Clare Balding OBE will become the 30th President of the Rugby Football League next summer. The broadcaster, journalist and author will succeed Tony Adams MBE, who is halfway through his one-year term in the honorary and ceremonial role, and she will be supported as Vice President by Mike Smith, the chief executive of Hull Kingston Rovers who will succeed Doncaster’s Carl Hall, also next summer, as the longest-serving member of the Rugby League Council. Both appointments were ratified at today’s meeting of the Council at Emerald Headingley Stadium in Leeds – Clare Balding’s for two years from July 2020-22, and […]