Almost a year on from England’s epic World Cup triumph, wheelchair rugby league is continuing to boom, according to Leeds Rhinos coach James Simpson.
Simpson was a non-playing substitute when England, captained by Rhinos’ Tom Halliwell who scored the last-minute winning try, pipped France 28-24 in front of a record crowd of 4,526 in Manchester last November. Thanks to live television coverage, the wheelchair code captured the public’s imagination throughout last year’s tournament and Simpson, who has hung up his wheels to focus on coaching, insisted there is no sign of enthusiasm beginning to fade.
” Simpson accepts new champions are good for the sport as a whole, at the end of a year when Catalans Dragons won the Challenge Cup - also against Leeds - and Rhinos topped the Super League table. “I believe in this game and I want this game to be competitive, but we are not going to roll move and let it happen,” he insisted. “Other people have to come and take it off us and that’s exactly what happened in the Grand Final.
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