Forty20 features thought-provoking articles by the game’s most respected writers and fascinating face-to-face interviews with rugby league’s most engaging personalities.

The trial issue is the first of rugby league's biggest year in decades: January 2013. Inside, Brian Noble takes a club-by-club look ahead to the Super League season ahead, while Gareth Walker does likewise with an equally historic Championships campaign.

Elsewhere, Angela Powers of Sky Sports grills Leeds skipper Kevin Sinfield on his surge in popularity; Andy Wilson profiles New Zealand's 'Mad Butcher'; St Helens prop Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook prepares for action; and Mike Rylance profiles a France side preparing for the World Cup.

Publishing wide-ranging and open-minded stories that are bright and witty, punchy and intelligent, Forty20 is unafraid to grapple with the big issues of rugby league.

Winners are grinners and October's Forty20 is full of them.
Inside this month:
We report from Old Trafford where Hull KR were crowned Betfred Super League champions
Wigan's women completed a quadruple in winning the Women's Super League
Halifax Panthers beat London Roosters in the Wheelchair Super League Grand Final – for a treble
Down under, Brisbane Broncos are NRL champs in the men's and women's game...
...just as the Kangaroos take off on their Ashes adventure this month with England
We ponder the moment of truth in the men's Super League as it prepares to expand in numbers
From 2025 Dream Team to all the individual awards, we are suited and booted...
Jake Connor may be Man of Steel but won't be facing Australia – Shaun Wane says why
All of this plus retiring players, our usual colourful columnists, the Pacific Championships and loads more
October's Forty20 – will help you hunker down for a thrilling Autumn. Dig in!