They may be battered, bruised and beaten, but the Bunnies are ready to bounce back in the NRL finals. South Sydney will be counting the cost – and in the …
Continue reading Battered Bunnies heed NRL finals lessonCameron Munster’s match-winning field goal against South Sydney wasn’t exactly a rehearsed Melbourne move. In fact, Storm skipper Cameron Smith said he’d had hardly ever seen Munster practice kicking field …
Continue reading No plan for Munster’s Storm match-winnerCoach Craig Bellamy believes earning a bye week in the NRL finals is a huge shot in the arm for Melbourne’s premiership aspirations. The Storm’s heart-stopping 29-28 qualifying final win …
Continue reading Storm week off to rest a blessing: BellamyCoach Michael Cheika has seen enough on the paddock to believe the Wallabies will bounce back from their latest Bledisloe Cup belting in Saturday night’s clash with the Springboks. Australia …
Continue reading Wallabies ready to bounce back: CheikaCollingwood can’t afford to put too much focus on star West Coast spearheads Josh Kennedy and Jack Darling in Saturday night’s qualifying final in Perth, according to Magpies assistant coach …
Continue reading AFL Magpies wary of potent Eagles attackFormer Manly forward Jason Lussick is expected to sit on the fence when he watches his sons face each other in Salford’s Super 8s Qualifiers clash with Toronto on Saturday. …
Continue reading Lussicks face off in English rugby leagueReaching the NRL finals with Melbourne is one thing. Doing it with the Warriors is something else altogether. Just ask key off-season signings Adam Blair, Tohu Harris and Blake Green. …
Continue reading Warriors veterans thrilled at finals shotCronulla are drawing on the spirit of 2016 as they seek to catch fire during the NRL finals. The Sharks come into the post season as the undisputed dark horses …
Continue reading Anything can happen in NRL finals: SharksGeelong coach Chris Scott admits the Cats have some flaws, but he’s not so sure the elimination final loss to Melbourne has ended an era of relative success. The seventh …
Continue reading Scott optimistic Geelong’s era not overIn their first finals appearance since 2006, Melbourne have ended Geelong’s AFL season with a gutsy 29-point elimination final win at the MCG. The Demons jumped the Cats early on …
Continue reading Fast-starting Demons hold off Cats in AFLSNAPSHOT OF THE MELBOURNE–GEELONG AFL ELIMINATION FINAL: * Result: Melbourne 10.15 (75) def Geelong 6.10 (46) at the MCG. * The lowdown: Melbourne burst out of the blocks and despite …
Continue reading Demons-Cats AFL final snapshotMelbourne coach Craig Bellamy’s pre-match warning about Greg Inglis rang true with the South Sydney skipper doing his best to steer his team to an upset NRL qualifying final win …
Continue reading Inglis almost steers Souths to upset winMelbourne fans, was it worth the wait? After ending the league’s longest dry run without finals, the Demons put together an opening quarter to remember in their AFL elimination final …
Continue reading Demons reward fans with term for the agesA blistering first term from Melbourne has laid the platform for the Demons to march on in September and defeat Geelong by 29 points in their elimination final on Friday …
Continue reading Fast-starting Demons hold off CatsMore than 20,000 Kimi Raikkonen fans have signed an online petition urging Ferrari to keep the Finnish Formula One driver for another year rather than replace him with rookie Charles …
Continue reading Fans urge Ferrari to keep RaikkonenReigning premiers Melbourne have edged past South Sydney in the opening NRL qualifying final, downing the Rabbitohs 29-28 in a thriller at AAMI Park. Storm five-eighth Cameron Munster nailed a …
Continue reading Storm edge Souths in NRL final thrillerEssendon and Melbourne great Neale Daniher has been named by the AFL as the fourth recipient of the John Kennedy award for lifetime service to the sport. The former Demons …
Continue reading Daniher honoured by AFL at Demons finalNot every AFLW team will play each other next season as the growing competition moves to a two-conference format. With Geelong and North Melbourne entering the women’s league in 2019, …
Continue reading AFLW moves to conferences for 2019

