Bigger is not always better in rugby league, a fact emphasised so irresistibly by the late, great Rob Burrow, who at 5ft 5ins and just shy of 11 stone cut a swathe through the sport’s most muscular defences to lead Leeds Rhinos to eight Grand Final wins.
Yet such subtleties appear to have been lost on the sport’s domestic powerbrokers as Super League shapes up for the start of the 2026 season this month with its top-flight roster expanded to 14 teams following the additions of Bradford, Toulouse and York.
