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Issue 413 of Rugby League World magazine is out this Friday – available both in newsagents and digitally (download at totalrl.com/rlw). We have also just launched a great new introductory subscription offer in which you can get three issues for just £5, with no obligation to continue after that. For more information, head to totalrl.com/345
Packed with unmissable features from the sport’s best writers, award-winning photography, columns from elite players, and cutting-edge design, it’s the best read in Rugby League. It’s also the most popular monthly RL magazine outside Australia and it’s not hard to see why.
Here’s what’s inside issue 413:
- Cover star Zak Hardaker discusses his turbulent past and seemingly his bright future, and weighs in on his England chances. Features stunning photography from our exclusive shoot at Kirkstall Abbey
- Wigan’s Matty Smith picks his all-time dream XIII of former team-mates
- Get to know Huddersfield’s Brett Ferres – the Huddersfield and England back rower takes our off-topic quiz
- In his exclusive monthly column, Ryan Hall takes us through a week in the life of a Leeds Rhinos player
- The evolution of the loose forward – once a link between backs and forwards, now another battering ram: is there still room in the modern game for a creative middle-man? We find out with the help of Paul Sculthorpe, Sean O’Loughlin and Tony Smith
- In his exclusive monthly column, Huddersfield prop Eorl Crabtree weighs in on the shoulder charge debate: should we bring it back or forget it altogether?
- Genius or liability? We meet Warrington’s Chris Sandow and discover how he’s settling into life in Super League and find out more about his troubled past

- Halifax coach Richard Marshall discusses his side’s impressive season and their ambitions beyond the Qualifiers
- Super League referee James Child on social media abuse, dissent in the modern game, and the shortage of match officials
- In his exclusive monthly column, Castleford captain Michael Shenton suggests we get rid of dual registration and focus on bringing back reserves
- The Flying Pig: Tom Lineham is Rugby League’s accidental hero – we meet the Hull FC winger and find out more about his unique introduction to the game
- What went wrong at the Rovers? We speak to Featherstone coach Jon Sharp and ask why the team everyone tipped for the Qualifiers missed out
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- On a more positive note, our archive snapshot this month looks back to 1983 when Fev took down Hull FC to win the Challenge Cup
- Wigan hooker Michael McIlorum discusses his heartache at missing last year’s Grand Final and his Leeds origins – find out why he picked the Warriors over the Rhinos
- In his exclusive monthly column, Saints prop Alex Walmsley weighs in on the impending interchange reduction. Will it achieve the desired results?
- From Hong Kong to Odsal: Bradford winger Omari Caro on globetrotting with a rugby union sevens team before joining the Bulls
- Play it again: The peerless Dave Hadfield asks why no-one plays the ball properly anymore with help from Steve Ganson
- New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney on his side’s upcoming tour of England, winning the Challenge Cup with Hull FC in 2005, and the age-old NRL v Super League debate
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- RL’s funny man Wayne Godwin reveals how going part-time hit him so hard that he was often in tears
- In his exclusive monthly column, Wigan’s Dan Sarginson looks ahead to the Warriors’ Super 8s match against Catalans Dragons in his home: London
- In Bondi Beat with Steve Mascord, find out more about the NRL’s mega-money TV deal and discover just how close another Great Britain tour is
- The Salford Circus: With the endless controversy it’s easy to forget where Salford came from – Nigel Wiskar reminds us all
- Planet League – the USA, Canada and Ukraine feature in this month’s global round-up
- In his exclusive monthly column, Leigh’s Ryan Brierley analyses the new league structure and gives an honest appraisal of his side’s performance thus far in the Qualifiers
- Rugby League’s Silly Season – Dave Hadfield on how the new structure has forced clubs to panic buy
