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 land in Central America for the first time on Sunday and worldwide supporters of the movement have donated the inaugural trophy. Four teams will contest the Chinandega Nines at San Carlos Sports Fields – an historic moment for a version of rugby league which has already been enjoyed by almost 4000 participants this year. Today, organisers unveiled the NovoSports…
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…
TIMARU Outlaws have withdrawn from this year’s Rolleston Nines, leaving the New Zealand tournament with six teams competing this Saturday.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…
