Forty20 Rugby League Podcasts

Back in 2016, in the studios of TV Yorkshire, where the smell of Subway's bread wafted through the floor, Super League GM Blake Solly joined Phil Caplan for a chat ahead of the new season. See if you can work out what has changed since then... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Checking with Roy Castle, retirements, benchmarks, demolishing the Accu, play-offs and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A podcast of two halves! First up, a chat about Sir Billy Boston, and then we corral Steve Mascord into joining us and talk about TV deals, NRL talks and a lot more...then, post-match reaction as London Broncos beat Widnes Vikings 32-10 to win the 1895 Cup! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A packed show with TV deals, coaches going, leaving, Hull KR in flux, Warrington's great week and much more to talk about... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blood pressure lessened this week, as we talk the latest on the NRL deal, and what we actually know and don't, another great game in Super League highlighted by Leigh's defence, look forward to Hull KR vs. Warrington, and all the other bits and pieces going on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Huddersfield/Dewsbury nonsense. heading to Dublin, the "Game of the Season" and a load of other stuff... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Entertaining rugby, a listener on Saints, WSL returns, offers imminent. All in all, a podcast that probably gets a 3/10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James is back. and Jonathan Doidge makes a welcome return to the studio as "Saints in Transition" won't get us enough clicks as the fallout from the departure of Paul Rowley was announced, and we probably aren't rushing down the bookies to back Bobbie Goulding.... Halifax stormed to victory in the Wheelchair Challenge Cup, England's women won away in France, Rivals Returned to record crowds. as Wakefield went second, Leigh closed the gap and Leeds remained the pacesetters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh from Sunday's match against Canada, Wales and St. Helens winger Dani McGifford for a chat about many and various things.Swapping athletics for Rugby League, how she became a Saints fan, representing her heritage and coming up against her team mates in internationals and avoiding being on TikTok... A fun time as always! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quite a lot of things to discuss, but not limited to Mikey Lewis's head and KR's form, Warrington's young 'uns, and those of Saints too, women's internationals, being hopeful of a Wheelchair cracker, why Leeds aren't in crisis, and how Cas won a cracker! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A couple of days later than usual, but we say Farewell Ken x 2, talk PVL/NRL/SLE, actual Rugby League and why Siuper League should mean Super League... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Normal service resumes Wednesday. In the mean time, enjoy this slice of radio history from the station Ken Bates set up to spite people... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reflecting on Magic Weekend: On screen, in the stands, and on the pitch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Record breakers, Magic makers, biscuit eaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We were invited down to the monthly Wakefield Trinity Community Foundation Luncheon Club, and had to work for our dinner, as Denise Teal asked us some questions, with James on first, because we'd given him the wrong info, and Jayden Myers also joined us in the second half, with some tricky questions for us all... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RED HOT RUGBY LEAGUE CHAT! Cougar problems, Championship issues, a round of Super League happened, Power Rankings, Women of Steel and more. A veritable bran tub of a podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We had a busy weekend, but found the time to watch some Rugby League to talk about, catch up on the news, and have a chat with not Super League top try scorer Ryan Hall... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hackers and hacks talking close games, one not so, Paris, telly, tributes and stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remembering John Kear, Wembley recollections and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Retirements, strongest sides, Celtic success, Wembley.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vegas, Cartwright, Bans, Wigan Reserves, Matches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Challenge Cup Finals set, stories to tell, and those already told. Plus the news and other stuff.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some good games, some terrible, plenty of talking points and an intriguing weekend of Challenge Cup semi-finals to enjoy... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of those episodes where nothing seems to have happened, but actually has, including a new England coach, the latest from North Wales and the continuing mess of the Championship, the Women's launch, and action on the field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Women's Super League season is close, so, after a bacon sandwich or two, we spoke to some of the movers and shakers on, and off, the pitch... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Questions, but no answers, on John Cartwright, Andrew Abdo's tour of the media, England's new coach, and actual rugby... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Challenge Cup Quarters, Cartwright Carnage, and how best to react to stupid statements....James is back as well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Davidson joins us to discuss the Easter weekend, with some cracking games, crowds, and talking points, the latest from the NRL/SL discussions, and all the other news that's fit to talk about... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahead of Rivals Round, a bonkers set of games in Super League, coaching casualties, departures, arrivals and more... PLUS: Paul Rowley and Jackson Hastings of St. Helens and Wigan's Matt Peet and Sam Walters look ahead to The Derby! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Super League heads towards their 30s, we talk about a Giant lack of class, how the BBC going off air was the only positive for Castleford on Saturday, and plenty of other rugby things that happened.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The lights are on, and we are home...Challenge Cup round-up, more from the NRL's Magic Money Tree, Huddersfield and stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A podcast of two, unequal halves, as we hand a debut to sports journalist Molly Fairhurst and chat about Halifax's return to the Championship, and that competition in general, as well at talks between the NRL and the RFL (or whoever) before James Child returns and we look over the action from the weekend, as Wigan and Leeds lead the way at the top of the very early table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hull KR are the Champions of the World, put on a great show, and there's plenty of unpredictable results in the Super League and Championship... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James explains tripping, why Mikey Lewis SHOULD play in Thursday, superlatives for York, Warrington and Toulouse amongst others, and another mad week in the Championship all from the sponsor of Wakefield Trinity's newest signing.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An extremely special guest this week as 1986 Challenge Cup Final try scorer Jamie Sandy is over in the UK, and talks to us about loads of things and tells plenty of stories. A fun 80 minutes or so! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Almost an hour of interviews form the Betfred Super League Launch event in Manchester, inclufing Elliot Minchella, Junior Nsemba, Jackson Hastings and Brian Carney (amongst others.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

