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Tony Sutton, the Chief Executive of the Rugby Football League, has praised the "varied, significant and often underappreciated" contributions to the sport made by a quartet who have been recognised in the King's New Year's Honours.

 
The Huddersfield Giants owner and chairman Ken Davy has been awarded the OBE for his services to Community Rugby League, and the long-serving match official Tony Martin receives the same award for his services to Rugby League.

 
Paul Caddick, who has presided over one of the most successful eras in the history of Leeds Rhinos since taking ownership of the club in 1996, has been awarded the MBE for services to sport, and the former England captain Andrea Dobson, now Development Manager of the Sheffield Eagles Foundation, also receives the MBE for her services to Rugby League.

 
Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Tue 31st Dec 2024 8:31 AM | Views : 495 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Blowing away the Christmas day cobwebs, the traditional encounter between the newly promoted Wakefield Trinity and the Leeds Rhinos drew the crowd to AMT Headingley for a Boxing Day morning encounter.

Rhinos coach Arthur was up front with his game plan, giving the first choice back row a forty-minute run and then interchanging them for the youngsters for the second forty, as they came up against ex-coach Daryl Powell's Trinity who were looking to gauge where they are in their build up to towards the Superleague season.

Leeds put the boot through the ball to kick off the final game of 2025, attacking the Western Terrace.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Thu 26th Dec 2024 1:18 PM | Views : 8628 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Wigan Warriors have been crowned Team of the Year at tonight's BBC Sports Personality Awards at MediaCityUK.

The Warriors have been recognised for winning four trophies in 2024, a feat never seen before in the Super League era, completing the historic achievement with a Grand Final win over Hull KR at Old Trafford in October.

Wigan began the season by defeating Australia's triple NRL champions Penrith Panthers at The Brick Community Stadium to lift a record-equalling fifth World Club Challenge before success in the Betfred Challenge Cup Final saw them beat Warrington Wolves, at Wembley Stadium in June.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Wed 18th Dec 2024 7:48 AM | Views : 1123 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE

Ben Lam has left the Catalans Dragons.

He joined the club in August 2023 after a successful career in rugby union, but his move to rugby league didn't quite work out as planned.

The Catalans Dragons released a statement confirming that Lam would not be retained for the 2025 season.

While he did make some appearances for the club's reserve team, he was unable to secure a regular spot in the first team.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Mon 16th Dec 2024 12:56 PM | Views : 1955 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Hull KR head coach Willie Peters has detailed how his backroom staff will be reshuffled following the departure of Brett Delaney, who has joined Castleford Tigers as an assistant coach.

Peters has decided against replacing Delaney with an outside hire, instead opting to entrust the defensive duties to assistant coach Danny Ward and transition development coach Shaun Kenny-Dowall.

Ward will continue to lead the defensive systems and principles, while Kenny-Dowall will take on the attacking aspects of Delaney's role.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Mon 16th Dec 2024 12:36 PM | Views : 1869 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Jet2 has signed a major sponsorship deal with the Leigh Leopards for the 2025 Betfred Super League season.

The partnership will see Jet2 become the Principal Club Partner of the Leopards, with their logo featuring prominently on the team's home and away shirts, as well as their Magic Weekend kit.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sun 15th Dec 2024 2:07 PM | Views : 2732 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE

Hull FC have been taken over by former Leeds Rhinos president Andrew Thirkill and businessman David Hood, ending Adam Pearson's 13-year stint at the helm of the Super League club.

Thirkill and Hood entered into an exclusivity period in November, with Pearson confirming in a statement on Wednesday the handover had been finalised.

Pearson will stay on at Hull in a consultancy capacity with Thirkill becoming chairman and Hood joining the board.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Fri 13th Dec 2024 10:43 AM | Views : 2090 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Captain's Challenge will be introduced to northern hemisphere Rugby League on a regular basis in 2025, starting from Round One of the Betfred Super League in February.

 That was one of four laws changes accepted by the Rugby Football League Board at their meeting on Tuesday, following their recommendation by the RFL's Laws Committee.

