Monday, December 1, 2008

The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, the Knights joined the top tier competition in 1988, 79 years after the previous Newcastle based team, the Newcastle Rebels had departed the Sydney competition with the formation of a separate league competition based in the Newcastle region.

melbourne storm




The Melbourne Storm is a professional rugby league football club based in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne club is currently 100% owned and operated by News Limited.
The club's first season was in 1998, as part of the newly formed
National RugbyLeague competition. The club is the inaugural first-grade club based in Victoria. They play their home games at Olympic Park.

penrith panthers


The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional rugby league football team. The Panthers compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, the top rugby league football competition in Australasia.
Based in Penrith, New South Wales, 55 km west of the centre of Sydney and at the foot of the Blue Mountains, the Panthers were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition in 1967, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the current NRL competition.

Penrith struggled for almost twenty years before finally reaching their first finals series in 1985. Penrith achieved their first Grand Final appearance in 1990 but were beaten by the Canberra Raiders 18–14. The next year the Panthers met the Raiders again in the 1991 Grand Final, this time winning the game 19–12. The Panthers most recent premiership achievement was over the Sydney Roosters in the 2003 Grand Final where Penrith were considered 'under dogs' but came out on top with a 18-6 victory.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

brisbane broncos



The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Brisbane, Queensland. The Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. They have won six premierships during their twenty years in competition, making them the league's most successful club over the past two decades. The Broncos have one of the largest fan bases in Australia and also records the highest annual revenue of all NRL clubs and sell the second most amount of merchandise behind the Bulldogs. The club records the highest attendance averages of any Rugby club of any code in the world at just over 33,000 a game.

Canberra Raiders


The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in the city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league competition.
The Raiders were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1982, along with the Illawarra Steelers, as part of the league's first expansion outside Sydney. Within five years, the Raiders had made the semi-finals, winning their maiden premiership in 1989. This heralded a period of great success for the club, with four grand final appearances and three premierships. However, in the last decade, the Raiders have suffered from an exodus of experience. At the beginning of the 2007 season, the Raiders squad contained no current representative players (the only such squad in the NRL). However, this situation has improved, with Phil Graham earning representation for the Country side and Neville Costigan securing an interchange position in the Queensland State of Origin team.
The official symbol for the Canberra Raiders is the Viking. The Viking, also a mascot at Raiders' games, is known as Victor the Viking.
The Raiders' current home ground is Canberra Stadium in Bruce, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the team played home matches at Seiffert Oval in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, with the move to Canberra Stadium taking place in 1990.

Parramatta Eels #1


The Parramatta Eels are an Australian really good rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club started in 1946, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership's 40th season in 1947.
The club was highly successful in the early 1980s, winning four premierships and qualifying for five Grand Finals within six successive seasons. This was a golden era for the club and has yielded their only four premerships. The club plays in the National Rugby League, the premier rugby league football competition in Australasia. Parramatta sides are also fielded in lower grades and junior competitions run by the New South Wales Rugby League where they are typically a consistent premiership winning force.

Bulldogs


The Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club (formerly Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and "The Berries") are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions. The Bulldogs were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership, predecessor of the current NRL competition, in 1935.