I get both delivered on a Monday and the express is much better. I read both on the bus to and from work more or less cover to cover, unless the giants lose and I am generally that disinterested the following week it takes me less than 10 mins to skim them both!

League Express for me

always read the league express. tried the weekly but prefer the express

I read both but prefer the League Express.

And now for something completely different.

I prefer the League Weekly. In particular I like the comments and reports from Danny Lockwood, I like Nosey Parker's column and I liek the fact that they give marks to the players so we can see who is performing well and who is not.

I also feel sorry for them in that all of the staff were gazzumped by the owner selling the paper (it was then called The Rugby Leaguer) to The League Express and leaving them without a job. They all stuck some brass in and restarted the paper as League Weekly about a month later. Well done lads.

I get both and think it is close between the two. Some of the articles and columns in League weekly are very good but they let themselves down by terrible match reports by people who obviously do not know a lot about rugby. The ratings out of ten for players are a joke as well.

Not as bog a joke as in The Examiner. If we win everyone gets at least 8 points and if we lose most get 5 or 6 whilst one may get 8 or 9. Very predictable.

The Giants match reports in RL weekly are shocking. This week Robinson got 9 out of 10 yet at the bottom the man of the match goes to someone with 8 out of 10.
Generally our backs get 7 or 8 out of ten while the props are luck to get 6 because the reporter does not have a clue. They also regualry have the wrong players down in the match report.

Charlotte Henbest, formerly Parker I believe, does our match reports in League Weekly as a rule. She isn't the best IMO.

I wasn't going to name names but she's the one. Her knowledge of the game and use of grammar are not good.

Charlotte used to stand on the terraces with us many moons ago


she was always very vocal

League Express all the way for me!

League Weekly is for flat earthers

League express is better, but the letters page is filled with letter from people who should read League Weekly.

I thought the letters page was like the Viz one?

Some of the letters have to be taken as seriously sometimes.

Not read the Rugby Leaguer/League Weekly since the "Ace Ventura" match report after our win at Featherstone in 1995.

please expand on this

I prefer the RLE but one area I feel they let themselves and TGG down is the letters page.
They regularly print negative letters from supporters slagging off other clubs for one reason or another.
Typical example in this weeks of a Cas 'fan' slagging the Giants crowd at the CCQF.
(Had to smile reading the results from SL round 15 in the same edition where our crowd exceeded Cas when both games were televised)

Often thought about writing a letter about this subject. Would that make me as bad as the rest? But it does rile me.

What do you mean? Isn't the Earth flat?

think someone i know maybe replying to that this week

How many guesses do I get?

In short Marcus St Hilaire scored a length of the field try from a scrum. The reporter assigned the try to Roy Ventola on the other wing, but called him Roy Ventura. He headlined the report as Ace Ventura, at that point I decided if they couldn't be d actually doing any research into their reports then I couldn't be d reading it it wouldn't have been dificult to check the scorers or the players names surely.

Ahh

Fair enough

I also seem to think that in our first stint in SL and our relegated season, they were amongst the worst offenders for slating the club too, I know I havent touched it since then I think

as i cannot get League weekly up here it is League express but then again that is hard enough to get so i rely on C&G website for my information.



















































Hence my lack of knowledge.

im always writing letters into the RLE its like rlfans on paper sometimes