2025 NRL Grand Final Review: Great Heights

The Prospector was there to see the Broncos corral the Storm. This was his perspective from the great heights of the grandstand.

2025 NRL Grand Final – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love Grand Final footy!

Prop by the Sea takes us on his NRL B2B Grand Final Tour with his offsiders The Prospector, The Crabman and The MahJong Hand. With a cast like that, how could it be anything but entertaining?

2025 NRL Grand Final – Purple Haze: Phased out!

Purple Haze revisits the NRL Grand Final and works out where it was lost by the Storm and won by the Broncos.

2025 NRL and NRLW Grand Finals – Brisbane: Rugby League Central and Footy Capital of Australia

Ian Hauser has a million thoughts running around in his head after the Brisbane Broncos won both the NRLW and NRL titles last night. A few of those ideas escaped onto his keyboard early today.

2025 NRL Grand Final – Why the Broncos will win

By invitation, The Prospector returns to tell us why he thinks the Brisbane Broncos will beat the Melbourne Storm in Sunday’s NRL Grand Final.

2025 NRL Grand Final – Why the Melbourne Storm will win

Guest writer Purple Haze tells us why the Melbourne Storm will prevail over the Brisbane Broncos in Sunday’s NRL Grand Final.

2025 NRL Grand Final Preview – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

Prop by the Sea has completed his crusade to the Middle East and Europe, spreading the gospel of rugby league to all and sundry willing to listen. He returns to The Footy Almanac just in time to preview Sunday’s Grand Final before he heads off with ‘the usual reprobates’ on their annual Grand Final Tour via Bimbi and Bondi.

2025 NRL and NRLW Grand Finals – Will Brisbane be the new sporting capital of Australia?

Ian Hauser takes a look at the 2025 NRL Grand Final where the losing sides from the last two years, the Melbourne Storm and the Brisbane Broncos, get their chance to set the record straight. And in the NRLW, the two powerhouse teams of 2025, the Sydney Roosters and the Brisbane Broncos, look set to put on a worthy season finale.

2025 NRL Finals, Week 3 – Prop’s proxy, The Prospector: You gotta love footy!

In his final contribution before Prop by the Sea returns to duty next week, The Prospector offers his thoughts on what will happen in Week 3 of the 2025 NRL finals series. (Warm and sincere thanks to you, Mark, for fitting into this role – it’s as if it was made for you! – Ed.)

2025 NRL Finals, Week 3: The Robert Palmer Panthers

Our rugby league editor, Ian Hauser, keeps hearing the songs of Robert Palmer in the background as he contemplates Week 3 of the 2025 NRL finals series.

NRL Finals Week 2 – Prop’s proxy, The Prospector: You gotta love footy!

The Prospector reports on Prop’s overseas meanderings before casting his eye over Week 2 of the 2025 NRL finals.

2025 NRL Finals Week 2: Can it possibly be as good as Week 1?

After an exhilarating Week 1 of NRL Finals, Ian Hauser explains why he thinks Canberra has what it takes to fight back in Week 2 while the Panthers will stay alive to fight another day.

NRL Round 27 – RITV: Jye Gray the shining light in a dull Rabbitohs season

Jye Gray is RITV’s South Sydney Player of the Year.

NRL 2025 Finals, Week 1 – Prop’s proxy, The Prospector: You gotta love footy!

Prop by the Sea’s entourage has moved on to the Emerald Isle while The Prospector has had two weeks of solid tipping. Here are his thoughts for Week 1 of the NRL Finals.

NRL Finals, Week 1 – Can Canberra or the Roosters defy history?

Can Canberra defy history or will their huge loss in Round 27 simply become a footnote in the annals of NRL finals?

NRL Round 26 – RITV: Athletics leads the way

South Sydney had a bye last weekend so RITV turns his attention to his other sporting passion, athletics. And what a good story it is!

NRL Round 27 – Prop’s proxy, The Prospector: You gotta love footy!

The Prospector offers his thoughts on the last round of the NRL while Prop by the Sea ventures to the Emerald Isle via the Persian Gulf.

NRL Round 27 – Permutations and Combinations (aka Snakes and Ladders)

Ian Hauser revisits a childhood favourite, Snakes and Ladders, as he sorts out what might happen in the NRL’s Round 27.

NRL Round 25 – RITV: 40-0! So much more relaxing.

For the first time in quite a while, RITV sat back and relaxed as he watched his beloved Bunnies run riot over the St George-Illawarra Dragons.

NRL Round 26 – Prop and his proxy, The Prospector: You gotta love footy!

Prop by the Sea offers his review of the NRL’s Round 25 before ‘doing a Penrith’ and taking a rest for a few weeks leading up to the climax of the season. And so today we introduce Prop’s proxy, The Prospector, who will come on as a replacement during September. (Welcome, Prospector, we look forward to you sifting through the lode to find the gems – Eds.)