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Doueihi says Tigers clash likely to be personal for Brisbane coach

Wests Tigers face the biggest test of their season on Saturday, but the match-up against Brisbane could be personal for the Broncos coach Michael Maguire, according to injured Tiger Adam Doueihi.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/tig

ABC News · Tigers clash tipped to be personal for Broncos coach Michael MaguireBy ABC News

Same motivation to win burns in Gutherson ahead of face-off with Parramatta
By Nick Campton

As Parramatta's former king plans to return to the court he once ruled, Clint Gutherson is showing the Dragons a new way to live the only way he knows how.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/cli

ABC News · Same motivation to win burns in Clint Gutherson ahead of face-off with ParramattaBy Nick Campton

Luai set to miss Tigers' biggest test so far after ban for high shot

Jarome Luai is expected to miss the biggest test of Wests Tigers' 2025 season so far as Benji Marshall's men hit the road to face the in-form Brisbane without their talismanic halfback.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/wes

ABC News · Jarome Luai handed one-match suspension, set to miss Wests Tigers game against Brisbane BroncosBy ABC News

Live: Eyes on Cherry-Evans after captain tells club he wants to leave
By Michael Doyle

Manly Sea Eagles captain Daly Cherry-Evans will lead his side onto the field at home, just days after publicly announcing he wants to leave the club at the end of the season. Follow live.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-30/nrl

ABC News · NRL live updates: Manly Sea Eagles vs Parramatta Eels, Wests Tigers vs New Zealand Warriors — blog, scores and statsBy Michael Doyle

Flood-ravaged region looks to the Cowboys to lift spirits
By Chloe Chomicki and Emily Dobson

The Cowboys have begun their 30th season with worrying prospects, but a win would lift the spirits of players and a flood-ravaged region.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/nor

ABC News · Cowboys aim to bring smiles to flood-ravaged Queensland in club's 30th yearBy Chloe Chomicki

Sodden Queenslanders want rain to stop and a Cowboys to win
By Chloe Chomicki and Emily Dobson

The Cowboys have begun their 30th season with worrying prospects, but a win would lift the spirits of players and a flood-ravaged region.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/nor

ABC News · Cowboys aim to bring smiles to flood-ravaged Queensland in club's 30th yearBy Chloe Chomicki

@ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social A bit more on this forgotten moment of Australian sporting history:

"It was pandemonium. About 15,000 people were at Parramatta Leagues club and its immediate surrounds. Players were lifted from the team bus into the club by elated fans.

"The fence pickets that weren’t souvenired had been piled together to make a bonfire.

"The fence pickets went up. The grandstand, a wooden heap built in the 1930s, soon followed. The scoreboard at the southern end was ablaze. It was a fibro structure set on two metres of brick with a clock on top, which a group of men tried feverishly to rip free for a keepsake before giving up and leaving it to burn.

"The goalposts were added to the bonfire, after one fan tried to climb to the top of them to get a flag. The man was still atop one pole as they fell, yet ran away and into legend. Advertising hoardings were ripped free and torched, taking chunks out of the fence.

"Firemen and police eventually broke up the party. When they returned the next day, Cumberland Oval was a smouldering ruin, the grandstand a charred carcass."

More here: nine.com.au/sport/nrl/parramat

And that's why there's a statue of a bus in the main town square in Parramatta.

Nine · NRL news | Peter Sterling, the night Parramatta Eels fans burned down Cumberland OvalBy Tim Elbra
#history#sport#NRL
Want to know why there's a sculpture of a bus in the middle of Parramatta Square?

In 1981, the Parramatta Eels won the grand final in the predecessor to the National Rugby League.

Many fans gathered at the team's home ground, Cumberland Oval (which was on the site of CommBank Stadium) and the celebrations got a bit rowdy.

And by "got a bit rowdy", I mean they burnt the stadium down to the ground.

Without a stadium, the following season the team held its meetings in a secondhand 1960s Leyland Worldmaster bus.

But that's not the only piece of local history commemorated by this sculpture.

One side of the bus is inscribed with the words "Flying Pieman". It's a reference to a local baker named William Francis King, who used to sell pies to people boarding the ferry to Parra at Sydney's Circular Quay in the 1870s.

After the ferry left, Mr King reputedly packed up his pie cart, then ran the 30-odd kilometres to Parramatta by foot. He would then set up his cart at Parramatta Wharf in time to sell more pies to passengers as they disembarked the ferry.

The other side of the bus is inscribed with the name "Rosie Bint Broheen". In 1922, Rosie became the first Lebanese woman to buy land in Parramatta.

The sculpture also includes some hidden messages, in reference to the Parramatta Industrial School for Girls, which was a notorious children's welfare institution that operated from 1887-1974. It was home to many members of the Stolen Generations.

#history #Parramatta #urbanism #art #UrbanArt #Australia #StreetArt #sculpture #NRL

Cherry-Evans news a "self-destruct button on NRL season, says Wayne Bennett

Wayne Bennett describes the Daly Cherry-Evans scenario as a "self-destruct button" on the NRL season as he calls for trade windows to be introduced.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/che

ABC News · South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett rules out making a move for Manly's Daly Cherry-EvansBy ABC News

Inside the remarkable rise of Tom Jenkins, Penrith's most unlikely success story
By Nick Campton

When Tom Jenkins came back to Penrith, he was on the NRL scrap heap and had no promises or guarantees. Now, after an unlikely return in an unlikely position, he's making up for lost time.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/tom

ABC News · How Tom Jenkins rose from the NRL scrapheap to become Penrith's most unlikely success storyBy Nick Campton

Rabbitohs mascot apologises for pushing young fan after watching video

The man inside the costume as South Sydney's mascot, Charlie Gallico, says he now realises his actions at Shark Park were wrong and he hopes he has not harmed the club or the young fan's love of rugby league.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/sou

ABC News · South Sydney Rabbitohs mascot, Charlie Gallico, apologises for pushing young Sharks fanBy ABC News

For the first time in a generation, Manly and Daly Cherry-Evans are facing the unknown
By Nick Campton

For 15 years, Daly Cherry-Evans has been Manly's guiding star. Now, with the Sea Eagles legend set to exit the club, both Cherry-Evans and the Silvertails are off the edge of the map for the first time in an age.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/dal

ABC News · For the first time in a generation, Manly and Daly Cherry-Evans will face the unknownBy Nick Campton