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…
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TIMARU Outlaws have withdrawn from this year’s Rolleston Nines, leaving the New Zealand tournament with six teams competing this Saturday.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…
THE NRL Nines will return in 2020 at Perth’s HBF Park in February 14 and 15. The competition, last held in 2017, will involved all 16 men’s NRL teams as well as the four WNRL teams. It will follow just four months after the World Cup Nines at Bankwest Stadium. The NRL’s announcement today (Tuesday) marks the first time the…
TONGA players refused to talk to waiting media after being stunned 30-7 by Cook Islands on a free-wheeling opening night of the World Cup Nines at Bankwest Stadium. The Tongan players had endured a strife-torn build-up to an international season that will include Tests against Great Britain and Australia, with the country’s prime minister intervening in a dispute between the…
