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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Challenge Cup first round draw this Thursday
The draw for the First Round of the Coral Challenge Cup will be broadcast live by BBC Sport Online this Thursday (5 December, 6.30pm). Wales has two clubs in the draw for the first time in 11 years in Torfaen Tigers and Rhondda Outlaws, and we’ll have reaction from their representatives, live from Sport Wales, …
Rhondda Outlaws and Torfaen Tigers to enter the Challenge Cup First Round.
Wales Rugby League will have two sides in the first stage of Rugby League’s Coral Challenge Cup for the first time in 11 years after Rhondda Outlaws and Torfaen Tigers both confirmed their entry today. This means that Wales will have four Challenge Cup entrants in the 2020 competition, the first time this has happened …
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CHALLENGE CUP : Thatto Heath Crusaders 16-14 North Wales Crusaders
North Wales Crusaders were knocked out of the Challenge Cup at the fourth round stage by amateur club Thatto Heath (writes Ryan Gould). Despite staging a late comeback and being close to taking the tie to golden point extra time, North Wales were second best for large spells and were out-muscled, out-thought and out-enthused by …
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