The Rugby League World Cup 2021 tournament organisers have today (July 21st) revealed the much-anticipated fixture schedule for what promises to be the biggest and best World Cup in the history of the sport, as the men’s, women’s and wheelchair teams all compete at the same time in a major sporting first. Scotland will [...]
France are ranked number one in the world as the official International Rugby League (IRL) wheelchair rugby league world rankings are issued for the very first time. The French can lay claim to have been the “inventors” of the wheelchair game and are the current world cup holders. England are a very close second [...]
With 500 days to go until the opening fixture of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021), tournament organisers have announced that Scotland Wheelchair will be based in Sheffield for next years’ tournament. The Wheelchair squad, will be calling Sheffield home during the tournament, where the city will host all Group B fixtures at [...]
Looking ahead to RLWC2021 Scotland Wheelchair have made some changes to their staff team with Mark Roughsedge and Jim Dyson taking over as Head Coaches from Peter Lowis. Working away behind the scenes is a Scotland Rugby League trademark, as should attempting to become as competitive and successful as possible on the pitch. The new [...]
The draws for the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) took place at Buckingham Palace today (Thursday 16 January), where each competing nation in the respective men’s, women’s and wheelchair events learnt their group opponents. Conducted by HRH The Duke of Sussex, Head of UK Sport, Dame Katherine Granger DBE and RLWC2021 International Ambassador [...]
International Rugby League will be awarding the Golden Boot to the player who is judged to have been the best wheelchair rugby league player in international competitions during the year. This award joins and sits alongside the Golden Boots awarded annually to the best international male and female players giving the game a trio [...]
The Wheelchair Player of the Year, who received the Graeme Stewart Award, named after Scotland Wheelchair RL pioneer Graeme Stewart, is Dundee Dragons star Jay Anderson. Anderson has picked up the Graeme Stewart for the first time following a successful year including Captaining Scotland to their first win since 2015. Scotland Wheelchair RL Head [...]
Scotland (0) 1 Drop Goals: Grant England (60) 136 Tries: 2 - Halliwell (2), Boyd-Ward(2), Hazel (2), King, Nye, Collins (3), Butler (5), Hawkins (5), Mulhall Goals: Halliwell (7), Collins (11), Nye, Hawkins (3) England won the toss and elected to receive Scotland kicked off and after 3 drives from England Tom Halliwell broke [...]
Wales (48) 90 Tries: S Williams (2), Halsey (4), Trigg-Turner (2), Owen (2), M Williams, Roberts, Higgins, Taylor, Carver Goals: Halsey (7), Higgins (4), M Williams, Taylor (3) Scotland (6) 12 Tries: Mellon, Dobson Goals: Grant, Mellon Scotland opened up their Tri-nations campaign on Saturday with a 90-12 defeat to Wales It wasn’t the [...]
As we build up to the Tri-Nations in Wales next weekend we can finally reveal your Wheelchair Bravehearts squad. Long serving Graeme Stewart is still injured but it's a return for the influential Michael Mellon and a return to international action for Daniel Grant after an excellent season with Gravesend Dynamite. Jay Anderson retains [...]
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