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This is the fourth article in a series where I’ll name who I think were the best players to play in a grand final in each decade, focusing this time on the 1980s. The criterion I have used are: •The player must have actually played in at least one grand final, or grand final replay, […]
This is the fourth article in a series where I’ll name who I think were the best players to play in a grand final in each decade, focusing this time on the 1980s. The criterion I have used are: •The player must have actually played in at least one grand final, or grand final replay, […]
I once saw a young Peter Sterling playing touch football on a field next to Parramatta’s old home ground, Cumberland Oval. In the late 1970s I was teaching at a high school in western Sydney. The staff had a touch football team that played on Thursday afternoons after school in a teachers competition at Parramatta […]
As part of a series looking back at four decades of State of Origin football, NRL.com revisits 1981, where Wally Lewis succeeded Big Artie as Maroons captain and proved the historic win in the first ever Origin the year before had been no fluke.
Blues' brilliant backline: How current crop compares to Origin's best Author Timestamp Share on social media In the wake of the devastating attacking display by the NSW Blues in Origin I in Townsville, comparisons between the 2021 backline and those of golden eras past were both inevitable and flattering. They may have only 46 Origin games between them but the sizzling seven who made a mess of the Maroons in the series opener played with the sort of poise and composure that suggests they'll have many years together to add to that number. Inspirational leader James Tedesco was playing in his 1...