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.

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November′s Forty20 magazine is here and there′s no doubting the big rugby league story this month

Toronto Wolfpack – how on earth could Super League turn its back on such a potential gift horse? Phil Caplan investigates

Brian Noble MBE reflects on a huge own goal for the game and wonders what might have happened had NRL champions Melbourne not been given time to develop

Down under, George Clarke reports from the NRL Grand Final and also State of Origin, whose opener was in Adelaide

Peter Smith chats with Castleford head coach Daryl Powell on a 2020 learning curve

We have an uplifting update on the 2021 Rugby League World Cup

There are reports from an otherwise deserted Wembley where Leeds and Salford put on a Challenge Cup final to remember

All that plus all your favourite columnists, features, fun and games

Forty20: never a dull minute!