Less than a year after the end of World War 2 rugby league’s Lions toured Australia and New Zealand – a tour made possible thanks to an aircraft carrier, a military train & the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. This week’s ‘Rugby Reloaded’ tells the story of the incredible 1946 ‘Indomitables’, the tour that relaunched international rugby league.
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