 The new law will allow the captains in all televised fixtures in 2025, also including the Betfred Challenge Cup, and the Women's Super League and Challenge Cup, to refer a range of on-field decisions to the video referee.

 
Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Wed 4th Dec 2024 6:47 PM | Views : 6254 | Replies : 7 | READ MORE
England Women Head Coach, Stuart Barrow, has selected a 31-player strong train-on squad ahead of their historic clash against the Australia Jillaroos in Las Vegas (March 1) with a brand-new name included for the first time – Georgie Dagger (nee Hetherington), the reigning Betfred Women's Super League Woman of Steel.

The 27-year-old returns to the international set up following her wedding to York Knights full-back Will Dagger which took place on the same day as England’s 82-0 defeat of Wales on November 2.

The utility made her England debut in the mid-season international against France and was crowned 2024 Woman of Steel after a stunning season which ended with a Player-of-the-Match performance in the Valkyrie’s BWSL Grand Final triumph against St Helens.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Fri 29th Nov 2024 7:29 AM | Views : 1979 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Brian Noble’s second stint as head coach of Bradford Bulls will begin with a home game against London Broncos in Round One of the 2025 Betfred Championship, while Oldham and Hunslet each have attractive home openers following their promotion from Betfred League One.

Oldham will host Mark Applegarth’s York Knights at Boundary Park in Round One on Sunday February 16, while Hunslet kick off at Barrow Raiders before they welcome the Bulls to the South Leeds Stadium in Round Two on February 23.

The Championship has been reduced to 13 teams in 2025 as part of the process of producing three 12-team divisions from 2026, which means each team will play 24 fixtures spread over 26 rounds from February to September.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Tue 26th Nov 2024 6:27 PM | Views : 4901 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Betfred Super League will have its most streamlined fixture list for the competition’s 30th season in 2025, with more Thursday, Saturday and Sunday fixtures – kicking off with Wigan Warriors launching their bid for a third consecutive title at home to local rivals Leigh Leopards on Thursday February 13, exclusively live on Sky Sports.

For a huge year of Rugby League which includes an historic fixture between Wigan and Warrington Wolves in Las Vegas on March 1, and is set to end with the first Ashes series since 2003, Rugby League Commercial and the RFL have worked with the clubs and broadcast partners to deliver a greater spread of matches across each weekend.

Thursday night fixtures have been confirmed through until the penultimate round in September, including Wakefield Trinity hosting Castleford Tigers in the first match of Rivals Round across the Easter weekend from April 17-19, and two Thursday night games in Round 20 which is split across two weekends from July 24 to August 1.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Thu 21st Nov 2024 8:10 AM | Views : 13014 | Replies : 33 | READ MORE
Super League’s Magic Weekend is heading back to Newcastle next May – and fans have two weeks to snap up tickets at a special early rate to take their pick of the six fixtures at St James’ Park.

On top of the 50% discount on tickets for all season ticket holders when they purchase through their clubs, anyone can take advantage of a 40% discount across all ticketing categories until midnight 2nd December 2024 (Cyber Monday).

Magic Weekend will celebrate its 18th birthday in 2025, and will return to the first May Bank Holiday, just as when it was launched in Cardiff in 2007 as a trailblazing concept for Rugby League and for British sport.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Mon 18th Nov 2024 7:07 AM | Views : 9052 | Replies : 16 | READ MORE
After a big loss last weekend, it was likely that Samoa would prove much tougher opposition for England in the second test match at Headingley Stadium in Leeds as they looked to put into action an extra week of training and build up and ask England some harsher questions.

Shaun Wane made a few changes to last week’s winning side with Liam Marshall into the side for Dom Young and Junior Nsemba being brought into the starting line-up while Samoa also made a couple of changes including Leeds Rhinos bound Keenan Palasia being given a start off the bench.

