{"id":356791,"date":"2026-01-07T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356791\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:48:06","slug":"telford-raiders-ready-for-challenge-cup-after-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356791\/","title":{"rendered":"Telford Raiders ready for Challenge Cup after qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Its been a great year and to get the chance to play in the Challenge Cup is really exciting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Its not just about us, I think its about Rugby League outside of the heartlands, traditionally its a very northen sport in England but there&#8217;s a real base in the Midlands now a core few teams that are getting better each year and what we&#8217;d love to see is more teams in that league, more competitive games&#8230;and more people playing that sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve found a real love for it over the last four years, especially with this group and I&#8217;d love for other people to find that as well.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe Furlong, assistant coach, added: &#8220;I think you could argue qualifying once last year could be a one-off or a fluke,  but I think doing it twice shows our calibre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It sets a really good platform for us to build on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Its been a great year and to get the chance to play in the Challenge Cup is really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-356791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}