
Case for the defence
Defence was at the forefront on Super League’s opening night, when St Helens posted a 6-4 victory over Leeds Rhinos at, what we must now refer to as, the...
Defence was at the forefront on Super League’s opening night, when St Helens posted a 6-4 victory over Leeds Rhinos at, what we must now refer to as, the...
Ever since the unedifying spectacle of the World Club Series people have proposed solutions to the obvious gap that exists between the playing strength of Super League and Australia’s NRL. ...
McNamara turned things around, organising the England set-up in a far superior way to before, including more team events and training, trying to instil a “two team mentality” to overcome ...
While a high-scoring game is certainly thrilling in its way, it doesn’t show rugby league at its best. We miss out on strong defence and tough tackling that should be ...
At the moment there are too many rugby league fans creating a miserable atmosphere around the sport which can only serve to put anyone off who might otherwise take an ...
The World Club Series represents a partial success, and is worth persisting with.
It’s difficult to have a straightforward, ‘good’ or ‘bad’ opinion of the restructure, as there are so many changes and innovations in the new structure of the game…
It’s nothing new for the rugby league community to be left scratching its collective head over what does or doesn’t constitute an obstruction. The latest bout of confusion stems from ...
Coaches need to be given a chance, so it’s good to see Marwan Koukash standing by Brian Noble – for the time being at least.
Lenagan’s argument is that the rights to broadcast Super League could have achieved a great deal more revenue for the clubs had the RFL handled things differently.
The fears of many rugby league supporters have been realised as the RFL and the Super League clubs voted for the two-leagues-of-two-splitting-into-three-groups-of-eight system.
It’s interesting that people are now of the opinion that a venue is only neutral if it is equal distance between the two clubs. That’s not a view that I ...
Last night’s Challenge Cup quarter final was a major disappointment – so much so that the call has gone out (again) to scrap the Challenge Cup and consign the famous old ...
Despite what some have suggested, some have complained about and some have hoped for, there is no completely ideal system that will allow sustainability, competitiveness, expansion, excitement, more income and ...
The Broncos may have lost a key player in Gower, but the club captaincy has now been taken up by Tony Clubb, from Gravesend in Kent. London are now captained ...
The most recent situation for which those at Red Hall have taken an unfair degree of blame was today’s shambolic Tetley’s Challenge Cup draw. Yet it’s hard to see why ...
There was some annoyance last week about the BBC investigation into the finances of Super League.
One of the issues that has dogged international rugby league, especially in recent seasons, is that of players swapping international allegiance and choosing to represent another country.
A rather disappointing and discouraging season failed to put a smile back on anyone’s face with a typically disappointing and discouraging international series.
The demise of Northampton Demons does give us more confidence about Gloucestershire, Hemel, Oxford and Coventry.