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….
FIJI’S National Rugby League has announced a Cup Nines event for club teams from Australia and New Zealand as well as from domestic competitions in November. The Fiji Cup Nines is set down for Lawaqa Park in Sigatoka from November 10 to 13 with prize money totalling FJ$50,000. Fiji National Rugby League chief executive Don Natabe indicted the governing body…
