Gareth Walker will become the new editor of Rugby League World magazine from May 1st 2013. Walker, who covers the Kingstone Press Championship for Rugby League Express, will take over from John Drake, who has edited the magazine, owned by League Publications Ltd, the publisher of Rugby League Express, since November 2009. He will now [...]

Page XIII editorial, first published 5th April 2013 in Rugby League World, Issue 385 (May 2013) I’ve long been an advocate of providing clubs at all levels of the game with achievable targets in terms of reaching showpiece finals, which they can use to galvanise and excite their supporters. The creation of the Northern Rail [...]

Page XIII editorial, first published 5th April 2013 in Rugby League World, Issue 385 (May 2013) Dr Marwan Koukash has certainly made a name for himself in Rugby League since taking over at Salford City Reds. The club’s ambitious new owner is a virtual headline factory, with audacious bids for big name players like Sam [...]

Page XIII editorial, first published 1st March 2013 in Rugby League World, Issue 384 (April 2013) Readers of a certain age may remember the Simon & Garfunkel hit about ‘keeping the customer satisfied.’ That’s not a phrase that could be applied to Rugby League at Championship level so far this season. The game has got [...]

Page XIII editorial, first published 1st March 2013 in Rugby League World, Issue 384 (April 2013) It was gratifying to hear the comments of Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy regarding our decision to award the 2012 Golden Boot to Kevin Sinfield. Unlike many of his Australian compatriots who chose to rubbish the award and Sinfield’s [...]

Our apologies to everyone who picked up last month’s (March 2013, 383) issue only to discover we put the wrong club record details on the Leeds Rhinos page of the free Super League Handbook. Genuine human error on our part, red faces all round! However, we’ve now put the correct info in a PDF file [...]

Leeds Rhinos and England Rugby League captain Kevin Sinfield has been named as the winner of the 2012 Golden Boot, awarded annually to the game’s greatest player by Rugby League World Magazine. Sinfield led the Rhinos to World Club Challenge success against Australian premiers Manly Sea Eagles and a sixth Super League title in nine [...]

FOUR AUSSIES, TWO BRITS MAKE THE 2012 GOLDEN BOOT SHORTLIST #rlwgoldenboot The Rugby League World Golden Boot, which is awarded every year to the best Rugby League player in the world, will be awarded this year to one of six candidates, whose names appear below in alphabetical order. The name of the winner of the [...]

Seven players – Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Ryan Hall, Johnathan Thurston, James Graham, Cameron Smith and Paul Gallen – retain their places in the annual Rugby League World XIII which is chosen every year by the game’s worldwide media. Brett Morris and Sam Burgess are selected again after absences of three and two years respectively, [...]

Page XIII editorial, first published 2nd Nov 2012 in Rugby League World, Issue 380 (Dec 2012) It’s a hard slog supporting international Rugby League. For all the excitement and innovation surrounding next year’s World Cup, for which the organisers are to be genuinely congratulated, there are games like the recent Wales-England encounter in Wrexham to [...]