Stuart McLennan

Women’s rugby league coach, media manager, RL commentator. journalist, podcaster, actor, Board member. Love a food tour.

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

A key ingredient in England's @rugbyleaguewcup campaign and coincidentally one of my favourite rugby league players to watch. My chat with Kai Pearce-Paul for @rlworld . Buy or subscribe to the magazine for the full article. @totalrl

[International Rugby League @IntlRugbyLeague]

🇵🇹Portugal Rugby League has been approved to become International Rugby League's 56th national federation.

A vote of International Rugby League Full Member nations approved Portugal Rugby League's admission into the IRL as an Observer Member.

IRL has announced several changes to its membership register following a series of resolutions voted by Full Members, including:

- South African Rugby League Sporting Association reclassified from Full Member to Affiliate Member;

- Brazilian Rugby League Confederation (CBRL), Cameroon Rugby League XIII and Ragbi Lig Dernegi (Turkish Rugby League Association) reclassified from Affiliate Member to Observer Member;

- Observer Members Hungarian Rugby League Federation and North Macedonia Rugby League are expelled from the company following, respectively, at least three years of non-compliance with the membership policy and three years of non-submission of the annual membership audit;

- Portugal Rugby League admitted as an Observer Member.

Portugal Rugby League president Emmanuel De Jesus said: “Today marks a significant milestone for sport in Portugal.

"Portugal Rugby League was founded to create a genuine pathway for players, coaches, match officials and volunteers to participate, develop and represent our nation.

"Becoming part of the International Rugby League family is an historic step, giving Portugal an official place within the global rugby league community and opening the door to long-term growth and international competition.”

📰Full article: https://t.co/u2HMozx1pp

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

Newcastle is a rugby league city @ausunirl @NSWRL @NRLKnights @NRL https://t.co/hgU9PEusZ1

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

Good business

[NBWT @NBWT__]

Jake Averillo has inked a 4 year deal with WT starting in 2027, where he’ll line up in the centres (Telegraph)

[International Rugby League @IntlRugbyLeague]

International Rugby League is deeply saddened by the passing of iconic long serving former Wales coach John Kear.

John was a passionate and devoted servant to the game who devoted much of his life to playing, coaching and commentating.

He was a member of the BBC commentary team at last weekend's Challenge Cup final between Wigan and Hull KR at Wembley and his death has shocked members of the rugby league community in Britain and around the world.

After a decade of playing for Castleford, John took up coaching with Bramley in 1992 and most recently coached Batley for 11 games last year.

He had one game in charge of France in 1997 and coached England at the 2000 World Cup.

John returned to coaching at international level with Wales in 2014 and the following year he took the Dragons to a European Championship win, beating Scotland, Ireland and France.

He coached Wales at the 2017 World Cup in Australia and RLWC2021 in England, as well as in the World Cup Nines in Australia in 2019.

His last match with Wales was in October 2024 against Jamaica. He was also an assistant with Great Britain, and coached Great Britain Academy on a tour of New Zealand in 1996 when he was employed by the RFL as player performance manager.

International Rugby League passes on its condolences to John's wife Dawn, other family members and his many, many friends in the rugby league community.

📷Photo: SWPix

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

@NBWT__ Saukuru is interesting one. Signed to the squad early. Shuffled around in Cup and most probably out the door at Wests Tigers. Have a feeling he will make an NRL player one day at another club.

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

SQUAD CONFIRMED: Introducing your CommBank #Socceroos who will represent Australia at the #FIFAWorldCup 🇦🇺

Congratulations, lads! Go do us all proud 💚💛

📰 All the info: https://t.co/F1kuReZlxM

[NBWT @NBWT__]

#NRL
WT 22 def. Bulldogs 16

#NSWCup
Wests 38 def. Bulldogs 26

#JerseyFlegg
WT 26 def. Bulldogs 20

🧹 🧹 🧹

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

@JxxSucculent Absolutely

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

Would love to see this happen. Exactly what WT need at centre and would be a good fit with how Benji wants to play.

[NBWT @NBWT__]

WT are understood to be close to signing Jake Averillo from 2027, who has indicated he wants to return to Sydney. (telegraph)

[NBWT @NBWT__]

Absolutely stoked that we signed KPP with the intention of playing to his strengths. Rarely got to see it at Newy. 4 tries, 3 try assists, 26 offloads through 10 games.

[sportsindustry @footyindustryAU]

Thursday #AuSportTV
NRLW #Origin III
Nine 880k (BVOD 234k) Reach 1.993m
(-11% on G3 2025)

#AFL
Saints/Hawks
Seven 539k (BVOD 75k) Reach 1.624m

Data; VOZ

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

@supertusker @NSWRL Very good team.

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

Then the women followed up with a thumping victory to go back-to-back @NSWRL https://t.co/6uTxbiRQgf via @NSWRL

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

Strong wins in Brisbane for our NSW Universities teams against the Queenslanders. Here's how the men did it @NSWRL
https://t.co/36ezrX8znO via @NSWRL

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

He's the spitting image of his ex @NSWBlues and @NRLKnights life member father Steve. Roy Simpson will line up for NSW Universities against QLD tomorrow in Brisbane.
https://t.co/dzGOCuELH1 via @NSWRL

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

A key ingredient in England's @rugbyleaguewcup campaign and coincidentally one of my favourite rugby league players to watch. My chat with Kai Pearce-Paul for @rlworld . Buy or subscribe to the magazine for the full article. @totalrl

[Rugby League World @rlworld]

🆕 This month's issue of RLW is out now!

💪 There are interviews with veterans Tom Briscoe and Kallum Watkins plus a host of features from around the world.

🔗 Buy a copy on our website or read digitally at https://t.co/ykwGjUBJB6

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

@NBWT__ @rugbyleaguewcup @rlworld @totalrl @England_RL @WestsTigers @IntlRugbyLeague Thanks mate

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

A key ingredient in England's @rugbyleaguewcup campaign and coincidentally one of my favourite rugby league players to watch. My chat with Kai Pearce-Paul for @rlworld . Buy or subscribe to the magazine for the full article. @totalrl

[Stuart McLennan @Discomclennan]

French player @BivilleLaureane has some special reasons to be excited about @rugbyleaguewcup @FFRXIII @IntlRugbyLeague
https://t.co/wEi9y3ZCYS