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Ryan Bailey has said that he is ‘ready for a new challenge’ after leaving Leeds Rhino to join Hull KR on a two-year deal
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Flanagan has undergone education courses after being banned in December 2013 over the club’s controversial supplement program
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The England scrum-half Matty Smith expects to be fit for Sunday’s Four Nations clash with Australia
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Bath’s Sam Burgess is putting no immediate timescale on when he will be fit to make his eagerly-awaited rugby union debut
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Nick Tedeschi: The NRL’s reaction to a crass tweet is as embarassing as anything Todd Carney can summon up on a Saturday night
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Andy Wilson: The appointment of a home referee to officiate Australia v England fails to surprise, and there’s a league Storm brewing in Melbourne
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Paul Conlon believes the $50,000 fine handed to Paul Gallen was too harsh and has quit in protest
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Australia will have a home referee as well as home advantage against England in Melbourne on Sunday
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England coach Steve McNamara has named an unchanged side for Sunday’s Four Nations match against Australia but has not yet ruled out injured captain Sean O’Loughlin
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Manly have signed former Test forward Willie Mason and Warriors star Feleti Mateo, and confirmed stalwart Anthony Watmough’s release
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Cronulla captain Paul Gallen says he won’t be taking a $50,000 fine meted out by the NRL lying down
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England will have history behind them and the prospect of making their own when they face Australia on Saturday
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England captain Sean O’Loughlin is quietly confident of making his Four Nations return on Sunday to put extra heat on Australia at Melbourne’s AAMI Park
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Cronulla captain Paul Gallen has been handed a $50,000 fine for a foul-mouthed tirade he made against NRL officials on social media
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Kangaroos pay the price; Kiwis on course for silverware; England will improve; Samoa shine on big stage; double-header hits the mark
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Scrum-half Matty Smith has said he will be fit for the clash with Australia despite injuring his ankle in England’s win over Samoa
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A “rare” injury to Daly Cherry-Evans may lead to what experts would have considered an even more unlikely sight not so long ago - Ben Hunt wearing the Australian No.6 jersey
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Tim Lewis: Far from being an unknowable, elite atmosphere, as suggested by the England cricket team, the dressing room poses problems we all face
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The jury is still out on Australia’s ‘generation next’ after New Zealand’s 30-12 triumph over a depleted Kangaroos side in their Four Nations opener in Brisbane.
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England have beaten Samoa 32-26 in their opening Four Nations game at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane
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Sam Tomkins says NRL is a tougher challenge as Sam Burgess switches codes
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Gavin Willacy: Ireland have already stunned France in the Euros, can they do the same to Scotland on Saturday?; plus heated debate Down Under; and what’s a spare S between friends?
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Nick Tedeschi: The Four Nations starts this weekend but the international game has paid the price for the code’s administrative ineptitude
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Nick Tedeschi: The Four Nations starts this weekend but the international game has paid the price for the code’s administrative ineptitude
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Andy Wilson: Joe Westerman is among the four debutants hoping to avoid Four Nations disaster in first ever Test against Pacific island
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Andy Wilson: The 25-year-old’s code switch from South Sydney to Bath will inevitably reduce his standing among the all-time greats but he has been a towering figure
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Sam Burgess has capped a brilliant 12 months by becoming the first Englishman to be named international rugby league player of the year
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Paul Gallen used extremely strong language as he vented his anger at the departure of Steve Noyce
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James Packer has joined Russell Crowe as co-owner of NRL premiers South Sydney
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The England coach, Steve McNamara, is confident Sean O’Loughlin will be fit to face Australia, despite being ruled out of the Four Nations game against Samoa through injury
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Australia and New Zealand have both named young talent in their squads for the Four Nations, which begins on Saturday
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James Graham will lead England against Samoa after Sean O’Loughlin was ruled out through injury
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Keiron Cunningham has been reassured by St Helens that they recognise the scale of his task in succeeding Nathan Brown as coach of the Super League champions
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Samoa’s rugby league team may field a depleted side against England in the Four Nations on Saturday after some of their squad were reportedly involved in a brawl at a Brisbane nightclub
Topics
- Australia sport
- Four Nations
- England rugby league team
- Australia rugby league
- NRL
- Samoa rugby league team
- Cronulla Sharks
- New Zealand rugby league
- Sam Burgess
- Bath
- St Helens
- Rugby union
- Super League
- Asada
- State of Origin
- James Packer
- England cricket team
- France rugby league team
- Manly Sea Eagles
- Steve McNamara
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