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About Andrew Webster
About Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster started his journalism career in the Hunter Valley in the mid-1990s covering the Newcastle Knights and hasn't taken his eye off rugby league since. He has reported on the game for a number of publications - including The Sun-Herald and Inside Sport magazine - before joining the Herald this season, which fulfills a lifelong ambition to play Winfield Cup. While he relishes the opportunity to write about any sport, rugby league is his passion and speciality. He is equally intrigued by the politics and issues that gravitate to the game as what happens on the field.
Which great club lurches from crisis to crisis?
NO ONE begrudges Mark Gasnier's right to earn a dollar. "Would you work if you only got paid two-thirds of your wage?" he asked reporters.
Gaz leaves drama in his wake
WHEN Mark Gasnier announces this week that he's abandoning the Dragons to take up a two-year deal with French rugby union side Stade Francais, expect the finger of blame to be pointed directly at chief executive Peter Doust.
Campbell shows no fear in thriller
FOR all the good deeds Preston Campbell did with the ball against the Roosters last night, it was his tackle on Willie Mason in the dying minutes - which forced him from the field with concussion - that clinched the four-point victory.
Sandow steps up to the plate for Souths
The Bunnies' new No.7 has rewarded the club's faith in him, writes
Andrew Webster.
Clubs fear Gallop has sold the game short
NRL chief executive David Gallop and Hollywood actor Russell Crowe kicked back and took a long drag on the peace pipe yesterday but serious concerns remain about comments from the game's leading official that the AFL deserves its superior broadcast deal.
Banned spectator insists Civoniceva monkey slur wasn't meant to be racial
PARRAMATTA chief executive Denis Fitzgerald last night slammed as "ridiculous" the written apology from the spectator who racially vilified Petero Civoniceva despite him being banned from attending NRL matches for the next five years.
Pivotal switch: why Wing hasn't a prayer at halfback
CRAIG WING was adamant yesterday he remains at ease about rookie halfback Chris Sandow pushing him out of position to five-eighth since his long-awaited comeback from a dislocated shoulder.
Maroons make it a bitter end for Bedsy
It wasn't the rookie halfback's fault. Nor was it Braith Anasta's. The emotion of captain Danny Buderus's last Origin match could not be blamed, either.
Pearce ready for hot seat, says Mullen
TEENAGE halfback Mitchell Pearce has received a glowing endorsement from the former Australian Schoolboys teammate he edged out of the NSW side to play Queensland in the State of Origin decider at ANZ Stadium tonight.
Cooper to teach Inglis
NSW centre Matt Cooper says he would pride himself on doing the seemingly impossible - shutting down Greg Inglis - if required in the State of Origin decider against Queensland on Wednesday night.
One giant leap
Daine Laurie has taken some wrong turns in life but is making good time on the road to redemption, writes Andrew Webster.
Dogs fall Chook,line and sinker
WALKING into the Sydney Football Stadium last night was like
walking into a U2 concert and being told Bono had laryngitis.
Universal faith behind Anasta
He knows he will be the object of scorn if he fails in Origin III, but Braith Anasta is not planning on that. He is planning to dominate, writes Andrew Webster.
Defeat is a sore one for Sullivan
THE Bulldogs' injury crisis deepened last night with fears interchange hooker Michael Sullivan had ripped a hamstring off the bone.
Don't ban Lyon from Kangaroos, says Lamb
TERRY LAMB - the only other man suspended for declining to wear the
sky blue - believes Manly centre Jamie Lyon should still be
considered to represent Australia at the World Cup, despite
spurning the opportunity to play for NSW.
NRL rues another star lost overseas
ANOTHER day and another superstar is packing his bags, bound for the English Super League, with St George Illawarra prop Jason Ryles signing a three-year $1.7 million deal with Les Catalans.
Mini major: neck injury may end career
THE career of Roosters fullback Anthony Minichiello is in grave doubt after doctors discovered he is suffering a serious neck injury.
DIY manager Te'o a very busy fellow
BOOM Wests Tigers back-rower Ben Te'o has personally contacted
almost every club in the NRL about his future.
Braith not one of Blue-eyed boys
WHO'D play a team of black cats on Black Friday?
I wasn't with Bird, says Tupou
ROOSTERS back-rower Anthony Tupou last night insisted he was not with NSW teammate Greg Bird when police handcuffed the Blues five-eighth and placed him in the back of a police car in the wild aftermath to Origin II.
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