Wales Rugby League have achieved two major awards as they continue to build and improve the organisation. The national governing body has been awarded the Level 3 Safeguarding Standard, as well as being awarded the highest grading in the Sport Wales Self Assurance process for the fourth year in a row. The Safeguarding Standard was …
Ian Golden writes from the Wales Millennium Centre Former Wigan and Great Britain legend Billy Boston MBE was honoured with a BBC Wales Elite Lifetime Achievement at the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year Awards at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Monday night. It’s been quite a year for honours for the 82 …
Wales Rugby League have unfortunately had to make two of their staff redundant due to loss of funding. Jon Ellis, the Coaching and Performance Development Manager, having been employed the last six years with WRL, will finish 27th December 2016. Allen Jones, North Wales Development Officer, employed for the last eight months with WRL will …
David Hanson, the Labour Party MP for Delyn in North Wales, has called on the UK Government to officially congratulate Wales for reaching the finals of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. The exact wording of the motion is “That this House congratulates the Wales Rugby League team, along with England, Scotland and Ireland, on …
A former rugby player who was once named the “hardest” player in Pontypridd RFC’s history has been given a Welsh cap – from an international fixture 36 years ago. Chris Seldon, 63, played for both rugby codes was selected to play rugby league for Wales against France and England in 1980 while he was playing …
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Newcastle Thunder lifted their first trophy since 2008 on Sunday evening after edging out a pulsating Kingstone Press League 1 Shield Final 31-26, against North Wales Crusaders at Kingston Park. Scoring five tries apiece, it was a match worthy of a final that saw Thunder maintain their winning run by extending their tally to ten …
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London Chargers made it two league wins in successive years after a dominating 42-0 win over Valley Cougars to take the Conference League South trophy. Valley Cougars, who finished top of the table in the regular season, didn’t look like they’d recovered from their long coach ride and were second best to a London Chargers …
Wales Rugby League’s head coach John Kear has received one of the biggest awards in domestic Rugby League, that of “Championship Coach of the Year” for his work at Batley Bulldogs this year. Kear’s side topped the Kingstone Press Championship table in the initial stages of the season and they eventually made the middle eights …
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YSGOL GYFUN GYMRAEG GLANTAF 14 WADE DEACON HIGH SCHOOL 16 By Ian Golden at Athletics Ground, Richmond It was an outstanding effort from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf in the Year 8 Champion Schools Final but in the end they lost by just the one conversion to Wade Deacon, losing out 16-14. The Widnes school gained …
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Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf are back in a London rugby league final on Friday 26th August, taking on the same opponents as last year, but it’s not at Wembley Stadium this time around. On a memorable day at Wembley in 2015, the Cardiff-based Welsh speaking school took on and beat Wade Deacon from Widnes to …
