After 2 highly successful weeks against Trinity and Isipathana, Royal were playing the last game of the 2023 school’s League against SACK at Bogambara. With no possibility of winning the league, all Royal could hope for was to continue…
Isipathana beat Royal last year and went on to win the school’s rugby league in 2022. Royal had won it on the 3 previous occasions when it was contested. The 2 schools have been in the Top 3 of…
Over the 76 years that the Bradby Shield was contested, Royal had only come back from a 1st leg defeat on 2 occasions. In 1979 they had lost by 1 point and in 1998 they lost by 2 points,…
Royal’s recent domination of the Bradby Shield began in 2015. Over the last 6 years that the encounter was played (2020 and 2021 were skipped), Royal had won the 1st leg on every occasion. This season the team averaged…
Royal had an (almost) unchanged side for the Dharmaraja game. Bastha and Amika who had come on in the Zahira game to replace concussed players were starting, with Philio and Shaahid filling their spots on the bench. Dharmaraja had…
Royal went into the match against Zahira without their senior architect. Philio was in an ankle brace after the freak incident against Vidyartha last week. Coach Luka had brought back Nabil to man the last line of defence and…
The last time Royal played Vidyartha was in 2012 at Nittawela. On that occasion VCK scored 21 points in the 2nd half while Royal managed 14. Luckily, Royal had piled on 24 points in the 1sthalf and held on…
A big, bold one. One that would hush the critics and uplift the die-hards. If you missed the SC kick-off, you missed the “Big Bang”. Pabasara aka the Big Bastharon, collected it and ran 30m having broken through 6…
The loss to the Peterites had a lot of fans moaning and groaning. Some of it is fair and a lot of it is not. How did this new team perform in their very first outing?The front row had…