By Wayne Heming Three-years after being dumped by the Brisbane Broncos, Tom Dearden is set to answer an SOS from Queensland coach Billy Slater to wear the famous No.6 jumper donned by many past maroon greats. With a hamstring tear ruling Melbourne five-eighth Cameron Munster out of the 2024 State of Origin series, Dearden, released
We’ve done it before and we can do it again. Confirmation that Cameron Munster (groin) is out of this year’s State of Origin series will hit Queensland supporters hard, especially after already losing some key middle forwards. But I can promise you, the players who come into Billy Slater’s Origin side for game one next
By Wayne Heming Recalled utility Lauren Brown has been putting out fires recently in her new job as a Queensland firefighter. But on Thursday night, the 29-year-old policeman’s daughter will be trying to light a few fires of her own for the Maroon’s attack in the opening game of the historic best-of-three State of Origin
By Wayne Heming Andrew Peach was in grade five when his father, Frank, took him to his first State of Origin game at Lang Park in 1985. His grandfather, Jim, was a life member of the Queensland Rugby League but lived in Cairns so he would send his State of Origin tickets to his son-in-law in
By Wayne Heming One of rugby league’s finest ever fullbacks, Darren Lockyer, is anticipating both James Tedesco and the “new kid on the block” Reese Walsh to bring something extra special to Suncorp Stadium on Friday night when the Broncos host the Roosters. It’s an epic battle that will most likely spread into the upcoming
Personally, I couldn’t give two hoots who wears the NSW number one jumper in the first State of Origin game at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on June 5. Media talk and speculation south of the border is that new coach Michael Maguire could make some personnel changes, with long-serving Blues and Australian fullback James Tedesco being
Kerry Boustead was fast. Very fast. So fast in fact, he made it from playing footy in Innisfail – a far north Queensland township known for producing bananas and sugar – to playing for Australia at 18 years and 316 days – the youngest player to ever wear the green and gold on home soil.
Latrell Mitchel doesn’t appear to be a happy man. Why? That’s the puzzle Rabbits coach Jason Demetriou needs to solve before it costs him his job at South Sydney. There’s only one person who knows what’s wrong with Mitchell, and that’s Latrell himself. What’s swirling around in Mitchell’s head is the key but he needs to
By Wayne Heming He hasn’t always been a pin-up boy or the most popular player on the team but few, if any, could deny Manly halfback Daly Cherry-Evans will end his rugby league career as one of the game’s best and most influential players. Cherry-Evans made his rugby league debut for Manly in round one
By Wayne Heming Maroon rugby league great Darren Lockyer is not concerned by an unusual early season spate of injuries that will force selectors to make changes for the first State of Origin game in Sydney on June 5. Coach Billy Slater will be shooting for an Origin hat-trick after series’ wins in 2022-23 in
