Super League News
They days in which the RFL could suggest that player contracts are a club issue and nothing to do with them are well and truely over. This week it has emerged that the Bradford Bulls have signed Matt Orford despite the fact they had already filled their overseas quota. Once they signed Orford, they told…
This move has been on the cards for a long time but finally, Matt Orford, who is off contract in 2010, well play in the UK for the Bradford Bulls. The Manly Sea Eagles still have a few players off contract for 2010 that they have yet to sign, Orford being the most expensive of…
The Melbourne Storm have agree’d to release workhorse lock Dallas Johnson freeing him up for a lucrative move to the Catalan Dragons in Super League. Johnson has played well at club, State and Test level over his entire career and won his second NRL Title in 2009 with the Melbourne Storm. Johnson is only 26…
After months of speculation former Great Britain coach Brian Noble has finally been named the new coach of the Celtic Crusaders. The Crusaders first season in Super League was nothing short of a disaster. On the field they were terrible, off the field they had players sent home with Visa problems, they ended up sacking…
When they look back through history they will say that this was the moment, this is when nothing was the same ever again. Well, that’s what I’m guessing anyway, after the way Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield carried on about this being an historical Grand Final win! Yes, I watch the game, delayed by only 11…
And so we have made it, yes, that time of the year again when the fans of two Super League clubs put so much importance in a game which, more often than not, they have both won and lost in recent seasons. I tipped a St Helens vs Leeds Grand Final before the season kicked…
I really enjoy it when the Poms decide to award Rugby League players. It is always worth a giggle to see who they rate and who they don’t, after all these are the same people that gave Andrew Farrell an award as the best player in the entire world at one point! This time around…
I don’t like the mindset of British Rugby League players. I think from a very early age they are built up to be something they are not. I think their priorities are completely skewed and I think they have no idea about basic skills of the game, and they generally don’t care about their standing…
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…
One of two I can understand, but for six players from the Celtic Crusaders to be deported because of Visa violations, something is terribly wrong here! I’ve spoken a few times about the Celtic Crusaders on this web site. I gave them a honeymoon period to get over a few teething problems, but it became…
Oh geez, I really didn’t want to have to do this. I’m not one to want to cause any friction, any angst, any issues between groups of fans, but sometimes I really do want to. Look at it from the point of view of a Hull FC fan. The number one team in Hull, the…
Ditch digger or professional footballer? Hmmm, I know which one I would choose. With that in mind I can’t think of too many reasons for putting my choice in jeopardy, especially when one of those reasons is because I’m so fucking boring that a need to snort junk to have a good time. Thats just…
Remember when I said we’d be in for a lot of comedy value as Super League clubs started talking contracts with players, well, its under way! Some interesting things going on this week with young (Under 35) English halfback Richie Myler telling Salford to show him the money. Myler is a very average player, he…
Death, Taxes, Super League clubs dying to sign an import… Ah yes, its that time of the year again, silly season in England just throws up so much comedy value. Whether its Sean Long’s utter desperation in his voice as he tries to convince people he wouldn’t be crushed if St Helens didnt re-sign him,…
St Helens has announced that it has signed Sydney Roosters center Sia Soliola on a three year deal. The top team in Super League has signed Soliola from the second last placed side on the NRL ladder and will feature two overseas born centers next season. Now normally, a Super League club signing an overseas…
I’m a big fan of Mike Stephenson. Sure his call of the game on Sky Sports is over the top, but I think he knows who butters his bread and that he has made a very nice career on TV for being the bloke that goes over the top. Thing is, people see this persona…
It might be something in the water, it could be a small gene pool, what ever the case England’s Rugby League players are covering themselves in glory like, very similar to the famous 2 girls 1 cup video. As Super League Imports all the criminals it can find from other competitions it seems in this…
St Helens standoff Leon Pryce and and Warrington Wolves fullback Stuart Reardon have both pleaded guilty to assault. The BBC Reports that the two players had been drinking before they forced their way into the house of Reardons estranged wife, he assaulted her while Pryce assaulted her current partner. They did this after hearing that Reardon’s ex…
Wigan and Warrington find themselves in a self made crisis that really worries me. The last time I saw a club in a position that these two find themselves in, it took about 18 months and the very rich and keen owner of them walked away and left them to fend for themselves. That was…
Ive been supportive of the Celtic Crusaders and the push to fast track them into Super League. Rugby League needed a professional club in Wales in 1995. If the powers that be had used their brains at that time and get things going back then we’d probably have more expansion clubs and Super League would…
Are the days of England being an easy out for trouble making players coming to an end I wonder? Right now a number of players who have signed with Super League clubs are still waiting back home in Australia and wondering if their past behavior has finally closed a door on them. British officials have…
Well, Leeds beat St Helens in the Grand Final and made it back to back titles. I have to confess that I haven’t watched the game yet and to be honest, I don’t think I will be chasing it down. There has been a bit of whinging because St Helens players didn’t wait around after…
I remember when I was in Primary School and we had our Library lessons, ever so often you’d pick up one of those choose your own adventure books, skip through all the directing pages, and just get to the end and see what happens. Yeah, Primary School was the best 17 years of my life….
It was shocking news to hear that Wakefield prop Adam Watene had passed away at just 31 years of age. Reports seem to suggest that Watene had a heart attack while doing weight training. Watene had been training on his own to get his fitness back before the Wildcats resume official team training in just…
St Helens will take on the Leeds Rhinos in this weekends Super League Grand Final. I’ll be watching the game, but to be honest it just hasn’t grabbed me this year. Maybe its because the same two teams played in last years decider, maybe its because these two teams are not really traditional rivals. Maybe…
So many announcements from someone that plays so little football. If you haven’t been following the Paul Sculthorpe saga, then well done, you have been missing a lot of hot air and bullshit. Paul Sculthorpe has played less top grade football over the last few years than even I have….and I haven’t played any! While…
News that Wakefields plans for a new stadium have been scrapped means the club now finds itself without a suitable stadium to use for the future. The RFL has already told the Wildcats that they will be kicked out of Super League the next time their license comes up for renewal because their current ground…
So Super League has finished its latest expansion and we now have a Welsh team in the competition which is great. However already eyes are turning towards a few years from now when all current clubs Super League licenses will come up for review. That means teams with below standard stadiums, poor finances and poor…
Its been known for years that the Huddersfield Giant have issues in regards to their standing in the game. Basically the Giants are a little, poorly rub club, playing out of a shit town who only reason for existence is that the game was founded in a pub there in 1895. Huddersfield have pissed and…
We all know I’m the first to bag Super League when I think its needed, but when it comes to expansion Super League officials obviously have a goal and are doing everything possible to achieve those goals. The first signs of this push to expand Super League came when Welsh outfit the Celtic Crusaders were…