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While the big names from England and Australia have made impressive starts to their Rugby League World Cup campaigns, there's also been no shortage of standout displays from other nations too. Some of the competition's best individual performances thus far have been from nations less fancied to do well in the World Cup. And with Super League clubs…

FRANCE Team alias: Les Bleus/ Les Tricolores/ The Chanticleers World Ranking: 9th Coach Laurent Frayssinous has predicted his team can defy the odds and do the country proud this month after France was announced last month as hosts for the next World Cup in 2025. With 21 of his 24-man squad drawn from the English Super League, including former…

Five players who are likely to play for Samoa at the World Cup - Jarome Luai, Izack Tago, Stephen Crichton, Spencer Leniu and Brian To'o - helped Penrith Panthers claim the NRL Premiership for the second year in a row yesterday. The Panthers eased past Parramatta Eels 28-12 in front of a sold-out 82000-strong crowd at Stadium Australia in…

Catalans Dragons and Leeds Rhinos have a long history when it comes to play-off rugby. A history filled with dramatic twists and turns, superb stories and rememberable rugby though their battles are not the ones most commonly contemplated by fans and pundits when it comes to reminiscing about the play-offs - the most wonderful time of the year for…

The Super League's two most successful sides go head-to-head in the Grand Final this weekend when Leeds Rhinos take on St Helens in Manchester. St Helens finished top of the pile in the regular season, and they head into this one chasing a fourth straight title. But the Rhinos have pulled off plenty of surprises this season, and they go into this…

It's the 79th minute of the Grand Final and Jonny Lomax hits Blake Austin with a high shot. It's clumsy not malicious as his forearm bounces up from Austin's chest. But he is sent off. Lomax traipses off, the second red card of the game after Mikolaj Oledzki was sent packing minutes earlier for accidentally catching Tommy Makinson around the head…

Schedule: Tonga (Totally Wicked Stadium, St Helens); Cook Islands (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington); Wales (Eco-Power Stadium, Doncaster) World Cup Appearances: 7 (1985-88, 1989-92, 1995, 2000, 2008, 2013, 2017) Best Result: Quarterfinals (2000, 2017) Head Coach: Stanley Tepend Title Odds: $151 One of rugby league's proudest countries Papua New…