New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney insists Sonny Bill Williams was taken off as a precaution after suffering a neck injury in the Kiwis’ thumping 40-4 World Cup quarter-final victory over …

Defending champions New Zealand cruised into the Rugby League Cup semi-finals but will be sweating on the health of superstar Sonny Bill Williams following a 40-4 thumping of Scotland on …

Super League Man of Steel Danny Brough is bracing himself for the biggest test of his career as he prepares to lead minnows Scotland into battle against world champions New …

The ultimate mismatch it may be, but Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens says the intensity of sudden death rugby league will ensure Australia are tested in their quarter-final against World Cup …

Hulking Kiwis winger Manu Vatuvei looks set to line up against Scotland in the Rugby League World Cup quarter-final after coming through a fitness test on a troublesome knee injury. …

Veteran centre Brent Tate has been dropped from the Kangaroos squad to face the United States, paving the way for Jarryd Hayne to start in Saturday’s Rugby League World Cup …

Steve Georgallis will replace Brad Arthur as the Manly assistant coach for the 2014 NRL season. Georgallis, who served a similar role with Wests Tigers in 2012, having worked previously …

New Zealand have identified former Warriors hooker Ian Henderson as a threat to their hopes of retaining the Rugby League World Cup. After moving serenely through the group stages, the …

Wigan forward Liam Farrell is hoping for a hint from England coach Steve McNamara as he waits to discover if he’ll get to play in this weekend’s World Cup quarter-final …

Kangaroos star Johnathan Thurston admits the form of rising playmaker Daly Cherry-Evans has put him and halves partner Cooper Cronk on notice at the Rugby League World Cup. Cherry-Evans has …

Jamie Soward says he has put his time at St George Illawarra, good and bad, behind him as he sets about once again proving himself as an NRL footballer with …

Despite being cleared to play, Josh Hoffman has lost out to rival Kevin Locke in the battle to start at fullback for the Kiwis’ Rugby League World Cup quarter-final against …

In-form playmaker Daly Cherry-Evans has beaten Robbie Farah to a spot in the Kangaroos squad for the Rugby League World Cup quarter-final against the United States. Manly halfback Cherry-Evans looks …

Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens says he never considered standing down Billy Slater and strongly disputes suggestions the star fullback over-reacted during a nightclub fight. Slater was on Wednesday named in …

Clint Newton has hit back at suggestions the United States rugby league team is nothing more than a bunch of Australian mercenaries bending the World Cup rules. Although, like the …

He’s lived his own unlikely World Cup fairytale, so Jarryd Hayne knows exactly what lining up against the Kangaroos on Saturday will mean to members of the US rugby league …

Star centre Kallum Watkins says England are ready to match the physicality of any of the other seven teams left in the Rugby League World Cup. The ferocious, often brutal, …

Sonny Bill Williams has allayed fears he may miss the Kiwis’ Rugby League World Cup quarter-final against Scotland. Williams has been nursing a sore shoulder following his man-of-the-match performance in …