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Channel Nine sports reporter Danny Weidler reported that the Qantas Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was in the air for about an hour before pilots turned back for Sydney because of air conditioning issues. <\/p>\n
According to flight tracking website flightradar24.com, the Vegas flight is set to take off again at around 6:30pm AEDT – three hours after it departed Sydney airport for the first time. <\/p>\n
The flight is expected to now land in Las Vegas at 1:15pm local time on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n
MANLY STARS RESPOND TO STUNNING WOODEN SPOON MOVE<\/p>\n
It was only last year when the Raiders were the trendy pick to claim the wooden spoon, only for the Green Machine to make everyone look silly by winning the minor premiership.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s the Sea Eagles who have become the popular pick among experts to finish at the bottom of the table, with Manly $12 to have the most losses in 2026.<\/p>\n
Jamal Fogarty was at Canberra last year and has now moved to Manly where he\u2019s replaced Daly Cherry-Evans in the No. 7 jersey he has owned for the past 15 seasons.<\/p>\n
The veteran halfback insists the gloomy predictions weren\u2019t used as motivation last year and haven\u2019t been raised at Brookvale.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not being disrespectful, but I don\u2019t follow a whole lot of journos or news articles on socials,\u201d Fogarty said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s got an opinion, but they don\u2019t see the work that we put in here or understand the type of players that we\u2019ve got here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to make sure that we connect here and put the team first and make sure that we look after one another in a football sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s going to have an opinion on how I play or what the team does, but the only thing that matters is that our team, our club and our coaching staff are all on the same page and have each other\u2019s backs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sea Eagles recruit Jamal Fogarty.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Manly missed the finals last year and didn\u2019t look great on Sunday in their trial loss to Souths a week after their youngsters proved too good for the Warriors.<\/p>\n
While they missed the top eight in 2025, they thrashed eventual champions the Broncos, beat the Storm in Melbourne, cruised past Penrith and smashed the Raiders.<\/p>\n
The challenge is beating the teams they are expected to knock off in 2026, with Roosters-bound outside back Reuben Garrick happy to prove people wrong again. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to use it a little for external motivation,\u201d he told the NewsWire.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that can\u2019t be your main fuel. Your main fuel is to take a lot of pride in your work, and for us that means representing your jersey to the best of your ability and winning games on the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the industry we\u2019re in because you\u2019ve got to win, and we will be winning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know a lot of people are writing us off, but we\u2019re always the underdog here at Manly and we\u2019re never tipped to win anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love proving people wrong, and I think we\u2019re going to do that this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
FINUCANE\u2019S EXPERIENCE ON THE HOGS TOUR<\/p>\n
The HOGS National Tour, led by Brad Fittler, kicked off on February 8, with Dale Finucane joining the second leg of the annual event aiming to strengthen connections through rugby league.<\/p>\n
From Gunnedah to Bundaberg and Dubbo to Batemans Bay, Brad Fittler and a group of current and former NRL and NRLW players aim to \u201cgive young people the chance to play, learn and engage with the greatest game for all\u201d.<\/p>\n
Each day starts with a motorbike ride, a trip to a local PCYC club and local business as well as Westpac branches before a clinic is run for budding league players in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
For Finucane, the program is especially important to harness the power of rugby league and its ability to bring people together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about the community, particularly the Victorian towns that we go through, it\u2019s not rugby league heartland like Country NSW and Queensland,\u201d Finucane told foxsports.com.au as he travelled down the Great Ocean Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about growing rugby league as well and Brad Fittler is a big name who people recognise, and there\u2019s been other rugby league talents involved in this over the years.<\/p>\n
Brad Fittler and Westpac’s HOGS National Tour is underway.Source: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n
\u201cGreg Inglis has been involved more recently, Jada Taylor who plays for the Sharks NRLW team, so having some recognisable faces come through the community to promote rugby league, it\u2019s really about getting out into the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for some of his best moments on the HOGS tour, with the 2026 edition being his second time taking part, it\u2019s the kids who get a chance to play rugby league for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously kids who come down and play and participate in rugby league who generally wouldn\u2019t have, finding out about the fact that it is on,\u201d Finucane said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re really good moments. We had about 40 kids turn up yesterday to an even down in Warnambool where rugby league is not popular at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s growing in Victoria, just seeing kids turn up to somewhere where it\u2019s not their number one sport, it\u2019s quite fulfilling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The HOGS tour will cover 7500 kilometres in 2026 across three states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Las Vegas-bound plane carrying ARL Commission chairman Peter V\u2019landys, NRL CEO Andrew Abdo, Knights CEO Peter Parr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-500717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}