THE Queensland Rugby League has announced the 2015 Queensland Residents team to play New South Wales at Tapout Energy Stadium on Sunday, May 3. Featuring the leading players from Queensland’s Intrust Super Cup, the Residents will enter camp on the Gold Coast on Monday to begin preparations for the annual clash against the NSW Cup Representative team.... View Article
QUEENSLAND coach Mal Meninga says he is seriously considering handing 29-year-old North Queensland second-rower Gavin Cooper a State of Origin debut this season. Meninga tells RLW that while the broken cheekbone to Sydney Roosters back-rower Aiden Guerra has potentially opened up a spot on the left edge in the Maroons’ side for Origin One against... View Article
MELBOURNE Storm and Australian halfback Cooper Cronk has again raised the issue of player burnout pointing to the amount of footy in the current jam packed NRL season. The Queensland Origin star is called upon to play from the trials in February to the end of season Kangaroo tours in November, leaving little time to... View Article
QUEENSLAND Rugby League have continued on with their QAS program and named their 2015 Emerging Origin squad along with an Emerging Maroons Squad. The Emerging Origin squad consists of 18 NRL players while the Emerging Maroons squad consists of 26 players from the NYC and Intrust Super Cup. Both training camps will take place at... View Article
THE participation rate of women in rugby league has more than doubled in Queensland in the past two years. The Queensland Rugby League (QRL) has released astounding figures that show registered females in the game have risen from 1904 in 2012 to 3831 in 2014 across the state’s three divisions of South East, Central and... View Article
QUEENSLAND have maintained their 16th consecutive victory over New South Wales with a 26-10 victory in the Women’s Interstate Challenge at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday. From the first minute, Queensland were on the attack after re-gathering possession courtesy of a swirling kick-off. Inspiring defence by New South Wales however, managed to shutout any hopes of... View Article
Maroons coach Mal Meninga has lauded Maroons ace Johnathan Thurston who reaches an unprecedented 30 consecutive Origin matches in tonight’s encounter. Thurston sat out the last 25 minutes of last Sunday’s training session after knocking his knee, however, Meninga says the halfback is no danger of breaking his remarkable streak which has seen him play... Read More
Queensland captain Cameron Smith says the return of halfback Cooper Cronk to the Origin fold will go a long way to preventing the Maroons suffering a 3-0 series defeat tomorrow night. Cronk has missed all but 10 minutes of the 2014 series after fracturing arm early in Game One, however the Kangaroos halfback has returned... Read More
QUEENSLAND Origin coach Mal Meninga has remarkably decided to not fulfill any of his media commitments ahead of Wednesday’s third and final Origin clash of 2014. The Maroons released a statement revealing that captain Cameron Smith would be fronting the traditional pre-match press conference on Tuesday – not Meninga. Queensland have also opted to cancel... Read More