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WHITEHEAD PLUMBING & GAS EXPANDS SPONSORSHIP TO BACK JUNIOR PROGRAMME AND MEN’S PREMIERSHIP
Whitehead Plumbing & Gas has become synonymous with junior rugby league in Canterbury, providing invaluable support for our game’s youngest participants. This year, the company has expanded its backing to include naming rights sponsorship of the region’s top club competition. The 2024 season heralds the sixth successive year of the CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas…
Read MoreGREYHOUNDS SEAL 2024 CRL PREMIERSHIP SPOT VIA TIGERS PARTNERSHIP
Papanui Tigers and Greymouth Greyhounds have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see the clubs share players during the 2024-25 seasons, with the Greyhounds competing in the Canterbury Rugby League Men’s Premiership and the Tigers lining up in the Canterbury Cup Premier Reserves. The MoU, executed on November 20, comes on the back of…
Read MoreCANTERBURY RUGBY LEAGUE 2023 AWARD WINNERS
The complete list of award winners from Canterbury Rugby League’s 2023 Prizegiving, held at the Hornby Club on Friday, November 3. COMPETITION AWARDS Terry Cox Memorial Trophy (18s boys Grand Final winners): Linwood Keas Kidd-Mitchell Trophy (Division One Grand Final winners): Papanui Tigers Carol Crozier Trophy (Canterbury Cup Round Robin winners): Greymouth Greyhounds Fred Arnesen…
Read MoreMORE GRAND FINAL HISTORY BECKONS FOR KEAS
Linwood Keas have rewritten the Canterbury Rugby League record books several times in recent years – and they can match the most dominant dynasty in CRL Grand Final history with another victory over fierce rivals Hornby Panthers on Sunday. Linwood’s run of five straight Pat Smith Trophy Challenge triumphs from 2016-20 was unprecedented, while the…
Read MorePANTHERS PRIMED TO REDRESS FINALS BALANCE AGAINST KEAS
Few clubs in the world of rugby league would be as familiar with one another as Hornby Panthers and Linwood Keas. The archrivals have met almost 30 times in the past eight seasons, while they are preparing to square off in the Pat Smith Trophy Challenge for the seventh time in eight years at Ngā…
Read MoreLINWOOD V HORNBY: THE RIVALRY CONTINUES
This Sunday’s CRL Men’s Premiership Grand Final at Ngā Puna Wai will see another chapter of one of Canterbury Rugby League’s greatest club rivalries unfold. Linwood Keas and Hornby Panthers will go toe-to-toe for the Pat Smith Trophy for the seventh time in eight years – and the 10th time in the past 19 seasons.…
Read MoreCRL PREMIERSHIP DECIDERS: A GRAND HISTORY
The Pat Smith Trophy has been Canterbury Rugby League’s ultimate prize for more than half a century, awarded to the winning side in each year’s Grand Final since a playoffs system replaced the first-past-the-post format to decide the premiership in 1967. Sunday’s Men’s Premiership decider between defending champs Linwood Keas and archrivals Hornby Panthers on…
Read MoreCRL 2023: FINALS WEEK 2 WRAP
Linwood and Hornby will meet in the Pat Smith Trophy decider for the seventh time in eight years after the Panthers carved out a 26-12 victory in Saturday’s CRL Men’s Premiership preliminary final against Halswell Hornets. The Panthers, who bundled the Hornets out of the finals at the corresponding stage in 2021-22, got out to…
Read MoreFLASHBACK FRIDAY: PANTHERS EDGE HORNETS IN EXTRA-TIME GF THRILLER
As westside neighbours Hornby Panthers and Halswell Hornets prepare for their do-or-die preliminary final showdown at Leslie Park, Flashback Friday revisits the last of the clubs’ 11 Pat Smith Trophy Challenge encounters. The Panthers and Hornets had previously squared off in the 1984-87, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2012 grand finals, with a Corey…
Read MoreCRL YOUTH WRAP & WEEKEND PREVIEW
YOUTH WRAP – AUGUST 7-9 The dominant teams in the CRL 16s and 14s Boys grades will contest next week’s youth night competition grand finals after all four carved out convincing semi-final victories at Ngā Puna Wai. In Monday’s 16s semis, unbeaten Linwood Keas defeated fourth-placed Celebration Lions 40-16, while Panthers Black overcame Panthers White…
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