James Gordon, owner and founder of leading industry site www.loverugbyleague.com, has joined the Rugby League Council of Supporters Direct.
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LoveRugbyLeague com’s James Gordon takes the Kingstone Press Pressed for Time challenge
Throwback to the start of the 2015 rugby league season, when James Gordon took part in the Kingstone Press Pressed for Time Challenge at the Kingstone Press Championships season launch. The game sees you try and swap 50 red and 50 green apples in to the opposite box, while answering questions. You earn points for […]
RFL Programme Column: Looking at French rugby league
With Oldham rightly grabbing the headlines for their terrific win at Hull KR, two other results went slightly under the radar. Catalans re-affirmed their title credentials with an away win at St Helens, their fifth on the road already this season, and perhaps more significantly, Toulouse saw off Leigh 10-8 in the Challenge Cup.
Forty-20 Magazine: Wolves take Cheshire derby
As a sell out 15,008 crowd settled in to watch Super League’s top two battle it out on Good Friday, it was hard to believe that this derby has been missing from more than half of Super League’s 21 seasons to date.
Widnes’ lengthy stints in the second tier, from 1996 to 2001 and more recently 2006 to 2011, has meant Warrington’s local rivalry focus has shifted towards St Helens and Wigan, particularly in the last five years or so as they’ve fought for honours at the top table.
But this year, the “Cheshire derby” was arguably the most hotly anticipated of the whole weekend.
Saints Programme: Treat to have NRL clubs in the UK again
What a treat it is to have three NRL clubs on these shores for the second successive season.
St Helens ban live streaming of press conferences – are they right?
There’s been a storm brewing over press conferences in rugby league for a while.
Following the opening game of the Super League season on Thursday night, St Helens issued a statement saying that live streaming and Periscoping of their press conferences is not permitted, ahead of their own opener at home to Huddersfield.
“The conferences are for press to grab their copy for their deadlines – sending out the full conference live effectively trumps all those that are there”
Love Rugby League supports Danny Jones Celebration Match
A match to celebrate the life of late rugby league player Danny Jones has raised more than £25,000. A Halifax Select XIII took on a World side, which includes the likes of Lee Briers, Robbie Hunter-Paul and Iestyn Harris in their ranks, at Shay Stadium.
My top five sporting memories of 2014
This year saw me witness two things I never even dreamed of – a FIFA World Cup live and my hometown club, Warrington Town, in the FA Cup proper.
