Category: Rugby League World
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
RLW 500: Australian rugby league in 1976 – when Brits starred in ‘one of the great Grand Finals’
As part of our celebration of the 500th issue of Rugby League World, we survey the Australian scene from when it launched as Open Rugby…
RLW 500: How rugby league has changed – and how it hasn’t – since Open Rugby launched in 1976
As we enjoy a nostalgic look back over 499 previous issues of Open Rugby and Rugby League World, something that stands out is just how…
RLW 500: Celebrity rugby league fans who have appeared in Rugby League World
Over the last 500 issues Rugby League World has brought you interviews with all of the game’s biggest names. But on occasion we have been…
RLW 500: Onwards and upwards for a magazine which has watched rugby league change dramatically
RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD has finally reached its 500th issue, a little more than 48 years after the first issue of Open Rugby (as it then…
Page XIII: Celebrating 500 issues of Rugby League World
IT IS a moment to savour when any monthly title reaches its 500th issue, but when one that focuses on what many still deem a…
