CAMERON Munster says Valentine Holmes' shock decision to quit the NRL has opened the door for him to chase the Queensland fullback spot - even if he risks losing the famous Maroons No.6 jumper. Holmes and Kalyn Ponga were considered the front-runners to wear the Queensland No.1 jumper next season following the retirement of Maroons
QUEENSLAND coach Kevin Walters says the reemergence of Daly Cherry-Evans as a representative weapon will give the Maroons the cornerstone of experience to build a young team around over the next couple of years. Queensland’s transition out of the recent golden era with the departures of Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk, Billy Slater and Johnathan Thurston
BEN Barba is resigned to never playing State of Origin, conceding a Queensland jumper is the last thing on his mind as he fights to revive his NRL career with the Cowboys. The coveted Queensland No.1 jumper is up for grabs next season with Billy Slater's NRL retirement and the shock departure of Valentine Holmes
IMMORTAL Mal Meninga admits it will be a strange sensation cheering against his beloved Canberra Raiders in March next year as the former Queensland coach takes up his new role with the Gold Coast Titans. The Titans sent a shockwave through rugby league earlier this month with their massive recruitment coup – luring Kangaroos coach
SEVERAL Maroons stars will hold the key to the fortunes of Queensland’s NRL clubs as the Broncos, Cowboys and Titans chase premiership dreams in 2019. The 2018 NRL season was not a pleasant one for Queensland’s trinity of teams, with the Titans finishing third-last and the Cowboys crashing spectacularly, going from premiership favourites to a
COOPER Cronk wrote his name into the history books and confirmed his place as one of the modern greats of the game with a heroic performance for the Roosters in their grand final win over the Storm. Cronk was in doubt for the game right up until kick-off as a suspected rotator cuff injury suffered
YOU’VE heard people say “40 is the new 30”. Well Mal Meninga thinks, in rugby league terms at least, 400 will become the new 300. Meninga was talking specifically about former Maroons and Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith, who stands on the cusp of doing something no player has done in the NRL – becoming the
RETIRED Maroons champion Johnathan Thurston has urged Queensland coach Kevin Walters to consider blooding Cowboys flyer Kyle Feldt as an Origin winger next season. Feldt was a ray of hope in North Queensland’s disastrous 2018 campaign, with the strapping 102kg winger making an ominous statement to Maroons selectors with the best season of his career.
IMMORTAL Mal Meninga has delivered Johnathan Thurston the ultimate retirement gift, labelling the Cowboys great “what every Australian aspires to be”. Thurston’s last NRL game for the Cowboys against the Gold Coast at Cbus Super Stadium brings down the curtain on a remarkable 17-year career that has seen him establish new benchmarks for what a
HE has proven to be a Maroons match-winner on the wing, and is currently filling in fullback for his club team South Sydney. But Queensland winger Dane Gagai has set his sights on emulating Maroons skipper Greg Inglis and making a permanent move into the Queensland centres next season. When Inglis broke his hand playing
