West Wales Raiders finally celebrated winning a professional match to end a 44-game losing run. The Raiders, who took over the South Wales Scorpions two years’ earlier, had lost all 15 of their Betfred League 1 matches this season before a 44-16 win against Coventry Bears in Llanelli. They made a nonsense of that record …
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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 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 …
Sam Herron from West Wales Raiders and Kenny Baker from North Wales Crusaders have both been named in Rugby League World’s first League 1 Team of the Month for 2019. The popular monthly line-ups for each of the three RFL professional divisions have a welcome return to the magazine this season following a four-year absence. …
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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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North Wales Crusaders booked their place in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup with a hard-fought victory at London Skolars. As Crusaders led 24-6 early in the second-half, it looked as though they were heading for an easy progression in the cup. However, Skolars staged a comeback and trailed by just six points late …
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Newcastle Thunder got their 2019 Challenge Cup journey underway successfully as they beat League One rivals West Wales Raiders. The match started very even with creative attacking pieces being met with solid defensive patterns and it wasn’t until the 15th minute until the deadlock was broken. Keal Carlile made two sniping runs which saw him …
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Wales Rugby League have permanently loaned £10,000 of performance gym equipment to West Wales Raiders RLFC and Coleg y Cymoedd in support of improving performance levels. The apparatus, which includes a huge array of Olympic standard equipment such as dumbbells, discs, bars, collars, power racks, benches, holding racks, spotting frames and large rubber jigsaw floor, …
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PIC – Brian inducts Dai Watkins into the Wales Rugby League Hall of Fame, earlier in 2018. As 2018 draws to a close I wanted to thank everyone for their support to Wales Rugby League during the year. After returning home from RLWC2017, we faced questions about our strategy and direction following some very tough …
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