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Brisbane Times

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Why Jarome Luai’s PNG parade was so painful for Tigers fans

The star playmaker returned to Sydney on Monday evening after a not-so-subtle trip to meet Chiefs officials in PNG. Wests Tigers fans are right to be...

27.04.2026 60

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Why Jarome Luai’s PNG parade was so painful for Tigers fans

The star playmaker returned to Sydney on Monday evening after a not-so-subtle trip to meet Chiefs officials in PNG. Wests Tigers fans are right to be...

27.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Why Jarome Luai’s PNG parade was so painful for Tigers fans

The star playmaker returned to Sydney on Monday evening after a not-so-subtle trip to meet Chiefs officials in PNG. Wests Tigers fans are right to be...

27.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Why Jarome Luai’s PNG parade was so painful for Tigers fans

The star playmaker returned to Sydney on Monday evening after a not-so-subtle trip to meet Chiefs officials in PNG. Wests Tigers fans are right to be...

27.04.2026 10

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

The Sunday breakfast that sealed Flanagan’s fate at the Dragons

After seven straight losses to start the season, the winds of change blew strongly at the Dragons.

20.04.2026 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

The Sunday breakfast that sealed Flanagan’s fate at the Dragons

After seven straight losses to start the season, the winds of change blew strongly at the Dragons.

20.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

The Sunday breakfast that sealed Flanagan’s fate at the Dragons

After seven straight losses to start the season, the winds of change blew strongly at the Dragons.

20.04.2026 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

The Sunday breakfast that sealed Flanagan’s fate at the Dragons

After seven straight losses to start the season, the winds of change blew strongly at the Dragons.

20.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Dogs’ breakfast: Panther tamers one week, embarrassed by the Eels the next

Until Canterbury reduce the gap between their best and worst performances, how can they seriously be considered NRL premiership threats?

19.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Dogs’ breakfast: Panther tamers one week, embarrassed by the Eels the next

Until Canterbury reduce the gap between their best and worst performances, how can pundits seriously consider them NRL premiership threats?

19.04.2026 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Dogs’ breakfast: Panther tamers one week, embarrassed by the Eels the next

Until Canterbury reduce the gap between their best and worst performances, how can pundits seriously consider them NRL premiership threats?

19.04.2026 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Dogs’ breakfast: Panther tamers one week, embarrassed by the Eels the next

Until Canterbury reduce the gap between their best and worst performances, how can pundits seriously consider them NRL premiership threats?

19.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Wests Tigers fans need Jahream Bula to stay. Phil Gould isn’t helping

How do you separate praise from publicly courting a player? That was the question Tigers fans were asking after the Canterbury boss’s adulation of...

14.04.2026 10

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Wests Tigers fans need Jahream Bula to stay. Phil Gould isn’t helping

How do you separate praise from publicly courting a player? That was the question Tigers fans were asking after the Canterbury boss’s adulation of...

14.04.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Wests Tigers fans need Jahream Bula to stay. Phil Gould isn’t helping

How do you separate praise from publicly courting a player? That was the question Tigers fans were asking after the Canterbury boss’s adulation of...

14.04.2026 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Wests Tigers fans need Jahream Bula to stay. Phil Gould isn’t helping

How do you separate praise from publicly courting a player? That was the question Tigers fans were asking after the Canterbury boss’s adulation of...

14.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

The turning point for the Wests Tigers? Think back to Easter Monday last year

The Wests Tigers have a new-found toughness this season. You can trace its origins back to the events that transpired this time last year.

06.04.2026 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

The turning point for the Wests Tigers? Think back to Easter Monday last year

The Wests Tigers have a new-found toughness this season. You can trace its origins back to the events that transpired this time last year.

06.04.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

The turning point for the Wests Tigers? Think back to Easter Monday last year

The Wests Tigers have a new-found toughness this season. You can trace its origins back to the events that transpired this time last year.

06.04.2026 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

The turning point for the Wests Tigers? Think back to Easter Monday last year

The Wests Tigers have a new-found toughness this season. You can trace its origins back to the events that transpired this time last year.

06.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

‘I hope it’s the last we see of him’: The parting shot from Lomax that has enraged rugby league

Zac Lomax is finally off to rugby. Three words in his statement have left rugby league figures – including the coach who gave him his Kangaroos...

09.03.2026 30

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

‘I hope it’s the last we see of him’: The parting shot from Lomax that has enraged rugby league

Zac Lomax is finally off to rugby. Three words in his statement have left rugby league figures – including the coach who gave him his Kangaroos...

09.03.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

‘I hope it’s the last we see of him’: The parting shot from Lomax that has enraged rugby league

Zac Lomax is finally off to rugby. Three words in his statement have left rugby league figures – including the coach who gave him his Kangaroos...

09.03.2026 30

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

‘I hope it’s the last we see of him’: The parting shot from Lomax that has enraged rugby league

Zac Lomax is finally off to rugby. Three words in his statement have left rugby league figures – including the coach who gave him his Kangaroos...

