The 2025 season didn’t just break the Knights; it stripped them back to the bare, rusted chassis of a club that had forgotten how to fight.

The 2026 NRL pre-season has arrived with Las Vegas bound teams the Dragons, Knights, Bulldogs and Cowboys naming their teams for the first trials of the season.

After a season lost to injury, newly minted South Sydney backrower David Fifita will lean on Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett in an effort to reclaim his status as one of the NRL's most dangerous players. 

Zac Lomax entered into preliminary contracts with R360 and the Melbourne Storm prior to being given his blessing by Parramatta, the Eels’ lawyer has told a court.

Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh says “the doors are always open” for a quality athlete like Zac Lomax to switch codes ahead of next year’s World Cup, just as Angus Crichton will do in 2027 as he pushes for a Wallabies jersey.

A brutally honest Nathan Cleary has opened up about the pain of the Blues’ Game III Origin loss last year.

Ryan Papenhuyzen could make a stunning mid-season return to the NRL, two rugby league greats with a history of head knocks have predicted.

Mat Rogers has questioned if Cameron Smith joining the Broncos is a pathway to him taking over from Craig Bellamy as the Storm coach in the future.

The first week of the NRL’s pre-season challenge will begin on Saturday — with the four teams travelling to Las Vegas set to battle it out.

The NRL’s soon-to-be latest team is starting to take shape, with the PNG Chiefs reportedly deciding on their inaugural general manager — and it’s a surprise pick.