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…
Sun Herald, Sunday February 2 1997 By STEVE MASCORD RUPERT Murdoch’s Super League is two days old in Australia and so far keeping its promises. A big crowd rolled up to Stockland Stadium in Townsville yesterday for day two of the World Nines. And the new competition’s credo of slick presentation, streamlined rules and an international focus were given their…
A NINES tournament in the Central Dabaris region of Papua New Guinea has been delayed for a second time because of Covid. The Central Dabaris Agarobe Nines were originally scheduled for November 9 to 14 last year but was put back to 2022 because of a surge in the virus. Now it’s been put back again as the PNG government…
THE year-opening Rarotonga Nines has been reduced from three days to two. Under 18s are being added to the men’s and women’s events at BCU Stadium this year and the tournament was to kick off on Thursday. However, it has now being reported that the event will run for only two days, presumably Friday and Saturday. The competing men’s teams…
SHAUN Wane’s England could be involved a mid-season European Nines tournament the year after next, under a proposal released today. European Rugby League (ERL) is seeking tenders for the hosting of the tournament, which it has pencilled it for mid-summer 2023. In the bid prospectus, England is one of the countries listed as being a competing nation. There is no…
By ROBERT BURGIN BOGOTA Armadillos took the honours as rugby league returned to Colombia last weekend, taking out a national Nines tournament in an event where two teams travelled a 2000km round trip. Following two days of action, the men’s competition boiled down to the Armadillos from the capital – boasting the greatest depth of any club in Colombia –…
By ROBERT BURGIN RUGBY league returns to Colombia for the first time in two years, as the town of Funza hosts a Nines tournament this weekend. Five male and two female teams will contest the two-day event, 22km west of the national capital Bogota. While some sporadic training has taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic, no official games have been…
