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Club statement says that the contact/lead was through Hendo (Knights coach), so an unusual route. She's been pitched into the squad for the Valkyrie's visit to Barrow tomorrow...... Western Queensland to Barrow - hope she's brought appropriate clothing

Yep - she's been working on cattle station in Western Queensland !

This ones's a bit left-field ! Ex- ACT Brumbies RU and Canberra Raiders skipper (last seen playing for the Capras I think) touched down in the UK on Tuesday and was training in York yesterday

https://www.yorkrlfc.com/post/valkyrie-captain-peach-announces-pregnancy Classy statement from the Club - best wishes to her and partner Callum

Sinead Peach has just publicly announced her pregnancy - good luck to her and her partner Callum, and we'll no doubt see her back out on the pitch sometime next season.

Taufua did it as well - just looked like hesitancy (and good kicking by Liam Harris) rather than a deliberate ploy to me.

Wonder if this has anything to do with Aaron Bower running the London Marathon this weekend ?

A real team effort that - reasonably error free, can't remember us getting pinged for offside (even though the line speed was good) and excellent collective defence against an in-form team that was noticeably bigger than us. Bench was great as well today. Ronan Michael, Josh Daley and Jack Teanby brought a real energy to us when we could have flagged. A round of applause for Akuma Ta'ai too, who played long and valuable minutes for a veteran prop.

What a grand day out !

I don't know quite where York pulled that performance from (given their recent form), but their victory over Bradford was well deserved, and a soft try let in at the death made the result look closer for the Bulls than it actually was. Great day of rugby in the sunshine at York, with the women's match against Saints going down to the wire beforehand. If you could have added Batley's catering and beer, it would have been just about the perfect day out

Suprise in store at the LNER? York lead the Bulls (deservedly) 14-4 at H/T.

Last try for Saints didn't count - Scouse allowance from ref where possession from scrum should never have been theirs - they can now go home and pull their own hair for fun on the long coach journey back

Get in York 18 Saints 14, Valks outscoring the plaggy scousers four tries to two

Yes, Lucy I imagine will spell for Georgie, and potentially for Liv Gale at half-back, who played first game back from a broken rib last week off the bench

The big miss for York tomorrow against Saints will be Sinead Peach, with the solution being (as it so often for the Valkyrie) Georgie Hetherington to Hooker. Expect a strong bench of Jas Bell, Kelsey Gentles, Jess Sharp and Lucy Eastwood. Third part of York RLFC's documentary series has been released today - it focuses on the Valkyrie. I think all fans of women's RL will enjoy this.