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A-League tipping Round 14: Sacking coach after coach won't help Wanderers, Big Blue looking juicy on Australia Day

It was Stuart Thomas who rose to the occasion last round, tipping three matches correctly and he is now slowly creeping into contention in the 2025/26 race for Roar tipping glory. Frankly, he looks ...
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2025 AFL free agency and trade period: Complete list of all trades and free agency moves

The AFL free agency and trade period has ended for 2025. The free agency period commenced on Friday, October 3 and ran through to October 10, while the trade period began on Monday, October 6 and ran ...
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The match that stood still: Tangiwai and the spirit of 1953

Neil Adcock was running in determinedly; his loose-limbed arms and legs pumping like pistons. Ordinarily, watching scribes would have described the South African speedster as a runaway express train, ...
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'Gutted by this outcome': Razor gets the knife as All Blacks make cut-throat coaching call

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. Scott Robertson. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images) Scott Robertson’s ...
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Super Rugby 2026 squads CONFIRMED: Japan captain joins Canes, young Aussie off to NZ, Force sign another Puma

The Super Rugby Pacific draw is in, and now so too are the squads. All 11 Super Rugby sides named their squads for the 2026 season on Thursday – and we’ve covered off all the big inclusions and ...
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The 50-point curse: Where premiership winners rank for conceding half-centuries in NRL era

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. The 50-point curse/voodoo/hex/jinx. Whatever you want to call it, we all ...
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Counting down the 10 Best NRL teams of the 21st Century: Some excellent players but not in seventh heaven

The countdown continues in my series naming the 10 best NRL teams of the 21st century. Today, we reveal the seventth and eighth best teams, packed with strikepower, skill, and some of the most ...
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'Someone else is always going through a bigger struggle': Tragedy brings perspective to Staggs

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. Kotoni Staggs says an NRL premiership ring is proof that good things ...
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'Appointed by World Rugby in error': Ex-Wallaby can't hide disgust at Italian ref - Joe calls out 'inconsistencies'

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. Morgan Turinui’s war on Italian referee Andrea Piardi was reignited on ...
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NRL Week 2 Finals Team Lists: 'Vomiting through the night' - Raiders get exemption with star out, Dogs make Crichton call

Ethan Strange has been ruled out of Canberra’s NRL semi-final against Cronulla in a massive blow to the minor premiers’ hopes of avoiding a devastating straight-sets exit. In the midst of a breakout ...
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Bang the drum slowly: The life and long death of Jerry Quarry, boxing's tragic 'Great White Hope'

“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies,” shrugs John Garfield in his role as boxer Charlie Davis in the noir classic, Body and Soul. Moments earlier, Davis’s professional honour had ensured ...
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The sad history of rugby league TV deals in focus: Why AFL zoomed ahead of rival code in rights rumble

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. Rugby league’s first television deal in 1973 with the Australian ...