: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:14 pm  

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!

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:24 pm  

League Express for me

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:23 pm  

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

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:51 pm  

I read both but prefer the League Express.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:22 am  

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.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:54 am  

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.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:40 am  

the stella kid wrote:

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.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:15 pm  

Big Stuart wrote:

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.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:18 pm  

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

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:21 pm  

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