England were big favourites with the bookies to make it a second win of the two-match series and exact a little more revenge for that exit at the semi-final stage in the last World Cup.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sat 2nd Nov 2024 4:22 PM | Views : 4242 | Replies : 1 | READ MORE
Headingley Stadium was the venue for a top-drawer double-header which started with England’s women taking on the Welsh in the fourth test match between the two nations, England with big wins in all previous meetings.

England were massive favourites as they start their preparation for a three-test match encounter against Australia in 2025, a run out before a true test of England’s women and their current international standing.

Stuart Barrow had some selection problems for a variety of reason and selected a young squad of players hungry to establish themselves on the national stage.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sat 2nd Nov 2024 1:35 PM | Views : 3529 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Shaun Wane’s England entered a mouthwatering two game test series against a Samoan side who knocked the hosts out of the World Cup at the semi-final stage in 2022 as the two sides did battle at the Brick Community Stadium in Wigan.

England are unbeaten since that loss but are against a Samoan side containing only two of the players who made it to the World Cup final.

It promised to be a big challenge for England as they looked for a modicum of revenge for the heartbreak of two years ago, the scene was set for an explosive opening in the first ever test series between the two nations.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sun 27th Oct 2024 4:26 PM | Views : 4328 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Following a Rugby Football League compliance investigation, an independent Operational Rules Tribunal was convened on October 17 to consider alleged breaches in March 2024 by Mark Aston and Mick Heys, who were respectively head coach and head physiotherapist at Sheffield Eagles.



The alleged breaches concerned the appearance of Matty Marsh for the Eagles in their Betfred Challenge Cup tie at Wigan Warriors on March 22, 13 days after he had suffered a head injury during a Betfred Championship fixture against Swinton Lions, and without having received the necessary medical clearance to return.


Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Thu 24th Oct 2024 3:53 PM | Views : 2160 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
St Helens have earned the highest score in the first official club gradings which are today published as part of Rugby League’s long-term strategic partnership with IMG – and which determine membership of the Betfred Super League in 2025.

Saints have scored 17,02 points out of the maximum of 20 available to clubs across five pillars – Fandom, Finance, Stadium, Community and On-Field Performance.

They are one of nine clubs who have secured an A grading which guarantees a place in Super League.

The others include Wakefield Trinity, who were relegated from the Super League in 2023 and received a B grade in the illustrative gradings that were released last autumn.


Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Wed 23rd Oct 2024 10:36 AM | Views : 4511 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
The top two sides in the Championship took the field to play out the final game of the domestic season as they met in the Play-off final to determine the top side in the competition.

IMG and the RFL were praying for a Wakefield win to ensure that the winners would replace the London Broncos in the top flight next season while the mischievous neutrals were hoping for a Toulouse win to ‘put the cat amongst the pigeons’.

The bookies strongly fancied Trinity for the win.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sat 19th Oct 2024 10:01 PM | Views : 6147 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
Championship rugby for 2025 was at stake for the Swinton Lions and Hunslet as they met in the promotion/relegation play off for an eighty-minute showdown to determine whether the home side would maintain their status or whether the side from West Yorkshire would replace them.

The gulf between the second and third tiers of British rugby league meant that the Lions were strong favourites for the win, it would take a Herculean effort from Hunslet to upset the Championship side and take the prize.

A Sunday evening game, under the glare of the floodlights, promised plenty of needle and an exciting encounter.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Mon 14th Oct 2024 7:19 AM | Views : 5832 | Replies : 0 | READ MORE
In normal times the end of season Championship play-off game between Wakefield Trinity and York RLFC Knights would be a fight to the death for a place in the Million Pound Game and a chance for a tilt at Super League rugby in 2025, but these are not normal times.

With next year’s topflight line up to be decided by a desk exercise in the hands of the RFL’s consultants, IMG, what was to play for today was IMG success points, with Wakefield Trinity already guaranteed promotion.

Wakefield were strong favourites with the bookies, and it would have taken a brave man to back the visitors after Trinity romped to big wins in all of the games that the two sides have played in the 2024 season.

Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Sun 13th Oct 2024 4:43 PM | Views : 6547 | Replies : 1 | READ MORE


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