Category: Features
Talking Grassroots: Lots to look forward to
The 28 amateur teams that are taking part in next year’s Betfred Challenge Cup will know, within the next 48 hours, who they are facing…
The Garry Schofield Column: Do boxing and Rugby League go well together?
Featherstone will be keeping their fingers crossed that they aren’t left on the ropes before a ball is touched in 2022. I’m intrigued to see…
UpFront: Covid’s worrying staying power
Given the worrying proliferation of the new coronavirus variant, it’s perhaps just as well Rugby League is out of season. But with the 2022 campaign…
Grassroots news round-up
Twenty-eight amateur teams will be involved in the 2022 Betfred Challenge Cup, which will include amateur sides once again after grassroots outfits were excluded this…
Rugby League Heroes: Ian Brooke
When Rugby League united a mother and son Wakefield centre Ian Brooke toured the Southern Hemisphere twice, firstly with the 1966 Lions and then with…
French renaissance inspires Rugby League Yearbook’s Personalities of the Year
There was a distinctive French flavour to some of Rugby League’s best stories in 2021, and that is reflected in the five personalities of the…
Can we have a progress report?
League Express editor MARTYN SADLER wonders about the progress towards a realignment of Super League and the Rugby Football League. This Wednesday (8th December) the…
Championship Focus: Young pretenders to watch in 2022
Every season we see a healthy number of promising young players move out of Super League and into the Championship or League 1. There can…
Talking Grassroots: Two new additions to the NCL
Two sets of folk are likely to enjoy Christmas more than most. The stalwarts of Bentley and Seaton Rangers are walking on air right now…
The Garry Schofield Column: Show us evidence of Rugby League’s ‘great future’!
I’m glad Gary Hetherington is confident that Rugby League in this country has a “great future”. But I’m not sure too many of the rest…