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YOUTH WRAP – MAY 1-3 Canterbury Rugby League’s youth night competitions got underway this week, with the region’s 14s, 16s and 18s boys club teams heading out under lights at Ngā Puna Wai and Avonhead Park. The 16s boys kicked youth footy off for 2023 on Monday. Linwood Keas made an early statement courtesy of…
Read MoreCRL REFEREE PROFILE: OWEN HARVEY
One of the longest-serving of Canterbury Rugby League’s current brigade of referees, Owen Harvey is in his 10th season with the whistle in our region. But his journey in officiating the game spans four provinces and almost three decades. Dunedin-born Harvey started as a player, turning out for Kia Toa Tigers and South Coast Dolphins…
Read MoreRED AND BLACK REPORT 2023: EDITION NO.5
The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League products featuring in Australia’s elite and lower-grade competitions. NRL Aranui Eagles product Jamayne Isaako still has his nose in front in the NRL’s pointscoring race, kicking four goals in the Dolphins’ premiership-record-equalling comeback win over Gold Coast in Round 8 and landing…
Read MoreCRL 2023: ROUND 5 CLUB WRAP
Linwood Keas remain unbeaten at the top of the CRL Mens’ Premiership table after five rounds, while Hornby Panthers bounced back in impressive style and Halswell Hornets moved to outright third with a fast-finishing win in Round 5 of the Massetti Cup. The Keas overcame a plucky Riccarton Knights outfit 34-16 at Linwood Park in…
Read MoreCRL AND WHITEHEAD PLUMBING & GAS MARK FIVE SEASONS IN PARTNERSHIP
The 2023 CRL Junior Rugby League season gets underway on Saturday – and Whitehead Plumbing & Gas are on board as valued naming rights sponsors for the fifth consecutive year. Whitehead Plumbing & Gas have been behind Canterbury’s junior competitions since 2019, sticking solid through the arduous – for business and community sport – COVID-19…
Read MoreFLASHBACK FRIDAY: ENDACOTT’S ’98 HEROES
Though the Anzac Test is no longer on the international rugby league schedule, we’re revisiting the inaugural clash back in 1998 – which doubles as one of the greatest wins in New Zealand’s history – for Flashback Friday to mark the iconic match’s 25th anniversary. In 2018, legendary ex-Canterbury and Kiwis coach Frank Endacott shared…
Read MoreWHITEHEAD PLUMBING & GAS JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE SEASON KICKS OFF SATURDAY
The autumn dew on rugby league fields around Ōtautahi Christchurch is about to be disturbed from this Saturday morning as hundreds of kids fizzing for the 2023 Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Junior Rugby League season finally get to pull the footy boots on again. A fortunate few juniors had the opportunity to play on Orangetheory…
Read MoreCANTERBURY RUGBY LEAGUE’S ANZACS: FIVE LOST AT GALLIPOLI
April 25, 2023 marks 108 years since the landing of troops, predominantly from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), at Gallipoli Peninsula less than nine months after the beginning of the First World War. An estimated 1,000 ANZAC troops lost their lives fighting Turkish forces that day, while the Department of Veteran Affairs…
Read MoreCRL 2023 CLUB WRAP: ROUND 4
Saturday’s CRL grand final rematch double-header at Linwood Park finished one win apiece to the Keas and Panthers. Meanwhile, the Eagles chalked up convincing Round 4 wins in both men’s grades, it was a mixed afternoon for the Hornets and Bulldogs, the Greyhounds celebrated a Thacker Shield triumph on the West Coast, and both 2022…
Read MoreTHACKER SHIELD RETURNS FOR GREYMOUTH CLASH
Papanui Tigers make the journey to the West Coast this weekend to take on ISC Canterbury Cup leaders Greymouth Greyhounds on Saturday, providing the perfect opportunity to revitalise competition for the hallowed Thacker Shield. The hallowed prize was donated in 1913 by Dr Henry Thacker, who was instrumental in setting up Canterbury Rugby League a…
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