kevin Gordon? The Gold Coast Titans’ winger is the forgotten man of 2011.
2011 is a season Gordon would rather forget. This was to be the year, after all, the 22 year old was to play his first representative football. Make no mistake about it, he would have.
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Troubled superstar Todd Carney has reportedly signed with the Cronulla Sharks in a last ditch bid to save his fledgling NRL career. The two year deal worth $700,000 is Carney’s final chance at salvation.
The former Rooster will be paid $200,000 in the first year with $500,000 kicking in his second season.
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If Barry O’Farrell and the New South Wales Government are looking for another premier event than look no further. Imagine the Australian rugby league team taking on a World XIII which included the likes of Benji Marshall, Sam Burgess, Manu Vatuvei and Jarryd Hayne. And it all took place on New Years Eve.
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The Manly Sea Eagles are 2011 NRL Telstra premiers after downing a gutsy New Zealand Warriors 24-10 on Sunday at ANZ Stadium.
Glenn Stewart’s return from suspension was the catalyst for an impressive Eagles performance with the lock forward winning the Clive Churchill medal.
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Video: STORM 2012 DEPTH CHART