JAMES CHILD IS BACK, and not just because it's Pride Month, honest. Loads more to talk about than we thought pre-show, including Oldham, Greater Manchester in general, whatever happened this week on the field, and the Challenge Cup upcoming... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Monday was not a day to be travelling on the railways on routes that go through Huddersfield, but we did, and ended up in Liverpool! You can hear our interviews with a host of names from St. Helens, but first, for those who don't, we have a chat while waiting for a delayed train home to talk through whatever went on last weekend... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After guiding York Valkyrie to back-to-back Grand Finals wins in 2023 and 2024, Lindsay Anfield announced her departure from the club at the end of 2025. She's now taken up a new role at the Catalans Dragons, with the club making their Betfred Women's Challenge Cup debut this year against St. Helens and Huddersfield Giants. We spoke to her about that move, where's the women's game is in France, why it's attractive to players from Australia, and much more besides... ------ Buy the magazine: http://www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/ Grab the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forty20-rugby-league-podcasts/id1434352450 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JPKZd2GZ9uK8XAbZmUVBP Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Forty20TV Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Forty20LIVE And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/forty20live.bsky.social Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forty20magazine/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Championship is here, Shaun Wane steps aside and there's Challenge Cup action to enjoy this weekend... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While we were in Wakefield for the Championship Season Launch, Phil dragged Serious About Rugby League and the Yorkshire Evening Post's Peter Smith for a chat about some Rugby League, with Featherstone Rovers and more on the agenda...plus, interviews from Salford, Oldham, Sheffield Eagles, Midlands Hurricanes and London Broncos! ------ Buy the magazine: http://www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/ Grab the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forty20-rugby-league-podcasts/id1434352450 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JPKZd2GZ9uK8XAbZmUVBP Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Forty20TV Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Forty20LIVE And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/forty20live.bsky.social Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forty20magazine/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rugby League is back this weekend (weather permitting) and we are as well. An hour of chat about stuff, as we try to work out what is happening. And a new feature.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2025. Quite a good year for Hull Kingston Rovers, Wigan Warriors and Halifax Panthers, and, having been at Wembley, and all three Super League Grand Finals, we've got the words of the winners here in celebration, and a few others as well! ------ Buy the magazine: http://www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/ Grab the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forty20-rugby-league-podcasts/id1434352450 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JPKZd2GZ9uK8XAbZmUVBP Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Forty20TV Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Forty20LIVE And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/forty20live.bsky.social Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forty20magazine/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A quiz, a load of biscuits, special guests, and as little Rugby League as possible. Merry Christmas from us to you! ------ Buy the magazine: http://www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/ Grab the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forty20-rugby-league-podcasts/id1434352450 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JPKZd2GZ9uK8XAbZmUVBP Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Forty20TV Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Forty20LIVE And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/forty20live.bsky.social Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forty20magazine/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A double guest special in this episode, as first we welcome back Rob Hawkins, who, after winning the treble with Halifax Panthers, helped England to Ashes success in Australia to secure back-to-back Golden Boots. Then, another returning guest, as author J.R. Rickwood talks about his book Year of the Cougars, Keighley's 1995 season, and more... You can get the book here: https://amzn.eu/d/ak5oj3X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're joined by the RFL's Head of Match Officials Phil Bentham to talk about the recent documentary - "Beyond the Whistle" - taking a look behind the scenes at the world of professional match officials. Plenty to discuss, including how it came about, refereeing in the modern world, how the Premier League sees our video systems and how we're looking to improve in 2026, and plenty more besides. If you haven't seen it, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXyTvaAHrc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember the 2000 Rugby League World Cup? It was rubbish, that's what we were told, but two men who were there in the thick of it (the press box) are here to dispute that. Authors of Super League: The First Ten Years (still available somewhere) - our own Phil Caplan and Jonathan Doidge - reminisce over a tournament which was wet, expansive and won by Australia... Jonathan will be hosting a range of events in 2026 with something for RL, Leeds United and cricket fans... https://x.com/jdzevents/status/1994851574842364284 And, as a bonus, a dip into the Radio Yorkshire archives, as Mark Wilson speaks to Hull KR owner Neil Hudgell in an interview from 2015... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An end of season review of sorts, as teams have started pre-season for 2026, we're ready for hibernation. Back live in January, but still more to come before the end of the year... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's over....and it went as expected. Or did it? Australia return with the Ashes again, England score two tries in three games, and Shaun Wane's in charge... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2020 feels like a long time ago, and that's when Sophie Robinson last joined us on the podcast. Since then, she's taken a break from playing, until returning for her Jamaica debut last week, but it's not the start of a comeback. The former Leeds Rhino tells us what she's been up to, what's keeping her busy, the international game, how Jamaica fits in that and how, despite playing, she's back involved at her old club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices