Wales Men’s Head Coach, John Kear, has made three changes to his 19-player squad ahead of Monday’s final group D game against Papua New Guinea (Eco-Power Stadium, Doncaster, 7.30pm). Will Evans, Rhodri Lloyd and Mike Butt return having featured against Cook Islands, with Tom Hopkins, Dalton Grant and Luke Thomas the trio to make way. …
For only the third time ever, Wales have beaten Australia in a full international rugby league match. The Wales Physical Disability Rugby League side were victorious 34-20 in the PDRL World Cup, nine years after the Wheelchair side beat their Australian counterparts twice in the 2013 Wheelchair World Cup. Wales will now face Australia twice …
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Wales Wheelchair head coach Stephen Jones has named an 11-player squad for their Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup warm-up match against Australia this Saturday at Archers Arena in the Cyncoed Campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University (kick-off 2pm). Just Lucie Roberts is unavailable for the clash against the Wheelaroos. She will join the rest of the …
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Wales have been playing the men’s World Cup, and could qualify for the quarter-finals if they beat Papua New Guinea by 23 points next Monday. Eleven of this year’s Wales men’s World Cup squad started playing rugby league as a junior in Wales, winning Wales U16 and U19 caps on their way to playing professionally …
Match report and photographs from Luke Reynolds. The Wales Physical Disability Rugby League side put in a brave and battling performance in their second game of their World Cup campaign, but eventually went down 32-6 to a powerful English team. On a bright and sunny Tuesday in Warrington, the Welsh team managed by Craig Fisher …
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Report by Barry Andrews at St Helens. Pic: Mark Stringer Tonga picked up their second win of the men’s Rugby League World Cup after a dominant second-half display against Wales, winning 32-6. A hat-trick from Daniel Tupou and one each from David Fifita, Keon Koloamatangi and Tesi Niu gave the Tongans the win in a …
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PDRL WORLD CUP – WALES 28 NEW ZEALAND 26 Match report and photographs from Luke Reynolds. Wales, in their first ever Physical Disability Rugby League international, emulated the Wales men’s side from their inaugural game back in 1908, by beating New Zealand with a try in the last few minutes. The Welsh team, managed by …
The Wales Men’s squad has been named to face Tonga on Monday night (7.30pm) at the Totally Wicked Stadium. There are four changes to the squad named ahead of the meeting with Cook Islands, as John Kear freshens up his squad for a second game in five days. Kyle Evans, James Olds and Gavin Bennion come …
Wales Wheelchair RL head coach Stephen Jones beat a long-standing coaching record a fortnight ago when he took charge of his 26th Welsh international. From 1991-2000, Clive Griffiths was head coach of the Wales men’s side and led them to semi-finals of two Rugby League World Cups. When he stood down, following a classic World …
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Wales will kick off the first ever Physical Disability Rugby League (PDRL) World Cup this Sunday when they take on New Zealand at Victoria Park in Warrington (kick-off 2pm). The PDRL World Cup is an exhibition event, which is being held during this year’s showpiece tournament – The Rugby League World Cup 2021. The four-team …
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