England coach Wayne Bennett says he is proud of his side after their narrow loss to Australia in the final of the Rugby League World Cup on Saturday. The Kangaroos prevailed by a scoreline of 6-0 in a thrilling and tense meeting in Brisbane. ‘It’s a pity there’s a loser,’ […]
Rugby League World Cup 2017
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Tears of joy have flowed with the Jillaroos farewelling co-captains Steph Hancock and Renae Kunst in style, defending their Rugby League World Cup title with a 23-16 win over the Kiwi Ferns. Jillaroos centre Isabelle Kelly scored a double but the win was sealed by Caitlin Moran’s field goal with […]
12 min: Tonga are under some pressure now, England doing a good job of pinning them down into their own half. McGillvary gets another try, and this was too easy! From centre-field England run a set play and it goes right through the hands until Widdop sees Tupou and Jennings […]
Less than a week after becoming the first Kangaroo to score five tries in a Test, Valentine Holmes broke his record with six in Australia’s 54-6 Rugby League World Cup semi-final rout of Fiji. A ruthless Australia punished an ill-disciplined Bati side by running in 10 tries at Suncorp Stadium […]
A nice touch by the Kangaroos for centre Will Chambers: Australian Kangaroos (@Kangaroos) Will Chambers will wear this personalised jersey tonight, featuring the NT Flag. He becomes the first local product to play a Test Match in the Northern Territory 👏#GoTheRoos 🇦🇺#RISE #RLWC2017 pic.twitter.com/Klybmcpc8N November 17, 2017 Demonstrating the work […]
Every World Cup has its fall guys and this time it appears to be Wales. Not only are they missing half a dozen of their leading Super League players – such as Lloyd White, Gil Dudson and Ben Flower – they also have the toughest schedule. Wales are among three […]
Not far from kick-off now, assuming that’ll happen at the advertised time of 8pm local. Ha. But given it’s 8pm already and there’s no sign of the teams yet, that’s unlikely. Here’s confirmation of tonight’s line-ups: Australian Kangaroos (@Kangaroos) Here’s how we line up against @FFRXIII #GoTheRoos 🇦🇺#RISE #RLWC2017 pic.twitter.com/UHY2KKyoNn […]
The hosts have not lost an international since May 2015 and it is more than a decade since they were beaten by a side other than New Zealand. In fact, England’s barren run against the Kangaroos stretches back to 1995, when they beat them at Wembley Stadium in the group […]