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.

 

Almanac Rugby League: Getting to the heart of the matter with the Reggies

August 13, 2020 by 1 Comment

According to John Campbell, ‘if you really want to see the type of bloke that lives and breathes country rugby league, the character that epitomises the game’s ethos, just get to the ground early and check it out as the Reserve Graders, the ‘Reggies’, go round.’ Here’s why.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 13 wrap: Let’s stick to the on-field action

August 11, 2020 by 1 Comment

While there was a lot of NRL drama off the field this week, Liam Hauser prefers to stick with the on-field action in this review of Round 13.

Almanac Rugby League: The view from Cumbria

August 11, 2020 by 1 Comment

Kevin Haney lives in Cumbria, England, but that doesn’t stop him from being an Almanacker. He recently joined our group of rugby league supporters and sent us this background. Extended videos included.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 13 Preview: A couple of ‘ladder defining’ clashes in store this weekend

August 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment

The NRL’s Round 13 contains a couple of ‘ladder shaping’ clashes. Our rugby league editor Ian Hauser runs his eye over the fixtures and picks at least one underdog.

Confidence: A big year in a young footballer’s life

August 6, 2020 by 2 Comments

Daniel Boss revisits his last year as a rugby league player, a year full of highs and lows, a year that helped shape him as a person a great deal.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 12 Wrap: Cameron Smith injured, a Broncos fadeout and a Bulldog’s howler

August 4, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Liam Hauser wraps up the NRL’s Round 12. Most things went to plan but it was hardly straight-forward. And the biggest howler came from a player!

Almanac Rugby League: Who should be added to rugby league’s Immortals? A long-time Parramatta fan states his case.

August 4, 2020 by 4 Comments

Jason Charles is a Parramatta Eels tragic. He thinks two of the club’s greats should be considered for Immortal status. He sets out his case.

Almanac Rugby League – Preston Campbell’s Indigenous Team of this Century

July 30, 2020 by 9 Comments

To mark the NRL’s Indigenous Round 12, former Dally M Player of the Year Preston Campbell was asked to nominate his Indigenous Team of this Century.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 12 Preview: Mid-table blancmange

July 30, 2020 by Leave a Comment

When will the middle order blancmange of the NRL ladder ever sort itself out? Ian Hauser looks at this weekend’s NRL Round 12 to see if we’ll get any clarity.

Hindsight…how does this affect how you watch a replay of a sporting fixture?

July 30, 2020 by 4 Comments

When you watch sport, are you calm, relaxed and impartial or, like the rest of us, an irrational, one-eyed, out-of-character, raving idiot? Author and former sports journalist Liam Hauser looks back over his experiences in reporting and writing about sport.