No one does self serving nonsense quite like the Rugby Football League! After yest another disastrous international season that saw England win just 1 of the 3 it chose to play in 2014, the RFL COO, a man aptly named Ralf Rimmer, has put together one of the most ridiculous press release I have ever…
Last night I posted an article about Lee Mossop and his ridiculous comments to BBC Radio where he said that Super League is physically tougher than the NRL. He made these comments after playing just 32 minutes so far during the 2014 NRL season. People that follow me on Twitter and Facebook went off on…
Parramatta Eels English forward Lee Mossop may have spend most of the season on the sidelines, but he has told the BBC that Super League is more physical than the NRL. Mossop, who made the move from Wigan to the Parramatta Eels at the end of last year, played his first game of his NRL…
Kevin Sinfield has been awarded an MBE for his services to Rugby League. It is 2014, and quite honestly I can’t be bothered looking up what an MBE is or who hands them out, but good luck to Kevin Sinfield and who ever campaigned to have this honour bestowed upon him. I’m sure it will…
The Oxford Dictionary describes delusion as the following: “An idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder” Leeds Rhinos forward Jamie Peacock has described Leeds Rhinos fullback Zak Hardaker as the following: “Defensively, there is not a better full-back in the world” “His…
I love a story like this… After the Parramatta Eels fantastic win over the Sydney Roosters last weekend the Eels celebrated by holding the Jack Gibson Cup high. It was a great moment for the club who haven’t had much to cheer about in recent years. There was only one problem…they hadn’t actually won the…
You have to hand it to the Poms, when they decide to throw all logic and reason out the window, they go all out! Every year an anonymous English Rugby League magazine with a small circulation in pockets of northern England takes it upon themselves to have out a “Golden Boot” award. This award is…
Nothing should get a team fired more than a video thrown together by a PR department requesting people in the media spotlight talk about their chances of winning a sporting contest. Forget that most of them couldn’t give a stuff about the English Rugby League team, or that some of them were obviously filmed on…
I’m not entirely sure what makes a grown man decide he wants to grab another man by the ball sack. I wasn’t a good enough footy player to be able to make a tackle AND have the time to reach for tackle. Even if I had been, its just not something I would personally do….
A few years ago I looked at the English Rugby League team and I saw a problem. For all the talk from coaches and administrators that they were looking to build towards the 2013 World Cup, I saw a side that was being selected with no thought of its future make up in mind. In…
You couldn’t make it up. I have become the obsession of an English journo called Nigel. After the Melbourne Storms second trial game of the season against the Leeds Rhino’s I have not been all that surprised to see the angry, upset reaction from the English. With ego’s battered, the insults started flying from northern…
Here at LeagueFreak.com I like to go out of my way to help people in need. This is one of those occasions. There has been a missing persons alert for Leeds Rhinos lock forward Kevin Sinfield. He was last seen warming up for a match against the Melbourne Storm at Headingley in Leeds. Grave concerns…
The Melbourne Storm have won their second trial match in 2013 in what was clearly a much needed hit out against the Leeds Rhinos. I’m not going to go into some huge breakdown of this match because it was only a trial game. The Storm had played one trial game before this match, against the…
The Melbourne Storm are the best Rugby League club in the world. That is not in doubt. Yet here we are in 2013 and the best Rugby League club on the planet is having to deal with the amateurs that run Rugby League in Great Britain, all in an effort to put money in their…
Congratulations to the Leeds Rhino’s for winning the 2012 Golden Boot Award! Wait, what? You see, over the last 48 hours when certain people have tried to justify naming Kevin Sinfield as the best player in the world, they have all, without fail, pointed to the record of the Leeds Rhinos. Why? Even my new…
World wide fame comes with many different perks, and one of those perks is that you wake up some days and you are featured in the English press. Nigel Wiskar is a writer for the Mirror.co.uk and he did a write up on the reaction to Rugby League World making the laughable announcement that Kevin Sinfield is…
Rugby League World magazine in the UK has Leeds Rhinos lock Kevin Sinfield as the best Rugby League player in the world. Laughably, when the same magazine named its “best team in the world” last month, Kevin Sinfield wasn’t even in it! There is no way at all that anyone with any interest in Rugby…
It is always hilarious when you read the Rugby League World awards. Basically this small English Rugby League magazine talks up these awards they hand out. That are supposedly voted on by a group of “international” Rugby League journalists. We all know that to English League types, “international” means a bunch of Poms, a few…
The Rugby Football League are very serious about winning the 2013 World Cup. So serious that they are looking to become pioneers. They are looking to go to extremes to get that winning edge. They are willing to go to all ends of the Earth to make sure they are the best prepared team bar…
Being this good just comes naturally to me. I’m not moving to England! I don’t need to live in Leeds to tell the Rugby Football League how bloody terrible they are. As if I would sell my beast of a car so that I could travel to places like Salford and Warrington in a Vauxhall!…
I know its been difficult, but its all back up and running now. No doubt the first question you have is “League Freak, what the hell happened to your web site over the last week or so?”. How about I tell you… So on about the 23rd of December I has written the article below…
The RFL put out and extrardonary press release last night in which they confirmed their planned 2012 tour of New Zealand had been cancelled, blamed Australian administrators for the cancellation, and then decided to change the laws of the game. You know, just because they felt like it! The stupid, pathetic, egotistical failures within the…
So here we are, the 2011 Four Nations Final. Australia vs England at Elland Road in Leeds. England are full of confidence after their big win over New Zealand in Hull. I watched the game and England did play well, but New Zealand were terrible. I don’t know how much England is really going to…
I always find it funny when Super League Imports talk up the quality of Super League and its players. The vast majority of the time I think its just about knowing who butters your bread. Other times I think it just comes down to a player or a coach trying to convince themselves that they are no…
As I write this, Willie Mason is getting ready to play the first Rugby Union game of his life. The previous conversion record for a Rugby League players to switch codes, play a game and walk into a Rugby Union representative team had been held by Iestyn Harris at 11 days. Mason has walked straight into the…
Ben Giles is an English Rugby League journo who writes for Code 13 Rugby League. Now, I’ve got no truck with Ben, however, he has written about how Code 13 went about doing their nominations for the “Golden Boot” awards, and I can’t let it slide, I have to say something. For years, even before the Andrew…
So now we have the list of players who got “Golden Boot” awards. I had made my predictions on who would win these awards a few days ago and while I was a little way off, I was also not too far off on the complete and utter stupidity of the names that eventually got listed! Now…
Of all the people I talk to about Rugby League through my web site, forums, Twitter and just general people I know and meet, not a single one of them views the RL Worlds Golden Boot award as anything other than a joke and a complete farce. From the mythical list of “International Journalists”, none…
New Zealand are the best Rugby League nation in the world, having proven it once again by beating Australia, on home soil, in a big final. While Australia now has to face up to why it has been beaten by New Zealand, its fair to say that on any given day, there is very little…
I try to fight the good fight. If I see something I think is wrong with this game of Rugby League, I’ll call it out. I’ll write all about what is wrong, I’ll write about how I would do things differently, and I hope by the time you have read through an article, you come…