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https://www.loverugbyleague.com/pos...tious-bid-to-be-host-city-for-next-world-cup/


Newcastle want to host England and Scotland games on the opening weekend of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.

It puts both St James’ Park and Kingston Park forward as host venues for fixtures alongside the new Eagles Community Arena in Elswick for staging games in the Wheelchair RL competition.

Newcastle’s ambitions to be a host location have already passed the first stage of assessment, making it through to a shortlist of 28 cities under consideration, with a final decision on where the games will be played expected later this year.

Newcastle has requested that it would like to be considered to host England in the opening game of the tournament at St James’ Park.

Plans have also been put forward to stage a second game in the city on the same weekend at Kingston Park, with Scotland being proposed as being one of the teams taking part.

Around these two games, the city would stage a series of events involving an opening ceremony, fan zone, a festival of rugby league as well as other city animation, cultural and civic occasions.

Cllr Kim McGuiness, cabinet member for culture, sport and public health at Newcastle City Council, said: “It’s wonderful news that our bid to host Rugby League World Cup matches in Newcastle in 2021 has been shortlisted.

“Newcastle has built a national reputation as a rugby-loving city which welcomes back fans, again and again, a reputation built off the back of our famous friendly welcome and sporting pride. The Rugby League World Cup is the perfect opportunity to put our city on the global stage. We know from events such as the Magic Weekend or the Great Exhibition of the North that we can offer a welcome like no other in an atmosphere that is unrivalled

“But we also know that, just like Rugby League, we are a city in which everyone has their chance to take part and enjoy.

“We want these to be games which reach out into all communities in our city and make it a success everyone takes pride in.”

RLWC2021 chief executive Jon Dutton said: “It is another significant milestone in our journey ahead of what will be the biggest and best ever RLWC in history.

“We’ve been delighted with not just the quantity but the quality of the applications we have received.

“It’s been great to see the various public “Back the Bid” campaigns across the country which has shown what it means to communities to be a host at RLWC2021.

“The next stage is for us go through each and every bid in detail to allow us to make the best possible decisions for the tournament – this journey will include site visits and further conversations in the next few months before we reveal the outcomes early next year.”
 
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The RLWC 2021 will take place in England and all aspiring Towns and Cities have submitted their final host applications.

Towns and Cities from across the nation have been busy in recent months preparing their bids to host games at the RLWC in 2021.

Rugby League towns such as St Helens, Wigan and Warrington are amongst many hoping to bring the tournament to their local communities.

Large cities such as Liverpool and Manchester have also thrown their hat into the ring, with the aspiration of being a World Cup hosting institution.

The benefits of being a hosting Town or City come in a variety of forms – such as the large economic impact from local and international tourism.

As well as providing ample opportunity for community engagement with local businesses.

The 2021 World Cup will crisscross moors, mountains, historic towns and buzzing cities in the attempt to showcase a diverse and welcoming sporting culture.

The Men’s World Cup will have 16 teams play a total of 31 games in up to 14 stadiums – all over a five week period.

The Women’s World Cup will have up to eight teams playing a total of 16 games over 14 days – all of which will lead up to a showcase final.

The Wheelchair World Cup will see up to eight teams battle it out over 18 games, all within a two week period.

The tournaments are set to begin from October 2021 – only three years to wait!


https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/rugby-league-world-cup-2021-final-host-bids-submitted/
 
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Vision for Workington's shared stadium revealed
The 8,000-capacity stadium will be home to Workington Reds and Workington Town


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Vision for Workington's shared stadium revealed
The 8,000-capacity stadium will be home to Workington Reds and Workington Town


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A VISION of the new multi-million pound shared sports stadium for Workington has finally been unveiled.

Allerdale council has revealed plans for an 8,000 capacity stadium - which would be home to Workington Reds and Workington Town.

The facility, which is estimated to cost around £15 million, will be developed on the current Borough Park site, home to Reds, and the recently acquired nearby riverside land - formerly a dog racing track.

It is hoped that the stadium would be complete by 2021, and could possibly host the Rugby League World Cup, if the council's bid to stage a game is successful.

The stadium will help to secure the future of the town's football and rugby league clubs, along with providing facilities to the wider community and grassroots sports.

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/...ealed-7d263fd4-3cd4-4b7d-a4b1-eb21c5fa732b-ds
 
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I really love that our world cup is all encompassing; men's, women's, wheelchair - it gives it an actual feel that it is a celebration of the game. Good stuff!
 
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It’s a sporting mystery that dates back decades – but 48 years after it was famously stolen, the Rugby League World Cup trophy has at last been returned to its full former glory.

Today, at the Rugby League International Federation Annual Congress, the final missing piece from the Paul Barrière cup has been unveiled – a cockerel that originally adorned the top of it. The location of the cockerel has been a mystery since it was last seen before the 1968 Rugby League World Cup, which took place in Australia and New Zealand.

The original trophy was commissioned by French Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII president Paul Barrière to be used at the inaugural Rugby League World Cup in 1954. It was used in four tournaments, before being stolen whilst on display at a Bradford hotel during the competition in 1970.

The trophy was found in 1990 by Bradford resident Stephen Uttley and his wife Elizabeth in a ditch near a rugby club in Bingley, West Yorkshire.

