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Off-contract Newcastle star Bradman Best baffled by non-existent $4 million upgrade from Knights

Zion Johnson? Anyone know him

The Parramatta Eels have continued their raid of the Queensland Cup.Sunshine Coast falcons winger Zion Johnson has signed a deal to join the Eels next year. Johnson managed 17 tries in 22 appearances for the Falcons who made it to the Grand Final.Zion’s good form saw him be picked as part of the Fiji World Cup Squad.Zion has signed a train and trial deal so will need to go out and prove himself. At 25 Zion has plenty of experience and clearly knows how to find the try line!!

Off-contract Newcastle star Bradman Best baffled by non-existent $4 million upgrade from Knights

Bradman Best has been left baffled by a leaked contract offer from the Newcastle Knights, with the Australian centre revealing he was never given a monster deal from the club.Whispers around Best future have refused to go away over the last month, but it looked as though Newcastle were the odds-on favourite to retain their centre after it was said they had tabled him a four-year, $4 million deal last week.The alleged deal making him one of the highest paid centres in the game and an offer which…

Jordan Plath signs with the eels

Jordan Plath-Appernatly one of the best hookers out of qld in the younger grades and younger brother of max Plath,has signed with the eels for next year and beyond.Very exciting stuff.It was reported on Facebook by a dolphins page and Jordan's mum commented on it confirming it's true.

Pre-season begin - junior overload

Pre-season began today. TCT have posted a blog about the players that were there and I am very happy to read the number of juniors that are doing pre-season training.The following plyers were back today:R SmithB SimonssonS TuivitaJ HopgoodC GuymerS PrykeM DooreyR TalagiJ Funa-IutaA NanvaT LokeniZ ViscontiJ KoinaC PetrusL FletcherL TalatainaW Latu (rehab)W Penisini (rehab)I Iongi (rehab)T RisatiC BamblettS NunnC BloomfieldM NauerM PopoS PolleyH Bell6 SG Ball age players there.I would have added…

B sample Negative - Let's Trot

Josh Addo-Carr cleared in roadside test before Eels meetingParramatta winger Josh Addo-Carr’s second result from a roadside drugs test has come back negative, just hours before he is scheduled to front the Eels board about his future. Addo-Carr allegedly tested positive to cocaine at a random police roadside test in September. However, police on Monday informed him that the second test result provided a result for no drugs, meaning there will be no further action from police. The development…

Bradman best likes a video of him departing👀

If anyone saw the Matty John's podcast video on insta.When they started talking about best and they were all guessing his leaving due to salary cap amd that.Someone caught Bradman liked the vid then quickly unliked it.Prob just toying w us but definitely very interesting.

Finals attendance figures

The NRL must be stocked with the attendance this weekend... 28k on Friday, 26k in Auckland, 17k last night and plenty of empty seats for today's game. And that's despite most of the stadiums holding much larger numbers.With Souths now gone, and Newcastle without a home game, there are no other clubs that will pull big numbers. Imagine a finals series with Parra, Canterbury, St George, Souths, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wests.

Liam Martin and Jacob Preston

On NRL360 last night Braith Anasta stated that Liam Martin had given Penrith until 25 August to start negotiations and sort out his future. It was also stated that Martin is looking at a $1 million paycheck.  Now I doubt Penrith are in a position to offer such cash for Martin with the likes of Yeo and Cleary yet to put pen to paper and the Chiefs and Bears circling being cashed up.  Anasta also said that the Dogs had offered Jacob Preston a 3 year deal worth $1.9 million or as was put $630K a…

World Cup Blog

 So ... how far can we go ?We should beat the Yanks ,  then what ?  Go Germany 🇩🇪 talented team and with the right bounce of the balls or rub of the pitch could be a genuine Smokey .   

Remember Rodney Hogg

Rodney was a late arrival to Test cricket at age 27. Born in Victoria he was overlooked by state selectors and moved to Adelaide to find an earlier path to Shield.He was selected and within a year he was noticed by Alan Davidson who mentioned his name to National Selectors. Just before this Lillee and co had debarked to Packer's World Cricket.So Hoggie was picked to play in the home series against the Poms and then take on the Pakistanis in the summer of 78-79.The games purists were as shocked…