Author Stephen Orford

There’s no doubt rugby league has changed. The ushering in of a fully professional era born 21 years ago has brought with it some dramatic changes.  You can list them and as you do you might get angrier and ang...

As has often been the case in the Super League era Saints and Wigan were the dominant forces in 2000. Defending champions Saints had won their first Grand Final the previous season when a generous knock-on deci...

There's nothing like a Good Friday derby, especially at home.  The sun always seems to shine on that early Spring day and never did it shine more so on Saints, both literally and metaphorically, than on April 5...