Nineteen-year-old Blaize Talagi is named in the centres as the Parramatta Eels take on Manly at Western Sydney Stadium. Then the Knights take on an under-manned Melbourne Storm side in Newcastle. Follow live.
We learned the Titans are going to battle to get off the bottom of the table, the Bulldogs have some life in them, the Cowboys and Dragons both have Jekyll and Hyde in them, and the Tigers love Leichhardt.
Tigers star ‘could hardly walk’ as he battled sickness before inspirational effort in Sharks thumping Tino Fa’asuamaleaui limped off with a knee injury late in the Titans’ 32-0 and the scans have confirmed a torn ACL for the Gold Coast captain. So he’s out for the rest of the season, rubbing salt in the wound of a woeful start to 2024 for the Titans and raising some questions over the Queensland forward pack after Tom Gilbert also copped the same injury in the preseason.Teenage star Blaize Talagi has been named for his NRL debut in the centres for the Eels, while in the forward pack, veteran prop Reagan Campbell-Gillard is playing his 200th NRL game today against the Sea Eagles.
If we taxed land properly, we’d have billions of extra dollars to fund big tax cuts elsewhere. So why don’t we do it?Moon mining rover set to utilise ‘infinite resources and energy of space’, extracting oxygen and metals from lunar soil