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PHOTOSPORT Peta Hiku says the Indigenous clash will be one of the highlights of his career. They are yet to play even one minute of pre-season footy, but don't expect that to hold back the Maori All-Stars. Just three days before they enter camp ahead of their historic rugby league clash with...

Getty Images Blake Green picked up his hamstring injury at Tuesday's training session. Injured Warriors five-eighth Blake Green believes it could work out to be beneficial for the club for him to be injured right now. The biggest scare for the Warriors this season is if Green picks up a...

GETTY IMAGES "I've had some days which were weren't so pleasant," Dylan Napa said. Dylan Napa took the extraordinary step of removing his pants in front of a Bulldogs official this week to prove he was not the person at the centre of yet another lewd video doing the rounds on social media...

CAMERON SPENCER/GETTY IMAGES The decision on Laurie Daley means the Tigers won't be able to tap into the experience the 244-game veteran and former Blues coach could bring. The NRL has blocked Wests Tigers' attempt to employ Laurie Daley as a halves coach because his radio presenting job has...

GETTY IMAGES James Gavet, left, has claimed the New Zealand Warriors forced his exit from the club. Former New Zealand Warrior James Gavet says his move to the Newcastle Knights was forced by his old club threatening to drop him to reserve grade this season. The blockbusting prop told...

GETTY IMAGES Kieran Foran is fit and ready to reclaim his mantle as one of the NRL's best players. Canterbury playmaker Kieran Foran knows 2019 is one of the biggest seasons of his NRL career but insists he's not felt in better shape for at least three years. Once one of the game's biggest...

GETTY IMAGES Jason Taumalolo will not be seen in a Queensland jersey. An ambitious move to get Tonga forward Jason Taumalolo into a Queensland State of Origin jersey has been scuppered by the NRL. Australia's Courier-Mail newspaper reported Queensland Rugby League approached the NRL recently...

GETTY IMAGES Chanel Harris-Tavita is likely to join Blake Green in the halves according to Jamie Soward. Former NRL winner turned columnist Jamie Soward isn't expecting much from the Warriors halves in the post-Shaun Johnson era. Soward is picking Chanel Tevita-Harris, who is yet to make his...

GETTY IMAGES "I've had some days which were weren't so pleasant," Dylan Napa said. Star Canterbury Bulldogs recruit Dylan Napa admits going through some dark days after the leaking of his infamous explicit videos. Napa is bracing to learn his fate and is likely to be suspended for the...

PHOTOSPORT Blake Green has reportedly gone down with a hamstring injury at a Warriors training session. The one man the Warriors couldn't afford to lose this season has gone down with an injury at training. Veteran half Blake Green reportedly suffered a hamstring injury on Tuesday...

OPINION: I love rugby league with a passion. Brought up on it my whole life. Go Bunnies. But I do not love the National Rugby League. Here's why. On Tuesday, Ben Barba, tainted but talented, was finally banned from the game for life for allegedly assaulting his partner Ainslie Currie at a...

RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES Ben Barba must leave Australia to continue his career with Rugby Australia to enforce the NRL's life ban. Ben Barba has been given a life ban by the NRL, with CEO Todd Greenberg declaring it's time for him to find a new vocation. Greenberg said on Tuesday Barba had...

RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES Ben Barba must leave Australia to continue his career with Rugby Australia to enforce the NRL's life ban. Ben Barba will be forced overseas if he is to resurrect his tarnished career once more after Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle confirmed the 15 man...

RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES Ben Barba will need to leave Australia to continue his sporting career with Rugby Australia to enforce the NRL's expected life ban. Ben Barba will be forced overseas if he is to resurrect his tarnished career once more after Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene...

GETTY IMAGES Cooper Johns may get his chance at halfback with the Melbourne Storm this year. Melbourne Storm could turn to some rugby league royalty as they attempt to nail down a halfback this NRL season, with teenager Cooper Johns a surprise contender. The Storm rotated through three...