Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Is there a bigger, more frustrating enigma in rugby league than the Catalans Dragons?
Forty-20 Column
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Fortune doesn’t just favour the brave, it envelops and embraces all of us who follow or are involved in rugby league…
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Rugby goes head-to-head in Manchester today, as Super League’s Grand Final at Old Trafford goes up against the Rugby World Cup’s dead rubber between England and Uruguay at the Etihad.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Sometimes, as Peter Sterling said at the end of a tumultuous NRL Grand Final, we forget why we love sport…
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Thank you (Wigan fans look away now) Josh Jones for giving us our on-field moment to crow over and savour this weekend.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
One of the great aspects of sport is the offer of redemption…
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
It’s a very English way of looking at things – and, of course, it depends on which team you support. We find it hard, embarrassing almost, to fete excellence…
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Where there was predictability, now there is doubt. Where there was certainty, now there is conjecture…
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Even the most devout sometimes need a reaffirmation. And rugby league fans – and the Challenge Cup especially – were given the greatest fillip after two magnificent and contrasting semi ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
It wasn’t meant to be an instant panacea. The instigation of the Super Eights, in its first year, was never proposed as a cure-all for the sport….
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
There was a time, not long ago, when owners and chief executives were seldom seen or heard. Anonymous, shadowy figures, they plotted, schemed, wheeled-and-dealed away from the spotlight.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
The architects of Super League’s brave new world must be secretly rubbing their hands together with glee in their darkened Salford lair as the split into inaugural eights ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
It’s heresy, no more, no less, the thought that the only real, genuine, inter-city derby in rugby league will, most likely, be no more other than at senior ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
A pat on the back weekend for rugby league after 35,000 fans turned up to watch a riveting set of Ladbrokes Challenge Cup quarter finals.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Ben Roberts is the perfect on-field epitome of Super League; unquestionably talented, highly entertaining and prone to mistakes – his inconsistency can make him as frustrating as he is captivating.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
The way the Super League fixtures fell this weekend, with only a handful of matches left before the inaugural split into eights, every minute was going to matter more than ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
How much the marquee player will be an inexact science was illustrated this weekend.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
By common consent, however you measure it, Magic Weekend was a success. Whether it was an avowed one and, perhaps more importantly, how we capitalise on it, is another issue.
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Is there something in the water taken by the professional coaches in the Wigan Borough?
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
Thank you Hull KR, thank you Leigh; hats off to Batley and haut les chapeaux Featherstone, who arrived back in town at 6.30am Monday so their part-time players could go ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
There is only one rugby league image after the weekend.
Forty-20 column: The Morning After
This column was going to be one of celebration, not least about the rise of international rugby league – our only real hope of significantly raising profile, attracting new supporters ...
Forty-20 Column: The Morning After
There was probably a world record set on Thursday night at Wakefield.