Category: League Express
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…
Rugby League Heroes: Dick Huddart (Part 1)
The Cumbrian superstar Cumbria has produced few, if any, finer Rugby League players than the great Dick Huddart. A product of the Risehow & Gillhead…
League Express Mailbag – Monday 21 June
MEN ONLY? NOT LIKELY! In response to Tony Cunningham’s letter titled ‘It’s a Man’s Game’ (Mailbag, 14 June), in which he was unhappy with the…
Schoey: Great to see England in action at last, shame about the fixture clashes
Garry Schofield looks ahead to England’s game against the Combined Nations All Stars this Friday. We finally get the chance to see a Shaun Wane-coached…
Chris Thorman’s Talk of the Town
Championship Focus: Gareth Walker hears Chris Thorman’s future vision for himself and Workington When Chris Thorman arrived at Derwent Park in May 2019, it was…
Rugby League Heroes: Gemma Walsh
21 years that transformed Women’s Rugby League One of the all-time greats of the women’s game, Gemma Walsh recently retired after 21 years as a…
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;…
Rugby League Heroes: John Fieldhouse
A forward ahead of his time John Fieldhouse was one of the best British forwards in the mid-‘eighties and was named man of the match…
Why Kevin Sinfield is leaving Rugby League
Talking Rugby League with League Express editor Martyn Sadler Like many people, including, I suspect, a lot of Leeds Rhinos supporters, when I first heard…