Category: Grassroots
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…
Schoey springs a surprise for BARLA
Talking Grass Roots with League Express grassroots correspondent Phil Hodgson Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Six words that certainly summed up Garry Schofield in…
Rugby league man to complete 110 marathon challenge
Former Wath Brow Hornets player Gary McKee will complete the remarkable challenge of running a marathon for 110 consecutive days this week. McKee’s final run…