By Daniel Andruczyk
Last week England jumped on the Pacific Nation stealing band wagon. Willie Manu made himself available for England and he was embraced with open arms. But when you read the various articles on this you see a disturbing trend and attitude towards the English Jersey. Of course its not the first time England has done this, in fact from the home nations there have been other players that defected, or...
By Daniel Andruczyk
This weekend apparently saw a “whole bunch of average” games in the NRL. Well so it was claimed by several commentators on the radio. Apparently the play was terrible, the referees were terrible, it was stated that this has been the worst season in a long time in terms of quality rugby league and something needs to be done to “Fix it”? Um ha!? Since when did Rugby League, or any sport for...
By Daniel Andruczyk
The latest blog comes on the back of a discussion I had with a avid rugby league fan in New Zealand. Its also a re-vamp of last years series of blogs on the 4 ways to fix International Rugby League. Originally I did this back in 2007 before the World Cup where there was a 10 year plan, it was in answer to what Richard Lewis and the “RLIF” had announced at the time with the lead up to the 2013...
By Daniel Andruczyk
This week the RLIF announced some interesting changes while the European Shield and Bowl matches finally had their dates established. The Russian domestic season kicked off and and round 4 in the Maltese season was played. The Irish season is also in full swing. Canada announce some exciting news as well.
RLIF meeting
The RLIF met last week and have made some big decisions in terms of the...
By Daniel Andruczyk
Monday night, well it wasn’t the NRL, but just as good I thought. Channel 9 are showing the second ESL game at midnight. It was the Crusaders and Catalans at the Wrexham’s Sportsground. Two things were a stand out, the quality and gritty play of the Crusaders and the decent crowd that came out in that damn cold weather.
For those antipodeans that aren’t aware of what’s been happening in...
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