The former Wales Rugby League board member Martin Roscommon Roddy MBE sadly passed away on Monday night aged 63 following a 20-month battle with cancer. His wife Tessa made the following announcement early on Wednesday morning… “Poppet Martin Roddy passed away peacefully at 22:06 on Monday 2nd July 2018. It was how we had hoped …
North Wales Crusaders’ Tommy Johnson will be the first player to make 150 appearances for a professional Welsh club when he takes to the field against Oldham this afternoon. The closest player to reaching the milestone previously was Christiaan Roets, who recently retired and made 148 appearances during his spells with Crusaders and South Wales …
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LUKE Briscoe crossed four times as Featherstone booked their place in the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup’s fifth round, the Rovers sweeping aside North Wales 66-6 in a 13-try demolition. Despite making a slow start to proceedings, with the Crusaders looking to upset the odds, John Duffy’s men took a comfortable three-score lead into the half-time break. …
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Bradford dominated their fellow League 1 opponents for the full 80 minutes; only a late consolation try, preventing a complete shut out of their opponents. Liam Johnson opened the scoring in the third minute, breaking through the defensive line before stepping the fullback. From here in the Bulls continued in the same vein as Steve …
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NORTH WALES CRUSADERS completed a stunning comeback to send Keighley Cougars crashing out of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup at the Queensway Stadium following a 28-24 victory. Mike Grady’s side trailed 24-6 at the break, however, an impressive second-half performance saw the Wrexham-based side score 22 unanswered points to book their place in the fourth round. …
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Welsh referee James Jones is making his Kingstone Press League 1 refereeing debut this Sunday when Oxford take on Hunslet at Tillsley Park in Abingdon. Jones has been in the WRL then RFL system for the last four years after transferring over from rugby union and has worked his way up the community and junior …
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Ten years ago today, Celtic Crusaders beat Featherstone Rovers in a National League Two game in Featherstone. That first sounds like a run of the mill game, but it put the Crusaders just two points behind Featherstone at the top of NL2 (now League 1) with a game in hand and six games remaining. It …
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South Wales Ironmen Rugby League Club have new owners after the Rugby Football League approved a takeover by Andrew Thorne, the owner of West Wales Raiders RLFC, along with the board of the WRL Premier League club. The new ownership means that the club will move to Llanelli’s Stebonheath Park with immediate effect and will …
NORTH WALES CRUSADERS put in a fantastic effort but were narrowly denied League One Cup final glory against Barrow Raiders. Barrow edged the thrilling showpiece 38-32 right at the death, in a topsy-turvy affair at Bloomfield Road where the lead changed hands of several occasions. Barrow took an early lead with just three minutes gone. …
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WALES DEVELOPMENT ORIGIN MATCH NORTH WALES ORIGIN RL 24 SOUTH WALES IRONMEN RESERVES 42 A big match that will go a long way towards the development of professional players in North and South Wales, debuted last Sunday in Deeside when a competitive North Wales Origin side, in their first ever game, were beaten 42-24 by …
