THE French women’s Nines featuring seven clubs will be staged at Stade Alessandra in Cavaillon tomorrow. Kicking off the domestic season with a Nines tournament is becoming an annual tradition in France, where the men had their event in Toulouges on Saturday. As in the men’s tournament, teams are split into two pools – in this case one of four…
THE French Elite 1 season, which runs over the Northern Hemisphere winter, will kick off with a 10-team Nines tournament in Toulouges this weekend. It’s a lightning-quick series of matches running from 2.3opm to 8.30pm on Saturday at Clairfont Stadium, with the sides divided into two groups. The top two teams in each group will proceed to the semi-finals and…
A DAZZLING sidestep from England international Tara Stanley in pouring rain decided the first ever women’s rugby league title in Europe to carry prize money.The York City Knights star star glided through the Leeds defence after seven minutes at AJ Bell Stadium in the RFL Women’s Nines final to bag a converted try in the bonus zone – she did the converting too – and…
TODAY’s RFL Women’s Nines finals from AJ Bell Stadium in Salford are to be televised on the ouRLeague platform, it has been announced. Five English and one French club will play off after 20 teams originally took part in qualifying on May 1, fighting to be crowned Europe’s first club champions in the abbreviated version of rugby league. It will…
Her father played in the first-ever Super League game and now Zoe Pastre-Courtine has been added to the Catalans Nines squad for their own tilt at rugby league history this Sunday. The Catalans Goddesses will bring a smaller squad to the RFL Women’s Nines finals at AJ Bell Stadium than travelled to Warrington for the pool matches on May 1….
