Five Wales students starred in the Great Britain Students Rugby League side this Saturday as they recorded an historic 10-4 win over Australia Students in Brisbane. One of the Welshmen, Chris McNamara (Loughborough University) was Man of the Match with Mark Wool (Leeds Met), Patrick Evans (Gloucester University) and brothers Owain and Iwan Brown (both …
Cardiff today (Monday) played host to the first of a series of a series of seminars to outline the Host City Selection Process for the Rugby League World Cup in 2013. Towns and cities across the UK will learn from these seminars as to how they can benefit from their involvement in what looks to …
Wales are officially the joint hosts with England in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup where they will take on the Cook Islands for only the second time. This was determined following the draw today (Tuesday) when the World Cup was officially launched at Manchester’s new MediaCityUK development. The Cook Islands encounter will be a …
Wales Rugby League’s Executive Chairman Mark Rowley has said that qualifying for the Four Nations is bigger than Wales Rugby Union winning the Six Nations. Rowley was in France watching Wales beat the hosts 12-11 to retain the Alitalia European Cup and qualify to face England, Australia and New Zealand next year. Lloyd White’s penalty …
Departing South Wales Scorpions’ coach Anthony Seibold is delighted at that so many of his players from the Scorpions 2010 squad have made it into the Wales side this year. The Welsh national side are playing their first ever international match at The Gnoll in Neath, the home of the Scorpions, on Sunday when they …
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Should Ian Watson walk onto the pitch for Wales against Italy on Sunday in Wrexham (kick-off 2pm), it will be a record breaking 27th appearance for him in the Welsh shirt. Watson made his debut for Wales in 1995 against USA in Philadelphia and now, 15 years later, he is set to beat Jim Sullivan’s …
Wales have become the 12th full member of the Rugby League International Federation following a meeting of the Federation board in Melbourne on Thursday. They were also granted automatic qualification to the 2013 World Cup which will take place in the United Kingdom. Previously, full international membership has gone to Great Britain but since the …
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KANGAROOS AT MERTHYR The Kangaroos visited Merthyr last Saturday, and when the final whistle sounded a bare margin of a couple of points divided the teams. Having regard to the fact that the visitors were singularly unfortunate in the matter of injuries to players during the course of the game, and that for more than …
From the “Evening Express and Evening Mail” dated 19/01/1909 VISIT TO EBBW VALE YESTERDAY G. T. Pts. Australia……. 0 3 9 Ebbw Vale…. 1 2 8 The Kangaroos played Ebbw Vale on Monday. The weather was stormy, and a strong gale blew up the ground, which threatened to spoil the game of some of its …
