Women’s sport currently takes second fiddle. Right or wrong, that’s the world we live in. The NRL have invested in a women’s competition for the past couple of years, while the World Cup in the UK later this year has committed to equal match payments with men. But the fact that the Indigenous vs Māori […]
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The CQ Capras have finalised their coaching line-up for 2021 and thereâs a common denominator that has CEO Peter White feeling pretty chuffed.
All are locals bar one and that one, John Buttigieg, surely qualifies as such having lived on the Capricorn Coast for almost 10 years.
White said each coach was impressive in their own right but said their strong local connection was important.
âIt makes sense â thatâs what the Capras are all about,â he said.
âWe give our male and female players the chance to represent their region and itâs only right that we give our coaches that same opportunity,â he said.
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Benji Marshall leaves the field after his last game for Wests Tigers. He latr autographed his last jersey for new South Sydney teammate Adam Reynolds.
Benji Marshall picked up the phone last week and called Wayne Bennett looking for a job. Not to ask if there was a spare spot for him as a player, but to gauge if there was any room on Bennett’s coaching staff for a soon-to-be-retired, premiership-winning five-eighth. Marshall, who was so desperate to play on in 2021 that he passed over a grand farewell from the Wests Tigers at the end of last season, had weeks ago resigned himself to the fact he would have to retire.
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Subscriber only A MAN who died in a quad bike crash in the Darwin rural area has been identified as a former professional rugby league player who was meant to celebrate his birthday today. Masada Iosefa, 32, was a Samoan former professional rugby league football player who played with the Penrith Panthers and West Tigers in the NRL. He would have been 33 on January 26, 2021. After his professional NRL career came to an end, Mr Iosefa settled in Rockhampton where he was a youth worker. The North Queensland Cowboys vs. Wests Tigers at Dairy Farmers Stadium. Cowboys Johnathan Thurston and Tigers 22 Masada Iosefa