Features – Page 49 – Total Rugby League

Talking Rugby League: Wakefield Trinity’s Mason Lino a threat to rest of Super League – and England

If anyone thought that Wakefield Trinity’s 38-22 victory over Warrington Wolves was any sort of surprise result just over a week ago, then they had…

Championship Focus: Dewsbury can look back fondly on glory days

The 50th anniversary of Dewsbury’s greatest success is getting ever closer. But will the Rams be playing in the basement division as they look back…

Talking Rugby League: Challenge Cup provides no shocks and sparse crowds

The Betfred Challenge Cup provided us with some great rugby, wonderful tries, genuine drama and thrilling entertainment over the weekend. It was such a shame…

Talking Grassroots: Excellent news to have the NCL back in front of cameras

It must be around four years ago now that National Conference League fixtures were screened live on Saturday afternoons in an initiative that lasted only…

The Garry Schofield Column: Give the Leeds Rhinos job to Ellery Hanley

Inevitably, the last seven days have been dominated by talk of who should succeed Richard Agar as coach of Leeds, who, let’s be honest, are…

Talking Rugby League: Could Leeds Rhinos really be relegated?

At the start of the season no one would have imagined that Leeds Rhinos would be lying jointly at the bottom of the Super League…

UpFront: Cornwall join the Rugby League family

Newcastle Thunder are providing a template as Cornwall become Rugby League’s latest expansion club. While more than 460 miles, and 22 years of existence, separate…

Rugby League Heroes: Tony Fisher

Tony Fisher won eleven Great Britain caps and 16 for Wales, the undoubted highlight being the 1970 Lions Tour of the Southern Hemisphere. One of…

Obituary: David Hadfield – The doyen of Rugby League writers

Back in the early nineties, Dave Hadfield was one of the contributors to the British Coal-sponsored Rugby League Yearbook, edited by Tony Pocock, who, while…