Eels plan to fight salary cap fine - as well as poor start to season
Michael Chammas PARRAMATTA'S nightmare start to the season has gone from bad to worse. They have won just three of their past 21 games, their big off-season signing has been dropped to park football and now the club...
Round 11 line-ups
Talkin' Teams, Tuesday, May 21
Michael Chammas The latest news from the NRL as clubs name their sides for round 11.
League
Panthers reopen old wounds for Elliott and hapless Warriors
Michael Chammas It was those who once were Warriors that haunted their former club as the Panthers racked up 62 points to send Matt Elliott from Penrith with an all-too-familiar headache.
Roberts on outer as Eels look beyond this season
Michael Chammas Parramatta could part ways with Ben Roberts mid-season to allow him to take up an offer to play rugby union overseas and free up money for the club to continue its recruitment drive.
League
Benji backs young ace Brooks to measure up
Michael Chammas Benji Marshall, the last Wests Tigers player to go from teenage rookie to superstar, has urged coach Mick Potter to throw 18-year-old prodigy Luke Brooks into the deep end.
League
Formidable five foundation of new Rabbitohs' realm
Michael Chammas South Sydney have locked in the nucleus of their team for the long term, writes Michael Chammas.
League
Dragons look south to fill Soward void
Michael Chammas, Michael Carayannis St George Illawarra may boast an English halves combination next season after expressing interest in Melbourne's Gareth Widdop as a replacement for Penrith-bound five-eighth Jamie Soward.
Talkin' Teams, Tuesday, April 30
Michael Chammas The latest news from the NRL as clubs name their sides for round eight.
Sonny Bill free to play NRL opener
Michael Chammas The NRL has finally registered the contract of Sonny Bill Williams just hours before the deadline that would have seen him miss Thursday night's season opener against South Sydney.
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...
League
Cap guns: Roosters reap recruitment rewards
Michael Chammas SYDNEY ROOSTERS are now reaping the benefits of using only about 90 per cent of their salary cap last year.
Roosters would move on from O'Donnell
Michael Chammas SYDNEY ROOSTERS are still hopeful of striking a deal to lure Luke O'Donnell to the club despite Huddersfield denying the forward a release from his contract.
League
Jennings wasn't worth it - Cleary
Michael Chammas IVAN CLEARY did not try to sugar-coat the break-up between Penrith and Michael Jennings, backing his club's decision to release the NSW centre from the final three years of his contract.
League
Departure of Jennings to benefit Panthers
Michael Chammas Penrith have cleared the decks to make an aggressive play for the NRL’s top players next year.
League
No guarantees in race for top eight
Michael Chammas AT LEAST half of last year's semi-finalists will miss this year's finals, if recent history is anything to go by.
Tigers wait to seal Tuqiri deal
MICHAEL CHAMMAS, BRAD WALTER Wests Tigers are waiting for the NRL to announce this season's salary cap before extending Lote Tuqiri's contract at the club.
Dogs in market for Thurston but re-signing Reynolds is priority
Brad Walter, Michael Chammas CANTERBURY coach Des Hasler and Josh Reynolds's manager Daryl Mather have agreed to meet the day after the collective bargaining agreement is formalised to discuss a new contract for the boom...
League
Roosters won't wait too long for Jennings
Michael Chammas SYDNEY ROOSTERS expect to reach an agreement with Penrith's Michael Jennings within the week, with club insiders saying if negotiations are not finalised by then, the deal will probably not go ahead...
League
Roosters move to snap up Jennings
Michael Chammas SYDNEY ROOSTERS will meet Penrith centre Michael Jennings on Monday in a bid to finalise a deal for the 24-year-old to join the club before the start of the season.
League
Souths out, Titans in for Jennings
Michael Chammas THE Michael Jennings contract saga took another twist on Tuesday when one of his suitors pulled the pin on the bid to sign the 24-year-old and a new club joined the race.
