WHO is in and who is out for round eight of the 2013 NRL season.

GET the round eight NRL teams and replay Tom Sangster's blog.

NEWCASTLE will step up their bid to re-sign Korbin Sims this week amid suggestions his brothers are trying to lure him to North Queensland.

CANTERBURY defeated the Sharks, while the Knights ran over the injury-hit Titans. Replay our live coverage here

NEWCASTLE coach Wayne Bennett has turned up the heat on his players to find a level of consistency that will turn the Knights into genuine contenders.

VIDEO PREVIEW: GREG Bird is a State of Origin weapon with 170 games of NRL experience and he has been Gold Coast's best player this year.

THE ten players who made themselves unavailable for the City-Country fixture have all been selected to compete for their clubs this weekend.

HE'S no stranger to making statements, and Willie Mason was certainly heard loud and clear yesterday.

COWBOYS star Tariq Sims has challenged South Sydney's Burgess brothers to a no-holds-barred backyard family footy battle for charity.

NEWCASTLE Knights backrower Jeremy Smith has failed in his bid to have a dangerous contact charge downgraded at the NRL judiciary and will miss six games.

NEWCASTLE enforcer Jeremy Smith faces a possible six-week suspension for his sickening head slam on young Panther Matt Robinson.

NEWCASTLE Knights five-eighth Jarrod Mullen will go under the knife this week and is facing up to five weeks on the sidelines.

MATCH CENTRE: There were wins for the Storm, Raiders and Knights on a big night of NRL.Check out the match stats, SuperCoach and more.

WHO is in and who is out for round six of the 2013 NRL season.

CHECK out the round six NRL teams and replay Tom Sangster's live blog.

FORMER Knight Scott Dureau is back in full training, grateful simply to be back in rugby league after at one time fearing for his life.

NISSAN NRL SuperCoaches will be watching the return of James Graham closely this weekend. Analysis, video, live blog

VIDEO: GOLD Coast sustained serious damage on the scoreboard and injury department as Newcastle logged their first away win of the year.

TITANS coach John Cartwright says halfback Albert Kelly won't be trying to impress his former club when he tackles Newcastle at Skilled Park.

ALL the last-minute ins and outs for round seven of the NRL season.

GET the round seven NRL teams and replay SuperCoach expert Tom Sangster's blog.

NISSAN NRL SuperCoach is set to be inundated by great cheap buys in coming rounds. Analysis, video and live blog

WILLIE Mason had 120,000 thousand reasons to think his representative career was finished two years ago.

THEY are the three little words that countless politicians, bosses and coaches simply can't bring themselves to utter.

UPDATE: KIWI selectors have called up Melbourne backrower Tohu Harris after just six NRL games as cover for Jeremy Smith who will face the judiciary tomorrow.

KANGAROOS coach Tim Sheens today defended his decision to choose out-of-form Darius Boyd for the trans-Tasman Test.

SEE THE TACKLE: JEREMY Smith's chances of playing for the Kiwis in Friday's Test are in jeopardy after he was placed on report following a head-slam incident.

WAYNE Bennett is not just one of the game's premier coaches. He's fast becoming something of a "bad boy" rehabilitation specialist.

NRL players and officials are being asked to dob in their peers for any conduct breaches under a proposed Whistleblower Protection Program.

THE injury to Benji Marshall could open up a Nissan SuperCoach opportunity for young gun James Tedesco. Analysis, video, live blog