World Cup
Daly Cherry-Evans looks like has has secured the bench utility spot in Australia’s World Cup team with Robbie Farah dropped from the squad named to take on the United States this weekend. While Australia named a 20 man squad, Farah was still unable to find a place in the side. Cherry-Evans form has been sensational…
New Zealand has smashed Papua New Guinea 56-10 in Leeds. The Kiwi’s started in ominous fashion by scoring a try after just 2 minutes. They backed that up with a second try after just 6 minutes. I could go on and tell you about every try scoring play the New Zealand team had in the…
Scotland has come back from an 8-0 halftime deficit to beat the United States by a scoreline of 22-8. The first half was a real arm wrestle with the United States getting the better of things through a better completion rate. Their first two tries really put the pressure on Scotland and it caused them…
Daly Cherry-Evans has retained his place in the Australian side ahead of the Kangaroos clash with the Wolfhounds in Ireland. Cherry-Evans has been named alongside Cooper Cronk in the halves in after an outstanding performance in the Kangaroos big win over Fiji last weekend. It looks as though Tim Sheens is once again looking to…
Tonga has defeated the Cook Islands 22-16 in a very good game that has big implications for the World Cup quarter finals. Tonga was supposed to put a big score on the Cook Islands. For most of the first half however the Cook Islands were giving Tonga all sorts of problems. Isaac John was sensational…
Every so often something funny happens on the footy field that you just can’t let pass by without re-visiting. One of those occurrences happened in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup match between the Cook Islands and Samoa. With both teams needing a win to keep their chances alive, the Cook Islands were playing well….
Samoa has beaten Papua New Guinea 38-4 in a dominant performance over a very poor PNG outfit. The first half of this match couldn’t have been any more one sided. A try in the first few minutes by Samoa was a sign of things to come. Papua New Guinea turned the ball over way too…
Greg Inglis has warned Australia to avoid ‘having their pants pulled down’ by Fiji when the two teams meet at Langtree Park on Saturday. The Kangaroos are hot favourites in the betting odds to beat Fiji and lift the World Cup trophy at the end of November. They got their tournament up and running with…
There has been numerous complaints about eligibility rules for players of dual heritage or the grandfather rule calling it a farce even by Mr League Freak himself, yet so far we have seen the strongest and closest World Cup yet. International Eligibility Rule states a player may represent a country if it is their country…
Scotland has defeated Tonga 26-24 in what is easily the biggest upset of the World Cup so far. Tonga exploded out of the blocks and an easy try early in the match seemed to confirm what most people thought, that this game would be very one sided. However Tonga played some very lazy football in…
In an extremely surprising announcement, there will be an official 2013 Rugby League World Cup video game released on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The game will be released on November 21st and is available for pre orders NOW! This news has come out of the blue. I’ve not heard a single thing about this…
Akuila Uate has scored a hat trick as Fiji ran away with a 32-14 in over Ireland in Rochdale. Fiji looked a class above Ireland and were physically dominant throughout the contest. Even as Fiji lost a player to the sin bin in the heavy rain, Ireland simply couldn’t work their way back into the…
Forget the score line, forget that one team won and the other lost. Forget the implications for the World Cup tournament….because none of it matters. New Zealand’s 42-24 win over Samoa was simply a fantastic game of Rugby League that had just about everything you could want in a sporting contest! New Zealand started the…
Sometimes even a player like Sonny Bill Williams gets it terribly wrong! Sonny Bill Williams is normally a man that can do no wrong but in New Zealands 42-24 win over Samoa in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup SBW had his very own LOL moment! After breaking the Samoan line and looking like he…
France has defeated Papua New Guinea 9-8 in a close match that PNG will feel they should have won. The French opened the scoring after getting good field position off the back of a penalty. The field position allowed them to catch PNG off guard a little as they scored the first try of the…
Italy has won its first ever game in a World Cup with an impressive 32-16 victory over Wales in Cardiff. Italy looked really sharp and played very well considering the ground was a mess by the time both teams walked out onto the field. Anthony Laffranchi played great up front, Josh Mantellato was always dangerous…
Australia Look Scrappy In Win Over England Australia have kicked on their World Cup campaign with a scrappy 28-20 win over England. England got off to a great start in the match as Australia played some lazy football. The Kangaroo’s were doing a lot of arm grabbing in defense while going wide looking for easy…
Hello, My name is The Glorious League Freak and I am about to take you on a magical mystery tour of international Rugby Leagues biggest tournament, the Rugby League World Cup. During the World Cup you will get to see many players you know and love, also Paul Gallen, playing for the nation of their…
Regular podcaster Daniel Pettigrew gives his World Cup preview. He looks at the teams involved, some of the key players and how he thinks the World Cup will play out! You can follow Daniel on Twitter here:Â https://twitter.com/roosterboy60 Feel free to send him questions or comments about the Podcast!
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…
Claiming to be the best Rugby League playing nation in the world means very little if you don’t hold the World Cup in your possession. Australia heads into the 2013 Rugby League World Cup looking to win back a trophy they held for decades. The once dominant Kangaroo’s now have an unfortunate reputation for dominating…
British rugby league fans are a unique bunch, mostly fickle working class they epitomise everything that has been great about the British game for the last century. Keen to air their views loudly and without recompense they trundle along weekly, watch half a game, proclaim it is shit and then leave citing their reasons as…
It wouldn’t be a World Cup if there wasn’t an English team looking to shock the world and win it all. They are improving, they are one of the teams to beat, they have prepared well and are ready to take on the world…all of that… The problem for the English Rugby League team is…
New Zealand’s 2008 Rugby League World Cup triumph was an incredible moment for Rugby League. I was lucky enough to be at that match and I have to say it was a pleasure to witness Rugby League history in the making. The 2008 New Zealand team cemented a place in the games history books and…
The 2013 Rugby League World Cup will see 14 teams battle it out for the right to claim the title of World Champions. With New Zealand the current World Cup holders and Australia looking to claim back the title, we should be in for an interesting tournament. To kick off coverage of the 2013 Rugby…
The 2013 Rugby League World Cup kicks off in a few weeks time and it should be a fantastic tournament that brings people together from many different parts of the world. It should be a moment in which Rugby League celebrates the real work that has been put in to get Rugby League established in…
The Rugby Football League has announced the English World Cup squad. The repercussions of the naming of this squad are already being felt across the world. Fear has gripped the souls of the other nations competing in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, many wondering if they should even bother turning up when it seems…
For a few years now a lot of people in Great Britain have invested all of their hopes and dreams in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup being a success. Whether that means it is a financial success, that the competition gains enough national attention to boost the domestic game, or just that England plays…
Plenty of good news overnight with Australia dominating the “Festival Of World Cups” held in England. Australia won four of the five World Cups on offer. Here are the results of all the finals: In the Women’s World Cup final Australia defeated New Zealand 22-12. In the Armed Forces World Cup final Australia defeated New…
Over the last few months I have had a number of people asking who I would select in my England side for the World Cup. Today I have decided to post the side I would take into the opening World Cup match against Australia. I have no doubt that some people will not be happy…