NRL NRL 2021 Season - Round 5

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Thursday 8th April
South Sydney vs Brisbane (Stadium Australia - 19:50)

Friday 9th April
New Zealand vs Manly-Warringah (Central Coast Stadium - 18:00)
Penrith vs Canberra (BlueBet Stadium - 19:55)

Saturday 10th April
Gold Coast vs Newcastle (Cbus Super Stadium - 15:00)
Canterbury-Bankstown vs Melbourne (Stadium Australia - 17:30)
Sydney Roosters vs Cronulla-Sutherland (SCG - 19:30)

Sunday 11th April
Wests Tigers vs North Queensland (Leichhardt Oval - 16:05)
Parramatta vs St.George-Illawarra (Bankwest Stadium - 18:15)

 

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NRL Round 5 squad announcements

Official team lists, updates and injury news for round four of the 2021 Telstra Premiership season.

www.nrl.com

 

[Falconista]

On paper, this looks like the best round of the season thus far. Penrith v Canberra Friday night shapes as an absolute cracker!

 

[Gigantic]

Souths
New Zealand
Penrith
Gold Coast
Melbourne
Easts
Wests
Parra

 

[moto748]

Souths
New Zealand
Penrith
Gold Coast
Melbourne
Easts
Wests
Parra

Can't argue with that on form.

 

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Vale Tom Raudonikis

League great Tommy Raudonikis dead after long battle with cancer

Rugby league legend Tommy Raudonikis dead after long battle with cancer

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[DEVO]

Sad to hear about Tommy, a tough no nonsense player who was one of the premier halfbacks in a very strong era.

RIP Tommy

 

[royboy2]

Vale Tom Raudonikis

League great Tommy Raudonikis dead after long battle with cancer

Rugby league legend Tommy Raudonikis dead after long battle with cancer

www.foxsports.com.au

Met him once, he stayed at my hotel at the time. Deadset legend of a bloke

 

[BStaff17]

On paper, this looks like the best round of the season thus far. Penrith v Canberra Friday night shapes as an absolute cracker!

Yeah sticky will have canberra up for an ambush i reckon. Penrith are unstoppable though atm. Hopefully its a cracker similar to the storm/panthers and storm/eels games a few weeks back.

 

[Gigantic]

There you go

Reynolds kicks the first 2-point field goal

 

[Gigantic]

Unreal try by Latrell there

 

[DaRenegade]

Yeah sticky will have canberra up for an ambush i reckon. Penrith are unstoppable though atm. Hopefully its a cracker similar to the storm/panthers and storm/eels games a few weeks back.

unstoppable? they've played the 3 shittest teams in the comp and barely the Storm who were missing Pap, Grant and Finucane. Canberra is their first true test, and I hope the Raiders do get up and do them in haha

 

[moto748]

That may be true, but the Raiders have been far from their best this season so far as well. Massive test for George up against Cleary.

Meanwhile, Benji is still a delight to watch, and as for Latrell...

 

[royboy2]

There you go

Reynolds kicks the first 2-point field goal

I feel like we were taking the piss a bit a few times last night. Gave the Broncos no respect, everyone trying to flick pass like Benji, 2pt FG etc.

 

[Aucklander]

Morgan announces immediate retirement from rugby league

Cowboys co-captain Michael Morgan has announced his immediate retirement from rugby league due to fresh complications to his troublesome right shoulder

www.nrl.com

 

[Aucklander]

Emotions to fore as Friend announces immediate retirement

Repeated head knocks and injuries take their toll on the man who led the Tricolours to back-to-back titles along with another 2013 premiership.

www.nrl.com

 

[Aucklander]

 

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[nobbyiscool]

That DCE match winner might be the ugliest successful field goal I've ever seen. I looked like he'd shinned it live, I didn't think there was any chance it was close.

 

[nobbyiscool]

We're a deadset mess defensively since CNK has gone off.

Not sure why we went with Rapana at 1 - where he's already made mistakes - causing changes down the left defensive edge, where we're also getting our pants pulled down.

Wighton to 1, Hodgson to 6 and Starling to 9 seems a much better fit on attack and defence.

 

[Aucklander]

Losing to Manly. What a bunch of no-hopers.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I'm probably not as upset about that as I should be. It fell apart after CNK went off due to foul play - a competent ref would've marched Kikau and the makeshift defence might not have been such a problem.

 

[Angus Young]

Losing to Manly. What a bunch of no-hopers.

This... running with the wind behind them..cant beat manly

put a line through them

 

[juss]

David Fifita is the only Titans player I rate, but he is right up there with the best young prospects in the league.

 

[juss]

That should be a try, onfield called it and there's a clear area where you can't actually see the ball, shouldn't overturn that.