Author: Phil Hodgson
Talking Grass Roots: Weathering the storm
A regular theme in this column at this time of the year, certainly during the winter era but also following the switch of most amateur…
Talking Grass Roots: Rocky’s Giant Impact
There are so many people who give so much to amateur Rugby League – which is a reason I’m confident that the sport will survive,…
Talking Grass Roots: A Happy New Year?
I suspect that Kelly Barrett, the Rugby Football League’s Head of Delivery Community Game Competitions, will have quietly reflected to herself, when firing out yet…
Weathering the storm
By Phil Hodgson, League Express Grassroots Rugby League correspondent Habit has it that in the last League Express of the year I reflect on the…
The international game is in safe hands
As 2020 meanders to a close – and good riddance, most might say – many of the folk in Rugby League who care about the…
Seeing both sides for a return to action
Thornhill Trojans are railing against what they seem to perceive as a lack of positive action by the Rugby Football League compared to stances –…
Talking Grass Roots: It’s always darkest before dawn
The Rugby Football League has thankfully been nothing but consistent, throughout the battle with the Covid-19 crisis, in its approach to the eventual return to…
Talking Grass Roots: Hull of a game
One part of my role at League Express as the amateur game’s correspondent that I particularly enjoy is the nationwide aspect. I was excited, when…
Talking Grass Roots: Greece is the word
Woolston Rovers have long been among the most go-ahead of amateur clubs, and the Warrington outfit is setting the agenda yet again by forging a…
Talking Grassroots: Lighting up the gloom
It’s rather rare, currently, to come across unadulterated good news in these troubled coronavirus-dominated times, but two such stories popped my way last week –…
