{"id":405679,"date":"2026-01-11T06:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:28:05","slug":"challenge-cup-first-round-live-follow-bbc-coverage-as-thatto-heath-crusaders-take-on-seaton-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405679\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup First Round LIVE: Follow BBC Coverage as Thatto Heath Crusaders take on Seaton Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge Cup First Round: Thatto Heath Crusaders v Seaton Rangerspublished at 18:28 GMT 8 January<\/p>\n<p>18:28 GMT 8 January<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 Rugby League season gets underway this weekend, and as always BBC Sport will be showing every round of the Challenge Cup, from round one this Saturday 10th January right through to the Challenge Cup final at Wembley on 30th May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coverage will be live this Saturday 10th January from 1:45pm on BBC iPlayer in time for kick off at 2pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday 10th January &#8211; 13:45-15:45 <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0mn765p\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can catch up on all the action for 30 days here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jamie Blamire of Leicester Tigers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5020e2d4-8296-4b02-8ca9-44de5204130b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Blamire of Leicester Tigers, who started his career at Seaton Rangers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kicking off this season&#8217;s coverage are two National Conference League teams with pedigree, Thatto Heath Crusaders who launched the careers of former England international&#8217;s Kev Brown and James Graham, and Seaton Rangers, who boast former players such as the late great Brian Edgar, and more recently Leicester star and rugby union international Jamie Balmire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup First Round: Thatto Heath Crusaders v Seaton Rangerspublished at 18:28 GMT 8 January 18:28 GMT 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-405679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}