Wales Rugby League will also be applying to participate in a 2021 Women’s Emerging Nations Rugby League World Cup. In the female game, this would be the first such competition to underpin the main tournament, whose eight competitors were announced this morning. Wales are just launching an international side with its first clubs, Cardiff Blue …
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Wales under 16 head coach Lee Crooks has named an initial 17-man squad for this autumn’s international match against England on Saturday 31st August (venue TBC). The players were chosen following a final trial match in Ystrad Mynach last week which pitted sides chosen from the initial north and south trial locations, the northern-based outfit …
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Wales Rugby League international Ian Newbury has been appointed as the new head coach of Wales Dragonhearts, the representative side for the community rugby league game in Wales. The 32-year old played three times for the Dragonhearts in 2013, scoring four tries, before winning his lone full cap in 2016 in Wales’ drawn friendly match …
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Ian Watson, Wales’ joint record highest cap holder, has been appointed as one of the assistant coaches to Wayne Bennett for the return of the Great Britain Rugby League Lions this autumn. London Broncos’ head coach Danny Ward, who like Watson is recoginsed at two of the brightest British coaches in the Betfred Super League, is the …
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Two of the Wales Rugby League international players have been out in the community recently, delivering Learning Disability Rugby League sessions to a group of adults from Mencap Mon in Anglesey. Dafydd Jones, along with his partner Lauren Oates, as well as William Lynch and his sister Victoria, have been taking the sessions, under the …
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Wales Students head coach Paul Emanuelli has named his 20-man squad for the forthcoming Four Nations competition, which is to be played at Edinburgh University from June 22-30. His side won their final warm-up match on Sunday, a 40-22 defeat of Welsh Premier League side Rhondda Outlaws at Sardis Road, and that helped him make …
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It has been officially confirmed that Wales are to take on Keighley Cougars in a fund-raising match for the family of Danny Jones. The match will take place at Cougar Park on Sunday, October 25 (kick-off 3pm), with funds raised going to the children of Keighley and Wales stand-off Jones, who recently died of a …
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Wales Rugby League have accepted an invitation to take part in the 9s World Cup in Sydney this autumn. The inaugural tournament, which will involve Wales and 11 other nations, will be held at Paramatta Eels’ new 30,000-seater Bankwest Stadium on October 18 and 19. A 16-man squad, made up of players from Wales’ senior …
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Wales Rugby League held their annual community cap presentation evening last Saturday at the University of South Wales in Trefforest. There to receive their caps were members of the East and West Wales squads from under 13, 15 and senior levels, as well as the Wales Dragonhearts side who toured Serbia. The trophy for the …
Former Wales Rugby League international prop Mick Murphy has sadly died at the age of 77. (Mick is on the left of the picture above with Jim Mills in the centre and Ian Van Bellen on the right) Liverpool-born, Murphy was WRL heritage #294, winning five caps from 1975-79. This included three appearances in the …
