AFTER introducing rugby league to Bangalore and entertaining fans in Sydney and Christchurch, rugby league Nines will this weekend aim to bring harmony to communities in Perth and Adelaide. The Perth Nines will run three days over the weekend at Lark Hill Sportsplex, Port Kennedy, involving men’s and women’s open age sides as well as a Masters component for each…
THE Sydney Nines will be broadcast worldwide at watch.rugbyleaguehub.com this weekend. An agreement has been reached between events company NovoSports, rugbyleaguehub.com and the tournament organisers for the most prestigious event in any non World Cup Nines year to be streamed. The Sydney Nines, which began life as the Cabramatta International Nines in 2008, will feature 22 men’s and women’s teams including national…
THEY were a B team in name only, Sao Paulo B edging out Rio Sharks in Brazil at the weekend as the Nines focus switches across the Pacific to Western Sydney for the year’s most prestigious tournament. The tour enjoyed en eventful Brazilian stop at Sao Lourenco, roughly halfway between the cities which bore the names of the teams in…
TIMARU Outlaws have withdrawn from this year’s Rolleston Nines, leaving the New Zealand tournament with six teams competing this Saturday. In an unprecedented start to the year for the exciting abbreviated version of rugby league, tournaments have already been held this year in Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Nadi (Fiji), Accra (Ghana) and Kundiawa (Papua New Guinea) with close to 1000 men…
IN the first three weeks of a 2021 – in the middle of the off-season and in spite of a global economic downturn – more than 700 men and women in the Cook Islands, Fiji and Ghana have played the rapidly expanding sport of rugby league Nines. It’s a new development for the wider game of rugby league, which is normally shut…
IT’S sub-district of a region with just 1490 inhabitants but Tupapa entered three teams in the tournament that kicked off the year of Nines rugby league worldwide this weekend. And one of them, the Tupapa Panthers A team, took out the men’s trophy, with fleet-footed John Vano scoring three tries in an exciting 34-26 final win over the Avatui Eels….
By STEVE MASCORD WHILE the rest of the world battles Covid and coup attempts, in the Pacific idyl of the Cook Islands they’re playing rugby league Nines. The 13-a-side World Cup is still nine months away but some fans refuse to believe it will go ahead, so devastating are the effects of the Global Pandemic in the Northern Hemisphere. While…
