RIP Rugby league week

[Harvies elbow]

All of us are "potential" immortals, it's death that sorts the pretenders out.

I don't think I'll bother putting my application in.

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

RLW - Farewell old friend

 

[Wombat Legacy]

RLW - Farewell old friend

I remember all those covers. Think I still might have them somewhere

 

[Harvies elbow]

RLW - Farewell old friend

Thanks Stuey......
The days, the days.

I got the 1st RLW I never thought the last would come.
Even though I didn't buy it when they employed those punky funky editors.

Farewell old friend indeed.

 

[manlywarringah]

I'm devastated!

Was hoping and hoping there'd be a last minute reprieve and someone would pick it up and keep it going.

I also remember all those stories and covers. Most of which ended up in my Manly scrapbooks of the 70's.

I'm pretty sure I still have the 1976 grand final issue where Fulton is crying on frank stantons shoulder.

I still buy it every week. Won't know what to do with myself Thursday mornings 🙁

 

[wombatgc]

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That'll learn 'em to tip Cronulla.

 

[Heato]

End of an era 🙁

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

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I used to love buying it each week as a kid. I remember once they had a headline at the start of a new season that said John Harvey had bulked up and was the biggest player in the game. I thought you beauty!
Amazing how it's changed now. I found this, not sure if it was before or after he bulked up

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

I loved the Star Spot section where virtually every player named T Randall as the hardest tackler they had played against.

 

[Peter C]

It is a sad that that RLW is going. My memory of that magazine is doing work experience there in 1982 and meeting some of the great footy journalists like Ian Heads, Phil Tresidder and I remember at the time that Hartley and ZtH worked there as well and I remember being asked to collect ZtH's dry cleaning and get him a coffee. I was a wide eyed kid, Manly were 2nd that year and we won the Amco midweek cup beating Newtown and I went to that game after a day of work at RLW. Great memories for me. RLW over the years was the premier magazine. I preferred it to Big League which is owned by News Filth as it was independent and at the time was the face of everything and everyone who opposed the super league farce in 1995.

I always thought Big League was always owned by the NSW Rugby League, perhaps I'm wrong.
I only found out recently that those journos from RLW were made up names, apparently Ian Heads was /is a guy called Phil Jenkins, ZtH used to write under the name of Harry something or other