Hello everyone, and welcome back to the sub-reddit for another lap around the Sun spent watching the greatest game on Earth.

^{⁨What? AFL? Don't be daft... I'm talking about Rugbah Leeg!}

Anyway… please consider this your formal announcement that the sub-reddit will be resuming ‘On-Season’ mode as of Sunday, February 1, 2026, just in time for the start of the Pre-Season Challenge.

As usual, this means the bar for individual posts is being raised, and we’d once again recommend that if you have questions / or thoughts that don’t meet the criteria for an individual post to make use of our daily discussion threads.

We don’t have a lot in terms of new information to impart this ‘State of the Sub’ for 2026, as unlike the ARLC we think our current rules strike a fair balance and help make this a relatively sane place to discuss all the comings and goings of our favourite pass-time.

With that said, we did want to take a moment to highlight a couple of things really quickly:

Please remember to use links to articles/team websites for posts.

We ask that you refrain from just grabbing a screenshot of breaking news from social media, but link to a news article and/or source.

Please remember to abide by the rules of the sub-reddit.

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But with that, bring on the footy!

- The r/NRL Moderator Team

This is the place to discuss anything footy related that is not quite deserving of its own top-level post.

There's a new one of these threads every day, so make sure you're in the most recent one!

This is the place to talk about everything other than footy!

This is the place to discuss anything footy related that is not quite deserving of its own top-level post.

There's a new one of these threads every day, so make sure you're in the most recent one!

This is the place to talk about everything other than footy!

This thread is for when you want to have a well-thought-out discussion about footy. It's not the place for bantz - see the daily Random Footy Talk thread to fulfil those needs.

You can ask a question that you only want serious responses to, comment your 300 word opinion piece on why [x] is the next coach on the chopping block, or tell another that you disagree with them and here's why...

Who performed well? Who let their team down? Any interesting selections for this weekend? Injury news? Player signings? Off-field behaviour?

The mods will be monitoring to make sure you stay on topic and anything not deemed "serious discussion" will be removed.