Almanac Rugby League

The Almanac Rugby league Crew

If you’d like to publish a rugby league story on The Footy Almanac website, please contact Ian Hauser.

 

If you’d like to join the Footy Almanac’s rugby league email list to receive our regular
Thursday updates during the season and occasional updates in the off-season, contact John Harms in the first instance.

 

The Footy Almanac’s coverage of rugby league features a team of four regular columnists:

Ian Hauser provides a round by round preview/review and comments on specific players/incidents.
Matt O’Hanlon (Prop by the Sea) offers a quirky take of the week’s happenings on and off the field.
Mark Shannon (The Prospector) comments on various issues in the code, both historical and current.
Russel Hansen (Rabbit in the Vineyard) gives a specific take on South Sydney’s progress.

as well as numerous other occasional contributors.

Our collection of articles appears below. The first article was published in 2010.

 

NRL Round 20 – RITV: Winning is a habit, losing is a habit

July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Habits are hard to break. Just ask RITV after South Sydney lost their seventh game in a row.

NRL Round 21 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Prop by the Sea maintained his position on the footy tipping ladder but was rather less successful on the nags. You gotta love the punt!

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 21 and NRLW Round 4: Nothing much seems to have changed

July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Rugby league editor Ian Hauser returns from his travels in Europe and tries to work out what’s going on in the NRL these days. Round 20 results suggest that there are still no certainties in this year’s competition.

NRL Round 20 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

July 17, 2025 by 4 Comments

Prop by the Sea is living contentedly in a Maroon world. He’s a hard man to contain.

Almanac Travel: Not so much ‘la dolce vita’ as ‘la vita educativa’ (Part 4]

July 17, 2025 by 2 Comments

Ian Hauser continues his series about recent travel experiences in Europe. This time the focus is cruising.

Almanac State of Origin: Where’s Tanunda? That’s in Queensland!

July 17, 2025 by 6 Comments

Rabbit in the Vineyard couldn’t be happier. He tells the story of the State of Origin decider, as it was played out in Tanunda which, it seems, is in Queensland. {And he’s pleased that Souths got the two points over The Bye – credit to the boys.)

State of Origin 3: A Queensland gathering at the Tanunda Club (Part 1)

July 10, 2025 by 5 Comments

A dozen or so Queenslanders walk into a bar…A pensive, then happy, then raucous lot.

NRL Round 18 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Bring on the bye

July 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment

South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett has never coached a team to the wooden spoon but he’ll be doing well to keep the Bunnies off the bottom over the next couple of months says RITV. And he wonders why the club would add a complication to the situation.

NRL Round 19 (and Origin predictions) – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

July 10, 2025 by 6 Comments

Prop has a look back at Round 18 and previews Round 19 but leaves his most detailed analysis for Origin 3, coming up with an approach for the Queenslanders to win a game which has the potential to enter rugby league mythology.

NRL Round 17 – Rabbit in the Vineyard: A cricket score for the Dolphins in Brisbane

July 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment

RITV has turned to cricket to help himself deal with the try-fest against the Dolphins.