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Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Emma Kemp Sports reporter September 8, 2025 — 7.30pm

For an event held outside, there was an awful lot of talk about what happens between four walls.

The location was Barangaroo and the time was very early for a Monday morning. But as the sun glinted off the water and the captains of each of the NRL’s top eight gathered under the warm embrace of the Crown Towers skyscraper, the setting was ripe for some lessons about what each team knew that the public did not.

“I think we have the confidence in our four walls to really go deep into the final series,” said Cronulla’s Blayke Brailey.

Considering Brailey did not know at the time that Nicho Hynes would escape any real p

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