By Marina Go
Crikey Sports is delighted to bring you a guest post via The New 30, a blog by editor and publisher Marina Go.
The original post can be found at The New 30.
I googled “NRL Board” because I wanted to see if there were any women at the top of an organisation badly in need [...]
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The NRL Board needs greater diversity
May 19, 2009 – 8:34 am
Crikey’s AFL & NRL Hot Form Charts
March 26, 2009 – 9:41 am
Crikey’s NRL Hot Form Chart
A bit wobbly. That’s how last year’s grand finalists, Manly and the Storm, are looking just at the moment. The Sea Eagles — who, like Lear, are more sinned against than sinning — at least have a home game against the struggling Penrith to right the ship. Melbourne has no such [...]
Grapple with this: Crikey’s NRL Grand Final tipping comp
October 2, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Because this is an Equal Opportunity blog, we’re giving our legion of rugby league supporters the chance to win one of four Crikey 12-month subscriptions by tipping on Sunday’s NRL Grand Final – just as we did with the AFL Grand Final last week.
After weeks of grapple tackle talk, chicken wing waffle, suspensions, coaching broadsides, [...]
Ruthless Storm fans flames of Melbourne-Sydney rivalry
October 1, 2008 – 11:58 am
Now that it has become a leviathan, an irresistible force which has pushed aside every immoveable object in the NRL for most of the past three years, Melbourne Storm has officially lost its ranking as everyone’s second-favourite team.
It has become too good for that, too brutally successful. The romance of the outsider underdog has gone; [...]
The AFL needs a sparkling grand final to redeem a fizzer season
September 24, 2008 – 9:45 pm
The AFL’s disappointing September crowds and poor TV ratings over the year can be explained away by all manner of possible alibis and paper-thin excuses – Geelong’s dominance, the Olympic Games, Sydney’s fickle form, WA’s two teams not firing a shot, ticket prices, food prices, the A-League’s success – but there’s an elephant in the [...]
Are we fed up with televised football?
September 15, 2008 – 12:16 pm
Has television coverage of the AFL and NRL reached saturation point? Has the seemingly endless TV appetite for our two biggest winter codes been sated at last? And now, sitting bloated and burping in front of the great smorgasbord of televised sport, have the viewers finally said: enough is enough?
Figures released last week indicate that [...]
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