RL's match of the day

RUGBY LEAGUE might get a lot of things wrong in its struggle to become a mainstream sport.

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But when it comes to looking after its own, there doesn't appear to be a sport to touch it.

Take the tragic but inspiring case of Andrew Foster and his son Rycroft, another shining example of how the game comes together in someone's hour of need.

Foster, a lifelong Bradford Bulls fan, was left devastated when Rycroft was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome just weeks after his birth in 2022.

Doctors told him and his wife, Catherine, that their son would need a stem cell transplant.

No one in their immediate family was a compatible donor, so doctors turned to the stem cell register, and a match was found.