For the first time, Welsh rugby union legend Gareth Thomas talks publicly to a fellow professional player, our resident Super League star Jamie Jones-Buchanan about his life on and off the field and his enthusiasm for his newly chosen sport of Rugby League. RLW also investigates the potential for other big names to follow his lead and discovers that there is already heavy traffic between the codes beyond the professional ranks.
Is it really 40 years since Great Britain last won a series against Australia? RLW’s resident professor and official RFL historian Tony Collins takes us back to happier days, while Dave Hadfield catches up with one of the prime movers and shakers of the 1970 Ashes triumph, Frank Myler.
RLW was lucky enough to spend a morning in the considerable presence of the one and only Alex Murphy OBE, a bona fide British Rugby League living legend. Alex answers your questions in the Guest Room
Phil Larder questions the value of the England v France Rugby League mid season international.
Terry Newton pulls Dave Hadfield a pint in his new pub and talks about a great Rugby League career that ended in shame.
There’s more to South Africa than football and vuvuzelas. RLW accompanied the 2010 BARLA Young Lions on their recent tour we report back on the current state of the game there. Meanwhile, Dave Southern once headed an organisation that had tens of thousands playing Rugby League in South Africa. His vision wasn't shared by the South African Rugby League and he tells RLW why he fears that might still be the case. Also, BBC Rugby League commentator Dave Woods, in South Africa on World Cup duty, reports back on a few lessons Rugby League might be able to learn from this televised global jamboree.
RLW talks to Batley playmaker Paul Handforth about the Bulldogs charge to the Northern Rail Cup final.
Recent talk of a Super League franchise in Paris may be pie-in-the-sky, but League still has a battling presence in the the capital. RLW has the details.
Stats are important in Rugby League but they’re not the be all and end all when it comes to analysing a team’s performance and Jon Wells has the numbers to prove it.
With Blackpool Panthers flirting with financial meltdown and others in Championship One releasing high profile players midway through their contracts, one club in the higher reaches of the competition has bucked the trend of paying guaranteed contract money. RLW talks to Rochdale Hornets coach John Stankevitch about building success on teamwork and opportunity rather than financial incentives.
RLW takes a look at the progress of Rugby League in Malta and how the Mediterranean island could be an ideal end of season destination for British amateur clubs. We also spend a sunny afternoon in Wrexham with Maltese Rugby League international Jarrod Sammut.
Time to sort your Loiners from your Rhinos, your Colliers from your Rovers and your Wolves from your Wire in our affectionate tribute to the oddity of the club nickname.
It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. And that someone is Cally Hocknell, marketing manager at Harlequins RL, charged with the responsibility of selling the game to the fine folk of London town and surrounding areas. RLW finds out more from the woman with arguably the toughest job in Rugby League.
Our latest Academy Hotshot is Ben Crooks from Hull FC, son of the legendary Lee.
Plus, the latest Super League, Championship and Championship One ratings, Conference news and Team of the Month and much more.
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