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1 week ago | 
theroar.com.au | Dane Eldridge
With NSW now the undisputed rulers of State of Origin, let’s list every other field where we’re schooling the trousers off Queensland. We’ve got better beaches, we’re better at organising Olympic Games, and in addition to breeding better footballers, we’ve even got *better looking* footballers. Yep, NSW is the home of the first grade stud, and despite decades of mutual hatred with Queensland, it’s actually one thing we’ve always agreed on.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTRemember when the Maroons were so daunting they’d reduced the Blues to Origin’s Washington Generals? When their side was packed with winners and Suncorp Stadium was such a bear pit that our boys would only leave the sheds to be winched to safety? FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTWhat is it about Origin that makes coherent humans speak like a random password generator? It’s barely 48 hours into this year’s series preamble and already the coaches are waffling duckspeak like they’re trying to order dim sims from the lizard people. FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.
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1 month ago | 
theroar.com.au | Dane Eldridge
Ten months of the year, Queenslanders are regular people whose only interest is to work hard and swing federal elections. But come Origin time, the entire state becomes a maniacal bunch who go the full 80 as rabidly as they sip their own kool-aid. Whether it’s their pious pontificating about passion, their grubbery or even just their BS about the Queensland Spirit, there is nothing more unbearable at Origin time than a Queenslander.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTIn the clearest indication footy season is back in full swing, two footballers have been savagely rissoled in recent days because of telephone manner and a sandwich. This week’s fallout from Jarome Luai and Royce Hunt refusing a selfie has showcased everything crook with footy fandom and the perverse sense of entitlement we’ve developed.
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTBarely in to its first trimester, the new Perth Bears licence is already exhibiting the appropriate behaviours of a professional rugby league club. It’s already had various run-ins with the NRL, plus been tenuously linked to a ton of South African rugby discards and Brad Arthur solely because he bought a house. FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE in 4K with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo?
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1 month ago | 
theroar.com.au | Dane Eldridge
The federal election has been run and won, yet we’ve still got another six weeks of captain’s picks and flawed policy to go. Origin speculation has arrived, a time of year that features the same behaviour of an election campaign but with twice the broken promises and factional backstabbings. Debating Origin teams has become a sport almost as popular as the concept itself – but how does one navigate this subjective minefield while adhering to norms?
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTSeason 2025 was meant to be a year of healing at South Sydney where everything was revived from its mojo all the way up to Latrell Mitchell’s widow-making thighs. But after registering a fourth straight defeat, the foundation club is at risk of another season in the sump tray with the rest of the NRL’s sediment. FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE in 4K with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo?
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTForget all this talk about the Broncos being self-preening peacocks- they’re way more delicate than that. Last weekend’s 32-8 trouncing to Penrith has reinforced all the cliches about Brisbane being plastic rockstars, with serious questions resurfacing about the club’s ticker and whether it’s actually got one. FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE in 4K with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo?
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1 month ago | 
news.com.au | Dane Eldridge
COMMENTWith the mighty Panthers moving from the Foot of the Mountains to the foot of the ladder, everyone’s trying to pinpoint why they’ve soured like last week’s milk. Is it the departure of James Fisher-Harris, the injury to Brian To’o or the wider dismantling of the Mt Druitt Massive? Or did Phil Gould lure the club’s desire across to Canterbury too? Are the players tired of the same voice, mainly because it’s difficult straining all day to hear Ivan over the air conditioner?
