Opinion
NRL 2025
A PNG team will enter the NRL in 2028. We took $12.5m and built their inaugural roster
It’s real-life fantasy football as the PNG expansion side prepares to start recruiting its top 30 squad. We break down the key elements in building an NRL team from scratch.
- by Dan Walsh
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Around the Clubs
NRL 2025
Munster reveals Bellamy spoke to Maroons stars before taking Blues role
Cameron Munster’s club coach will be plotting against him in next year’s interstate series.
- by Roy Ward, Michael Chammas and Dan Walsh
Analysis
Test cricket
Hadlee. Akram. Ambrose. Bumrah: India’s pace hero can trump best fast bowlers to tour Australia
The story of how “Hadlee’s a w---er” become a 1980s anthem says it all about touring quicks. Forty years later, India’s strike weapon ranks among the very best of them.
- by Dan Walsh
Analysis
NRL 2025
The 51 roster moves and 18 debuts behind Benji’s rebuild of Wests Tigers
The Tigers are at the shiny, pointy end of two years of non-stop wheeling and dealing with $3.5 million of talent arriving for 2025.
- by Dan Walsh
Analysis
State of Origin
After eight years out and with no NRL experience, can Daley tame a new Origin beast?
Laurie Daley is back for a second stint in charge of the Blues, but the game has changed dramatically in his time away. His ability to adapt will shape his legacy.
- by Dan Walsh
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NRL 2025
‘An absolutely compelling case’: How Bellamy coup sealed Daley’s second Origin coming
In convincing the Storm coach to return to the Origin arena, Laurie Daley succeeded where the NSWRL could not – and is back in charge of the Blues as a result.
- by Dan Walsh and Danny Weidler
Jasprit Bumrah was unplayable in Perth. In Adelaide, he’ll be even more dangerous
How Australia handle the world’s best bowler – as he becomes even tougher to face – could well define the Border-Gavaskar series.
- by Dan Walsh and Tom Decent
It could be the catch of the year, and this Kiwi has now taken it twice
New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips has pulled off two stunning, seemingly identical catches within nine months.
- by Dan Walsh
John Bateman, breach notices and Terrell May: Benji lifts lid on Tiger Town
As the Wests Tigers announce a multimillion-dollar sponsorship, the club answers difficult questions from another dramatic start to summer.
- by Dan Walsh
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AFL 2025
Longmire quits as Swans coach. Next stop, Tasmania?
The Tasmania Devils do not enter the AFL competition until 2028, but the coaching job is an urgent appointment.
- by Michael Gleeson, Jake Niall and Dan Walsh
As it happened: India take decisive series lead with 295-run thrashing in Perth
The tourists have inflicted one of the heaviest defeats on Australia at home in years after being bowled out for 150 on day one.
- by Dan Walsh