Salary Cap

hands off: Greg Inglis evades the Sydney Roosters.

Inglis a rare one that got away from the Roosters

Adrian Proszenko Sydney Roosters almost always get their man. Greg Inglis is a rare exception.

League

Latest revelations reinforce need for change

Steve Mascord DEVELOPMENTS in recent hours involving the ASADA investigation at Cronulla give us an insight into just how much infrastructure we really need to put around the NRL so that it operates with integrity...

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League

Pet peeve: NRL clubs make mockery of memberships

Roy Masters Rugby league has an ignoble history of creative counting - fictitious crowd figures, salary cap manipulation, exaggerating injury tallies, even miscounting tackles.

Saturday Serve

Who's-to-blame game

Q: Given coach Shane Flanagan and other staff have been stood down, should Cronulla players accept six-month bans, rather than risk a two-year suspension?

With no chief, could Cronulla have been an accident waiting to happen?

Brad Walter Can the Sharks survive?

League

Canberra not spooked by round one hoodoo

Jon Tuxworth The last time the Raiders won a round one match away from home, NSW were the State of Origin champions.

Shark attack

Daniel Lane, Nick Ralston Cronulla Sharks players have allegedly received under-the-table payments from a security company sponsor, opening another battle front for the club at the centre of an investigation by the Australian...

Rugby League

Sharks boss could be the next to go

Brad Walter Damian Irvine expected to become the latest casualty of doping and salary cap scandals.

League

Irvine next in line for Sharks exit

Brad Walter CRONULLA chairman Damian Irvine is expected to become the latest casualty of the doping and salary cap scandals that have engulfed the club and left sacked football manager Darren Mooney in hospital...

Live: Cronulla Sharks v Gold Coast Titans

Shane Brady Join Shane Brady as the troubled Cronulla Sharks finally can let their football do the talking as they host the Gold Coast Titans.

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League

NRL Power Rankings - Round 1 2013

Paul Suttor The dust has settled after the opening round of the NRL season and we now have actual on-field action to gauge who's going to be hard to beat and who's going to be hard to watch in 2013.

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League

Cullen predicts Cronulla will survive long term

Daniel Lane Bruno Cullen, who was appointed by the NRL to steer Cronulla through their maze of dramas which have eventuated from the ASADA investigation into alleged drug use, was adamant the besieged Sharks had...

League

New Sharks boss asks NRL for help as probe hits club's coffers

Michael Carayannis New Sharks chief executive Bruno Cullen has asked the NRL for financial assistance to set about restructuring the fragile organisation as he sorts through mountains of paperwork regarding the ASADA...

League

Forget off-field problems, the crisis is on the pitch

Malcolm Knox The basketball court, said Michael Jordan, was his ''place of refuge, where I've always gone when I needed comfort and peace''. NRL fans, as much as players, know where he's coming from.

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League

Sharks got wake-up call years ago

Adrian Proszenko This whole mess at Cronulla, ''management failings'' and all, could have been avoided if the club had heeded the findings of an independent review it commissioned way back in 2006.

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Rugby League

NRL plans for worst on drugs

Roy Masters Defaulted grand final and internal draft to reinforce ranks of any club stripped of players.

Rugby League

NRL plan to share players

Brad Walter Proposal being considered to ensure the game fulfils its television commitments.

Fensom says hype won't sidetrack Papalii, despite Eels' lure

Lee Gaskin CANBERRA enforcer Josh Papalii won't be distracted by continuing speculation about his playing future and is primed to step up to the State of Origin arena.