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The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League juniors featuring in Australia’s and Britain’s elite and lower-grade competitions. A host of Canterbury products were in action in the latest round of NRL, NRLW, NSWRL, QRL and Super League matches.   Have we missed anyone? Email will@crfl.co.nz to let us know! NRL…

Canterbury Rugby League mourns the loss of one our game’s greatest-ever players, Kiwi #466, Canterbury captain and prolific tryscoring winger Maurice ‘Mocky’ Brereton, who has passed away aged 79. Brereton made his New Zealand debut from West Coast in 1969 before embarking a record-breaking decade on the Canterbury Rugby League scene and setting a record…

The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League juniors featuring in Australia’s and Britain’s elite and lower-grade competitions. A host of Canterbury products were in action in the latest round of NRL, NRLW, NSWRL, QRL and Super League matches.   Have we missed anyone? Email will@crfl.co.nz to let us know! NRL…

The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League juniors featuring in Australia’s and Britain’s elite and lower-grade competitions. A host of Canterbury products were in action in the latest round of NRL, NRLW, NSWRL, QRL and Super League matches.   Have we missed anyone? Email will@crfl.co.nz to let us know! NRL…

The Trillo Metals Men’s Canterbury Bulls’ bid for back-to-back NZRL National Premiership final appearances will be underpinned by continuity of an experienced core group of players – making for a seamless transition under first-time representative head coach Sean Spooner. Eight players who featured the 2026 CRL Whitehead Plumbing and Gas Men’s Premiership grand final epic…

The Trillo Metals Women’s Canterbury Bulls squad for the upcoming NZRL National Women’s Premiership possesses an impressive mix of hard-edged experience and precocious young talent for incoming coach Tyron Rapana to blend together. A spectacular CRL Happy Hire Women’s Premiership grand final – with Hornby Panthers edging out Linwood Keas 26-24 in a thriller that…

The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League juniors featuring in Australia’s and Britain’s elite and lower-grade competitions. A host of Canterbury products were in action in the latest round of NRL, NRLW, NSWRL, QRL and Super League matches.   Have we missed anyone? Email will@crfl.co.nz to let us know! NRL…

Appearing in the club’s first Pat Smith Trophy Challenge grand final since Eastern Suburbs’ 1979-81 title three-peat, Eastern Eagles have won the CRL Whitehead Plumbing and Gas Men’s Premiership – but it took a mighty second-half comeback to subdue the gallant challenge of Riccarton Knights in a 36-30 classic. In a pulsating conclusion to the…

Hornby Panthers are the 2026 CRL Happy Hire Women’s Premiership champions after defeating Linwood Keas in a CRL Snap Fitness Grand Final Day epic, scoring two late tries to win 26-24. The rivals exchanged the lead several times as momentum swings abounded at Ngā Puna Wai – and the Panthers’ capture of the Canterbury Rugby…

Eastern Eagles have taken out the Canterbury Cup for the third year in a row, outlasting Linwood Keas 32-20 in the CRL Sidekick Chartered Accountants Conference League grand final at Ngā Puna Wai. The Eagles put one hand on the silverware with a dominant first-half display on CRL Snap Fitness Grand Final Day, leading 20-0…