South Wales Scorpions’ Head Coach and Wales Rugby League’s Head of Football Anthony Seibold has won the Co-operative Championship 1 Coach of the Year award. He beat off the challenges of his peers from Workington Town and Blackpool Panthers to take home the trophy after leading the Scorpions to the play-offs in their very first …
Wales Rugby League, Safer Bridgend, and Community First hosted Street Rugby League Finals Day at The Riverside Hardware Brewery Field in Bridgend on Friday 17th September. Street Rugby League has now become an established programme and has been run during the summer months in the Bridgend Area. Children from Caerau, Nantymoel, Sarn and Wildmill have …
2010 Under 13 Final – NPT Steelers 28 Bridgend 24 In the Welsh Under 13 Grand Final, the curtain raiser to South Wales Scorpions v York City Knights, Neath Port Talbot Steelers beat Bridgend Blue Bulls 28-24 in a thriller where the lead constantly changed hands. It was so close, the two teams even went …
Anthony Seibold, the South Wales Scorpions’ head coach and Head of Football for Wales Rugby League, has become only the 23rd current Australian coach to have been granted “Professional Coach Status” within the Australian Strength and Conditioning Professional coaching structure. Being granted the ASCA Professional coach status gives him further recognition and places him within …
Over 300 youngsters from throughout Wrexham have taken part in Street Rugby sessions since its North Wales launch last month. Street rugby sessions have kicked off and are taking place in the Caia Park, Gwersyllt and Plas Madoc areas of the county borough. Crusaders coaches take the sessions, with local police officers and PCSO’s getting …
Neath Port Talbot Steelers dominated the majority of the inaugural Welsh Conference Championship Final, eventually winning 42-10 against the plucky Torfaen Tigers. Steelers led after just two minutes when Dylan Griffiths set up Lee Jenkins to go over with Dane Clancy converting. Torfaen got a try back five minutes later were John Sutcliffe opened up …
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Last Friday saw the first ever school girls rugby league game to be played in Wales. The participants were Tre gib (Llandeilo) and Dyffryn Taf (Whitland) Schools. The game was played under slightly modified rugby league rules, though the game proved to be of an exciting, fast flowing and hard hitting spectacle. Tre gib came …
Crusaders under 16s inflicted Cavendish Road High School under 15s first defeat of their 2010 tour of the UK on Friday night after beating them 37-6 in Pontyclun. It was an outstanding performance from the Welsh as the Australians are affiliated to the Brisbane Broncos’ NRL development system. Cavendish Road High School is a Rugby …
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History was made at Cardiff’s St Albans RFC on Sunday where the first city derby at any grade in Welsh Rugby League took place as the Cardiff Demons under 17s hosted South Coast Spartans. Cardiff Demons are Wales’ oldest surviving rugby league club having been formed in 1997 but their famous junior sections, that have …
Janet Ryder, the Assembly Member for North Wales, will be presenting at the Senedd from 5.00pm Wednesday 23rd June in front of the whole parliament house, talking about rugby league. The topic title is “Hope: What is hope? – well it can probably have a different definition for everyone here”. Synopsis: For those of us …
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