09.03.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Kangaroo cull: Why new Origin international eligibility rules spell trouble for Australia

The NRL’s shake-up will weaken the Kangaroos while strengthening their competitors. That might be good news for international league, but does it...

16.02.2026 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Kangaroo cull: Why new Origin international eligibility rules spell trouble for Australia

The NRL’s shake-up will weaken the Kangaroos while strengthening their competitors. That might be good news for international league, but does it...

16.02.2026 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Kangaroo cull: Why new Origin international eligibility rules spell trouble for Australia

The NRL’s shake-up will weaken the Kangaroos while strengthening their competitors. That might be good news for international league, but does it...

16.02.2026 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Kangaroo cull: Why new Origin international eligibility rules spell trouble for Australia

The NRL’s shake-up will weaken the Kangaroos while strengthening their competitors. That might be good news for international league, but does it...

16.02.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a...

02.12.2025 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a...

02.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a...

02.12.2025 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a...

02.12.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Daly Cherry-Evans is officially a Rooster. Good luck stopping them winning the comp in 2026

The former Manly skipper has officially signed with the Sydney Roosters – and the 16 rival NRL clubs might as well concede they are now playing for...

07.11.2025 10

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Daly Cherry-Evans is officially a Rooster. Good luck stopping them winning the comp in 2026

The former Manly skipper has officially signed with the Sydney Roosters – and the 16 rival NRL clubs might as well concede they are now playing for...

07.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Daly Cherry-Evans is officially a Rooster. Good luck stopping them winning the comp in 2026

The former Manly skipper has officially signed with the Sydney Roosters – and the 16 rival NRL clubs might as well concede they are now playing for...

07.11.2025 10

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Daly Cherry-Evans is officially a Rooster. Good luck stopping them winning the comp in 2026

The former Manly skipper has officially signed with the Sydney Roosters – and the 16 rival NRL clubs might as well concede they are now playing for...

07.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Could 18 penalties cost referee Ashley Klein the NRL grand final gig?

Grant Atkins is 80 minutes away from potentially replacing Ashley Klein as the NRL grand final referee after the latter blew 18 penalties on Friday...

27.09.2025 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Could 18 penalties cost referee Ashley Klein the NRL grand final gig?

Grant Atkins is 80 minutes away from potentially replacing Ashley Klein as the NRL grand final referee after the latter blew 18 penalties on Friday...

27.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Could 18 penalties cost referee Ashley Klein the NRL grand final gig?

Grant Atkins is 80 minutes away from potentially replacing Ashley Klein as the NRL grand final referee after the latter blew 18 penalties on Friday...

27.09.2025 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Could 18 penalties cost referee Ashley Klein the NRL grand final gig?

Grant Atkins is 80 minutes away from potentially replacing Ashley Klein as the NRL grand final referee after the latter blew 18 penalties on Friday...

27.09.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Roosters would be crazy - and wrong - to sack Victor Radley

It would be a total overreaction if the Roosters cut the forward.

18.09.2025 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Roosters would be crazy - and wrong - to sack Victor Radley

It would be a total overreaction if the Roosters cut the forward.

18.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

Roosters would be crazy - and wrong - to sack Victor Radley

It would be a total overreaction if the Roosters cut the forward.

18.09.2025 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

Roosters would be crazy - and wrong - to sack Victor Radley

It would be a total overreaction if the Roosters cut the forward.

18.09.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

South Sydney can’t make the NRL finals. But they can stop the Roosters

The cavalry are returning for South Sydney as they chase the ultimate consolation prize – denying bitter rivals the Roosters the chance of playing...

22.08.2025 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

South Sydney can’t make the NRL finals. But they can stop the Roosters

The cavalry are returning for South Sydney as they chase the ultimate consolation prize – denying bitter rivals the Roosters the chance of playing...

22.08.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi

South Sydney can’t make the NRL finals. But they can stop the Roosters

The cavalry are returning for South Sydney as they chase the ultimate consolation prize – denying bitter rivals the Roosters the chance of playing...

22.08.2025 20

The Age

Christian Nicolussi

South Sydney can’t make the NRL finals. But they can stop the Roosters

The cavalry are returning for South Sydney as they chase the ultimate consolation prize – denying bitter rivals the Roosters the chance of playing...

22.08.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Christian Nicolussi

Tallyn Da Silva’s play-acting was embarrassing. Sadly, it wasn’t illegal

Staying down to win a penalty is against the spirit of rugby league, but it’s not against the rules to make a goose of yourself.

11.08.2025 20

WA Today

Christian Nicolussi

Tallyn Da Silva’s play-acting was embarrassing. Sadly, it wasn’t illegal

Staying down to win a penalty is against the spirit of rugby league, but it’s not against the rules to make a goose of yourself.

11.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Christian Nicolussi