Rugby League

Glamour at sports awards

It was a night of glamour for sporting federations around the country that came together to award the best athletes in their respective grades. The 2022 FASANOC Fiji Sports Awards had a big turnout with...

Pitching in millions – Contracts contribute up to $60m in remittances

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says remittance inflows from Fiji’s sportsmen and women contracted abroad remain one of the country’s highest foreign exchange earners. Speaking at the 2020 Fiji Sports Awards on Saturday, Mr Rabuka said this amounted to remittances between $30 million and $60m annually. “And totally, our people abroad remit, in the last calendar...

26th March

MGM defies odds

Without proper jerseys the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Dragons under-17 side is on their way to the semi-finals of the South-Eastern Zone Secondary Schools Rugby League Vodafone Trophy competition after cruising past Suva Sangam Raiders in the quarter-final yesterday. In its match yesterday, the side used an old set of jerseys previously used by the Serua...

25th March

Cousins duel – Silktails ready to hunt down bulldogs

Today’s round two of the Ron Massey Cup competition will be on a whole other level of excitement at Churchill Park, Lautoka with the two opposing captains of the Kaiviti Silktails and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs being cousins. The Silktails will be led out by co-captain and five-eighth Rusiate Baleitamavua, while Penioni Tagituimua will guide the Bulldogs....

23rd March

Wigman after winning history

Reigning Digicel PNG Cup champion Hela Wigman is aiming to become the third Papua New Guinea team to win the Melanesian Cup five times in a row when they face the Western Maroons this Saturday at Lautoka’s Churchill Park. “We want to continue that winning momentum from previous years that has been set by the...

22nd March

Hansen rates Radradra ahead of match

“Like many Fijian players, Semi (Radradra) is strong, fast, and a good athlete,” says former New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen as he confirmed the recruitment of three superstars for his World XV ahead of their match against Eddie Jones’ Barbarians at Twickenham this weekend. Rugby Pass reported Hansen is set to lead the World...

21st March

Silktails lose opening match

THE Kaiviti Silktails lost their opening match of the 2023 Ron Massey Cup competition after going down 16-17 against Penrith Brothers at Cabramatta’s New Era Stadium in Sydney on Saturday. The Silktails led 16-6 at halftime but errors started to creep in after the break. The side was kept scoreless in the second term as...