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Cumbria’s Championship rugby league squad Whitehaven RLFC has revealed its fixtures for the 2021 Betfred Championship. A spokesperson for the club said this weekend: “Our 2021 Betfred Championship campaign will kick off with Haven travelling to West Yorkshire on Easter Weekend to play our first league game in 389 days. Gary Charlton’s squad will travel to the Tetley’s Stadium to take on Dewsbury Rams.” Whitehaven’s first home game in the league will see them defend the Recreation Ground against promoted Newcastle Thunder on Sunday April 18. Thunder have stepped up to the ...

Roughyeds kick off with home derby clash Date published: 15 February 2021 Former Oldham favourites Richard Lepori and Will Hope will be looking forward to returning to Bower Fold in the colours of Swinton who, like Matt Diskin's men, have recruited heavily for this year With the last two weekends in March accommodating the first two rounds of the Betfred Challenge Cup, the 2021 Betfred Championship campaign starts on Good Friday, April 2 and Oldham kick off with a cracker against derby rivals Swinton Lions at Bower Fold, kick-off 3pm. Depending on first-round Challenge Cup results, there ...

Cumbria's Championship rugby league squad Whitehaven RLFC has revealed its fixtures for the 2021 Betfred Championship.

That away tie will be played on the weekend of March 20/21. If Vikings win that game they will go on play the winners of the Whitehaven v Dewsbury tie in round two a week later.   Two old West Yorkshire rivals with considerable Challenge Cup pedigree, Featherstone Rovers and Bradford Bulls, were drawn to play each other in the heavyweight tie of the round by Jon Wilkin, the former England and Great Britain international and four-times Cup winner with St Helens, who made the draw which was screened live by BBC Sport. The draws for both the First and Second Rounds were held consecuti...

WORK is progressing rapidly towards the “finishing line” of returning Bradford’s most famous venue to its former glory. Odsal Stadium has been out of action since main occupiers, Bradford Bulls, said goodbye to their fabled home on Sunday, September 1, 2019. More than 7,000 fans turned up for that game against Sheffield Eagles, before the rugby league side made the move to Dewsbury. The famous bowl has been silent ever since. But the murmurs of rumour, and then the concrete evidence of a certain much-loved sport returning to the stadium after decades away, have now turned to t...