The Rugby Football League’s Women’s Rugby League 2019 campaign culminates this weekend with three keenly-anticipated finals – starting this evening (Friday 11 October) with the Betfred Super League Grand Final. The match, at the Totally Wicked Stadium, St Helens, kicks off at 7.30pm and features two of the competition big guns, in Castleford Tigers and Leeds Rhinos. Two more major…
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THE Huddersfield & District League’s Holliday Cup Final takes place tomorrow (Friday 11 October). The game, at Huddersfield YMCA, kicks off at 7.00pm and will involve Almondbury Spartans and Underbank Rangers. Admission is £5 (£3 concessions, under 16s free).
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The Great Britain Masters tour of Australia climaxed with a match at Narellan, an hour southwest of Sydney, writes Paul Field. The Narellan Jets, who provided nine players for the 2018 Australia tour to the UK, were excellent hosts, taking the game to Camden as their own ground is under renovation. Great Britain were without tour captain Gavin Wright, who…
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Great Britain Masters are coming towards the end of their tour of Australia – Paul Field reports. The final day of the Masters International Festival is traditionally the Representative Day where players, nominated by their teams, play in representative games. This year not only were sides picked for the Australia v New Zealand games but also for the Indigenous team…
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Day two of the Gold Coast Masters festival saw the Great Britain team in double action again, this time for the `half-time field swap’ day writes Paul Field. All teams played half a game and then swapped pitch to have another half game with another team. First up for Great Britain was Midland Masters (Aus) Tour captain. Methley’s Gavin Wright…
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THE 2019 Kingstone Press National Conference League campaign culminates on Saturday (5 October) with a double-headed Finals Day at the LD Nutrition Stadium, Post Office Road, Featherstone, plus the Division Three Promotion Play-Off Final. Thatto Heath Crusaders and West Hull go head-to-head in the Premier Division Grand Final; that game will be preceded by the Division One Promotion Play-Off Final,…
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The North West Men’s League’s Finals Festivals weekend is just a couple of days away, and the fixtures have been ratified for the action at Victoria Park, Warrington. Blackbrook beat Halton Simms Cross 30-10 in Tuesday’s Division One semi-final, after their game on Saturday had been ruled out because of an unfit pitch. The St Helens outfit will face Hindley,…
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Great Britain Masters are on tour in Australia – Paul Field reports on Day One… After the long flights to Brisbane, the Great Britain Masters team had a day to recover and play their first games of the Gold Coast Masters Festival hosted by Southport Tigers JARLFC. The day began with the formal march-past of all the teams, from Australia,…
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Yesterday’s heavy rains have failed to wipe out this afternoon’s College Rugby League fixture list. At this stage the only matches to fall by the wayside – according to Sports TG at 1.01am today – are in the Yorkshire League, where Wyke Sixth Form. New College Pontefract and Kirklees were due to host Halifax Academy, York and Leeds College of…
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Professional Rugby League players rarely forget their roots and on any given weekend you’ll find plenty of them involved in developing the next generation to follow in their footsteps in the community game. Words: Ash Hope Rugby League players are highly regarded for many things but, above all else, it’s their benevolence that is often their most admired trait. Very…
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