Author: Martyn Sadler
IMG to reveal grading changes
In recent weeks IMG have been consulting the clubs about their grading proposals that were first revealed earlier this year. In doing that, they have…
5 games to watch in April
League Express editor MARTYN SADLER recommends the games you should go out of your way to watch this month. “Oh to be in England…
Should we have two point field-goals?
League Express editor MARTYN SADLER likes what he sees with two-point field-goals in the NRL Back in 2021 the NRL introduced the concept of a…
NRL hitting new heights
League Express editor MARTYN SADLER on a spellbinding start to the new NRL season. It would be hard for anyone interested in Rugby League not…
Talking Rugby League – Do IMG’s proposals promise a brighter future?
League Express editor MARTYN SADLER wonders whether IMG’s grading proposals will achieve their hoped-for objective. So what are we to make of IMG’s proposals to…
Talking Rugby League: Wolves revival – and are the Hull clubs on the rise?
What conclusions can we draw after the first two weeks of the new Super League season? To start with, we can say with a very…
Showing what Rugby League has to offer
The Australian bookmakers were giving St Helens 24 points start and they had the Super League Champions priced at 7/1. As it turned out, they…
Martyn Sadler – Talking Rugby League
This article is League Express editor MARTYN SADLER’s ‘Talking Rugby League’ column taken from this week’s edition of League Express Last weekend was a…
Talking Rugby League: Memories of David Oxley, the man who saved Rugby League
DAVID OXLEY was appointed to the position of Secretary of the Rugby Football League in 1974 at the age of 37. Shortly afterwards David Howes,…
The Rookies who made the grade
One of the features that many readers tell me they most look forward to at this time of the year is our annual survey of…