So you want to know which team has the biggest losing margin in a World Club Challenge game? Well, you’ve come to the right place! The Halifax Blue Sox suffered a 76-0 thrashing at the hands of the Brisbane Broncos on the 22nd of June in 1997 at a match played at Queensland Sport and…
So you want to find out which player has scored the most overall points in World Club Challenge games? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Ryan Girdler of the Penrith Panthers has scored 118 points, including 11 tries and 37 goals in 6 games played. Ryan Girdler also is an equal record holder for…
So you want to find the biggest win in a Rugby League World Club Challenge match? Well, you’ve come to the right place! On June 22nd in 1997 the Brisbane Broncos defeated the Halifax Blue Sox 76-0 at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane in front of 11,358 spectators. Wendell Sailor and Darren Smith…
So you want to know who has scored the most tries in a Rugby League World Club Challenge game? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Ken Nagas scored scored 6 tries in the Canberra Raiders 70-6 win over the Halifax Blue Sox on the 8th of June in 1997 at Canberra Stadium. That is…
The Penrith Panthers have played 10 games against Super League clubs over the course of their history, winning 6 of those matches while only losing 4 games. All of the games that have seen Penrith take on a Super League opponent have occurred during World Club Challenge fixtures. It is interesting to note that the…
Do you remember when the World Club Challenge wasn’t just a pre-season trial match? I do….but more importantly, the famous Wigan Rugby League club remembers as well. In 1994 Wigan flew to Brisbane to take on the 1993 Grand Final winners in the Brisbane Broncos. They beat the Broncos that night 20-14. It was June…
St Helens supporter Johnny joins the podcast to destroy League Freak after his “mighty”, supposedly all conquoring Penrith Panthers got beaten, no, humbled on their own home soil with a famous victory in the 2023 World Club Challenge. This wasn’t fun for League Freak….GOOD! He deserves this!!! He talks about whether he should delete his…
In this episode the greatest podcasting duo on earth have a quick chat about each NRL club, they then discuss St Helens reluctance to take on the Penrith Panthers in the World Club Challenge and then as a highlight to the podcast Andrew Ferguson has a severe cramp in his hamstring. You wanted this pain,…
In this episode Salt ‘N Pepper talk about the good decision to re-schedule the World Cup, and therefore avoiding Omicron! They then talk about St Helens refusal to play in the World Club Challenge. Fear? Yes. Then. its on to player signing news, some surprising news out of New Zealand, and a little talk about…
In this episode Iron Man talks about the new deal sign with Super League that will see Channel 4 show 10 lives matches in 2022. He then has a chat about the possibility of the World Club Challenge being played in Penrith, Big Tino re-signs with the Gold Coat Titans, an NRL player tests positive…
In this episode we talk about the World Club Challenge match between the Sydney Roosters and St Helens. We do a bit of a deep drive into the overall record of teams in the World Club Challenge and come up with some surprising results. We then talk about the NRL All Stars games, some trial…
The 2020 Rugby League World Club Challenge will see St Helens host the Sydney Roosters in a match that has really gone under the radar. Between Australian apathy for the event, the Sydney Roosters small supporter base, and the growing feeling in Great Britain that this game really is nothing more than an exhibition match,…
Melbourne Storm’s domination continued at the start of 2018, with Craig Bellamy’s side breezing their way to the World Club Challenge title and sweeping Leeds Rhinos aside in mid-February. The Rhinos hadn’t had the same success as Melbourne during the 2017 campaign, but still managed to come good at just the right time to defeat…
The World Club series was played over the weekend and both Super League clubs beat their NRL counterparts pretty easily. As always, and no matter what the result is, the analysis of the series and of the Australian game has been hyperbolic, ridiculous and ill informed, especially on behalf of the English media. Would you…
English Rugby League is dying. If you have been reading my web site for any length of time you knew that years ago. I was the first to write about the financial implosion and mass death of clubs that sadly eventuated. I wrote about Rugby Union swamping the game in its so called heartlands when…
England host New Zealand in a test series at seasons end in what will be a bit of an afterthought for Rugby League as it struggles with the demands of club football and the need to have a relevant international scene. New Zealand will no doubt send over a bits and pieces team to take…
So the World Club Challenge has now been expanded and the World Club Series will become the latest cash grab by clubs on both sides of the world. Great, looks like League Freak needs to make another bloody banner for his site! The NRL Grand Finalists will join a third team and play one off…
No one seems happy with the way international Rugby League is being run right now. The eligibility rules are completely ridiculous and need changed, the scheduling of games is terrible, one off test matches give erratic results and too many one sided contest, basically no one likes the way anything is being run. The only…
The Spotlight is on… Bradford: this week the RFL hit Bradford Bulls with a 6-point deduction that leaves them 4 points adrift of London at the bottom of the Super League table. With the threat of relegation at the end of the season, this is absolutely disasterous for Francis Cummins and his squad. A dark…
To expect Wigan to fly out from the UK after just one Super League game, to arrive in Auckland for a match against a squad of New Zealand Warriors players, and then to be competitive against the Sydney Roosters is asking for a miracle. I feel very sorry for Wigan and the ridiculous schedule they…
The Sydney Roosters host Wigan on the 22nd of February in the first World Club Challenge match held in Australia since the 1997. Wigan are putting everything they have into their preparation for this match. While they did lose fullback Sam Tomkins from their Grand Final winning team they did manage to pick up Matthew…
The World Club Challenge will be played in Australia for the first time in well over a decade when the Sydney Roosters host Wigan at the Sydney Football Stadium on the 22nd of February next year. The last time the World Club Challenge (In its current format) was held in Australia was in 1994 when…
Ever since State Of Origin one last Wednesday Gorden Tallis hasn’t stopped whinging about Paul Gallen. Paul Gallen went in with a swinging arm on Nate Myles. Both players stood up, toe-to-toe, and Gallen threw a combo that left Myles struggling to stay on his feet. After the game, Myles was happy to leave it…
Monday night saw the banality of the universe maintained with another two competition points to the Melbourne Storm, a result which took the club to a record-equalling 13th consecutive win. Yes siree, 2013 so far has been enterprise as usual for Craig Bellamy and his cartel of systemised androids. Death, taxes, yada yada yada. Like…
With the season almost upon us this is a competition you will want to be a part of. Our friends over at Greg And Billy, the number one web site dedicated to Greg Inglis and Billy Slater, are running a competition in which you can win an official World Club Challenge programme signed by Australian…
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…
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…
In my lifetime the best elite level development competition I have ever seen was the World 7’s. They used to be a way to kick off the season here in Australia and they put Australian clubs up against international teams. They were also a way for emerging nations to dip their toes into the water…