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Former England and Great Britain prop forward Adrian Morley is the latest guest on the Love Rugby League podcast, joining host George Riley.

Morley also discusses disciplinary in the modern game and reflects on his NRL memories. He begun his professional career with Leeds in 1995, and also enjoyed a successful six-year spell in the NRL with Sydney Roosters before returning to Super League with Warrington in 2007. Former England and Great Britain prop forward Adrian Morley is the latest guest on the Love Rugby League podcast!

Has Bent Hunt's strong Origin campaign with Queensland earned him a place on the plane to the Rugby League World Cup later this year?

Kemp: “I honestly think that’s the direction you go, I really do.” Kemp: “I think you lock him in.” Kemp: “Honestly, Ben Hunt, I think he’s got a lock on that Australian nine jersey.”

Leeds are heading in the right direction under Rohan Smith but players picking up bans every week are jeopardising their entire season.

“They weren’t world-class players but took an interest in coaching and when you get a coach like that then I think you do get a better quality of coach. Despite their issues with suspensions, he believes the Rhinos are improving under new boss Smith, the nephew of Leeds coaching great Tony Smith. “But the penny hasn’t dropped with Leeds. There are a number of players still going over that line.

Brought in to ensure Super League clubs don't spend over their limits, it has failed to stop the likes of Bradford Bulls and Wakefield Trinity from going into ...

“I think to raise the average wage we need to put the cap up because players will pack it in and say are you mad? Harrison believes that players will be able to earn more without a cap and that will ensure that players stay in the game for longer. “I would say Wakefield have spent the least in the league,” Harrison said on the Show Me The Money Rugby League podcast.

Thompson is currently in the UK after being granted compassionate leave by his current NRL club Canterbury Bulldogs. General Manager of the Bulldogs – the club ...

However, Serious About Rugby League understands that the ex-Saints man will not be at Canterbury in 2023, with a move to Super League now likely given his return to the country. Some things in life are just far more important than football.” The Englishman is on big bucks at the Canterbury Bulldogs and there has been talk over the past year that the Canterbury Bulldogs would be open to letting the 26-year-old go in a bid to ease salary cap pressure, with Viliame Kikau and Reed Mahoney already on their way to Canterbury next season.

After hanging up his boots for the final time in November 2020 at the age of 39, Ellis joined the Hull FC coaching staff ahead of the 2021 Super League season.

“But this year I’ve learnt how to do it my way – I don’t profess to be the most tactical coach, picking things apart, but I do know, particularly in defence, is what level of attitude it takes to defend as a team. “I think I spent a lot of last year trying to do it how I felt people wanted me to do it with coaching stuff,” Ellis admits. “I nearly fell down a trap last year of wanting to be the best assistant coach but not knowing how to use the computer and do all the analysis stuff.

An incredibly hard worker, a brilliant charity fundraiser and a successful businessman, Beaumont has built himself and his business up from nothing and he is ...

Then you have promotion and relegation. “You’re left then thinking do we have a competition with promotion and relegation? If we have a Super League 1 where we have a £1.5 million cap and a Super League 2 where we have a one million pound cap the cliff face isn’t that big.

After a 20 year hiatus, Te Tai Tokerau wahine toa get back to the rugby league fields.

"All our rohe have taken a different approach to developing and growing the game here. You need people to play, you need people to coach, you need people finding money for the competition. She said interest from wāhine and kōtiro around rugby league was starting to grow. "I love league. "We've come together to learn about rugby league, but more importantly, it's about whanaungatanga, understanding the history of the game and having a place for everyone to come and hang out." And that's probably why rugby ended up being a bit more dominant and taking all the girls," Waikai said.

At 33, Daly Cherry-Evans might only be one more series loss away from his last game for Queensland – but if the decider was anything to go by, the Maroons' ...

They all have the ability to become Queensland Origin legends with their skill and panache and daring. Cherry-Evans and Josh Papalii are the only two Queenslanders left who played during the famous eight in a row streak. Cherry-Evans bore the brunt of the 2014 series loss to New South Wales after poor displays in the first two matches. Cherry-Evans can outwit or outplay, but the ability to outlast has become his true superpower. But that's all a moot point, and we should have seen it coming, because Cherry-Evans is one of rugby league's great survivors. It is here that Cherry-Evans true value comes through – it's not any one skill, because he is a very well-rounded footballer, it's his ability to flatten himself out, to avoid the peaks and valleys that normally dot a halfbacks career.

