AUSTRALIA’s Nines Premier League has announced details for it’s 2025 event. The independent tournament is to be staged at Tugun Leagues Club in Bilinga on the Gold Coast on the weekend of the 25th and 26th of January and entry for teams is now open. Southern Sharks were the men’s winners this year. In 2025, the men’s trophy will carry…
THE NRL has announced details of the Vegas Nines for next year, with a new venue to be used. The tournament, which made its bow in 2024 to complement the opening round NRL games at Allegiant Stadium, will be held on February 27 and 28 at Silverbowl Park instead of Desert Breeze Park. Desert Breeze Park was more like Desert…
A rejuvenated club has its hands on silverware in women’s rugby league in Britain, with Wigan scoring a crushing win in the Nines final at Hull. The Warriors last won the Super League title in 2018 and since then the likes of St Helens, York and Leeds have dominated the scene. with the latter two winning the first two Nines…
RUGBY Football League officials have announced a new venue for the Women’s Nines finals and unveiled the two wildcard qualifiers. In May, Cardiff, York, Wigan and St Helens qualified during the carnival at Warrington’s Victoria Park on May 5, leaving two spots open for finals day. Those have gone to the next-best performed teams on the day, Huddersfield and Leeds….
SEVENTEEN teams have entered the Midlands Nines, to be staged at Broadstreet Rugby Club in Coventry on April 27. The brainchild of the people behind the Rugby League Outsiders media platform, the Midlands Nines will feature men’s, women’s and social men’s divisions, a music festival and overnight camping at the venue. The organisers report a strong response to their offer…
PACIFIC Coast Rugby League has announced the Santa Rosa Nines for Saturday, May 25. Following the success of the NRL-run Vegas Nines in March, the concept has spread back to California where the tournament will be held on the doorstep of the national men’s 13-a-side champion Dead Pelicans club. While no venue has been announced, the likely location is For…
WHEN Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka took the first Fiji team to the World Sevens in 1992, there was no rugby league at all in the island nation. When Skipper Nuilevu arrived in Sacramento 26 years later as a first generation domestic Fijian rugby league player, there was none there either. So like the General, he started it. “The club started back in…
SUCH is the scope of rugby league’s gathering of the tribes in Las Vegas this week that when Matty Barron coached Ontario Ospreys to victory in the women’s division of the NRL Nines, the man who introduced him to rugby league in north-east England 25 years ago just happened to be in the crowd. The Ospreys downed fellow Canadians BC…
CAPTAIN-coach or player-coach is a dying – but still present – role in rugby league. But player-CEO? Former Queensland State of Origin star and England international Chris McQueen made his return to playing yesterday at the Las Vegas Nines, representing Brooklyn Kings. He almost played for the Kings when the ill-fated NARL was floated a couple of years ago. Now…
DUTCH club the Pitbulls have confirmed the date of this year’s Rotterdam Nines. One of Europe’s longest-running Nines tournaments, the event will be held on April 24. The Rotterdam Nines, drawing teams from across the continent, has been running since 2003. European Rugby League has announced that applications to compete have opened with interested clubs invited to contact the host…
