World Cup squad locked in: Sheens

Brad Walter AUSTRALIAN coach Tim Sheens has declared that the players who helped beat New Zealand 32-12 in Friday night's Anzac Test had all but booked their place in the World Cup squad.

Sonny Bill keeps door open for World Cup

Brad Walter AS HE prepares to make his first NRL appearance in 1680 days this Saturday night, Sonny Bill Williams has indicated that he may be available to play for New Zealand in the end-of-season World Cup.

Canterbury shortlist NZ netball boss for CEO job

Adrian Proszenko, Brad Walter Canterbury could become the first NRL club to appoint a woman as their chief executive.

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Sims sister Ruan leading way as female participation swells

Brad Walter THERE was a simple but effective rule in the Sims household at Gerringong when Korbin, Tariq, Ashton and Ruan were growing up.

League

Sonny Bill fights in Benji, Cooper corner

Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams has leapt to the defence of fellow Kiwi superstar Benji Marshall and out-of-favour Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper and predicted the pair would prove their critics wrong.

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Rugby League

Shark interviews ditched

Brad Walter But ASADA prepared to interview any Cronulla player willing to give evidence.

League

Why ASADA must play the long game

Brad Walter If ASADA has evidence, why don't they just charge the players?

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SIN BIN

Doust wants Morris back in the Red V

Brad Walter St George Illawarra chief executive Peter Doust has confirmed the club still hopes to reunite the Morris twins and revealed the reason Josh left was because Wayne Bennett didn’t think he would become...

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Sin Bin

There's only one JT - and selectors are nervous

Brad Walter The biggest concern for Australian selectors before they met to pick the side to play against New Zealand on Friday was the fitness of Johnathan Thurston and who would wear the No.

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Trans-Tasman foes come together to host Four Nations

Brad Walter The 2014 Four Nations tournament will be played in Australia and New Zealand, and is likely to feature the winner of a play-off between Pacific nations on next year's stand-alone representative...

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League

Inglis 'all good' despite limping out of Kiwi clash

Glenn Jackson, Brad Walter Greg Inglis put a scare through South Sydney on Friday night when he aggravated an old hip problem during the Test in Canberra, but South Sydney officials believe he is unlikely to miss any football...

Pacific foes to continue Tests after 'fabulous success' offsets fans' invasion

Brad Walter Tonga and Samoa are set to play an annual mid-season Test for the next four years following the success of Saturday night's clash at Penrith.

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Anzac Test to remain an Origin appetiser

Brad Walter THE mid-season Test between Australia and New Zealand is likely to continue to be played before State of Origin, despite the Kiwis not having won it for 15 years.

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Six of the best proposed for expanded club challenge

Brad Walter The World Club Challenge is set to be expanded to six teams under a proposal that would also result in three NRL sides playing a warm-up match each against a Super League club.

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League

Dual World Cups a lure for SBW

Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams will return to Test football for New Zealand in two weeks in a move that may lead to the Sydney Roosters superstar becoming the first player to win World Cups in rugby league and...

League

Chiefs coach sure Williams will return to New Zealand

Brad Walter, Michael Carayannis Chiefs coach Dave Rennie plans to meet Sonny Bill Williams when the Super Rugby champions play in Sydney next week, in an attempt to lure the Roosters star back to New Zealand.

Sin Bin

Benji's injury saves Kiwi selectors from having to toe the line

Brad Walter Benji Marshall's toe injury may have saved the New Zealand selectors from another tough decision about the Wests Tigers star.

League

SBW has taken the punches, now footy can do the talking

Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams has put the Bulldogs walk-out behind him.

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League

Complex eligibility rules weaken homegrown clash

Brad Walter The plight of Cronulla prop Andrew Fifita has helped highlight why league’s representative eligibility rules will always be problematic and how the City-Country match is losing its relevance.

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The 23-second ad that made Roosters sweat it out

Brad Walter and Michael Chammas SBW OMG. That would have been the reaction if NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert hadn't allowed Sonny Bill Williams to play for Sydney Roosters because of an advertisement on Channel Nine promoting...