This is the second game this year postponed due to a COVID surge. The Wauchope/Forster-Tuncurry clash, scheduled for Sunday, July 3 will now be played the ...

Journalist for 40 years This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: This is the second game this year postponed due to a COVID surge.

Poslelli currently plays for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Cup. The 23-year-old has scored 21 tries in 23 games in the Q Cup. 2. Richard Lepori.

He has made more than 100 appearances in the NRL for the Eels, Warriors (loan) and Dragons. The 21-year-old made his NRL debut for Melbourne Storm last year, but was released at the end of the season. He qualifies to play for Italy through his mother’s side of the family. The 29-year-old joined Super League side Toulouse midway through this season. He scored two tries in three games for the Azzurri. The Swinton winger was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, to an English mother and Italian father. He has previously spent time in the Championship with Featherstone and Barrow. Susino has already made his Italy debut and will be hoping to play in his first World Cup this autumn. The versatile forward played three games for Italy in 2019 to help them qualify for the World Cup. The 23-year-old has made eight appearances for Melbourne Storm in the NRL so far and could play in his first World Cup this autumn. Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga has even hinted that Tedesco could captain his side. The Halifax winger has not played for Italy since making three appearances in the 2013 World Cup. Could he be set for a return to the Italian fold? The 25-year-old has mainly been playing for the Panthers in the Jersey Flegg Cup this year, but has also played in the New South Wales Cup.

The Port City-Old Bar Group 3 rugby league fixture set down for this weekend in Port Macquarie has been delayed due to a COVID outbreak in Old Bar's playing ...

This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: "COVID is different to a washed out game," Drury said. The fixture is likely to be played on a Tuesday and Thursday night in coming weeks with four grades to be split across the two nights.

Every single year, the NRL media cycle at some point spits out the typical 'this is the year the Melbourne dynasty finally ends' articles, and after a ...

It was Manly in the late 2000's, then the Chooks at the backend of the 2010's, and now it's Penrith's time to challenge the club. It was supposed to be done and dusted when Cooper Cronk left, they made the Grand Final the next year. Since that dark day in April, 2010, Craig Bellamy has led the side to the finals every single year.

While Blues fans continue to eat their own, Queensland halfback Daly Cherry-Evans is still somehow underrated after all these years.

Manly’s dependence on Cherry-Evans to manage the game and make the play has stripped them of one of his great strengths. A reliable club professional who also happens to be the best halfback of his time: what, dear rugby league, is not to love? But a halfback is also made to look good by the men on his outside, who read his kicks, catch his passes, put the icing on the pudding he has cooked up. Alone among the fine halfbacks of this era, Cherry-Evans is at his very best when running onto the ball out wide like a three-quarter. Cherry-Evans plays for Manly, and in the mists of time he backflipped on a move to the Gold Coast so he could play for Manly forever. At Manly, since the retirement of Jamie Lyon, Steve Matai and Brett Stewart, he has not had particularly strong outside backs. This can only have been generated by those who don’t watch Manly. Week after week for a decade, a team with a fluctuating roster and little depth has been kept in the chase thanks to DCE’s IQ. Manly fans know this. Instead, because one of his jobs is to lobby referees for his team, he is anathematised as un-tough, a whiner, associated with a tone of complaint that, if it is not careful, this column is in danger of slipping into. He minds his Ps and Qs and gives off the air of someone who colour-codes his shirts and lines up his loafers in his closet. Cherry-Evans is one of the toughest and most effective defenders. Common wisdom had it that Kieran Foran, a certifiably good bloke, was the one to bet the house on. Nor does he fit the official licensed template of rugby league good blokedom.

Rugby league great Matty Johns is full of praise for emerging forward Jeremiah Nanai. The 19-year-old starred for the Maroons in their recent Origin series ...

“At the highest standard of rugby league, he delivered, he was incredible.” “There’s a reason, he’s one of those players, when there’s a loose ball or a speculative ball in the air, he’s always the guy who is in the right place at the right time. “Some of those passes on Wednesday night, when the game was in the balance, some of the things he did was just incredible.

NSW Origin stars, True Blue Tom Trbojevic and Sky Blue Corban Baxter, have added their voices to the call for a special All-Abilities round in the NRL ...

What Ability CEO Steve Dresler said he was in discussion with the NRL about a weekend round next season being dedicated to the 4.4 million people in Australia who have a disability. “What Ability days like this do just that and help to break down any barriers or challenges that people living with a disability have when trying to experience Rugby League in any way, shape or form. “To have an All-Ability Round in the NRL would be the perfect way to help achieve it.”