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Leeds on their guard as Blackpool seek repeat of famous win
Friday, 7 May 2010
Nobody seriously expects Blackpool to win their Challenge Cup tie at Leeds tonight, but one certainty is that their preparation will be smoother then it was when they last played at Headingley.
Paul prepares to cause upset on return to Odsal
Friday, 7 May 2010
Robbie Paul gets a return to Odsal tonight that he never expected when he dropped down a division by signing for Leigh.
England hope to avoid row over Burgess
Thursday, 6 May 2010
England are ready to go into their international against France on 12 June without Sam Burgess, after deciding not to force the issue with his club, South Sydney.
Potter quits Saints for return Down Under
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Mick Potter is to leave his job as St Helens coach at the end of the season to try to make the grade in his native Australia.
Dave Hadfield: Farewell to Edinburgh
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Sadly, I don't expect to be back there on rugby league business for quite some time.
Dobson is staying put, insist Hull KR
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Two super league clubs have denied reports that an overseas player wants to return home.
Round-up: McGoldrick and Sherwin double act slays Dragons
Monday, 3 May 2010
Ryan McGoldrick and Brent Sherwin's second tries of the game in the last four minutes clinched a 34-18 win for Castleford over the rock-bottom Catalan Dragons in the warm-up act at a chilly Murrayfield.
Thomas the convert shines in Crusaders' Noble cause
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Bradford Bulls 0 Crusaders 19: Michael Witt scored 15 points in a turn-up which started Super League's Magic Weekend in Edinburgh in memorable style. But Bradford were not only outwitted – they were also caught cold by outstanding displays from two players.
Gareth Thomas: 'My best memory comes from Murrayfield'
Saturday, 1 May 2010
The former union star plays at a familiar ground today for the Super League fraternity's annual celebration
Brown linked to Cronulla return
Friday, 30 April 2010
The Huddersfield coach, Nathan Brown, has said he could return to Australia at the end of this season. Brown is in the second year of a three-year contract, but has been strongly linked with the likely vacancy at Cronulla, currently near the foot of the National Rugby League.
Nathan Brown won't stay at Huddersfield
Friday, 30 April 2010
Huddersfield Giants coach Nathan Brown has revealed his long-term future won't be with the Super League outfit.
Sammut signing boosts Crusaders
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Crusaders have completed the signing of Jarrod Sammut from the Australian club, Penrith.
Wolves sign Man of Steel Hodgson
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Warrington have confirmed that they have signed Huddersfield's full-back Brett Hodgson from the end of the season. The Wolves have agreed a two-year contract with the 32-year-old Australian full-back, who is the reigning Man of Steel.
Dave Hadfield: There's a question mark over Wigan
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
There haven't been many turnarounds in Super League like Harlequins' second half at Wigan on Friday.
Giants lose Lunt and Hodgson
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Huddersfield will be without both their in-form hooker, Shaun Lunt, and their captain, Brett Hodgson, for a month. Lunt strained his Achilles tendon in the warm-up before Sunday's game at Crusaders, which Hodgson missed with a thigh strain.
Castleford begin running repairs
Monday, 26 April 2010
Castleford 30 Salford 12: Castleford began their rehabilitation after last weekend's Challenge Cup humiliation with a workmanlike, if uninspired victory over their fellow Super League strugglers.
Orr inspires incredible fightback as lowly Quins destroy Wigan
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Wigan 26 Harlequins 38
Wellens and Meli return for Saints' Grand Final revenge mission
Saturday, 24 April 2010
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Melbourne Storm stripped of titles and £1m prize money for wage-cap fraud
Friday, 23 April 2010
Super League sides to share £50,000 World Club prize after Melbourne admits to systematic wage-cap fraud
Raynor faces jail for counterfeiting
Friday, 23 April 2010
The former Great Britain winger Gareth Raynor faces going to prison over an ink cartridge fraud.
Smith to be England's eyes Down Under
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Steve McNamara paid his own way to Australia three years ago to see what was going on there that kept them ahead of the game.
Time is right for McNamara says Kear
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Former England coach John Kear is convinced the Rugby Football League have got the right man for the job after naming Steve McNamara as the new boss of the national team.
McNamara confirmed as England boss
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Steve McNamara was today named as the new England coach.
McNamara to run Bulls and England
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Steve McNamara will be announced by the RFL as the new England coach today, but they will share him for the rest of this season with Bradford.
THE LAWTON LINKS
- James Lawton: Fabio did himself a favour in avoiding latest foretelling of England's bleak future
- James Lawton: Mancini will learn that winning teams are built not bought
- James Lawton: Massa deserved better than this after all he has been through
- James Lawton: Farewell to the Hurricane who swept his sport into modern era
- James Lawton: Cole and Milner should stop this sorry pretence that it's not all about the money