In the penultimate edition of our monthly “World Cup Watch” articles, we look at how our squad hopefuls in the women’s and wheelchair games performed over the last month. Wales have named a 15-player wheelchair training squad, and ahead of their camp at the end of this month, many players have been in action. Stuart …
Canada pulled out all the stops to beat Wales, with their defence excelling throughout the game. Wales looked to have more possession and more attacks, but their visitors always had an answer for everything that was thrown at them, with full-back Petra Woods and substitute Tamisha Toussaint especially excelling. Canada, coached by former Wales men’s …
A former Wales World Cup player will be looking to defeat Wales tomorrow at The Gnoll when Wales take on Canada in a women’s international (kick-off 3pm). Canada, whose women’s side are playing in Wales for the first time, are being coached by Matty Barron, a former Toronto Wolfpack captain who won 10 caps for …
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Wales Women’s head coach Tom Brindle could hand as many as four players their international debuts when his side faces Canada at The Gnoll in Neath this Sunday (kick-off 3pm). London Broncos’ Jade Mullen, along with Zoe Heeley, Frances Layton and Sioned Young of Cardiff Demons, are all in line to earn their first Wales …
This Sunday’s big World Cup warm-up match between Wales and Canada will also include a curtain raiser, with the events starting at 11.30am. Wales Women will take the centre stage at 3pm, when Tom Brindle’s side play their first warm-up match ahead of the World Cup, but earlier in the day, there’s an U14 Girls’ …
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In the fourth of our monthly “World Cup Watch” articles, we look at how our hopefuls in the women’s and wheelchair games performed over the last three weeks. Our women’s side are preparing well, not only for the World Cup, but for the friendly match against Canada at The Gnoll on Sunday 19th July. You …
With 100 days until their World Cup debut against England in Perth, Wales women’s head coach Tom Brindle has named a 23-player squad to face Canada at The Gnoll in Neath on Sunday 19th July (kick-off 3pm). Ffion Lewis returns to the international rugby league stage for the first time in five years following time …
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Jets Fest in Penallta on Saturday was another success for rugby league in Wales, with nearly 450 players taking part in 16 matches over eight hours, a record for one ground in one day in Wales, including the first-ever girls club rugby league match to feature two Welsh sides. That was the encounter that kicked …
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr Year 7 Girls dominated the second half to storm to a 28-10 win over Castleford Academy to become just the second Welsh school to win a Girls’ Champion Schools final. This completes a perfect season for the school side, after being unbeaten in the group stages and having won all Welsh …
This Saturday sees a momentous occasion for girls’ rugby league in Wales, as two Welsh girls’ club sides come up against each other for the first time. And it’s been confirmed that at “Jets Fest” at Penallta RFC, there will be not one, but two matches between girls’ club sides from Wales, plus a match …
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