NETHERLANDS Rugby League has delayed the kick-off of their summer Nines series because of Covid restrictions in the European nation. Round one was to be held ad Dordrecht this Saturday but this has now been postponed a week. “We will commence on the 3rd July in Dordrecht, followed by national champions Den Haag hosting on 10th July, with the final…
OFFICIALS at the University of Papua New Guinea say they hope a Nines tournament will help calm simmering tensions over alleged sexual harassment on campus. The Port Moresby institution was the subject of national media attention last week when female students staged a protest over persistent harassment by what they described as a minority of male students. The protest was…
RUGBY league’s Nines circuit moves to Florida tomorrow as the women’s game steps into the spotlight at the Tampa’s Mayhem Nines. Roots Rugby, who took out the 2019 London Nines and also competed in the Carolina Nines, are one of four teams in the first officially-sanctioned USARL women’s competition of any type. The tournament also marks the start of the…
Mercenarios have lifted the NovoSports Trophy as Nicaragua’s first national Nines champions. A tense double-header at San Carlos Sports Grounds in Chinandega on Sunday concluded with the local team overcoming Monseraptors 18-6 in the final, after the Raptors’ 18-4 win over Diablos in the second semi-immediately beforehand. Mercenarios had claimed their final spot during a previous instalment of the Nines…
EIGHTEEN-Nil. That’s the main thing you need to know about the Chinandega Nines, which resumed in Nicaragua on Sunday. Of the four games played at San Carlos Sports Field, three finished with that scoreline in the second round of the competition. Monseraptors were victors in two of these games, beating BigOne twice while in the third 18-0 game; Mercenarios were…
RUGBY League Nines’ tilt at world domination continued at the weekend when tournaments were held in Serbia and Samoa. The Vailima Marist Fantastic Nines in Apia were contested for the fifth time at Marist Sports Club, with Saints taking out the men’s competition and Apia Maroons winning the women’s. Each retained titles they won in 2020. The women’s final saw…
THE grand trophy for Nicaragua’s best men’s Nines team will be presented on May 9, it has been announced. Nine-a-side rugby league arrived in Central America on Sunday with the four-team league opening and local Chinandega side Mercenarios topping the table after going through the day’s play undefeated. It was originally intended that the best team at the end of…
A new initiative to promote Rugby League Nines in non-traditional markets will be launched tonight with the first episode of #NinesAtNine. Rugby League Nines social channels will carry delayed coverage of the recent Malta-Ireland clash from the Sydney Nines, enhanced by commentary, graphics, replays and an introduction in Irish, at 9pm Dublin time. A version of the match with an…
NINES will be played in Central America for the first time on Sunday with one of Nicaragua’s biggest population centres hosts a four-team tournament. Rugby League is just two years old in the nation of 6.5 million, with four teams competing in the Campeonato Superior de Rugby League. Host city Chinandega is one of those teams but the Volcanos, as…
A NEW national rugby league competition in Canada will be played mainly under Nines rules because the format provides “more highlight moments”, according to the creator of the concept. Yorkshireman Chris Coates is the man behind the Canadian Co-operative Championship, a majority fan-owned league which is due to kick off next year before becoming a full-season concern in 2023. Coates…
