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.
Top two prep for punishing prelim
KICKING OFF
Sutton still alive after semi scare
Dragons taking nothing for granted
Brown leads silver lining
Harvey Norman TALE OF THE TAPE
Friends become foes
2019 NRL FINAL TABLE
NUMBERS GAME
Team of the Week Finals Wk 2
Millie Boyle
Big League Weekly Edition
Top 8 1 Dally M bolters • The Dally M Medal’s history is laced with winners and podium finishers who were little-known entities at start of the season.
Time to stop the circus • Catch Benji on NRL 360 Players’ Night every Tuesday
The miracle of ’55 • The heroics of modern athletes are deservedly revered, but the Rabbitohs’ run to the 1955 premiership is still the epitome of toughness and success against the odds.
LOCKER ROOM
Harvey Norman TALE OF THE TAPE
Hail Sezer • The combination of a long year and an uncertain future has given the Raiders half all the motivation he needs to take the Green Machine to grand final day.
Staying alive • It’s the last time Cooper Cronk and Cameron Smith will take the field at the same time and the Roosters will be doing everything they can to extend their halfback’s career.
BEST OF THE BEST • We might not know who will claim the premiership in 2019, but thankfully the biggest honour of the year has already been awarded.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Up all Knight • It’s been a breakthrough year for the young Rabbitohs back-rower, and now only his former team stand between him and a maiden grand final appearance.
CLUB NEWS
HOT SHOT
JARROD CROKER
LITTLE LEAGUE
4 TRIES IN PAST FOUR GAMES v CANBERRA
No rush to expand yet
The biggest game in ACT history • GIO Stadium Friday 7.50pm
IN IT TO WIN IT • They’re riding high after doing it the hard way against the Sea Eagles, but things are only going to get tougher for the Rabbitohs in the nation’s capital.
PAST THREE CLASHES
Magic of SCG to lift the Roosters • Sydney Cricket Ground Saturday 7.50pm
THE SAME PAGE • Inspired by a home-town hero and surrounded by talented team-mates, the sky’s the limit for Joseph Manu and the Roosters as they head to another prelim.
PAST THREE CLASHES
Preview: Odds hurting Warriors against undefeated leaders
Preview: Dragons soar as Roosters fail to crow
CANTERBURY CUP NSW • GRAND FINAL
Review: Seventh and eighth slay giants to set up unlikely thriller
JERSEY FLEGG • GRAND FINAL
Review: Rampant Raiders and Rabbitohs through to decider
INTRUST SUPER CUP • GRAND FINAL
Preview: Bears and Seagulls to battle for highest honour
HASTINGS DEERING COLTS • GRAND FINAL
Preview: Plenty of surprises in store
RON MASSEY CUP • GRAND FINAL
Preview: Narrowest of margins separates grand final combatants
SCORES
STAT ATTACK
Harvey Norman TALE OF THE TAPE
NRL DRAW
