World Sports

With the 2017 NRL season officially over, rugby league fans are eager for next season to commence but luckily for the time being there is the Rugby League World Cup to watch. The competition starts late October with the first game being between Australia and England in Melbourne.  The 14 countries involved in the world cup are Australia, England, Papua New Guinea, Wales, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, the United States of America, Ireland, Italy, France, Lebanon, Scotland and Tonga. The Australian squad boosts some of the NRL's biggest names and some 2017 Grand Final winners are among the team as well including Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk, Cameron Munster, Felise Kaufusi, Jordan McLean and Will Chambers.  Image Source The last world cup which was back in 2013 was won by Australia who also have the most titles of any team being 10. All teams have put forward their best squads and it will be interesting to see how the world cup plays out. Hopefully the Aussi...

The NRL Grand Final is the most watched NRL all season and it did not disappoint this year. The game was between Melbourne Storm and the North Queensland Cowboys.  Image source Melbourne Storm who were the hot and in-form favourites to win the premiership showed that they were a class above the rest on the weekend with their 34-6 thumping over the Cowboys. At the end of the first half the score was already 18-0 and the Cowboys looked like they didn't have much of a chance to get back into the game. The Cowboys only try came just after the half time break. This filled the Cowboys and their supporters with hopes of a comeback, but these hopes were soon after diminished when the Storm went on to score another three tries.  Image source The Clive Churchill medal is the medal that is presented to the man of the match of the Grand Final. This year's Clive Churchill medallist was Billy Slater who plays at Fullback for the Melbourne Storm. This is the second time that Slat...