There’s no money in it. It’s been a cycle of declining quality and ever less willingness to pay for it. Clubs have there own websites to announce news and interpretation is covered by forums and social media. The BBC and Sky provide adequate match reports. So it’s small niche and we’re conditioned now to expect rolling news and updates.

Being a RL journalist now must be a bit like being one of the last television repair men (or ‘person’, if they survived into modern times).

Yep! Barring a couple, RL journalists have seriously gone down hill in recent years. A few years ago I created a couple of silly transfer rumours which a couple of RL "journalists" published a few days later, with comments from sources if i remember rightly. I wanted to see if they really were in the know or if they just browsed the transfer speculation sections of forums, alas the point was proven.

Also, I don't like to make disparaging remarks about some ones competency at their own job (when they are almost certainly better than I would ever be at it), but I don't ever read anything by CW anymore, ever since he described himself as an "expert in Rugby League" when many people were correcting him on every article he authored.

That clown is the biggest culprit for fake news,complete tool.

My golden rule of RL journalism is...if every player is called a star then the article/magazine is junk.

I like 40/20 magazine. It's well written and engaging.

sadler was defending it on their forum last week

I saw that but being g banned I couldn't comment.