When South Wales Ironmen play their first competitive game this Sunday in the League 1 Cup they will equal a very special record – the most number of matches played by a professional rugby league club in South Wales. The Merthyr-based Ironmen, rebranded from the Scorpions, run out against London Skolars this Sunday at their …
Wales Rugby League bosses have praised the legacy left by the former junior development managers Allen Jones and Jon Ellis who collectively engaged over 40,000 new people to play Rugby League in Wales during their time in office. Schools, clubs and junior representative rugby have all developed under their stewardship and both were instrumental in …
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In an historic day at New River Sports Centre, the top four London-based teams played in a triple-header to kick-off the 2017 edition of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup. London Chargers faced the Bridgend Bull Bulls, hosts the London Skolars faced London Broncos in a pre-season friendly and new-comers to the Challenge Cup competition, the Wests …
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Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera yw pencampwyr blwyddyn 7 Rygbi XIII Cymru am yr ail flwyddyn yn olynol yn dilyn rowndiau terfynol a gynhaliwyd yng Nghaerffili brynhawn dydd Mercher. Tair ysgol wnaeth wynebu ei gilydd mewn tair gem hanner awr, felly nid oedd yn bosib cael buddugwyr tan ornest ddiwethaf y prynhawn. Roedd y dair ysgol yn …
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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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