Category: Rugby League World
How Midlands Hurricanes have become a force fighting for promotion
Hurricanes are blowing in the League One play-offs for the first time, but it’s not down to climate change, just hard work and dedication by…
Locations of League: Wakefield
Our journey around the villages, towns and cities that have rugby league running through their veins heads back to West Yorkshire. WAKEFIELD has long been…
Rugby League Benevolent Fund helping ex-St Helens player 50 years after sickening incident ended career
Fifty years after his career was ended by a sickening incident, St Helens half-back Tony Atherton is proud to be a member of the Rugby…
The rugby union convert leading South Africa’s national rugby league team
Coming from a rugby union background, Tjaart Van Der Walt was a late starter to rugby league in South Africa, but once converted, there was…
Clinton Toopi on Leeds Rhinos spell, playing in an NRL Grand Final and his new passion
Clinton Toopi overcame a disadvantaged background to rise to the very top of his chosen sport of rugby league, starring for Auckland Warriors, Leeds Rhinos…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
