Forty20

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.

July's Forty20 is here – your monthly strategic rugby league review!
Inside this month:
Phil Caplan assesses the state of play as the game awaits news on its latest restructure
Our writers pay tribute to the great Sir Billy Boston – the very first rugby league knight
Are disciplinary matters threatening to derail the game at every level?
We visit Warrington, who faced Hull FC in our match of the month
Leigh's drop-goal king Gaz O'Brien tells us all about his much-travelled route into the game
We continue our countdown to the Ashes at the seaside – in Southport!
Paul Cooke looks at the Championship scene and Mark Dunning does likewise for League 1
Mike Rylance has news of a potential domestic switch to summer in France
We hear from Ukraine, a war torn nation still battling to develop rugby league
Tom Halliwell reports from Halifax's wheelchair Challenge Cup final win over London
All of that, your favourite columnists and much much more... string up that hammock and dig in!
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