Rugby League News
Hello and welcome to 13v13- the Rugby League news hub bringing you news from across the web all in one place.
If you are a fan of Rugby League, like we are, you will know just how difficult it can be to get the very latest news from the sport.
Keeping up with the coming and goings of just on club can often mean regularly checking a number of social media websites, a clubs own website, mainstream news websites/apps and Rugby League specialty news sites.
In an age when fans are short on time and we should all easily be able to access the information that we need in seconds, Rugby League is sadly lacking.
That is why we developed 13v13. We were just as frustrated as you were and wanted a source for Rugby League news that brought us news from many sources all in one place and that is exactly what 13v13 is- the only website you need for Rugby League headlines.
Rugby League Breaking News
With the time and effort needed to find breaking Rugby League news, it is often the case that the breaking news is no longer particularly breaking!
It is of course the case that major news will be covered by club and competition websites and may even break into main stream news/sport sites, the chances of anything other than the biggest news appearing quickly is slim.
That is why we bring you are of the latest news from a number of news/sport/RL websites so that if something breaks, you get the latest Rugby League breaking news the moment it happens.
Rugby League Latest News Today
Keeping up with the latest news continues to be a challenge for all fans of the 13 man code and that leads to many fans of the sport searching for the latest news happening today.
If you have come across us here at 13v13 in the hopes of finding the latest Rugby League news, you will see above that you have done just that, so why not add us into your bookmarks and check back regularly so that you never need to waste time searching for Rugby League latest news from today again as we do the searching for you and bring the latest Rugby League headlines.
About
The 13 man code of Rugby broke away from the RFU in 1895 in the main to provide a more exciting, skillful, and faster version of Rugby and that is something it has continued to do to this very day.
Back then, it was all about putting on the best possible show to get fans into the ground to pay to watch the sport.
Nowadays, the entertainment on offer still attracts 100’000’s of fans into grounds around the world each weekend but it is via television, social media, and streaming services that the action attracts the most eyeballs.
That has seen the sport spread well past its heartlands of England, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea to where it is now truly a global sport and that means we have to search sources from around the globe to bring you all of the latest news and information.
History
The sport developed out of a number of Northern England based Rugby sides who missed to turn professional and who wished to offer more exciting Rugby to their fans in what was to go on to be called the big schism in the sport that left Rugby with 2 codes.
In a meeting held at the George Hotel in Huddersfield, now known as ‘The Birthplace of Rugby League’, 22 clubs (although Stockport were not at the meeting in person) decided to breakaway and form the Northern Union, which developed into Rugby League Football and the global sport that we all know and love.
From that meeting in 1895 the sport quickly changed its rules to speed things up and to make players fin the need to develop their skills and fitness levels including the abolishment of line-outs in 1897, the professionalism of the sport in 1898, the reduction to 13 players on each side in 1906 and the ending of the dull ruck after a tackle, with the play of the ball replacing it.
In a similar fashion to the split of the sport in England, in 1907 a meeting was held at the Bateman’s Hotel in Sydney where a number of clubs decided to turn their backs on the Union code in Australia and to form the New South Wales Rugby Football League which would go onto to see the new code become the dominant force in Rugby across the key states of New South Wales and Queensland- something which continues to this very day.
The North of England, South of France, New South Wales, and Queensland are known as the heartlands of the sport and it is in these regions where the professional sport still has its biggest impact and most success but in the modern era, the game has grown to become a truly global sport.
Rugby League News Headlines
We know that many fans don’t have the time to follow all of the news websites and that they just want the latest news headlines form the sport in an easy to read and easy to digest format and that is why we bring you exactly what you want.
Rugby League News Update
Here at 13v13 we are constantly updating the news from the not just the world’s biggest and most famous news websites for the sport but also from leading blogs, official sites and much more.
Latest Rugby League News
Here at 13v13, we know how important it is to not only get the very latest Rugby League news but also the most accurate news.
In an era of social media spreading fake stories quicker and more often than legitimate news outlets can spread the true stories coming out of the sport, it can be difficult to know who to trust and where you can reliably get you fix of Rugby League news.
That is why we heavily curate all of the sources that we feature to make sure that the news outlets featured on 13v13 are trusted but in the race to get the latest Rugby League news in this era of 24hr news cycles, we know that no one is infallible and that is why we bring you the latest Rugby League news from multiple sources.
Any news that stands out as been wrong and different from the rest will be easy to spot, so you will know that the Rugby League latest news that you receive is accurate.
To keep things as simple as possible, we bring you all of the latest Rugby League news headlines from sources across the globe and all that you need to do is click on any of those Rugby League news headlines that are of interest to you.
That will take you directly to the source where you can read the full story of the breaking Rugby League news.
With so much action happening around the world, it can be difficult to keep up to date with all of the latest Rugby League headlines but here at 13v13, we bring them all to you in an easy to digest method.
Breaking Rugby League News
As the sport moves away from its heartlands of the M62 corridor and the states of New South Wales and Queensland into new territories such as France, the Balkans, the Pacific and so much more, it can be increasingly difficult to keep up to date with all of the latest breaking Rugby League news.
No longer can you quickly check local news media to be kept up to date with everything, you need to check multiple sources from across the globe.
At least that used to be the case as we bring you all of the latest breaking Rugby League news from local, national and international news outlines based across the globe.