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When season 2021 kicked off way back on March 11, we all had hopes that we had emerged from under the cloud of COVID-19 lockdowns. We looked forward to full stadiums and regular home games. We looked forward to home ground advantages. We even looked forward to shelling out outrageous sums of money for a […]

If our goal is for the NRL to be run properly, effectively, evenly and fairly then Craig Bellamy should be the next CEO of the NRL. What the first weekend of the finals demonstrated very clearly is something we all pretty much knew already: the Melbourne Storm are so far out in front of every […]

Why drugs, feuds and coaching chaos will feature prominently in the 2021 NRL season Rugby League by Phil Rothfield Premium Content Subscriber only The one thing guaranteed about the NRL season is that it will be another year of madness, outrage, controversy and scandal. Coach sackings, player misbehaviour, drugs, feuds and referee rage … we can already see Twitter exploding... BREAKING: Another star tests positive to cocaine. REVEALED: Brad Arthur axe...

They finished last year as premiers but that hasnt stopped the Storm from addressing on-field discipline issues by appointing former NRL referees boss Bernard Sutton for 2021. Sutton, who stepped down as the NRLs general manager of elite officiating at the end of last year, will join the Storm as a technical consultant with an aim to help the squad limit penalties and adapt to rule changes. The Storm finished the 2020 season conceding 5.5 penalties/ruck infringements per game, ranked 12th in th...

The NRL has failed to come to an agreement with its referees after scrapping the two-referee system.