Category: Features
Featherstone Rovers: Within touching distance of Super League
Super League. It has been a Promised Land Featherstone Rovers have never reached. They’ve been close. Really close. But it has always just eluded them….
Top 50 Moments of 2020 – Part 5 (10 to 1)
League Express completes its countdown of the significant and memorable moments for Rugby League in 2020. Do you agree with our list? Let us know…
Tawera Nikau: The Tiger who overcame tragedy
A brilliant loose forward from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Tawera Nikau made a huge impact at Castleford, Cronulla, Melbourne and Warrington after…
The significance of a difficult year
Talking Rugby League with League Express editor Martyn Sadler In this week’s issue of League Express, we have decided that the Coronavirus was the single…
Schoey’s players to watch in 2021
I got in nice and early with my predictions of where the twelve Super League clubs will finish in 2021. Now I’m picking a key…
Championship Focus: Code and Channel hopper Guy Armitage
Since Guy Armitage switched codes in August 2019, he has featured in Super League for London, signed for Canadian club Ottawa and joined French side…
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…
RFL and Super League should be given a Covid pass mark
Upfront: The League Express opinion – Mon 1st Feb 2021 We all have a tendency at times to be overly critical of our sport. Everybody…
Balmain’s English hero passes on
Like so many Rugby League folk, I was saddened to hear of the death, aged 83, of my former fellow Balmain Tigers player, Dave Bolton…
Playing for their future
Last week we looked at some the leading players who still had not obtained a contract for the 2021 season. Since then, some of the…