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Dead In Goal podcast: NRL theme round suggestions

Dead In Goal podcast: NRL theme round suggestions

The NRL’s Anzac round is one of the more powerful weekends on the schedule. But what else could the NRL be honouring throughout the season? 26 Apr 2018
Gold Coast to host Women's National Championship

Gold Coast to host Women's National Championship

The Gold Coast will play host to the 2018 Women's National Championship at the start of June. 23 Apr 2018
Dead In Goal NRL podcast: Talking the game up

Dead In Goal NRL podcast: Talking the game up

As negativity hits an all-time high in rugby league, this week we discuss the need for the sport to focus on the good stuff, too. As long as we don’t get too precious about it all … 19 Apr 2018
This is Henson Park

This is Henson Park

There’s no rugby league experience quite like a Newtown Jets home game. The big stadiums will never be able to match the charm, passion and community spirit of a place like Henson, a beacon of suburban footy. 17 Apr 2018
Birchgrove Park: 110 years on from round one

Birchgrove Park: 110 years on from round one

April 20, 2018 marks the 110th anniversary of the first-ever round of rugby league matches to be played in Australia. One of the venues on that historic Easter Monday was Sydney's Birchgrove Oval. 16 Apr 2018
Dead In Goal Podcast: NRL crowds on the rise

Dead In Goal Podcast: NRL crowds on the rise

According to several news outlets, the referees’ early season blitz on offside infringements is driving fans away from the game. Despite the recent rise in penalties, however, rugby league crowd numbers are up on previous years … How does that work? 12 Apr 2018
Dead In Goal Podcast: Rugby League's most historic moments

Dead In Goal Podcast: Rugby League's most historic moments

As the Greatest Game Of All approaches its 110th birthday in Australia, our Dead In Goal podcast team of James Smith and Jeff Centenera discuss the biggest moments in the sport's long history. 5 Apr 2018
Dead In Goal Podcast: league rules that aren't really enforced

Dead In Goal Podcast: league rules that aren't really enforced

#Refsfault hysteria is at an all-time high in the Greatest Game of All, with seemingly every losing club and their fans aiming the blame squarely at the whistle-blowers if their team is on the wrong end of the scoreboard at full-time. 28 Mar 2018
The people have spoken: new Immortals categories needed

The people have spoken: new Immortals categories needed

Immortal trainers, fans and mascots are some of the categories rugby league Twitter has suggested – nay demanded – via this week’s Dead In Goal NRL podcast. 21 Mar 2018
Roy Masters and the Magpies’ Victa era

Roy Masters and the Magpies’ Victa era

The Western Suburbs Magpies’ iconic Victa-sponsored jersey, worn between 1978-82, is the stuff of rugby league legend, symbolising working-class heroics. 20 Mar 2018
Dead In Goal NRL Podcast: Round One Premiers

Dead In Goal NRL Podcast: Round One Premiers

You don’t win the comp in Round One, but you can at least celebrate a first-week win like you have. 15 Mar 2018
5 things to know about the women's NRL competition

5 things to know about the women's NRL competition

It has been flying under the radar since NRL Cheif Executive Todd Greenberg announced the inaugural women's NRL competition but The Women's Game is here to catch up with everything that has been happening. 13 Mar 2018
Dead In Goal NRL Podcast: We hate losing to ...

Dead In Goal NRL Podcast: We hate losing to ...

On this week's episode - in the shadow of the start of the new season - James Smith and Jeff Centenera discuss who we hate losing to. Whether it's on grand final day or on a random mid-winter Sunday afternoon, losing to your rival team sucks. 7 Mar 2018
Simply the best footy tips: Round 1

Simply the best footy tips: Round 1

Each week we’ll preview the upcoming round of rugby league through a 1980s and 1990s lens. Why? Because it will be fun. Here goes ... 7 Mar 2018
Fans share rugby league road trip stories

Fans share rugby league road trip stories

There’s watching your team play an away game … then there’s catching a plane to follow your team to the other side of the world. But such is life for the dedicated rugby league fan. 19 Feb 2018
Kuk looking forward to 2018

Kuk looking forward to 2018

Dual Australian Jillaroos and Papua New Guinea Orchids representative Amelia Kuk looks set for a busy year with the inaugural professional women’s national rugby league competition coming to fruition in 2018. 16 Feb 2018
Blake Austin: kickstarting the Green Machine

Blake Austin: kickstarting the Green Machine

The popular 27-year-old Canberra star, who has played exactly a century of games in first grade since his debut for the Penrith Panthers back in 2011, was generous enough to share his thoughts on the Raiders’ 2017 battles, and how his side can return to the pointy end of the ladder in 2018. 16 Feb 2018
Andrew Voss: How to predict a league on the move

Andrew Voss: How to predict a league on the move

Alright, alright, I know. Opinions are like backsides. We’ve all got one ... but here’s the deal. I’ve received a special request to “bare” mine in relation to what is a fast-approaching National Rugby League season, right here, right now. 16 Feb 2018
How OzTag has become the perfect pathway for rugby league success

How OzTag has become the perfect pathway for rugby league success

It was once billed as a social way for footballers to keep fit over the off-season, but now OzTag is proving to be the perfect player development pool for women’s rugby league. 15 Feb 2018
The ultimate 2018 NRL Road Trip

The ultimate 2018 NRL Road Trip

With eight matches scheduled across regional New South Wales and Queensland, plus blockbuster events in major cities including Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Melbourne, elite-level rugby league will be taken to every corner of the Aussie mainland in 2018 and beyond. 15 Feb 2018
Epic Inside Sport NRL season preview edition out now

Epic Inside Sport NRL season preview edition out now

If you’re a passionate fan of the Greatest Game Of All, you’re going to love hitting up the March 2018 edition of Inside Sport magazine, with Cowboys superstar Jason Taumalolo on the cover. 15 Feb 2018