ATTICA Rhinos have taken out the Athens Nines after a six-game programme. The Rhinos won all three of their games in the round robin tournament, outpointing Aris, AEK and Sharks to finish top of the table. New club Glyfada Sharks were welcomed to the rugby league fold. The Sharks told their Facebook followers they enjoyed “a day full of rugby…
A NINES tournament in the Central Dabaris region of Papua New Guinea has been delayed for a second time because of Covid. The Central Dabaris Agarobe Nines were originally scheduled for November 9 to 14 last year but was put back to 2022 because of a surge in the virus. Now it’s been put back again as the PNG government…
By ROBERT BURGIN BOGOTA Armadillos took the honours as rugby league returned to Colombia last weekend, taking out a national Nines tournament in an event where two teams travelled a 2000km round trip. Following two days of action, the men’s competition boiled down to the Armadillos from the capital – boasting the greatest depth of any club in Colombia –…
By ROBERT BURGIN RUGBY league returns to Colombia for the first time in two years, as the town of Funza hosts a Nines tournament this weekend. Five male and two female teams will contest the two-day event, 22km west of the national capital Bogota. While some sporadic training has taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic, no official games have been…
VANUATU takes centre stage in the Nines universe this weekend while in Papua New Guinea an elaborate mini-season of the abbreviated form of rugby league has been announced. All stops have been pulled out for the island of Espiritu Santo to hold the Luganville Nines on Saturday, with teams from neighbouring Malo island competing and an administrative team flying in…
Next year’s Super League season will include a mid-season ‘Nines festival”, according to Hull owner Adam Pearson. Speaking on the BBC Rugby League Podcast, Pearson stressed the need for the British game to come up with a new format for a younger audience – although he said in his mind, this would be third variant of the sport and not…
TOP rugby union teams in Samoa have crossed the code divide to play in the first ever Faleata Nines on the island of Upolu. Marist Saints, a union team not to be confused with a team by the same name that took out the Vailimia Marist Fantastic Nines earlier in the year, won the tournament and now all the union…
NETHERLANDS Rugby League has delayed the kick-off of their summer Nines series because of Covid restrictions in the European nation. Round one was to be held ad Dordrecht this Saturday but this has now been postponed a week. “We will commence on the 3rd July in Dordrecht, followed by national champions Den Haag hosting on 10th July, with the final…
OFFICIALS at the University of Papua New Guinea say they hope a Nines tournament will help calm simmering tensions over alleged sexual harassment on campus. The Port Moresby institution was the subject of national media attention last week when female students staged a protest over persistent harassment by what they described as a minority of male students. The protest was…
THE men’s event may have been marred by controversy but a new women’s Nines mini-tour for the United States got off to a successful start last weekend. The Tampa Nines at Keystone Prep High in Odessa, Florida, was the first rugby league activity for the year in the US, which has been riven by a breakaway competition, the North American…
