Very proud of myself for this week being pretty much exclusively about on field stuff. Ostensibly that is why you start a rugby league newsletter. Ostensibly. www.maroonobserver.com/p/hes-origin...

BRL - Big Update! Some big updates here, hence the exclamation mark. www.patreon.com/posts/158115... Please support us by donation as little as $1 per month via our Patreon. Thank you kindly!

The 1928 BRL Season is now up on our site: www.patreon.com/posts/1928-b...

Days Turn Around Comparison after 8 Rounds in 2026 and 2025 (NRL) Days - 2025 % (# games) - 2026 % (# games) 5 - 50% (8) - 25% (4) 6 - 50% (28) - 37.5% (40) 7 - 32.14% (28) - 60% (25) 8 - 60.87% (23) - 62.5% (24) 9 - 57.14% (14) - 40% (5) 10+ - 70% (10) - 53.85% (13)

The NRL's setrestartmaxxing era is showing no signs of slowing down, so I decided to look at the value of consecutive play the balls to find out many there are and when points are being scored www.rugbyleagueeyetest.com/2026/03/23/t...

The 2026 Panthers are just the 13th team in NSWRL/NRL history to concede 10 points or less after their first 3 games of a season. Of those 13 sides, they also have the best Points difference And yes, we will list them all below #NRl #Stats #History #Defence

The 2026 Panthers and Warriors are the 11th and 12th teams in NSWRL/NRL history to have a points difference of +75 or better after their first 3 games of a season. And yes, we will list them all below #NRL #Stats #History

This chart is looking at the closeness of competitions after the first 3 rounds. Bars = Difference between the best Pts Diff & the Worst Line = % of teams whose Points difference was between +19 and -19 Effectively, if the Bar is low & Line is high = Closest competition

The top 10 All-Time top try scorers lists for the NSWRL/ARL/NRL History (as at the end of every season since 1908) www.patreon.com/posts/nswrl-...

The 1926 BRL season is now completed on the site www.patreon.com/posts/1926-b... You can support us and our work by donating as little as $1 per month via our patreon.

Vale Terry Williams. @andrewrlp.bsky.social has penned a tribute to his mate, who passed away yesterday aged 62. Read his full thoughts here: leagueunlimited.com//news/43328-...

Work is progressing nicely on the Brisbane Rugby League history section of our site now. 1924 and 1925 seasons have just been completed. You can support us by making a monthly donation from as little as $1 per month via our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/brisba...

If you love our site and our yearbooks and are able to, please consider making a donation (of your choosing) from as low as $1 per month via our Patreon www.patreon.com/RLProject Thank you!

NOW LIVE 🚨 Our Rugby League 2025 Annual, produced in collaboration with @rlproject.bsky.social A FREE 314-page publication cataloguing the 2025 calendar year across Australian and UK professional and semi-professional competitions. Read or download NOW: leagueunlimited.com/the-front-row

The 2025 Rugby League Project and @leagueunlimited.bsky.social yearbook is now available to read and download, for free at rugbyleagueproject.org/annual/

April 3 - The third edition of my book goes on sale! au.newhollandpublishers.com/the-story-of... #RugbyLeague #History #NRL

Buzzonomics And Bradfords Big Tele Starring @andrewrlp.bsky.social & @leaguefreak.bsky.social #RugbyLeague #NRL fergoandfreak.libsyn.com/buzzonomics-...

Andrew Ferguson: Applying “Buzzonomics” To Calculate Lachlan Galvin’s True Worth By @andrewrlp.bsky.social www.leaguefreak.com/andrew-fergu...

Rugby League Project, the single most important website for Australian rugby league history, has a Patreon you can subscribe to that gives regular updates on what @andrewrlp.bsky.social is working on www.patreon.com/RLProject

The Last Local Heroes by @andrewrlp.bsky.social The story of the last club team to beat the Australian Rugby League team, as told by Rugby League historian Andrew Ferguson. A great read! #RugbyLeague #NRL www.leaguefreak.com/andrew-fergu...

Ends tomorrow! @Waterstones are offering 25% off my upcoming book ‘Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader’ - it’s out on 5 June but you can reserve yours today. To order, go to: www.waterstones.com/book/roy-fra...

NRL's most dominant Runners-Up These are the teams that won the minor-Premiership and then went on to fall short when the Premiership was on the line. #NRL #Stats #History

SZN PREVIEW 🔍 @andrewrlp.bsky.social has a look at the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and what the fans of the black, white and blue can expect in 2025 --> leagueunlimited.com//news/41665-... #NRL #upup

Our Annual Yearbook collaboration with @leagueunlimited.bsky.social has just landed. Our Patreon members get first look. It will be live on RLP and LU tomorrow. You can become a Patreon of RLP for as little as $1 a month. Help us record your RL! www.patreon.com/posts/2024-a...

