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		<title>Bring back the Clashes for the Ashes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 is the year the Olympics come to London, but ANTHONY REYNOLDS argues it is also the perfect opportunity to revive another great sporting event: Rugby League’s Ashes series.
‘I planned my trip down under this year to take in the first two Ashes tests’ a friend said to me just a few weeks ago. Yes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/08/bring-back-the-clashes-for-the-ashes/</link>
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		<title>Featherstone Rovers reignited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FEATHERSTONE Rovers’ achievement in topping the Championship this season has deservedly earned accolades across the game.
            The experienced Daryl Powell has had a significant impact at the club since arriving just under two years ago, and to top what is a hugely competitive division [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/08/featherstone-rovers-reignited/</link>
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		<title>Jamie Jones-Buchanan interviews Gareth Thomas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in Rugby League World &#8211; Issue 352 You can subscribe to future issues here.
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE?
Welsh rugby union legend Gareth Thomas has been interviewed about many things, many times but here, for the first time ever, he talks publicly to a fellow professional player, our resident Super League [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/08/jamie-jones-buchanan-interviews-gareth-thomas/</link>
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		<title>Stars in their eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[England captain Jamie Peacock made an interesting suggestion recently that the RFL ought to employ a publicist like Max Clifford to raise the national profile of England’s star players. Peacock is clearly frustrated that Rugby League players do not enjoy the same kind of profile as their counterparts in other sports despite their deeds on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/07/stars-in-their-eyes/</link>
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		<title>Bulldogs can be model for others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE can have been few more popular cup triumphs in recent years than Batley Bulldogs’ Northern Rail Cup win on Sunday, outside the town of Widnes of course.
The Bulldogs, one of the founder members of the Northern Union over a century ago, had not lifted a major trophy since 1924, when they won the old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More salary cap scrutiny needed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IS it time for the Rugby Football League to take a more draconian approach to policing the salary cap at Championship level?
John Stankevitch, the Rochdale Hornets coach, certainly thinks so.
In a revealing interview in this month’s Rugby League World magazine, Stankevitch outlines exactly how Rochdale’s player payments are structured, and claims that rival clubs are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/06/more-salary-cap-scrutiny-needed/</link>
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		<title>England v France: What&#8217;s the big idea?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The RFL are coming in for a lot of stick over the England v France international. Wrong time, wrong venue are two of the most often aired criticisms. June 12th also sees the England football team’s first game in the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, an event that will dominate the sporting media for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/06/england-v-france-whats-the-big-idea/</link>
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		<title>Guest Room Extra with Stuart Cummings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Guest Room session with RFL Match Officials Director Stuart Cummings generated a massive response, so much so that we couldn’t fit it all in the mag! As Stuart was kind enough to answer every question we received, it seemed a shame to let any of it go to waste so we decided to publish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/06/guest-room-extra-with-stuart-cummings/</link>
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		<title>Honesty the best policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to hand it to the Aussies. They don’t do things by halves. If you’re going to have a salary cap scandal, might as well make it a big one. The salary cap transgressions of a handful of Super League clubs a few years back look piffling in comparison. But then, the sanctions handed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/06/honesty-the-best-policy/</link>
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		<title>Rugby League&#8217;s vanishing act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The better the game gets, the lower its national media profile sinks. BBC TV’s Rugby League commentator DAVE WOODS looks for ways to reverse this damaging trend.
Rugby League is in need of a few big ideas. The sport that stirs our passions is slowly slipping out of the national conscience and we need someone or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rugbyleagueworld.net/blog/2010/05/rugby-leagues-vanishing-act/</link>
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