Manager Peter Tiffin announces exciting new Wales Rugby League under 16s Programme for 2016

During the summer Wales Under 16s will take part in one of the biggest programmes for this age grade for a long time. The first game in their programme was last week as they faced the Welsh Junior Conference side, South Wales Rabbitohs at Pontyclun, this was a tough test for the squad resulting in the Welsh Under 16s pipping the Rabbitohs to the post.

The next fixture for the Welsh squad will be the first game in a mini-series in which Catalan Dragons under 16s travel to Wales to play at Virginia Park and Stebonheath Park over a 4-day period.

A few days later the squad will then travel to West Hull to play against their under 16s at Bishop Burton College.

After a difficult fixture away in Hull the boys will then face Northwest Lionhearts in a capped fixture in Stebonheath Park, Llanelli.

The final game of the programme will be another capped fixture in which the squad will travel over to Ireland to face their National under 16s.

Here are the full details regarding this year’s Wales under 16s fixtures:

• Thursday 21^st July – Catalan Dragons – Virginia Park -18:30
• Saturday 23^rd July – Catalan Dragons – Stebonheath Park – 13:00
• Wednesday 27^th July – West Hull – Bishop Burton College – 16:00
• Saturday 6^th August – Northwest Lionhearts – Stebonheath Park – 16:00
• Sunday 28^th August – Ireland – Ashbourne -15:00

Wales Rugby League’s Coaching & Performance Manager Jon Ellis stated:

“With England pulling out of the annual international the u16s programme could have fallen into a bit of a crisis, however with a lot of hard work from all the u16s staff there is now an excellent programme of very high quality games with some exceptional opposition to play against.  Special thanks go to Wayne Ponting, Andrew Thorne and Peter Tiffin for the work they are doing with the squad.”