Category: Rugby League Heroes
Rugby League Heroes: Gavin Miller
Gavin Miller, the 1986 Man of Steel, was one of the great imports to British Rugby League in the 1980s. He started out as a…
Rugby League Heroes: Andy Platt
Andy Platt was one of the best British forwards of the 1980s and 1990s, representing St Helens, Wigan and Great Britain with distinction. He won…
Rugby League Heroes: John Cogger
One of the great personalities of the 1980s, John Cogger swapped the Winfield Cup for lowly Runcorn as he sought to recover from a broken…
Rugby League Heroes: Stewart Piper
Stewart Piper is a Doncaster legend whose father helped set up the club in 1951. He first turned out for their Under-17s in 1965 and…
Rugby League Heroes: Tony Fisher
Tony Fisher won eleven Great Britain caps and 16 for Wales, the undoubted highlight being the 1970 Lions Tour of the Southern Hemisphere. One of…
Rugby League Heroes: Alan Hunte
Having played briefly for his hometown club Wakefield Trinity, Alan Hunte signed for St Helens in 1989, and went on to score 189 tries in…
Rugby League Heroes: John Gray (Part two)
The Englishman who shone in Oz This is the second in a two-part feature. In the first part, John Gray told us about the early…
League Express Zoomcast – Rugby League Heroes
This week I sat down with Richard de la Riviere, the author of the League Express ‘Rugby League Heroes’ series of articles with former Rugby…
Rugby League Heroes: Robin Whitfield
The poacher turned gamekeeper Robin Whitfield was a prolific goalkicker for Widnes, Barrow and Huyton, but when the latter refused to pick him any more…
Rugby League Heroes: Graham Steadman
One of the Melbourne Lions Graham Steadman made a name for himself as a brilliant young stand-off with York and Featherstone in the mid- to…