Ahead of the next Rugby League World Cup which will take place in England in 2021, the tournament organisers have commissioned the master craftsmen at the Royal Warrant holding Thomas Fattorini to recreate the cockerel. Fattorini is a 191-year-old family run business who also designed and created the Rugby League Challenge Cup and the FA Cup. A member of the Fattorini family was actually part of the breakaway from Rugby Union in the late 1800’s, which resulted in the birth of Rugby League.

Originally produced at a cost of eight million francs, the 2ft 6in high Paul Barrière cup, which weighs 25kg, now looks exactly as it would have at the first Rugby League World Cup in 1954. However, one key difference ahead of 2021, which aims to be the most digitally connected Rugby League World Cup ever, is the addition of a GPS tracker. This will allow its movements to be tracked at all times and will also enable fans to follow the trophy’s progress around the world via here

The new cockerel was revealed today by award winning grand illusionist Sean Alexander. A video can be seen here of the unveil.

Jon Dutton, Chief Executive of RLWC2021, said:

“We’re absolutely delighted to have worked with the team at Fattorini to return the Paul Barrière Cup to its full former glory incorporating the original design. As a Rugby League fan this is a very proud moment that we want people to share in and enjoy.However, we’re not taking any chances with the Cup and our new cockerel this time. We’ve incorporated a GPS tracker – a device they obviously didn’t have available to them in the 70s. We may never know where the World Cup went during its two missing decades, but we will always know where it is going forward. Fans can too, by keeping a close eye on the tracking website - we shall be avoiding ditches at the side of the road!”
Professor Tony Collins, a sports and social historian and author specialising in Rugby League, added:

“It’s been wonderful to see the Rugby League World Cup trophy unveiled today, as it was originally imagined. The story of the loss of the trophy back in 1970 is one I’ve told for many years so having this new cockerel fitted is the perfect ending. Perhaps seeing the new cockerel will prompt someone to realise they unknowingly have the original on their mantelpiece, and one of the greatest sporting mysteries of all time will finally be solved!”
To follow the Paul Barrière Cup on its travels ahead of RLWC2021, please visit here


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https://www.rlwc2021.com/article/93/the-mystery-of-the-missing-cockerel-
 
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It was hard not to be impressed by the 2021 World Cup event that included the re-launch of its trophy back to its original state.

The cockerel, a symbol of the French Federation and national team, had been absent from the trophy since it went missing in the 1960s, and the event also told the story of how the trophy went missing from Bradford in 1970, only to be discovered some 20 years later in a ditch in the city.

For the second time in eight years, the World Cup will be held on these shores, although this time solely in England, rather than games in France, Ireland and Wales as was the case in 2013.

Tournament chief executive Jon Dutton spoke passionately about the importance of the Northern Powerhouse, which has helped to persuade the government to provide £25m in funding for the World Cup, and revealed that more than 80% of the games will be held in the north.

London will host games, and there will be a move towards northern cities, rather than towns, for games though there will be plenty of opportunities to host teams, training, women and wheelchair games.

Dutton said: “We staged a World Cup here in 2013 which was magical, 458,000 spectators attended that tournament.

“We’ve been going to government and accessed a huge amount of funding and everything we’ve done so far we have to be

ambitious and we have to fill venues and we have to work with the loyal rugby league community, the people that attended the game in Hull and Liverpool but we have to go beyond that and that is our single biggest challenge.

“This has to be a mega sporting event that transcends rugby league and it’s as simple as that.

“We want to surprise people, we want to delight people and people will really see the scale of our ambition. We need the rugby league community to get behind our tournament and be proud of it.”

A total of 28 towns and cities have bid to be hosts, and that list will be whittled down in January, with an announcement to be around the “1000 days to go” date of January 27.

Referencing the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Dutton expressed his eagerness to play midweek games, something which the 2017 Rugby League World Cup lacked, but that had worked so well at the 2013 edition, notably at Rochdale.

Despite the success of the last tournament here, the failure to build a noticeable legacy was a disappointment.

Dutton added: “We were incredibly proud of what we delivered in 2013. We were a really small team, we ran it on a shoe string budget, it came the year after the Olympics and we were focused on delivering the tournament and filling the venues.

“This time we were clear, we went to the government and said we didn’t just want funding for the tournament. We want you to fund our legacy programme.

“We announced that £10m has been made available to community rugby league clubs. It is split in two two pots. One is a £1m pot that any community rugby league club should be able to access, and that might be for kit, equipment, set up a under 7s team or it might be a small modification to a facility.

“The bigger pot is for transformation. I’d like to deliver about 50 projects so when we all gather back at the end of the tournament and you say what’s the legacy, it’s that new club house, it’s that new artificial pitch.”

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/bold-world-cup-plans-aim-to-leave-tangible-legacy/
 
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Is there anywhere we can see the 28 cities that have bid for games?

For there to be 80% of games in the north it means at most 6 games outside the north. Is Newcastle considered 'The North' when it comes to RL or are they talking about Yorkshire and Lancashire only?
 
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Springs09 said:
Is there anywhere we can see the 28 cities that have bid for games?

For there to be 80% of games in the north it means at most 6 games outside the north. Is Newcastle considered 'The North' when it comes to RL or are they talking about Yorkshire and Lancashire only?
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Surely Newcastle is part of the north !
 
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