THE focus of most people in British rugby league will be on Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London this Saturday – but a group of Welshmen will be rushing to get their showers over in time for kick-off in the Challenge Cup final. The South Wales Community Nines at Banwen Rugby Club in Neath – involving four men’s teams – start…
ONLY three members of Garen Casey’s Carolina Storm women’s team had ever played rugby league before – yet they scooped the pool at the first ever Naples Nines at the weekend. The Storm downed local favourites Jacksonville in the final after London Nines defending champions Roots Rugby finished third, meaning the Carolina girls have received an invitation to next year’s…
TOMORROW’s Nines tournaments in Dublin, Ireland and Naples, Florida, have announced their respective draws. On the back of a successful Women’s Super League Nines a fortnight ago, events on either side of the Atlantic will continue the ascent of rugby league’s abbreviated form. In both cases, the tournaments mark the beginning of the domestic 13-a-side seasons. In Ireland, teams from…
CATALANS Goddesses flew into the unknown and departed triumphantly as they stole the show at the Women’s Super League Nines yesterday. The French champions has played only very limitedly against foreign opposition in the past and didn’t know how they would fair in a tough group that included famous UK clubs Wigan, Hull and Wakefield. But the sister team of…
WHAT IS IT? The 2022 Women’s Super League Nines is a completely new event in the British calendar. It marks the Rugby Football League’s biggest foray into the abbreviated version of the sport since the British Coal Nines in 1988. The event is a carnival rather than a purely spectator-focused tournament, with three pitches in use and players encouraged to…
WARRINGTON Lunas have been subbed into the historic Women’s Super League Nines on Sunday, replacing Dublin who’ve been unable to travel. When the draw was announced at the start of the week for the event, to be held at Warrington’s Victoria Park including 20 sides, there was a TBA included as it was already known the Irish would not be…
RUGBY Football League CEO Ralph Rimmer has hailed the Women’s Super League Nines this Sunday as … “perfect”. Twelve elite women’s teams will be joined by eight invited sides in the British game’s biggest foray into Nines in at least 13 years, since the demise of the York Nines. The NRL has held just one club nine-a-side championship for women….
THE RFL, Britain’s governing body in rugby league, has made a move into the abbreviated version of the sport by launching a Women’s Super League Nines series. Nines were previously played in the UK as far back as 1988 and the London Nines, run by independent promoter Graham Oliphant, is a regular fixture in the summer calendar. But now the…
