Holders Wigan Warriors will continue their defence of Rugby League's oldest trophy, the Challenge Cup, with a semi-final against the Leeds Rhinos, the team they beat at Wembley in last year's final. In 2011 Kiwi No. 743 Jeff Lima, playing for the Wigan Warriors, was named man of the match winning the Lance Todd (Kiwi No. 19) Trophy.

Wigan reached the final four this year by overcoming arch-rivals St Helens whilst Leeds, the 2011 Super League champions, defeated the last remaining Championship club in this year's competition, Leigh Centurions last Friday night.

The other 2012 semi-final is a repeat of the 2009 final and sees Huddersfield Giants looking to exact revenge for their 25-16 Wembley defeat by Warrington Wolves. Warrington made the semi finals by completing a hard-fought victory over Catalan Dragons in Perpignan and Huddersfield cruised to an impressive win at home to London Broncos.

The semi-finals will both be played over the weekend of July 14-15. Details of the venues for both ties and screening times will be advised later.

New Zealanders to feature include -

Wigan: Thomas Leuluai, Jeff Lima and Epalahame Lauaki

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Leeds: Brent Webb, Kylie Leuluai, Weller Hauraki

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Huddersfield: David Fa'alogo, David Faiumu

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Warrington: David Solomona (in the squad but yet to play this year)

Members of the NZRL management team are travelling around the country presenting the Game Plan update at a series of meetings open to anyone with an interest in Rugby League. The Counties Manukau Zone is holding their open meeting at Manukau Rugby League Club, Moyle Park, Mangere at 2pm on Sunday May 27.

Anyone who is interested in learning more about the NZRL's progress against our Game Plan and about the future growth and development of league in the Zone is welcome to come along.

The 'Game Plan' is the NZRL's five year Strategic Plan and each quarter we measure ourselves against the plan and report on what has been achieved, what is still work in progress and what is yet to be done.

Results are measured in a number of ways including outside statistics, internal reporting structures, and feedback from stakeholders. Nine core elements, drawn as jigsaw puzzle pieces, show progress by colour - red for very poor, orange for making progress and green for have met stated goals and continuing to maintain them.

Feedback from past updates has been very positive, and this year's first meeting in Northland was attended by a range of people who reported they found it very useful not only in relation to rugby league but also their own organisations.

Meetings will be held in all seven Zones in the next few weeks as follows:

May 27 Counties Manukau

May 28 Waikato

May 29 Bay of Plenty / Rotorua

June 7 Palmerston North

June 8 Hawkes Bay

June 12 Taranaki

June 13 Wellington

Auckland - TBC

South Island - Christchurch, Tasman and West Coast - dates TBC

Contact your Zone GM for details. Contacts here.

Signed by members of the Kiwis, this fantastic guitar has been auctioned on Trade Me to raise funds for the League 4 Life Foundation. It sold for $805 and this will be much appreciated by the Foundation.

The Kiwis only signed three guitars, two of which have now sold at auction and the other is not for sale, so these are now truly collectables. If someone you know is a Kiwis fan, keep an eye out for other opportunities to come. For other ways to be a part of the League 4 Life Foundation including by buying a ball on the Foundations league wall please visit the website here.