Looks like JTH was completely wrong. Matt O’Hanlon and G Squared had a massive weekend in sport – in New Zealand. [Worth reading just for the stare-off count, but lots of tips for how to cram action into a sports tour. You, MOH, are an ornament to the game. – Ed]
Almanac Rugby League – A quiet week in sport? Not in New Zealand.
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Jarryd Hayne 8 NFL Games: A Mea Culpa
January 6, 2016 by 2 Comments
Hamish Neal gives us facts, figures and considered opinion on Jarryd Hayne’s foray into the NFL.
Almanac Rugby League – 2015 NRL Season In Review
October 31, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Brutus reviews the 2015 NRL season in verse
Almanac Rugby League – Who Wants To Be A Coach?
October 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
It’s been a tough year to be a Penrith Panthers fan in the National Rugby League. It must have been so much tougher if you were the actual coach.
Almanac Rugby League – Footballing gods smile on Ipswich
October 7, 2015 by 3 Comments
Sunday’s NRL Grand Final is already being coined the greatest in the code’s history. While the focus was on the feats of Jonathon Thurston and the success of the North Queensland Cowboys, Harold Peacock also found plenty to celebrate in the Ipswich Jets’ NRL State Championship win in the curtain raiser.
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Grand Final 2015 : Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys – the view from Up North
October 5, 2015 by 1 Comment
Peter Hulthen, of Townsville, gives a north Queenslander’s response to the NRL Grand Final.
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Grand Final 2015: Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys – The Greatest Grand Final of All Time
October 4, 2015 by 5 Comments
Wayne Ball tells the story of what he thinks is the greatest Grand Final of all time.
Almanac Rugby League – PNG Hunters are more than a football team
September 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The PNG Hunters are just about to play the Ipswich Jets in he Queensland Cup preliminary final. Patrick Skene explains what that means to the people of PNG. (First published in The Guardian)
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Finals Week 2: Roosters v Bulldogs – Video killed the Rugby League show
September 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The use of the video referee has Wayne Ball clucking mad as the Roosters unslip the Dogs of War. What is going on?
Almanac Rugby League – Homo Morphsuitius
September 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
For those who recall the grand old days of rugby league in Brisbane – when Brothers and Fortitude Valleys ran around – this piece from that noted biological historian Matt O’Hanlon will resonate. Report of the BRL second division final Grand Final. [Very funny MOH – were they serving double rums free with the cans of XXXX Gold?]
Almanac Rugby League – Finals Week 1: The Dogs of war find a golden point miracle
September 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In the world of the NRL the Bulldogs actually get up in an elimination final thriller. Did Richard Branson get on the wrong Dogs?
Almanac Rugby League – NRL 2015 Finals, Week 1: Cameron Smith leads from the front, so Melbourne win
September 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Storm secure the only Preliminary Final to be held in Melbourne in a couple of weeks as Wayne Ball ponders why the Roosters can’t get bums on seats
Almanac Rugby League – “Rugby League: the greatest game of all”
September 3, 2015 by 11 Comments
Murray Bird returned to Langlands Park for some enjoyable late season Queensland Cup Rugby League action. A lot had changed since he was last there in the 1970s, but not the drinking (or smoking) preferences of the locals.
Almanac Rugby League – Tom Brock Lecture 2015
August 28, 2015 by Leave a Comment
This year’s Tom Brock Lecture is to be given by Ross McMullin in Sydney on 16 September.
Almanac Rugby League – The courageous journey of Ian Roberts (first published in The Guardian Australia).
August 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Your Almanac for the Train: A fantastic profile of Rugby League trailblazer Ian Roberts, the code’s first openly gay player by Patrick Skene
Almanac Rugby League – State of Origin 2015: Game Three – Red Dead Redemption
July 16, 2015 by 2 Comments
Callum O’Connor’s first rugby league match sees the Maroons run riot against the shell-shocked Blues.
Almanac Rugby League – State of Origin, Game 3: Jubilant Queensland (the whole state)
July 9, 2015 by 6 Comments
“They won the mental game . They won the physical game. They won the skills game. They passed the magical 50 points mark.” A brilliant reflection on the history of Queensland sport from JJ Leahy, inspired by the magnificent performance of JT, Cam Smith and…well, all of them really.
Almanac Rugby League – State of Origin: Happy Birthday Mal and Game 3 chat
July 8, 2015 by 1 Comment
Happy Birthday Mal!
Leave your greeting. For Mal. For Queensland. For NSW?
Who wins, and why?
Almanac Rugby League – Aaron Woods: The mummy’s boy with a warrior’s spirit (first published in the The Guardian Australia)
July 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Friend of the Almanac Patrick Skene’s outstanding profile of Wests Tigers, NSW and Kangaroos star prop Aaron Woods in The Guardian. Even if you’re not a fan of League, this is a fantastic sporting read and well worth your time.
Almanac Rugby League – One for the Maroons
June 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The chant of “Queenslander” is a special part of Maroons origin folklore. Born in the Super League wars of the mid-1990s it is an integral part of one of Queensland’s most improbable series victories.
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