THE Sydney Nines will be broadcast worldwide at watch.rugbyleaguehub.com this weekend. An agreement has been reached between events company NovoSports, rugbyleaguehub.com and the tournament organisers for the most prestigious event in any non World Cup Nines year to be streamed. The Sydney Nines, which began life as the Cabramatta International Nines in 2008, will feature 22 men’s and women’s teams including national…
THEY were a B team in name only, Sao Paulo B edging out Rio Sharks in Brazil at the weekend as the Nines focus switches across the Pacific to Western Sydney for the year’s most prestigious tournament. The tour enjoyed en eventful Brazilian stop at Sao Lourenco, roughly halfway between the cities which bore the names of the teams in…
IN the first three weeks of a 2021 – in the middle of the off-season and in spite of a global economic downturn – more than 700 men and women in the Cook Islands, Fiji and Ghana have played the rapidly expanding sport of rugby league Nines. It’s a new development for the wider game of rugby league, which is normally shut…
IT’S sub-district of a region with just 1490 inhabitants but Tupapa entered three teams in the tournament that kicked off the year of Nines rugby league worldwide this weekend. And one of them, the Tupapa Panthers A team, took out the men’s trophy, with fleet-footed John Vano scoring three tries in an exciting 34-26 final win over the Avatui Eels….
By STEVE MASCORD WHILE the rest of the world battles Covid and coup attempts, in the Pacific idyl of the Cook Islands they’re playing rugby league Nines. The 13-a-side World Cup is still nine months away but some fans refuse to believe it will go ahead, so devastating are the effects of the Global Pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere. While…
THE NRL Nines will return in 2020 at Perth’s HBF Park in February 14 and 15. The competition, last held in 2017, will involved all 16 men’s NRL teams as well as the four WNRL teams. It will follow just four months after the World Cup Nines at Bankwest Stadium. The NRL’s announcement today (Tuesday) marks the first time the…
TONGA players refused to talk to waiting media after being stunned 30-7 by Cook Islands on a free-wheeling opening night of the World Cup Nines at Bankwest Stadium. The Tongan players had endured a strife-torn build-up to an international season that will include Tests against Great Britain and Australia, with the country’s prime minister intervening in a dispute between the…
A LIVE streaming channel for Rugby League Nines has been established on international sports broadcast platform OVOPlay to take this weekend’s World Cup Nines and subsequent tournaments to the globe. As 12 men’s and four women’s teams prepare to compete in the Downer-sponsored tournament at Sydney’s Bankwest Stadium this Friday and Saturday, Australian sports broadcasting and telco company OVO has…
By ROBERT BURGIN DESPITE the absence of eligible NRL talents Marcelo Montoya and Daniel Vasquez, Chile will still start favourite at the 2019 GYG Latino Rugby League Nines next Saturday. Continuing to prove that Latinos are not solely restricted to football of the round-ball variety, six South and Central American nations will go head-to-head on Saturday, September 7 at Hillier…
THE coach of a team of African-Australian immigrants which won a rugby league Nines tournament in London on Sunday has called on the South Sudanese community of Melbourne to embrace the movement, known as Africa United. The African Lions team, featuring nine players who had flown in from Australia complemented by members of the local London African community, beat another…
