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BULLDOGS PROVIDE INVALUABLE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FOR CANTERBURY’S PLAYERS AND COACHES

Ngā Puna Wai was a hotbed of rugby league education and development for five consecutive days last week as the most significant event of Canterbury Rugby League’s partnership with NRL club Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs to date unfolded. Led by Craig Wilson (Pathways and Development), Fifita Hala (Recruitment) and Adam Hartigan (General...
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GREYHOUNDS 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,...
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CANTERBURY 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...
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SENZ CANTERBURY BULLS CRASH TO WAIKATO MANA IN DO-OR-DIE SHOWDOWN

An underwhelming 2023 NZRL National Premiership campaign for the SENZ Canterbury Bulls has culminated in a 34-22 relegation match loss to Waikato Mana at Pukekohe's Navigation Homes Stadium. The defeat means the SENZ Bulls will spend next year's representative season striving to regain a place in the Premiership from the...
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TRILLO CANTERBURY WOMEN’S SHOW SECOND-HALF FIGHT AGAINST VULCANS

The Trillo Metals Canterbury Women's team were again gallant in NZRL National Premiership defeat, closing out their round-robin campaign with a plucky 36-16 loss to Auckland Vulcans on the road at Navigation Homes Park. Canterbury, missing the likes of Sui Pauaraisa for this match, held the Vulcans to three tries...
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: CANTABRIANS IN NRL GRAND FINALS

Ahead of Sunday's night's NRL grand final between Penrith Panthers and Brisbane - where Hornby Panthers junior Jordan Riki will join a select group - we recognise the 10 players from the Canterbury region that have previously featured on the game’s biggest stage. Bill Noonan – Canterbury-Bankstown (1974): Simultaneously becoming...
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CANTERBURY JUNIOR RIKI CHASES GRAND FINAL GLORY WITH BRONCOS

An underrated contributor in Brisbane Broncos’ watershed drive to the NRL grand final, Hornby Panthers product Jordan Riki is set to join a select group when he runs out onto Accor Stadium on Sunday night to face Penrith Panthers. The strapping 23-year-old second-rower will become just the 11th Canterbury junior,...
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: BROADHURST FAREWELLS TEST ARENA IN ICONIC LANG PARK UPSET

The rugby league world’s attention is fixated on Suncorp Stadium for Saturday’s blockbuster NRL preliminary final between Brisbane Broncos and New Zealand Warriors. Flashback Friday goes back 40 years to the previous incarnation of the venue, the hallowed Lang Park, as one of Canterbury’s greatest players farewelled the Test arena...
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TRILLO METALS CANTERBURY WOMEN EDGED OUT BY WELLINGTON

For their second straight game in the 2023 NZRL National Women's Premiership, a late flurry of tries wasn't quite enough for the Trillo Metals Canterbury Women's team as they went down to Wellington Orcas 22-16 at Jerry Collins Park in Porirua on Sunday. Canterbury, coming off the bye, struck late...
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SENZ CANTERBURY BULLS COME UP SHORT IN SOUTHERN DERBY

The SENZ Canterbury Bulls' tough NZRL National Premiership round-robin campaign has concluded with a 32-14 loss to Otago Whalers at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium. The red-hot Whalers scored six tries to three, turning a 16-8 halftime lead into a convincing victory that sealed a historic semi-final appearance and consigns the...
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: JIMMY HAIG – OTAGO & CANTERBURY LEGEND

Ahead of Sunday's crunch NZRL National Premiership clash between Otago Whalers and SENZ Canterbury Bulls in Dunedin, Flashback Friday celebrates the only player to represent the Kiwis from both provinces - dual international and legendary halfback of the 1940s and '50s, Jimmy Haig. Haig was the first player to represent...
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CRUNCH TIME FOR SENZ CANTERBURY BULLS IN DUNEDIN

The NZRL National Premiership Round 3 showdown between southern rivals Otago Whalers and the SENZ Canterbury Bulls doubles as a shootout for a semi-final spot. With both teams going winless through the opening fortnight of the competition, the victor in Sunday’s clash under the roof at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium...
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