The RFL has confirmed that the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final will remain at Wembley Stadium for the next two years, but with a date change for seeing the event moved to June the 8th starting from 2024. The switch of date comes as the RFL, Super League and IMG look to make changes to…
In this episode League Freak takes a look at the history of the European Super League and ranks the top 10 clubs from the Super League era based on what each club has achieved. He then talks about the big controversial moment that came out of St Helens Challenge Cup semi final victory over Hull…
So you want to know the biggest loss that the Wigan Warriors have suffered in their history? Well, you’ve come to the right place! On June the 26th in 2006 St Helens defeated Wigan 75-0 at Knowsley Road in front of 17,100 supporters. The match was a 2005 Challenge Cup fixture. Mark Edmondson scored 3…
It should have been a proud moment for Castleford Tigers players and supporters to celebrate the club reaching the Challenge Cup final after defeating the Widnes Vikings 28-6. Instead it turned into a disgraceful scene that Rugby League should be thoroughly embarrassed about. After the full time siren, and as Castoeford players thanks their supporters,…
The spotlight is on…the first five games: The competition has started taking shape without too many shocks. Here we take a quick look at the main points across the league, from St Helens’ excellent Luke Walsh-led start, to Bradford and London’s struggles at the foot of the table. 1. So far, 1704 have been scored…
With a national audience and playing on one of the biggest stages of them all, Rugby League in Great Britain once again failed to deliver the goods. Rugby League in Great Britain rarely gets a chance to press it’s claims to a national audience. With Super League games being shown on Sky Sports the wider…
So the 2012 Super League season wasn’t the best, and heading into 2013 there is nothing to indicate the upcoming season will be any better. Lets not start off on a bad note though! Sure the competition still doesn’t have a naming rights sponsor and clubs are bleeding red ink like every day is that…
Recently Warrington Wolves coach Tony Smith told the media that the game administrators needed to look at ways to create more buzz around the sport and compared it, strangely, to Darts. Yes, Darts. He also talked about the need to make decisions that would probably upset some of the big power brokers in the game,…
Its time for me to confront this issue. Sam Tomkins is not the most well liked player in the British game. For all of the accolades people throw in his direction, he still is not well liked at all by British Rugby League fans. Just recently the BBC’s George Riley wrote a piece titled Why boo…
The NRL’s next broadcasting deal will see a huge leap in the amount of money the game makes. By at least 2015, we will have an 18 team competition (With the addition of Perth and most likely a second Brisbane team). The deal after that, which will run between 2018 and 2023, will see further…
Sorry for being late chaps, just picked up a new Audi, sweet set of wheels! Ok, so as you all know, we have the Great Britain Rugby League team. It is not only one of the most famous brands in the game, but one of the most famous in English sport. So much history… Lets…
Every so often, the rivers of Pommy bullshit come so thick and fast that I have to step in and say something about it. This is one of those times my friends. It all started last weekend during the Challenge Cup Final, which was won by those insufferable idiots in Warrington. You know, the ones…
As you may or may not know, there is not an official push to remove the Challenge Cup from a list of protected sporting matches so that it does not have to be shown on free to air TV in the United Kingdom. The Challenge Cup may have its critics, but the fact is it…
Warrington has won its first Challenge Cup Final in over 30 years by downing Huddersfield in a game that was terrible, frustrating and gives me little hope for the English game. I don’t watch much Super League football these days because its so frsustratingly bad. I always like to catch the big finals though, and…
St Helens have defeated Hull FC 28-16 in the 2008 Challenge Cup Final. If you went to cook two minute noodles as the game kicked off, the microwave bell had yet to sound and Paul Sculthorpe went from the field injured. Going into this game Sculthorpe amazingly wrote in his newspaper colum that HE has…
Well its just a matter of going from one farce to another when it comes to English Rugby League. This week came news that Hull FC had fielded an ineligible player in their last two Challenge Cup Ties. Forward Jamie Thackery signed with Hull FC, from Leeds on March the 27th, two weeks after the…
St Helens have beaten the Catalan Dragons 30-8 on the games return to Wembley stadium. It was a very nervous, error filled performance by both sides in a game that lacked intensity. The Dragons stuck close through the first half but heading into the second half St Helens started to pull away from their French…
The Catalan Dragons have scored an historic 37-24 win over Wigan in the Semi Finals to become the first French Rugby League clubs to ever make the Challenge Cup Final. Not even the sin binning of Stacey Jones late in the game could stop the Dragons as they outclassed a Wigan side that didn’t look…
It was a perfect start by Huddersfield, the type a start a coach would even ask for because it was so ridiculously good. Leon Pryce kicked the ball back, set after set on the St Helens line, a try, keeping St Helens under non stop pressure. However the signs we’re there early on that Huddersfield…
So Im over here in Pommyland and the Challenge Cup is on this weekend. Great, I can go to my first Challenge Cup….in Twickenham….to see St Helens….take on Huddersfield…. Ummm…no. I think I’ll be saving my money on this one and going to a Challenge Cup Final next year that will hopefully provide some type…
It wasn’t the best game you’ll see this season, but the 2005 Challenge Cup will be remembered for a long time by Hull fans. Hull secured their first cup win since 1982 after snatching a last minute try to win the match 25-24. A few random thoughts after watching the game: Hull is a VERY…