IS it time for the Rugby Football League to take a more draconian approach to policing the salary cap at Championship level? John Stankevitch, the Rochdale Hornets coach, certainly thinks so. In a revealing interview in this month’s Rugby League World magazine, Stankevitch outlines exactly how Rochdale’s player payments are structured, and claims that rival [...]

The RFL are coming in for a lot of stick over the England v France international. Wrong time, wrong venue are two of the most often aired criticisms. June 12th also sees the England football team’s first game in the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, an event that will dominate the sporting media for [...]

Our Guest Room session with RFL Match Officials Director Stuart Cummings generated a massive response, so much so that we couldn’t fit it all in the mag! As Stuart was kind enough to answer every question we received, it seemed a shame to let any of it go to waste so we decided to publish [...]

You have to hand it to the Aussies. They don’t do things by halves. If you’re going to have a salary cap scandal, might as well make it a big one. The salary cap transgressions of a handful of Super League clubs a few years back look piffling in comparison. But then, the sanctions handed [...]