Your weekly guide to the NRL season, including the entire Final Series, the souvenir Grand Final program and our bumper Season Review. Every week Big League will feature stories on the big names, preview the big games and continue our popular Little League section for the young rugby league fans. With official team-lists, extensive statistics and up-to-date news, Big League provides everything you need to follow the NRL.
Culture and conscience driving Watson
KICKING OFF
Critics in full voice
No complacency for Cronk
Maloney backs Cleary for Blue return
Harvey Norman TALE OF THE TAPE
Remembering a legend
Round 10 ROUND-UP
Team of the Week Rd10
1 NUMBERS GAME • Sharks win in Wollongong since May 1989
Jordan Pereira • ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS
Big League Weekly Edition
HOT SHOT
Top 8 Post-siren goals • With the timepiece reading 80:00, these players stepped up to kick some of the most memorable goals in the game’s history.
Origin is in the air
Incident at Earl Park • There has never been an incident in rugby league like the culmination of poor sportsmanship and fan fury that resulted in rugby league’s most famous riot.
Round 11 TOP TIPS
LOCKER ROOM
Harvey Norman TALE OF THE TAPE
Mixed day in Cronulla
Closing the gap • The close bonds between the Indigenous community and rugby league offer our game a unique chance to affect change, and the relationship is stronger than ever.
Deadly designs on show
Kane is able • For the past few years, Kane Elgey’s fortunes have been inextricably tied to Manly. Now he’s finally arrived on the Northern Beaches and is ready to take on his mates.
The way of the Warriors • Carrying the weight of a nation’s hopes has never been easy for the Warriors, but as those who were there at the start can attest, their significant impression on rugby league is impossible to ignore.
Back to Belmore • The Bulldogs have undergone plenty of changes in recent years, but the importance and aura of their spiritual home refuses to falter.
Living the dream • Instead of being denied by disability, one special group of footballers are proving that rugby league truly is a game for all.
WARRIORS
PANTHERS
STORM
COWBOYS
EELS
SEA EAGLES
RABBITOHS
ROOSTERS
RAIDERS
BULLDOGS
WESTS TIGERS
DRAGONS
SHARKS
BRONCOS
TITANS
KNIGHTS
LITTLE LEAGUE
CANBERRA RAIDERS
COOPER CRONK 357
The calm before the bye • It was a surprisingly reliable week on most Fantasy fronts, but that’s all about to change as we enter the Origin period
Eels preparing to bounce back at Bankwest • Bankwest Stadium Thursday 7.50pm
Soaring Eagles push for top four • Lottoland Friday 6pm
High-rolling Knights aim for major scalp • McDonald Jones Stadium Friday 7.55pm
Raiders ready to make up lost ground • GIO Stadium Saturday 3pm
Broncos warming to the task • Mt Smart Stadium Saturday 7.30pm
Rabbitohs to party like it’s 1989 • ANZ Stadium Saturday 7.35pm
Spirit of Belmore to boost Bulldogs’ chances • Belmore Sports Ground Sunday 2pm
Sharks zero in on struggling Dragons • WIN Stadium Sunday 4.05pm
CANTERBURY CUP NSW
Review: Tries galore in Magic Round
INTRUST SUPER CUP
Review: Falcons continue to soar as Devils win big
HASTINGS DEERING COLTS
Review: Bears and Seagulls jump stumbling Pride
RON MASSEY CUP
Review: Wentworthville lead competition after Saints slip up
SCORES
NRL TOUCH PREMIERSHIP • Warriors v...