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With their second-half fadeouts now seemingly a distant memory and strong wins over Manly and Parramatta in recent weeks, the Raiders have the teams in the top eight looking over their shoulder. Sitting in ninth and with games against the Knights and Dragons coming up, Ricky Stuarts men have the chance to gain momentum and secure a third straight finals appearance. Having come agonisingly close to a premiership in 2019 and making it to the preliminary final last year, there is no shortage of mo...

Immortal Kombat When I spoke to Mitchell Moses a few days after his State of Origin debut, he gave no indication he’d suffered a fracture in his back. He said it had spasmed a few times after being hit by Queensland’s Felise Kaufusi in the seventh minute, but that was about it. “My back’s a bit sore,” is all he’s said to me in the past few days. It says a lot about Mitchell that he kept quiet last week about the injury and didn’t use it as an excuse as people ripped into him about...

With seven games remaining before the finals, were all but assured that sides one-through-six on the ladder will feature in the finals. That leaves two vacancies. The best bit about those two spots is there are eight teams within two games of each other battling for them. The Warriors face the toughest task and seventh and eighth spots are currently the Dragons and Sharks to lose. With this in mind, the experts at NRL.com have used the ladder predictor to determine who they think will finish se...

Eels v Raiders, Thursday 7.50pm at Cbus Super Stadium Eels: Mitchell Moses has been ruled out of Thursday nights clash against the Raiders due to a back fracture suffered in Origin III so Jake Arthur will play halfback again this week. Tom Opacic is also out and his place in the centres is taken by Will Penisini on debut, while Blake Ferguson has been recalled for his first game since round 12 at the expense of Haze Dunster. Joey Lussick and Makahesi Makatoa were the first two players cut 24 ho...

Basically non-existent: Moses and Wighton produce disastrous display A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size When Brad Fittler and the NSW Blues announced that Canberra Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton and Parramatta Eels halfback Mitchell Moses were going to be the halves combination for the third and final game for the Blues, I was very critical due to the duo’s form at club level, which has been somewhat up ...

By WWOS staff5 hours ago FShareTTweetQSMSWWhatsAppBEmailJTumblrLLinkedIn5 hours ago Mitchell Moses and Jack Wighton had a tough act to follow in Nathan Cleary and Jarome Luai, but NSW coach Brad Fittler rated their Origin III performance "great". Moses was on debut at halfback and Wighton was playing his first game as NSW five-eighth. While they may not have delivered victory, and had a clunky pairing at times, they both had good moments and left Fittler satisfied. He stood by his call not to ...

I like what weve started: Green wants to stay on as Maroons coach "But I am sure we will have a fair few run-ins against them over the next couple of years." Munster credits besieged coach Paul Green for getting Queensland back on track. Greens future looked bleak after Queensland lost the first two games by a 76-6 overall points aggregate and endured off-field controversies capped by Jai Arrows biosecurity bubble breach. Green is believed to have a 2022 option but remained coy on his future af...

FShareTTweetQSMSWWhatsAppBEmailJTumblrLLinkedIn7 hours ago NSW may have missed a trick by not handing goal-kicking duties to Mitchell Moses for his State of Origin debut, legendary Blues coach Phil Gould says. In the absence of Nathan Cleary, the issue isnt Brad Fittlers preferred replacement option: Latrell Mitchell, himself a fine kicker. Yet Gould said that Eels halfback Moses may have benefited from goal-kicking as he usually does, potentially getting himself into the game mentally by slott...

Manly take on the Red V at Cbus Super Stadium on Friday evening, just 48 hours after Trbojevic will be lining up for the Blues in State of Origin III with DCE in action for the Maroons. Cherry-Evans had a wow of a game against the Cowboys in round 14 as he bounced back from his Origin disappointed while Hasler elected to rest Trbojevic rather than forcing him to back up two days after Origin I and said the plan would be the same this week. "Yes, 100%," Hasler responded when asked if the same wo...

By Paul Gallen16 hours ago FShareTTweetQSMSWWhatsAppBEmailGJTumblrLLinkedIn16 hours ago NRL great PAUL GALLEN will appear on Nines 100% FOOTY on Monday night, debating rugby leagues hottest topics alongside Phil Gould and James Bracey. Tune in from 9.40pm AEST, following all the action of Round 17 and in the build-up to Origin III! The players who are headed to the NRLs Queensland bubble for at least a month are only human beings. Youve got to remember that. To be stuck in a bubble with nothing...