Author: Phil Hodgson
Stress test for grassroots volunteers
The announcement this week by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, may offer a clue as to when amateur Rugby League players can aim to return…
Talking Grass Roots: Safety first
“It’s the right thing to do.” So concluded the Rugby Football League’s head of medical and integrity officer Laura Fairbank when I chatted with her…
Talking Grassroots: Bath time in Spain
Time was, certainly before the launch of the Pennine League in the early 1970s, which was followed by the National Conference League (then known as…
Talking Grass Roots: United We Stand
Sport England’s ‘Uniting the Movement’ initiative, which was announced last week, is undoubtedly to be welcomed. The ten-year ‘vision’, it seems to me, is pretty…
Talking Grass Roots: What’s the state of play?
How are amateur Rugby League clubs faring as the coronavirus lockdown at the grass roots approaches (if we ignore a few ‘pilot’ games last autumn)…
Talking Grass Roots: Weathering the storm
A regular theme in this column at this time of the year, certainly during the winter era but also following the switch of most amateur…
Talking Grass Roots: Rocky’s Giant Impact
There are so many people who give so much to amateur Rugby League – which is a reason I’m confident that the sport will survive,…
Talking Grass Roots: A Happy New Year?
I suspect that Kelly Barrett, the Rugby Football League’s Head of Delivery Community Game Competitions, will have quietly reflected to herself, when firing out yet…
Weathering the storm
By Phil Hodgson, League Express Grassroots Rugby League correspondent Habit has it that in the last League Express of the year I reflect on the…
The international game is in safe hands
As 2020 meanders to a close – and good riddance, most might say – many of the folk in Rugby League who care about the…
