Wales Rugby League have congratulated their patron Simon Weston on being awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List announced yesterday night. The 54-year old, who originates from Nelson in the South Wales valleys, has been a patron of the organisation for the last ten years. Weston suffered terrible burns to half his …
Wales Rugby League have appointed current Halifax RLFC commercial director and ex Featherstone Rovers RLFC chief executive officer Craig Poskitt as their new commercial director. Poskitt will continue in post at Halifax whilst undertaking his voluntary role with Wales Rugby League, where initially he will be looking at commercial avenues around the European Championship. Wales …
Former Warrington, Widnes and Wales star Jonathan Davies has been awarded on OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours but not for his work in rugby. The 52-year old, who also played for Canterbury Bulldogs and North Queensland Cowboys in Australia, won nine Welsh caps and 13 for Great Britain but it is for his voluntary …
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Wales Rugby League president Mike Nicholas has praised Brian Juliff and Chris Thair on their hard work in getting Wales Rugby League into a strong operating profit after a turbulent few years. Juliff and Thair took over as chairman and chief operating officer respectively back in 2013 and their first tasks were to manage the …
Last week’s Wales Rugby League Annual General Meeting saw members voting unanimously to a number of key reforms to the National Governing Body (NGB) in a complete overhaul of its governance structures, constitution and strategy. The changes to the constitution meant six members of the WRL Board stood down at the AGM as it was …
Former England rugby union captain and coach, Richard Greenwood, has joined the Wales Rugby League Board of Directors following approval at the National Governing Body’s Annual General Meeting this week. A key reformist in the RFU’s move to professionalism in the nineties, the 73-year old now resides in Colwyn Bay and has been key figure …
Wales Rugby League, in partnership with the Rugby League European Federation, have completed their first stand-alone coaching course. Held at Penarth Leisure Centre near Cardiff on Sunday 11th January and Sunday 1st February an impressive turnout of 14 candidates, who had a range of experience, from Wales students’ coaches to relative beginners, turned out in …
A recently published map by George Stilianos of the Hellenic Federation of RL highlighting all the clubs in the Rugby League European Federation shows how the sport has taken huge steps forward in recent years. WRL Chief Operating Officer Chris Thair, said: “It is truly heart warming to see so many clubs on the map …
Wales Rugby League and My Club Betting are delighted to announce an exciting new partnership that will help underpin the development of the sport from grassroots to elite level all the way through to the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. A record-breaking six-figure sponsorship deal has been agreed that will see My Club Betting become …
Tributes have poured in for Wales Rugby League volunteer Jacqui Walker who sadly passed away this Monday following an illness. Her funeral will take place on Friday 19th of September at 12.30. The service will be in Gresford Parish Church near Wrexham followed by burial in Gresford cemetery. It was her wish that people wear …
