Category: Features
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…
Rugby League Heroes: Neil Holding
Neil Holding played 343 times for St Helens between 1977 and 1989, scoring 145 tries. He was the first-choice scrum half for the Lions on…
Jamie Peacock’s ultra-marathon plan
Jamie Peacock MBE has announced that he will run a unique ultra-marathon around London, 5th March, in order to fundraise for sports and mentoring charity…
Schoey: Too many cooks at Leigh?
I presume Garreth Carvell (pictured) is settling into his new role as head of rugby at Leigh. But I have to say the appointment has…