Treiziste Diary: Inside Catalans Dragons’ unique fan culture

BY integrating French clubs and particularly Catalans Dragons to their competition, there’s something the stakeholders of Super League probably never predicted. The arrival of the…

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RLW 500: Some of the greats to make 500 career appearances through the decades

OVER the years many players in rugby league have hit the significant landmark of 500 professional appearances. That many games in the toughest of sports…

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RLW 500: The two legends to reach 500 rugby league tries – and what made them so different

Who is the greatest rugby league try scorer of them all? Only two players have topped the 500 mark, and despite sharing initials, they couldn’t…

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RLW 500: The 500th Super League game – and another ‘500’ milestone reached during it

Super League, and one of its best players, hit very different 500 landmarks at Knowsley Road on June 6th, 1999 WHILE it has taken Rugby…

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RLW 500: Collector turned columnist Ian Golden’s personal history with Rugby League World

Starting out as a casual reader, then a collector of back copies, and ending up as a columnist and regular contributor, IAN GOLDEN recounts his…

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RLW 500: The best and worst front covers in Rugby League World history

Former editor John Drake takes a nostalgic journey back through rugby league history as portrayed on the covers of Open Rugby and Rugby League World…

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RLW 500: Inside issue 400 including golf, the Commonwealth Games and the mind of Jamie Jones-Buchanan

BRADFORD triumphs may have featured in both issues 200 and 300, but they were facing relegation from Super League by the time number 400 came…

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RLW 500: Inside issue 300 including Wags, Sugababes and a Full Monty photoshoot

BY THE time issue 300 came around in 2006, it was definitely a magazine of the times, and one trying to keep up with the…

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RLW 500: Inside issue 200 including Bradford glory, a very young Kevin Sinfield and Ant & Dec

LOOK back to issue 200 from September 1997 and at first glance not much appears to have changed. In current times we have had the…

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RLW 500: Inside issue 100 including a refereeing crisis and some female trailblazers

OPEN RUGBY founder Harry Edgar was proud to have reached a century of issues in December 1987, but not so keen to celebrate. “It is…

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