Category: Features
Sam Barlow’s search for redemption following four-year ban
There’s a spring in Sam Barlow’s step as he marches across a large industrial car park to the site’s coffee shop. He’s come straight from…
Treiziste Diary: Out of the shadows
The French Rugby League Elite 1 championship nowadays tends to be overshadowed by the exploits of Catalans Dragons and Toulouse. The fact a double header…
Quickfire Q & A with Jarrod Sammut
He’s well-travelled on the club circuit, he’s a Maltese international and he’s quite partial to a McDonalds and a Krispy Kreme doughnut after a game….
Matongo’s breakthrough year
Hull FC prop forward Masi Matongo is hoping to cement a regular starting spot in the Hull lineup in 2020, even though he admits there…
Why Halifax have ditched reserve grade
In recent years you’d struggle to find a club that has been as supportive of reserve grade rugby than Halifax. The Championship part-timers put many…
How to make Super League Super! Martyn Sadler’s proposal for the next broadcasting deal, Part 2
MARTYN SADLER, the editor of League Express, presents the second in a series of articles about the competition structures he would like to see from…
Ian Lenagan Q&A part two: the state of Super League, TV deal latest, marquee/cap rulings and Toronto
This is the second half of our two-part Q&A with Wigan owner Ian Lenagan. Part one touched on the Warriors’ finances, the prospect of taking…
COLUMN | NRL rule changes: The Baffling and the Brave
Every year we get to the point where either the Super League or the NRL announce the rule changes. For most sports, this tends to…
North America’s 2021 invasion not a concern for ambitious Newcastle Thunder
Whenever a full-time club enters a part-time league it is almost inevitable that the division will end decidedly lop-sided. It occurred with Toulouse Olympique and…
Garry Schofield asks: Can we believe the Hastings rumours?
It’s been claimed that Jackson Hastings is having second thoughts about his switch from Salford to Wigan. And even if it turns out to be…