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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The forced retirement of Benji Marshall over the weekend marks yet another disappointing end to yet another player's legacy within the tumultuous dirty merger club that is Wests Tigers. From Fifita to Addo-Carr to Tedesco to Sharon Woods, club management have a way of needlessly cutting loose those their most loyal and most talented. Then there was Robbie sinking cans...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After years of trying their very best to stamp out the cultural traditions of rugby league, the wowser journalists at the Daily Telegraph are today learning that you don't know what you've got until it's gone. COVID-19 has officially put an end to Mad Monday, the end of season ritual thats sees professional footballers take part in fancy dress...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Jack Hennings’ day took a turn for the worse on Tuesday after a blown fuse caused his car’s multi-hundred dollar sound system to break down, rendering the car virtually immobile.    “This is ridiculous” said Jack, in a loudly expressed statement. “It’s probably just a twenty cent fuse and now the whole car is stuck in this sketchy-ass neighbourhood.”  Unfortunately,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT All twelve restaurants and all six bars within the iconic Penrith Panthers leagues club have been directed to only play Mount Druitt drill rap for the remainder of the NRL season. This new policy has reportedly come from the very top, as Panthers icon Gus Gould moves to capture the heart and soul of the Sydney's far Western...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the NRL tightens up through the final round of the season before the Mad Mondays don't begin, rugby league analysts and commentators are throwing around more wisdom than you'd hear along the plank of timber that separates the clubhouse from the stadium seating at a suburban oval. While Bryan Fletcher and Nathan Hindmarsh get to work breaking down...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In commemoration of one of the most memorable moments in Australian history, cult hero Eric The Eel has been named in the Parramatta Eels team of the century. Eric Moussambani was given the honour during a special virtual ceremony earlier today, nearly 20 years after he took to the pool in the Sydney Olympics. The fan favourite who is...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Sydney Rooster's late inclusion to the 2020 squad is still yet to reach his 2004, or even 2012, potential when it comes to inflicting the most physical pain legally allowed on a rugby league field. Sonny Bill Williams impressed in his brief appearances for the boys from Bondi over the last two matches, namely in the 42-12 victory...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The NSW Police have today announced changes to their engagement with the rugby league community, after NRL Curtis Scott was cleared of all wrongdoing with the emergence of shocking police bodycam footage of his brutal arrest. The 22-year-old was arrested on Australia Day when police found him lying unconscious in Centennial Park, where he had pulled up to take...

BEAU RIVERS | Local News | Contact The NRL judiciary has tonight handed down an entirely fair and reasonable decision, suspending the entire Cronulla-Sutherland outfit for this weekend's game against the Warriors.  The decision comes after the club embarrassed itself last week against a similarly positioned Knights team in the race for the finals. Even as they were destroyed on the scoreboard, the Sharks did...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local pub patron has today been sent to the bar by his mates for an HIA, after talking a concerning amount of shit. Usually reserved for rugby league knock-outs and the occasional high-impact header in soccer, an HIA stands for 'Head Injury Assesment' and is treated extremely seriously in contact sports. However, in recent year, it has since...