Author: Martyn Sadler

IN my first column of 2023, I picked out some individuals and organisations who I thought were likely to be under great pressure last year….

A HAPPY New Year to all our readers and to everyone involved in Rugby League at all levels of the game, whether players, match officials,…

RUGBY LEAGUE has a history of rule changes. Some of them are major ones right from the earliest years, such as abolishing lineouts in 1897,…

ARE we going to see a spate of red and yellow cards early in the new season that will cut offending teams down to twelve…

LIKE many people, I’m looking forward to seeing Wigan host Penrith in the World Club Challenge at the DW Stadium on Saturday, February 24. I’m…

WHEN you watched him play in Super League this year, you might not have believed that Leigh Leopards’ hooker Edwin Ipape was a rookie, who…

MOST sports have some degree of risk to the health of their competitors. Boxing is perhaps the most obvious example, with the danger of boxers…

I WAS interested to read an article about golf recently that began with the following words: “Rory McIlroy has beaten Tiger Woods to the PGA…

WHILE we seem to be making questionable decisions in this country, the NRL boss Peter V’landys is powering ahead in an effort to broaden the…

THE original idea of Magic Weekend was to give Rugby League supporters the opportunity to travel to a venue that is not normally associated with…