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What a day yesterday! As usual the Geordie crowd was fantastic encouraging the runners throughout. It’s been a few years since I’ve run the GNR and must admit found the course pretty tough - although there are no big hills, it seemed to me as though all the roads were inclined with the exception of [...]

Rugby clubs have many great characters and only yesterday I attended a funeral of a former player, manager, junior coach and referee. He was a year younger than me and he left a grieving wife and two fine young rugby playing sons. I know I’m stating the obvious, but cancer is such a truly awful [...]

In 1970 the Great Britain Rugby League Lions regained their pride and the Ashes with a stunning 24-match tour of Australia and New Zealand. Led superbly by Frank Myler, the tourists lost only one game in Australia, the First Test, and successfully negotiated the often difficult New Zealand leg without defeat. This was a [...]

Ellis Rugby have been appointed by New York Rugby League to develop an exciting capsule fashion clothing range for the new club. "We’re very excited at the prospect of working with NY Rugby League and are currently in discussions with retailers to offer distribution of what I believe will be an extremely successful fashion [...]

On the 26th January 2019 the Greatest Rugby League players met at the Great Britain Rugby League Associations Annual Luncheon to celebrate this elite band of men. Ellis Rugby are proud to be associated with the GBRL Lions, sponsoring this wonderful event and contributing profits to the Association and the Charity Rugby League Cares [...]

The Spring/Summer edition of RL Cares ‘ONE IN, ALL IN’ has recently been published and is a great read, featuring news on player welfare, the games heritage, a profile on Wigan and Great Britain Legend Andy Gregory and all the wonderful work the organisation undertakes. We’ve also taking a full page ad in the publications [...]

Ellis Rugby linked up with French Rugby League pioneers Catalans Dragons last week, providing the players with a selection of the companies vintage International Rugby League range. The collection was warmly received by the multi-nation group of players (as shown on the video below). Stars of the game posed for photos on the famous Stade [...]

There are many sporting heritage clothing brands on the high street, but there are very few that remain loyal to their roots. Our approach to clothing design is totally integrated with a club or organisations sporting history. We research the history of the club, develop garment designs and a structured merchandising campaign and then breathe [...]

Malcolm Reilly was a trailblazer of the English game. As a player he won a host of honours, including the 1970 Great Britain Ashes Test winning team down under in which Reilly was the teams most consistent performer. Our 1970 Great Britain Rugby League inspired our Polo and Jersey designs celebrate Malcolm’s displays - [...]

Welshman Billy Boston earned ‘cult hero’ status at Wigan, a club where he scored almost 500 tries during his 15 year spell. After learning his trade in Rugby Union during his junior days, Billy switched codes at the age of 19. The Billy Boston Hall of Fame collection includes a Wigan Polo inspired by [...]