By STEVE MASCORD MOST football teams in most big games have a rallying cry. Some of them are positive – doing it for such-and-such – and some are negative – proving the &*$%’s wrong. Often, we don’t…
By Steve Mascord IT’s July 20, 2001. Parramatta stalwart Jason Taylor is nearing a pointscoring record as he takes on the Melbourne Storm at Docklands Stadium. With the scoring mark nearing, Taylor is replaced by coach Brian…
THE WRAP: NRL Round 25 By STEVE MASCORD BRISBANE prop Ben Hannant played on with two potentially serious injuries on Friday night in a vain bid to lift the Broncos into the finals. There are 10 teams…
THE WRAP: NRL round 23 By STEVE MASCORD IF rugby league is good at anything, it’s internal fighting. But if it has a second forte, it’s slang and jargon. Where else could you have the squirrel grip,…
By STEVE MASCORD IN the life of a football fan, there are milestones. Your team wins its first title, you watch a player’s first game and then his last and realise you’ve seen an entire career flash…
By STEVE MASCORD MICHAEL Potter wants Wests Tigers’ halves to play more like Manly pairing Kieran Foran and Daly Cherry Evans. Potter made the stark comment last night in the wake of a 36-18 loss to the…
NRL WRAP: Round 18 By STEVE MASCORD ICONIC North Queensland fullback Matt Bowen’s career is in his own hands over the next seven weeks, his coach Neil Henry has admitted. Bowen, 31, returned from a knee injury…
My cab is whizzing up St Kilda Road on the way to the airport at a quarter past midnight on Saturday morning and John Lennon starts crooning on the radio “no-one ever told me there’d be days like these”. He’s right….