Around the Leagues: March 6-8
In our latest Around the Leagues report, we’ve taken a look at how senior Wales internationals are getting on with their club sides.
Mark Jones reappointed as WRL National Development Manager
Llantwit Major based Mark Jones has been reappointed as the Wales Rugby League National Development Manager after four and half years away from the role. The 49-year old first joined WRL in 2009 and spent six years in the National Development Manager role where we headed up school, junior and community development, was the team …
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Around the Leagues: February 29-March 1
We take a look at how senior Wales internationals got on in the latest round of rugby league fixtures.
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 …
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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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Around the Leagues: January 31-February 2
In our first Around the Leagues report of the 2020 season, we take a look at how senior Wales internationals got on with their clubs in the opening round of rugby league fixtures.
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, …
Jonathan Davies and West Wales Raiders congratulate local rugby union player
Both West Wales Raiders and dual code rugby international Jonathan Davies have congratulated Trimsaran rugby union player Ioan Jones on reaching 600 appearances for his club. The player, known locally and online as “Yogi Bach” will hit the magic number at their away match this Saturday. Great achievement ?? https://t.co/Lnt1w47CZC — Jonathan Davies OBE (@JiffyRugby) …
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