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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 9 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

May 1, 2025 by 3 Comments

Prop by the Sea is losing touch with the tipping competition leaders but he’s still miles ahead of most of his coterie of collaborators. Let’s see what he makes of this week’s Magic Round in Brisbane.

NRL Round 9 – Women’s State of Origin and NRL Magic Round

May 1, 2025 by 4 Comments

There’s a huge weekend of footy in Brisbane ahead with Game 1 of the women’s State of Origin series tonight, to be followed by Magic Round over the rest of the weekend.

NRL Round 8 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

April 24, 2025 by 6 Comments

Prop by the Sea had, by his standards, a modest round of tipping last week (4/8) – but he was miles ahead of his mates. He’s hoping to bounce back to form this weekend. Here are his predictions.

NRL Round 7 – RITV: Nothing good about 0-32 on Good Friday!

April 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment

It may have been Good Friday on the calendar but RITV found little good about it after South Sydney put in a poor effort against the Bulldogs.

NRL Round 8 – Better, but the upsets continue

April 24, 2025 by 1 Comment

Tipping 6/8 in the NRL wasn’t a bad effort last week – especially using the ‘toss the coin’ method. Let’s see if it can work again this week.

NRL Round 6 – RITV: Too few highlights for the Rabbitohs out West

April 17, 2025 by 2 Comments

RITV finally got to see his Rabbitohs play live again when their fixture in Perth coincided with his coaching role at the national athletics championships. Unfortunately, Souths’ performance didn’t match the action on the track.

NRL Round 7 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

April 17, 2025 by 3 Comments

Prop by the Sea is on the spot with his analysis of NRL Round 6, even though he scored a modest 4/8 with his tips. Let’s see what he predicts for this weekend’s Round 7.

NRL Round 7: It’s coin tossing time in Round 7

April 17, 2025 by 4 Comments

When you’re on a bad tipping streak, perhaps it’s time to get out a coin to toss. That’s the advice from Ian Hauser this week.

NRL Round 6 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

April 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Prop by the Sea is top of the Almanac NRL tipping ladder after a solid Round 5 where others struggled. Can he maintain his form in Round 6?

Almanac Rugby League: There’s always next year

April 10, 2025 by 7 Comments

They say ‘there’s always next year’, but sometimes there simply isn’t. Mark Courtney’s poignant story recalls his decades-long friendship with his best mate, Greg, and their total commitment to the South Sydney Rabbitohs. (We reprise this wonderfully offering after Mark alluded to it at the recent Almanac rugby league lunch in Sydney – Ed.)