By Ian Golden Thirty years ago today, on Sunday 27 October 1991, Wales were taking on Papua New Guinea in Swansea in a match that relaunched the Welsh men’s national side as we know it. Before that historic game, it was a seven year and 13 day gap between games. After Wales had lost to …
Wales Rugby League have continued to celebrate Black History Month by making a presentation about discrimination and racism in sport to their National Development Academy students at Coleg y Cymoedd. Gareth Kear, the Wales Rugby League CEO and director of the One Team One Race project, which is fundraising to build a statue of Billy …
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Ahead of Wales Women’s first ever home test-ranked match in five days’ time, Wales Rugby League have announced their first set of heritage numbers for this elite international side. Wales take on Ireland at Stadiwm Zipworld in Colwyn Bay this Sunday (kick-off 2.30pm) in their first test-ranked match on home soil, but played their first …
Jodie Boyd-Ward will create Wales Rugby League history on Saturday as she becomes the first ever female skipper of a predominantly male international side, when she co-captains Wales Wheelchair against Ireland at Glyndwr University in Wrexham on Saturday (kick-off 12.45pm). The 29-year old, who helped Leeds Rhinos to the Super League and Challenge Cup double …
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North Wales Crusaders Wheelchair Rugby League & Disability Sports Club are proud to announce a partnership with Brasil Rugby League. In what is set to be one of the only transatlantic wheelchair rugby league partnerships, the Crusaders will help the development of Wheelchair Rugby League in Brazil ahead of their newly announced national championship this …
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Ffion Lewis has been appointed captain of the Wales women’s side for the test match against Ireland on Sunday 17th October at Stadiwm Zipworld in Colwyn Bay (kick-off 2.30pm). Tickets for the match can be bought by going to wrl.wales/tickets. Lewis became Welsh rugby’s 100th dual code international (as in someone who has played for …
Wales Women’s Rugby League head coach Thomas Brindle has released his 19-player squad to face Ireland in the friendly international test match at Stadiwm ZipWorld in Colwyn Bay on Sunday 17th October (kick-off 2.30pm). It will be the first full women’s rugby league test match that Wales will have played at home, and it’s also …
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Wales Rugby League were sad to hear about the death of our former international player Glyn Moses, aged 93. Born as Arthur Glyndwr Moses, he pulled on the Welsh shirt three times, the first against British Empire in the 1951 Festival of Britain international, then appearances against France in a full international in 1953, and …
Wales are set to have a dual code rugby international of a different kind next week, when James Jones lines up to referee a full men’s international rugby league test match between Russia and Ukraine. Jones was today appointed by the European Rugby League to this European Championships B match, which takes place next Wednesday …
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Ben Flower, one of Super League’s most decorated Welshmen, has hung up his boots at the age of 33. He won 17 full Wales caps and captained the side in 2009 against England and Serbia. He was part of Wales’ 2009 and 2010 European Championship winning sides and also played for Wales in the 2011 …
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