The Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Huddersfield play their home games at the Kirklees Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league.
The Sheffield Eagles are a professional rugby league club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They play home games at the Olympic Legacy Park and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league.
Mark Aston is the head coach of Sheffield Eagles in the Betfred Championship. He is an English rugby league coach, and former rugby league scrum-half who spent the majority of his playing career with Sheffield Eagles. He also had short spells with Featherstone Rovers and Bramley, and won one cap for Great Britain in 1991. In 1998, he was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy after helping Sheffield win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium with a 17–8 victory against Wigan Warriors.
John Kear is an English professional rugby league coach, for the Wales national rugby league team. He also works as a pundit for BBC Sport and is a former professional rugby league footballer.
Daryl A. Powell is an English rugby league coach and former professional rugby league footballer. He is the head coach of Wakefield Trinity who play in the RFL Championship.
The year 1996's Stones Bitter Super League I was the official name for the 102nd season of top-level rugby league football, and the first year of Europe's new championship: Super League. It is also the first season of rugby league to be played in summer. The competition featured all eleven teams from the 1995-96 RFL First Division plus one expansion club, Paris Saint-Germain.
This article details the Bradford Bulls rugby league football club's 1997 season, the 2nd season of the Super League era.
The 1996 Bradford Bulls season was the 90th in the club's history. Coached by Brian Smith and captained by Robbie Paul the newly branded Bradford Bulls competed in Super League I. The Bulls finished the regular season in 3rd place and made the semi-final, losing 36-42 to Wigan Warriors. The Bulls also competed in the 1996 Challenge Cup, reaching the final which they lost 32-40 to St. Helens.
Andrew Henderson is a professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of the York Knights in the Betfred Championship and a former professional rugby league footballer who played for Scotland at international level.
Waisale Sovatabua is a Fijian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a fullback, wing or centre in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Fiji, and at club level for the Sheffield Eagles, Huddersfield Giants and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the Super League. He hails from the highland province of Namosi [village of Navunikabi] on Viti Levu with maternal links to the village of Ketei, Totoya, Lau archipelago.
The 2012 Rugby Football League Championship, also known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group, was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the UK, one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season usually are relegated to Championship 1, however for the 2012 season, no relegation took place, due to the expansion of the Championship to 14 teams in 2013. The winners of the division is decided by a play-off system involving the top 6 teams at the end of the regular season with two teams eventually progressing to the Grand Final. The final was won by Sheffield Eagles, who beat Featherstone Rovers 20–16 at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
The 1998 Challenge Cup, known as the Silk Cut Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 97th staging of the Challenge Cup, a rugby league cup competition.
The 1998 Wigan Warriors season was the 103rd season in the club's rugby league history and the third season in the Super League. Coached by John Monie, the Warriors competed in Super League III and finished in 1st place, and went on to win the Grand Final at Old Trafford against Leeds Rhinos. The club also competed in the 1998 Challenge Cup, and finished as runners-up following a surprise defeat in the final against Sheffield Eagles.
The 1997 London Broncos season was the eighteenth in the club's history and their second season in the Super League. Coached by Tony Currie, the Broncos competed in Super League II and finished in 2nd place. The club also reached the fifth round of the 1997 Challenge Cup and the Quarter Finals in the 1997 World Club Championship.
Martin Wood is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s who played as a stand-off or loose forward for Halifax, Scarborough Pirates, Keighley Cougars, Sheffield Eagles and Workington Town.
The 1997 Sheffield Eagles season was the 14th season in the club's rugby league history and the second season in the Super League. Coached by John Kear, the Eagles competed in Super League II and finished in 8th place. The club also reached the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.
Rugby League in Yorkshire refers to the sport of rugby league in relation to its participation and history within Yorkshire, England. The traditional county is the largest in the United Kingdom and as thus has many rugby clubs, professional and amateur.
Oscar Thomas is a Scotland international rugby league footballer who plays as a stand-off, scrum-half or fullback for Keighley Cougars in the Betfred Championship.
Liam Marshall is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League.
Rowan Milnes is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a stand-off or scrum-half for the Castleford Tigers in the Super League.
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London Broncos 
Warrington Wolves 
Halifax Blue Sox 
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Oldham Bears 
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