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Israel Folau will debut for Southport Tigers this weekend in what will be his first game of rugby league in Australia in over a decade. Folau's plea to feature in the third-tier Gold Coast competition was today given the all clear by Queensland Rugby League,

With four new teams in the comp and the Super League War breaking, first-grade debuts were handed out as easily in 1995 as sin-binnings are these days. And this team of ’95 debutants is an apt reflection of the lopsided 20-team premiership,

Any team containing Andrew Johns is tough to beat. The calibre of his fellow 1993 debutants makes this rookie class even tougher. The 1993 side to contest the rugby league rookie cup features a distinctly Pacific flavour — six Kangaroos are joined by a Fijian on the flank and four …

One day after Barcelona lit the cauldron on the 1992 Olympic Games, Matthew Johns made his first-grade debut for the Newcastle Knights. And the star five-eighth turned media juggernaut was joined by an exceptionally strong vintage of debutants throughout that Olympic year.

GROUP Three Rugby League has scrapped this weekend's round of matches because of closed fields caused by the ongoing wet weather. The round won't be re-scheduled, Group Three chief executive Mal Drury said.

Amid the NRL’s lacklustre 2021 campaign I’m casting my wistful mind back to more fondly remembered seasons. With Sydney’s lockdown handing me a lot more free time, I’m dusting off the stash of old Rugby League Week magazines to form a team from each rookie class of the 1990s.

Israel Folau will be free to resume his rugby league career on the Gold Coast after Catalans Dragons agreed to release controversial dual-code international. The 32-year-old former Melbourne and Brisbane NRL centre had threatened legal action against the Queensland Rugby League after it refused to ratify his registration with junior …

If you are a rugby league tragic like me, it might be time to think about some alternative activities this weekend, because the schedule is a little bit light on. On Friday night we have women’s under 19s State of Origin,

From tough and humble beginnings, he became a popular figure at all three NRL clubs for which he played and did a lot of charity work behind the scenes. A proud Aboriginal man, he played for the Indigenous All Stars seven times and was unlucky not to play State of …

Billed as one of the most significant events on the Wheelchair Rugby League calendar, the NSW Blues and Foxville Queenslanders will go head-to-head on 10 July in a highly anticipated clash.