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Six new Laws, but still no scrums, for the start of the 2021 season FEBRUARY 3, 4pm The RFL Board today ratified recommendations from the RFL Laws Committee for the 2021 season. The Laws Committee held a virtual meeting on January 20 and received presentations regarding the Covid pandemic and head contact and concussion. The Committee also…

Barrow Raiders are delighted to announce the signing of prop forward Callum Bustin on a one year deal. Callum returns to rugby league having had a pandemic disrupted spell in union with Carnegie. There were a number of clubs chasing his signature but Raiders fought them off with the offer of a joint community role…

SQUAD No SQUAD 2021 1  LUKE CRESSWELL 2 TEE RITSON 3 DECLAN HULME 4 MARK TYSON 5 SHANE TOAL 6  JAMIE DALLIMORE 7  RYAN JOHNSTON 8 RYAN DUFFY 9 NATHAN MOSSOP 10 CARL FORSTER 11 DAN MORROW 12 JARRAD STACK 13 JORDAN WALNE 14 JAKE CARTER 15 DAN TOAL 16 TOM HOPKINS 17 ADAM WALNE…

Barrow Raiders are saddened and shocked to hear the news of the passing of our Furness Raiders team manager, Keith Nutter. The club held Keith in the highest regard and we offer our heartfelt condolences to Keith’s family and especially his wife Trisha and daughters Kathy and Louise. Active as former Director, fundraiser and ultimately…

The public health situation seems to be improving slightly with the number of cases having dropped significantly over the past week. Hopefully, we are over the worst and we have been given the green light to resume our training activities. We are just waiting for the arrival of our testing kits and then we confirm…

March 21st target date for return to action Betfred Championship and League 1 clubs have targeted the weekend of March 21 as the return date for professional Rugby League outside the Betfred Super League – which will be one year and one week since they were last in action. Just as the last Rugby League…

Barrow Raiders had further meetings with the RFL and the clubs below Super League last week trying to put plans in place to return to both training and for the season to be planned. There is total commitment that the 2021 season will take place whatever the circumstances. The Championship clubs were previously looking at…

Small grants making a huge difference to community Rugby League More than 30 Rugby League clubs, schools and community organisations from across England are the latest beneficiaries of small grants from the RLWC2021 CreatedBy programme. The following awards total almost £230,000 taking the grand total of RLWC2021 small grants to more than £780,000 and the…

RFL Statement The Betfred Championship and League 1 clubs considered a number of options for the 2021 season at a virtual meeting on Wednesday evening. The consensus reached was that the Betfred Championship season could and should be delayed by several weeks from the scheduled start of late February, in recognition of the current public…

Our pre-season planning was put in further disarray when the RFL announced that they were suspending all activity below Super League until Friday. This is to give some breathing space for the RFL to consider the ever-worsening COVID situation in the community and to perhaps put some additional protocols in place. A clubs meeting has…