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NICK TEDESCHI and WILL EVANS answer the big questions in rugby league, this week discussing Brisbane, Canberra, Canterbury and Cronulla.

There were plenty of laughs and a few tears at the Sydney Cricket Ground to farewell rugby league Immortal Arthur Beetson, writes NICK TEDESCHI

Rugby league loves a good tale of redemption and, as WILL EVANS writes, there are plenty of decent storylines emerging for 2012. He looks at four players seeking salvation.

WILL EVANS says the NRL should sound the death knell on the McIntyre Final Eight system, an abomination that should have been killed off years ago.

Arthur Beetson's sudden passing last week robbed rugby league of one its most important and charismatic figures. NICK TEDESCHI pays tribute to the man known as Big Artie. 

In his final Set of Six column for the year, NICK TEDESCHI says the NRL absolutely flogged the AFL with its Grand Final TV ratings - and tells the Stewart brothers to grow up and stop behaving like sulking children.  

Hello, what's this? An upset in the offing? Despite New Zealand Warriors' hectic travel schedule in the past month, NICK TEDESCHI thinks they can beat hot favourites Manly in the NRL Grand Final on Sunday.

In his weekly Set of Six column, NICK TEDESCHI laments the sad way Darren Lockyer's career ended, talks up Warriors coach Ivan Cleary and reports on the emergence of Manly dangerman Daly Cherry-Evans.