Rugby League Week

Rugby League Week (frequently abbreviated to RLW) was the highest selling Australian rugby league magazine, ahead of major competitor Big League. It was published weekly (on Wednesdays) during the Australian rugby league season, which runs from March to late September (roughly corresponding to the southern hemisphere autumn and winter). The magazine was headquartered in Sydney.^[1]

History

Rugby League Week was launched in 1970.

The magazine contained news coverage of Australian rugby league, focused primarily on the first-grade NRL competition (previously the NSWFL) but with coverage also devoted to lower-level competitions. There were usually also several profiles of rugby league players in each edition. A number of league personalities, including Mark Geyer, Stacey Jones and Wally Lewis, had regular columns; unconfirmed rumours and miscellaneous gossip are reported in a column written by 'The Mole'.

Each edition contains previews of the games to be played in the next NRL round, running from Friday to Monday. Details of every match from the previous round are also included: the games are assessed and each player who took the field, as well as the referee, is given a rating. Details of when and by whom points were scored are also included. (Before the formation of the

Related to the rating of players ever since Rugby League Week was first published during the 1970 NSWRFL season has been its Player of the Year award.

Since 1978, players have been rated out of ten for every game. To deal with absences from club rugby due to interstate and Test duty, the five lowest scores of every player are deleted from their final score. After these five lowest scores are removed, the player with the highest score wins the award.

From 1970 to 1977, the method of judging was the same except that players were awarded points out of five instead of ten.

The Immortals

In 1981 Rugby League Week named 'The Immortals', four players that they considered to be the greatest in Australian history. In 1999 another two were added and in 2003 another one. At the end of the 2012 NRL season it was decided that Andrew Johns would become the eighth immortal. Currently numbering eight, The Immortals are:

• Arthur Beetson
• Clive Churchill
• Bob Fulton
• Reg Gasnier
• Graeme Langlands
• Wally Lewis
• Johnny Raper
• Andrew Johns

Ten out of Ten

Since the

• St George, 26 March 1978 at Brookvale Oval
• Geoff Foster (Western Suburbs) vs St George, 2 April 1978 at Lidcombe Oval
• Larry Corowa (Balmain) vs Newtown, 2 April 1978 at Leichhardt Oval
• Cumberland Oval
• Kogarah Oval
• John Dowling (St George) vs North Sydney, 27 April 1980 at North Sydney Oval
• Cronulla-Sutherland, 9 August 1981 at Endeavour Field
• Canterbury-Bankstown) vs Manly-Warringah, 19 June 1982
  at Brookvale Oval
• Penrith Park
• Peter Sterling (Parramatta) vs St George, 16 March 1986 at Parramatta Stadium
• Peter Sterling (Parramatta) vs Eastern Suburbs, 26 May 1987 at Parramatta Stadium
• Bruce Stadium
• Australia) vs New Zealand (Test match), 7 July 1995 at Sydney Football Stadium
• Greg Florimo (North Sydney) vs Manly-Warringah, 30 June 1997 at North Sydney Oval
• Brett Kimmorley (Cronulla-Sutherland) vs Newcastle, 11 August 2002 at Endeavour Field
• Hunter Stadium
• Jarryd Hayne (Parramatta) vs Brisbane, 23 July 2007 at Lang Park

See also

• Big League
• Rugby League Review

References

External links

• Rugby League Week on
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