Category: Features
Rookies to excite us in 2023
This week, League Express (and Totalrl.com) focuses on the Super League rookies who will be hoping to make a big impression this season. All these…
Well on his way
STEPHEN IBBETSON speaks to PAUL WELLENS as he prepares for his first season as a head coach with St Helens, the club with which he’s…
Change is in the air in France
STEVE BRADY speaks to Catalans Dragons coach STEVE McNAMARA about his side’s prospects for the 2023 season. CATALANS DRAGONS’ coach Steve McNamara is in the…
The Marathon Man – Gary McKee
On New Year’s Eve, the truly remarkable Gary McKee finished his 365th marathon of 2022, raising over £1 million, which will be split between Macmillan…
This week’s League Express Mailbag
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT I am writing to try and set the record straight in what I see as a bit of disinformation by the…
European Rugby League celebrate 20-year anniversary
EUROPEAN RUGBY LEAGUE, the international governing body for Rugby League in the northern hemisphere, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first general assembly that formed…
The hooker who led the RFL
Obituary: Bob Ashby (30 July 1936 – 5 January 2023) Bob Ashby, a former Chairman and President of Featherstone Rovers and a Chairman of the Rugby…
No shortage of tasty Cup-ties on the horizon
THE Betfred Challenge Cup draws at Wembley, for the first and second rounds of the men’s competition and the group allocations in the women’s, were…
Second-city storm
DOUG THOMSON considers Midlands Hurricanes’ campaign to expand the game in their region BIRMINGHAM has a special place in the history of Rugby League. For…
Garry Schofield’s play-off predictions
I’VE THOUGHT long and hard about my predictions of who will finish where in Super League this season. And after going, in reverse order, for…