Category: Australia
Rugby League Heroes: Mark Carroll
Mark ‘Spudd’ Carroll was one of the best forwards of the 1990s, playing in Grand Finals for Manly and winning caps for Australia. His rivalry…
France needs the World Cup … and the NRL too!
Rugby League World’s Treiziste Diarist Pierre Carcau offers a French perspective on the Australian NRL’s influence on Rugby League, following the postponement of this year’s…
Opinion: Let’s not belittle the Kangaroos and Kiwis
David Hinchliffe, the former secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group, suggests that we should demonstrate some understanding of why the Australians and…
Opinion: The NRL’s appalling values
Robert Burgin is an Australian who has been involved with the development of Rugby League in South and Central America for many years. He is…
Rugby League Heroes: Tim Sheens
Grand Finals and World Cups – the coach who won them all A Penrith junior, Tim Sheens played and coached the club throughout the 1970s…
Which is bigger – the World Cup or the NRL?
Talking Rugby League with League Express editor Martyn Sadler Last week’s decision by the Australian Rugby League not to come to the World Cup, ostensibly…
A defining moment for the future of Rugby League
Upfront: The League Express opinion – Mon 26th July 2021 There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that…
Crucial World Cup decision to be made on Monday
International Rugby League Chairman Troy Grant has admitted that he was shocked by the decision of the Australian Rugby League Commission and the New Zealand…
Coventry Bears boss Robinson rues ‘Roos reversal
Coventry Bears director of rugby Alan Robinson has vowed not to let the latest World Cup setback derail his club from their bigger plans to…
Simon Johnson expands on his criticism of the ARLC
RFL Chairman Simon Johnson has clarified his comments that were widely reported this morning, when he described the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) as “selfish,…
