There could be three Wales Rugby League developed players in the Challenge Cup Final for the first time, after Gil Dudson, Elliot Kear and Rhys Williams were all named in Salford Red Devils’ 21-man squad to face Leeds Rhinos at Wembley Stadium this Saturday (kick-off 3pm). The last time there were three Welsh born players […]
Category Archives: Challenge Cup
Around the Leagues: February 21-23
In our latest Around the Leagues report, we take a look at how senior Wales internationals have been getting on with their club sides across rugby league.
Challenge Cup Report – North Wales Crusaders 18-22 Hunslet
Tom Ashton struck in the final four minutes as Hunslet edged a classic Challenge Cup tie with North Wales Crusaders to book their place in the fifth round. Crusaders led from the 30thminute up until Ashton’s late winner and had looked fairly comfortable at 18-10 as the game entered the final stages. Hunslet had plenty […]
Around the Leagues: February 14-16
We take a look at how senior Wales internationals are getting on with their club sides in our latest Around the Leagues report.
Around the Leagues: February 6-9
In our latest Around the Leagues report, we take a look at how senior Wales internationals got on with their club sides.
Challenge Cup Report – West Wales Raiders 8-30 Underbank Rangers
In one of the few surviving matches of Storm Ciara, Underbank Rangers out-thought and out-defended West Wales Raiders to go through to the fourth round of the Coral Challenge Cup. In regards to this fixture, with no disrespect to either side, it was hard to see which result would have been a “Cup shock”. West […]
Challenge Cup Report: Rochdale Mayfield 6-64 North Wales Crusaders
North Wales Crusaders ran riot in the second-half as they scored seven tries in a 16-minute spell to beat Rochdale Mayfield and book their place in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup. Mayfield pushed Crusaders all the way in the first-half and would have felt unfortunate to find themselves 16-0 down at half-time. But […]
Rhondda Outlaws to open new ground on Sunday
Rhondda Outlaws will officially open their new ground this Sunday as they prepare for their Coral Challenge Cup first round match in just over a week’s time. The WRL Premier League champions have recently taken over the ground vacated by former rugby union club Glyncoch RFC (postcode CF37 3AU) and have been redecorating it in […]
FREE update to the WRL charity publication
Wales Rugby League’s head of media Ian Golden has published an eight-page update to his charity publication, “100 Months of Rugby League in Wales” that was launched in May this year. This has been produced as a PDF – Click to download here. The update, which now ensures that the whole of the 2010s is chronicled, […]
Outlaws and Tigers get away ties in the Coral Challenge Cup
Wales Rugby League’s Coral Challenge Cup home draw jinx struck again on Thursday evening when both Torfaen Tigers and Rhondda Outlaws were drawn away in the first round of the 2020 competition. Torfaen were the first of the Welsh sides to come out of the hat. They have an interesting match-up with the Great Britain […]