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 – Five Metre Gap: NRL Round 3, 2016

Hamish Neal reviews Round 3 of NRL

Almanac Weekend Sports Rewind 20th March

All the results worth knowing from this weekend’s sport

Almanac Rugby League (and Education) – Big Josh

Terrific story on the practical and observable benefits of getting kids involved in team sports. Great stuff from an anonymous Queensland correspondent. [Congrats whoever you are – JTH]

Almanac Rugby League – Five Metre Gap: NRL Round 2, 2016

Hamish Neal on the hits and misses of NRL Round 2, in which tactics, ill-discipline and (lack of) imagination all played a part.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 2, 2016: Sharks v Dragons – Doing boring well, Cronulla blend flair with toil in the heat

Paul Macadam make a nice Almanac debut with this report on the Sharks big win at, ahem what’s Shark Park now called? [Well played Paul]

Almanac Weekend Sport Report

All the sport results that matter.

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 2: Heartbreak in the night time heat

Round 2 of the NRL. Wayne Ball watches his Panthers and ponders the new seven tackle set

Almanac Rugby League – Five Metre Gap: NRL Round 1, 2016

Hamish Neal wraps the action from NRL Round 1. It’s started.

Almanac Rugby League – Rozzy, Coops and Bev … Easts’ Loss was Britain’s Gain

Demonymic reflects on the career of three Eastern Suburbs RL legends lost to English League

Almanac Weekend Rewind

Weekend results you may have missed.