There’s a danger that the thrills and spills served up by the final two Super League play-off games this season between Warrington and Leeds, and Saints and Wigan, might gloss over the weaknesses in the current top eight system that were all too apparent just a few days earlier. After all, for the first time [...]

Why does Rugby League always struggle to sell out its major events? The lead up to the Carnegie Challenge Cup final at Wembley was full of panic stories about unsold ticket allocations despite the game being contested by two of our biggest clubs, Wigan and Leeds. I’ve argued before in this column that an obsession [...]