FIRST LOOK: Here's the cover of the Rugby League 2024 Annual, produced independently by LeagueUnlimited and @rlproject.bsky.social. Props to @badlydrawnrl.bsky.social for the cover art! RLP Patreon subscribers get first look NOW - it will then appear on LU and RLP's websites over the coming days!

Latrell Mitchell 4 Seasons at the Roosters (2016-19) Played 96 games, missed 8 - played in 92.31% of all games 5 Season at the Rabbitohs (2020-24) Played 75 games, missed 58 - played in 56.39% of all games

The last time the Knights had a player score at least 150 points in a season: 2009 - Kurt Gidley (160 points) The last time the Knights had a player score at least 200 points in a season: 2006 - Andrew Johns (207 points)

Canberra (1991), Sydney (2003), Souths (2021), Parramatta (2022), Brisbane (2023) combined: Regular season Win %: 72.03% Pts Diff: +1015 Canberra (1992), Sydney (2004), Souths (2022), Parramatta (2023), Brisbane (2024) combined: Regular season Win %: 55.09% Pts Diff: +441 #PantherHoodoo

Together with the legends at @rlproject.bsky.social, we're putting the final touches on our independent 2024 Annual. Covering NRL, NRLW, Super League & UK leagues, Australian lower grades and international rugby league, it's a HUGE undertaking and we're proud to bring it to you.

Any artists out there who would like to produce the cover for our soon to be released Rugby League yearbook? It's unpaid, but comes with plenty of exposure online.

Queensland Competitions Added! www.patreon.com/posts/queens... If you'd like to help us continue with this work, please feel free to subscribe to our @Patreon and make a donation of your choosing, from as little as $1 per month.

Having grown up in a suburb of Auckland that hasn’t had a team feature in the top grade since 1945, I'm not very familiar with old-school rugby league. So, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole to 1985 and wrote a few words about it.

Building a System for International Rugby League Rankings. Are my metrics good? Should some be added, removed, tweaked? andrewrlp.blogspot.com/2024/12/buil...

Dammit, out of Milo! How am I supposed to quench my thirst now?

Is it just me, or does it irk others when a sponsor on jumper is not integrated into the design. Keep the logo and font etc, but why put it in a white box on a black jumper? Why not use the club colours. That Westpac logo on the NSW jumper is jarringly bad. Couldn't it be white instead?

Both RSA-USA tests will be broadcast live on Rugby League South Africa's website. No streaming details yet on Albania-Greece. We will bring you more as we know it!

If you would believe it - there are still a handful of Men's Senior International Matches to be played in '24. WED 4 DEC 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇺🇸 USA Centurion Rugby Club Pretoria SAT 7 DEC 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇺🇸 USA Grizzlies Rugby Club, Pretoria AND 🇦🇱 Albania 🇬🇷 Greece Stadium I Vores, Tirana

Holy wow. That was quicker than we expected! 1000 followers on Bluesky!

The millinophiliac is finally gone! #freedom Tigers hashtag this year should be #TigersDontWearHats

It's official - the Rabbitohs have the hardest draw. Forget all the other rankings - @andrewrlp.bsky.social has tuned his method and brings you *Fixture This* for the 2025 #NRL Draw. Check out the ranking, methodology and who got the easiest: leagueunlimited.com//news/41621-...

Wests Tigers with a major announcement coming on Thursday. Hoping for the health of that club and the game, it's a new major sponsor (and subsequent jersey reveal). #NRL

We have the NRL 2025 draw up on the site now: www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seasons/nrl-...

The 2025 NRLW draw is on the site: www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seasons/nrlw...

NSWRL Reserve Grade Results www.patreon.com/posts/116276...

Lets cross to Matt Hayden for more comments

All Khawaja had to do there was the Steve Waugh lean towards off and duck and let that ball go through to the keeper. And he'd still be there. But no.

Australia has 2 days to score 511 runs. 256 runs each day. Be patient, no need to chase runs with the same type of idiotic lunacy that Matthew Hayden employs when choosing to wear a Cowboy hat in public AND on television.

Penrith fan's five most feared clubs 1. Tigers at Leichhardt 2. Tigers at Campbelltown 3. Tigers at CommBank 4. Tigers at Penrith 5. Tigers everywhere else #OurJungle #OurNest