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…
THE RFL, Britain’s governing body in rugby league, has made a move into the abbreviated version of the sport by launching a Women’s Super League Nines series. Nines were previously played in the UK as far back as 1988 and the London Nines, run by independent promoter Graham Oliphant, is a regular fixture in the summer calendar. But now the…
NAPLES, a city in the Gulf Of Mexico in Florida, will host a season-opening Nines tournament on May 14. The event is to be held at a new stadium, the 5000-capacity Paradise Coast Sports Complex, and will include open age men, open age women, under 19s and youth divisions. The hosts are USA Rugby League side Copperheads and they say…
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…
