Category: Grassroots
Talking Grass Roots: What’s the state of play?
How are amateur Rugby League clubs faring as the coronavirus lockdown at the grass roots approaches (if we ignore a few ‘pilot’ games last autumn)…
Academy gets a starting date
Academy Rugby League players will be able to return to training in March. League Express understands training has been permitted from March 8th, with a…
Talking Grass Roots: Weathering the storm
A regular theme in this column at this time of the year, certainly during the winter era but also following the switch of most amateur…
Latest round of World Cup grants announced
More than 30 Rugby League clubs, schools and community organisations from across England are the latest beneficiaries of small grants from the RLWC2021 CreatedBy programme….
Talking Grass Roots: Rocky’s Giant Impact
There are so many people who give so much to amateur Rugby League – which is a reason I’m confident that the sport will survive,…
Talking Grass Roots: A Happy New Year?
I suspect that Kelly Barrett, the Rugby Football League’s Head of Delivery Community Game Competitions, will have quietly reflected to herself, when firing out yet…
Weathering the storm
By Phil Hodgson, League Express Grassroots Rugby League correspondent Habit has it that in the last League Express of the year I reflect on the…
The international game is in safe hands
As 2020 meanders to a close – and good riddance, most might say – many of the folk in Rugby League who care about the…
Seeing both sides for a return to action
Thornhill Trojans are railing against what they seem to perceive as a lack of positive action by the Rugby Football League compared to stances –…
Mark Adams and Community Integrated Care receive fourth RFL President’s Award
Community Integrate Care have been recognised for their contributions to the sport after its chief executive received the RFL President’s Award. Mark Adams has been…
