CRONULLA captain Trent Barrett didn't try to hide his frustration with his team's poor performance in its final trial before a first-round NRL showdown with Melbourne.

MELBOURNE Victory's crowded Asian Champions League schedule, which will clash with the A-League finals, only makes it more critical that the team finishes in the top two to earn a week's break during the play-offs, coach Ernie Merrick said.

THE justice of the peace who witnessed statutory declarations from bar staff of Iguana Joe's nightclub in Gosford who claimed the federal MP Belinda Neal abused them may soonbe a Liberal MP.

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LABOR faces a big defeat in Belinda Neal's federal electorate of Robertson if she runs for the seat, according to secret research shown to union secretaries last week by Labor's general secretary, Matt Thistlethwaite.