Wales men’s team head coach John Kear has named a 23- man squad for this autumn’s 9s World Cup, which will take place at Parramatta Eels’ Bankwest Stadium in Sydney on October 18 and 19. The 23 players have been selected to take part in a short training camp in North Wales in late September …
Good luck to our three Wales Students Rugby League players who are currently out in Albania getting ready to play their first match of a two- game tour today. Rowland Kaye and Kyle King from Cardiff Metropolitan University, join George Edge from University of Warwick on the tour. Kaye, who also plays for West Wales …
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Rhondda Outlaws and Bridgend Blue Bulls may be contesting the 17th Welsh Grand Final in Pontypridd on Sunday, but Welsh League history goes back a lot further that that. The first ever Welsh League championship was decided 110 years ago when Ebbw Vale beat Merthyr Tydfil 19-2 on April 12th 1909. The league was decided …
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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