Former Salford and Wales forward Paul Highton knows first hand just how difficult it is for players at the end of their career dealing with change. Highton, 39, also played for Halifax, Featherstone and Oldham during a 16-year career that started back in 1994. He won nine caps for Wales between 1999 and 2002. He …
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Wales Rugby League, for the third consecutive year, has achieved the top green self-assurance grading by Sport Wales due to the standard of their governance as a National Governing Body. Self-assurance is a management tool used by Sports Councils in the UK to help assess National Governing Bodies’ progress made on governance and the risk …
Welsh rugby league player Tom Morgan has shown that the sport continues to be an exceptionally inclusive one which further builds upon its wonderful heritage and values. Having appeared on Channel 4’s “Undateables” and ITV’s “Loose Women”, Morgan, who has Tourette’s and Asperger’s syndrome, became a media and Twitter sensation, so is perhaps a name …
Wales Rugby League’s National Development Manager, Idris Evans, has praised South Wales Scorpions following their squad announcement earlier today. The vast majority of the Scorpions’ 53-man senior and under 20 squad are Welsh born with many coming through the WRL junior and community ranks (Liam Maule from Cardiff City RL is pictured above). Evans says …
Cardiff-based Idris Evans has been appointed as the new Wales Rugby League National Development Manager to continue the game’s domestic growth. Evans, 35, is a Welsh speaker and has a long association with Rugby League in Wales having spent 10 years with Cardiff Demons RLFC and in various voluntary roles with the National Governing Body, …
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 …
