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…
