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  • 2 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Dean Ritchie

    Rising Canterbury forward Jacob Preston has muscled his way into an elite pack of star backrowers engaged in a boots-and-all battle to represent NSW this year. Preston, 23, becomes the first State of Origin ‘smokey’ for 2025. The second is Newcastle second-rower Dylan Lucas, despite battling a troublesome hamstring injury early this season.

  • 1 month ago | codesports.com.au | Dean Ritchie

    NRLDon't miss out on the headlines from NRL. Followed categories will be added to My News. NRL SuperCoach Rnd 2: 10 things we learnedFormer Western Suburbs hooker Jack Jeffries, a member of the notorious Magpies side which would slap each other’s faces pre-game, has died aged 68. Heritage number 743, Jeffries played 69 club games for Wests between 1979 and 1981, 61 in first grade.

  • 1 month ago | dailytelegraph.com.au | Dean Ritchie

    Don't miss out on the headlines from NRL. Followed categories will be added to My News. Heritage number 743, Jeffries played 69 club games for Wests between 1979 and 1981, 61 in first grade. Jeffries played a prominent role in a famous 1979 60 Minutes report showing Wests players aggressively slapping the faces of teammates and then fighting them to psych themselves up before games.

  • 1 month ago | codesports.com.au | Dean Ritchie

    Manly is poised to launch top-level contract negotiations to lock up star brothers Tom and Jake Trbojevic for life. The looming long-term deals for the club’s favourite sons is a powerful boost for Manly fans and comes as Sea Eagles chief executive Tony Mestrov predicted Tom could play until he’s 35 years old.

  • 1 month ago | codesports.com.au | Dean Ritchie

    This could be the new normal for usually crowd-pleasing Panthers. Penrith is hoping to attract a modest crowd of 10,000 fans for its first game at the club’s new home ground - the 30,000-seat CommBank Stadium - this Friday night. Panthers officials are reluctant to predict an exact crowd for Friday night’s game against Sydney Roosters but hope that fine weather might lure a another thousand supporters through the gates.

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