2026 NRL Season Preview
The 119th NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL season began last weekend. This is a late-season preview; my apologies. In this 16th season preview, all the usual features are here: in-depth gains and losses for each club as well as each club’s top 19, the premiers, wooden spooners, biggest movers and sliders, top try scorer, Dally M Medalist, one […]
2025 NRL Season Preview
The 118th NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL season began on the weekend in Las Vegas. Last night, the game started in Australia. The Penrith Panthers will look again to defy history to become the greatest side since the Draogns of the 50s/60s. In this 15th season preview, all the usual features are here; in-depth gains and losses for […]
Hall of Fame Part 3 – A Hall of Fame is meant to be easy. How does the NRL keep making a mess of things?
Last month, the NRL announced that the Hall of Fame would be relaunched, the 14th immortal would be induced, and several other changes. I thought I would look at what’s changing and share thoughts about the Hall. All this and more in the latest Blog of Cheese. I first wrote about the old ARL Hall […]
2024 NRL Season Preview
The 117th NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL season began on the weekend in Las Vegas. Tonight, the game starts in Australia. The Penrith Panthers look to continue their dominance and make their fifth straight Grand Final, something not achieved since South Sydney in 1971 and try and win four consecutive premierships, something that has not been completed since […]
Featured Rounds and Marquee Matchups
In this blog post, I thought I would write about the history of Rugby League on Public Holidays, what changes I would make to those matches and some other marquee matchups the NRL should have. The games are via Rugby League Project, and Public Holiday details are from Google searches. Unfortunately, QRL/BRL game days are […]
Website Update 2.0 and News Update
This post will give you a further update on the website and why the news posts I post on the Facebook and Twitter pages have disappeared. I mentioned adding new pages in the last website update post (https://1895blog.com/2022/08/18/website-update/) for the New Zealand Legends of League who were inducted in 2022, except for the female players; […]
2023 NRL Season Preview
The 116th NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL season begins tonight in a new era with 17 teams for the first time in 24 years, though back then, the NRL was on its way down to 14. This time the NRL expands for the first time in 16 years as the Dolphins join the competition. The Salary Cap then […]
Website Update
This is a different blog post than all the others; this is just an update on what has been going on with the website. Over the NRL representative weekend, the NZRL added 12 new members as Legends of League (the NZRL equivalent of a Hall of Fame); Luisa Avaiki, Nadene Conlon, Trish Hina and Leah […]
2022 NRL Season Preview
The 115th NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL season begins tonight with hopefully some normality to the season after two seasons of disruption thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tonight the Panthers play at home for the first time in 251 days after all the clubs relocated to Queensland to finish the season. 2022 will be a big one for […]
2021 NRL Season Preview
The 114th NSWRL/ARL/NRL season begins tonight, just 137 days since the 2020 Grand Final, the shortest turnaround in NRL history. The premiers return home tonight for the first game at AAMI Park in 279 days. The 1895 Blog may have a new home, though all the usual features are all here; in-depth gains and losses […]