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 …
Read more “CHALLENGE CUP – NEWCASTLE THUNDER 48 WEST WALES RAIDERS 0”
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, …
Read more “Gym equipment donated to West Wales Raiders and Coleg y Cymoedd”
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 …
Read more “WRL chairman Brian Juliff’s New Year’s Eve message”
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 …
Read more “Tommy Johnson becomes first player to make 150 appearances for Welsh club”
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. …
Read more “CHALLENGE CUP – FEATHERSTONE ROVERS 66 NORTH WALES CRUSADERS 6”
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 …
Read more “CHALLENGE CUP REPORT : Bradford Bulls 82 West Wales Raiders 6”
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. …
Read more “CHALLENGE CUP REPORT : North Wales Crusaders 28 Keighley Cougars 24”
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 …
Read more “Welsh referee James Jones to take charge of League 1 match”
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 …
Read more “The match that meant everything to our national side – ten years on”
