VETERAN Rugby League journalist Mark Chestney is halfway through a project that he anticipates will be almost complete by early 2023.
His ‘History of the National Conference League’ will span the story of the amateur game’s flagship competition from its launch in 1986 right through to the present day and Chestney, who has enlisted the help of League Express’s Phil Hodgson in his mammoth project, has spoken to most of the 93 clubs that have been involved in the NCL over the last near-five decades.