WALES Rugby League has appointed Chris Thair as Chief Operating Officer, a key appointment in the build up to the 2013 World Cup. Thair joins the WRL following over a decade’s service at the Rugby Football League in senior executive positions across the community and professional arms of the sport, most recently as Salary Cap …
Rugby League’s Commonwealth expansion initiative has entered new territory following an exploratory visit to Sierra Leone by a joint Wales Rugby League-Rugby League European Federation delegation. WRL’s National Development Manager Mark Jones and RLEF General Manager Danny Kazandjian returned from a week in the West African country to investigate opportunities for the sport to make …
LONG-serving Wales Rugby League Head of Performance Dan Clements is to take up a key appointment with Hockey Wales. Clements, was a former students international before taking a coaching role with South Wales Conference club Newport Titans and the Wales Under-18 side. Hockey Wales have appointed him as their new Performance Co-ordinator and Dan said: …
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SOUTH Wales Hornets have made the decision not to run this season. A shake-up in the off-season was expected as team manager Martyn Coomber emigrated to Australia, but further disruptions – at both the club and in rugby league in South Wales – has forced Chairman Mark Harris not to enter the club into a …
WALES Rugby League have announced the departure of general manager Mark Rowley from the organisation from this week. Rowley has been a mainstay of Wales Rugby League for a decade and was key to the organisation’s efforts on achieving National Governing Body status in 2005 and becoming a Full Rugby League International Board Member in …
WALES Rugby League have launched the latest initiative to help youngsters into the sport with a new West Wales Regional Performance Development Centre in Whitland. Robert Newsome OBE, headteacher of Ysgol Dyffryn Taf in Whitland, Caermarthenshire, Mark Rowley, general manager of the Wales Rugby League, and Andy Coley, liaison manager for Wigan Warriors attached to …
THE SECOND stage of development at our Wales Rugby League Elite Performance Centre Deeside Leisure was revealed last week with the opening of our Elite Performance Gym supported and funded by Sport Wales. Wales Rugby League President Mike Nicholas opened the facility alongside Graham Williams from Sport Wales along with 20 delegates. Since the WRL …
WALES Rugby League have gained a prestigious national sports accreditation in child protection. The WRL have been awarded the Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) Level Two standard for safeguarding and protecting children. The accreditation has taken a lot of work to achieve, with Sport Wales, the nation’s sports council, and Collette Eden, from the …
High performance Rugby League is coming to Deeside, thanks to a unique partnership between Flintshire County Council and Wales Rugby League. Wales’ fastest growing sport now has a permanent home at Deeside Leisure Centre for its International team and North Wales Crusaders Academy squads. The development at the centre has witnessed the creation of an …
Former Wales international winger Brian Juliff had been appointed as the new Chairman of Wales Rugby League. Juliff, who turns 60 in December, won eight caps for Wales from 1978 to 1984, scoring a try against England in 1980. In his club career, he played for Wakefield Trinity, Wigan, Halifax and Castleford after starting out …
