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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Penrith Panthers winger Taylan May will be free to play in his first finals series, after the NRL opted to hold back a two-match behavioural ban for the Penrith winger until a later date. This means means May is free to play in Friday's finals opener against Parramatta, just a week after being found guilty of a pub assault. May...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTWestern Sydney UFC hero Tai ‘Bam Bam’ Tuivasa has taken a break from the choccie milk in preparations for a career-defining UFC bout in the sport’s debut in France.While this news is shocking in Australia, it has been received as absolutely unprecedented in Paris - a country known for somehow managing to incorporate chocolate into every meal.However, the...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT Panic is sweeping the floors of NRL headquarters this week, as officials come to grips with the explosion of the developing social media phenomenon, BeReal. The Advocate understands multiple crisis talks have been held in the Moore Park office this morning, as club officials and the integrity unit rush to create an emergency contingency plan before pre-season...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local number 9 batsman has walked out of Wilson Sporting Goods on Mitchell Avenue a thousand dollars lighter after he simply couldn’t walk past this season’s offerings from Kookaburra. Though he barely averages double figures, Michael Plug told The Advocate that the blame for that lies in his poor choice of bat last season – prompting him to make the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT Everyone's favourite Rugby League team has today announced that they are keeping the good times going. Fresh off another controversial loss, the Wests Tigers have revealed they will be commencing fresh legal action against the NRL. Furious about the refereeing howlers that cost them victory in their 72-6 arm wrestle with the Sydney Roosters on Saturday night, the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The National Rugby League has today spat in the face of Queensland and opted to continue hosting the Grand Final in the worst stadium in the world. Turning its nose up at the spiritual home of Rugby League, the NRL has decided to keep the biggest game of the year at Stadium Australia. The decision comes after a...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | CONTACT It pays to be white in Victorian Footy, it has again been confirmed. This comes as prominent AFL figures who stood by while dual Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes was hatefully booed into early retirement, have leapt out of their white skins to call for an end to the malicious booing of 19 year old, Jack Ginnivan. Yet in their defence,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT The great men and women of the game of Rugby League have today revealed a potential response to one of the NRL's new policies. The NRL is reportedly mulling over the idea of introducing hair follicle drug testing, to attempt to ensure the game's players aren't breaching illicit substance policies. This follows years of NRL players being caught...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT As another week draws to a close, the sporting world is continuing to make a song and dance about the new rebel golf tournament. The carry-on comes despite fuck all being said about all of the problematic sporting regimes around the world being given a free pass, and everyone seemingly forgetting what is happening in Qatar at the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's premiere boxing promoters, the Rose brothers have today announced a world first for the sport in Australia: A heavyweight fighter, taking on two seperate opponents on the same night. In news that will excite both rugby league diehards and fans of heavyweight boxing alike, the two opponents are both Queensland NRL icons - and the contender os perhaps...