Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:54 pm  

Always enjoyed watching the Rugby Union 9's, so this should be even better !

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Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:59 am  

England Ladies are playing really well.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:04 am  

Solid win for the men's. Sam tomkins had a field day.

Cook island demolition kf a decent looking Tongan side on paper.


It's like the 20/20 of rugby league. A cheap thrill.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:18 am  

Nothus wrote:

Congrats to anybody who watches this in its entirety. That is one hell of a lot of rugby to watch in one weekend

Managed to catch the England game and they looked pretty good. Austin didn't do much but some excellent handling and some classy tries scored.

We may struggle against a team with blistering pace on the flanks tho as don't think our wingers are the fastest and the extra space available may cause us problems.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:55 am  

Really enjoying this tournament especially the women's matches.

This needs exposing back home and attaching a women's 9's tournament to take place at Magic Weekend would be a massive boost.

Many of the games should be played during the gaps between the men's Magic Weekend fixtures.

Anybody else got thoughts on this?

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:22 am  

ricardo07 wrote:

Really enjoying this tournament especially the women's matches.

This needs exposing back home and attaching a women's 9's tournament to take place at Magic Weekend would be a massive boost.

Many of the games should be played during the gaps between the men's Magic Weekend fixtures.

Anybody else got thoughts on this?

couldn't agree more - this format of our game has everything needed for an event to attract crowds and more importantly people who normally wont watch a full game. the powers that be need to look at transforming this into a twenty 20 style event, with innovations, colour, glamour and of course the fast exciting rugby - it would be perfect for a days entertainment

it is something that eddie hearn could well be interested in

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:26 am  

how would folk feel about a yearly player draft for a tournament with new teams, or would a simple regular international tournament suffice? must admit i would be tempted by the former as the international stuff might get a bit samey. we could have yorks, lancs, london, nsw, queensland, auckland, cardiff, toronto, tolouse etc etc

i'll be interested to see how the cricket 100 goes

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:36 am  

A domestic 9's could replace the magic weekend fixtures and add another trophy for teams to aim for, could include both SL and championship teams

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 2:26 pm  

The international nines had some great individual performances. Catalans Dragons star Samuel Tomkins was sublime, and is so far even with the ever brilliant Shaun Johnson in the running for player of the tournament.

Samuel Tomkins performance on Friday night showed the error of omitting him from the Great Britain Lions squad. Samuel was a class above Blake "are you awake?" Austin, and showed why he should have been selected ahead of the bogus Briton.

The giant Toulouse outside back Gavin Marguerite, playing for France, showed glimpses of why he is potentially a superstar of northern hemisphere rugby league. However the absence of Toulouse's star half back Stanislas Robin from the French team diminished that great nation's chances of being a force in this competition.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Fri Oct 18, 2019 4:48 pm  

I thought we went in with the wrong tactics and team selection. We went in with too many forwards and tried to play the game like a normal game of 13 and was a bit conservative.

I’d say Wales did too, Reagan Grace taking scoots up the middle when they should have been kicking long for him to chase, never did it once for him.

Whereas the Aussies has 1 forward and threw the ball around like a hot potato, that’s what we need to do.