Past Rugby League News

Rugby Leading Centres

Simply put, those playing centre have to be able to do it all. They need speed, agility, strength in the tackle and an above average pair of hands to ship the ball left and right to their team-mate

Rugby Leading Half-Backs

When a rugby league player shows fine pace, bravery, astonishing vision, inventiveness and motivation, there is only one position to play him at half-back.

A rugby league half-back is the he

Rugby Leading Props

Somebody on a rugby league team has to put their head where others would not put their feet, crash through tackle after tackle, play through injury and be prepared to get battered for the team caus

Rugby Leading Second-Rowers

The Gold Coast Titans' Antony Laffranchi leads the way in any discussion about who is the world's best rugby league second-rower at present.

Laffranchi may have had his off-the-field trouble

Rugby Leading Loose-Forwards

The New Zealand Warriors can consider themselves highly fortunate that they currently have the world's best loose-forward amongst their squad.

Michael Luck, 27, is an old-fashioned warhorse

Rugby League Key Facts

If a neutral were to pick the world's current leading players, they would have to look no further than the respective captains of Australia and England, Darren Lockyer and Jamie Peacock.

Loc

Rugby Leading Coaches

There is no doubt that the southern hemisphere is the world's most fertile breeding ground for world-class rugby league coaches.

Australian Tony Smith, the current England manager and part-t

Rugby Leading Full-Backs

There is no more tactically and physically draining position on a rugby league field than that of the full-back.

As both an attacking lynchpin and defensive leader, a modern full-back has to

Rugby Leading Wingers

Wingers are the glory boys of a rugby league team the guys who the crowd pay to see speed past their opposite number and also put in late try-saving tackles.

Others may do more hard graft

Rugby Leading Transfers

Wigan Warriors' Stuart Fielden is officially the world's most expensive rugby league player following his switch from Bradford Bulls in 2006 for £450,000.

Rugby league has never matched the

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