Category: Grassroots
Grassroots membership scheme up for discussion
Delegates at the next clubs’ meeting of the National Conference League will be presented with in-depth information on the Rugby Football League’s Membership Scheme by…
Gateshead Storm withdraw from NCL
Gateshead Storm have withdrawn from the National Conference League. The north-east outfit has pulled the plug on fixtures in League E – and Saturday’s fixture…
Talking Grass Roots: A Word of Difference
What’s in a word? Quite a lot, as League Express grassroots correspondent Phil Hodgson illustrates. I wrote only the other week about how important it…
Grassroots news round up
BARLA, which has announced reduced fees for this year’s Club Membership, has also introduced a free monthly draw, effective from July, with cash prizes totalling…
Rugby union club launches Rugby League team
By Ian Lockwood One of the oldest rugby union clubs in Yorkshire is playing Rugby League for the first time. Skipton, who have been in…
Grassroots membership fee row rumbles on
The Rugby Football League’s Director of Participation and Development, Marc Lovering, has rebuffed a suggestion that he pledged, several years ago, that membership fees would…
Talking Grass Roots: Getting the sums right
Talking Grass Roots with League Express amateur rugby league correspondent Phil Hodgson I touched, last week, on an issue that’s baffled me for some time;…
Cambridge chalk up long awaited Varsity success over Oxford
RUGBY LEAGUE VARSITY MATCH CAMBRIDGE 14 OXFORD 8 by DAVE STOCKDALE, Cambridge, Friday 18th June 2021 The Light Blues ended a sequence of eleven successive…
Rugby League”s ‘University Challenge’ goes on
Talking Grass Roots with Phil Hodgson Amateur Rugby League has several events on its annual calendar that carry high resonance. The BARLA National Cup Final…
Talking Grassroots: History repeating itself again
League Express grassroots correspondent Phil Hodgson reflects on arguments over governance that never seem to go away. It must be about 25 years ago now…
