Footy is back with one of the best games on the rugby league calendar - the All Stars clash - set to kick off in Rotorua at 3:45pm.
The annual clash between the Maori and Indigenous sides once again features some of the best players in the NRL, despite several late withdrawals.
LIVE: Latrell leading Indigenous side against Maoris in blockbuster All Stars clash
Raiders star considers suing police over 'assault'
Canberra Raiders star Tom Starling is considering suing NSW Police after the court described their officers' treatment of him as assault.
Starling was cleared of his involvement in a violent street fight, with magistrate Daniel Covington finding the police weren't acting in their duty when they punched him in the face multiple times.
The 25-year-old and his brothers Jackson, 26, and Josh, 21, brawled with NSW police officers at a Central Coast pub in December 2020.
Canberra Raider Tom Starling has final charge associated with 2020 arrest cleared as magistrate takes aim at police
The final charge against NRL star Tom Starling for an incident on the NSW Central Coast has been dismissed after a magistrate found police breached their duty when they "assaulted" him.
The 22-year-old Canberra Raiders hooker was initially charged with seven offences after a police officer was left with a cut to his hand while allegedly intervening in a fight involving Starling and his two brothers in 2020.
In January last year, all the charges relating to the incident against him were dropped except for one: hindering an officer.
On Friday Magistrate Daniel Covington found the police officers involved behaved outside of their duty, and dismissed that last charge.
