Archive for November 2017

The rugby league community is besotted with Mate Ma’a Tonga in the wake of their emotion-charged victories over Samoa and New Zealand in the past 10 days, but the team is giving the ‘one week at a time’ cliché a good workout as they aim to capitalise on their chance at World Cup glory. Saturday’s…

Test rugby league returned to Christchurch with a bang, New Zealand crushing Scotland 74-6 in a thrill-a-minute Rugby League World Cup group match in front of 12,130 fans at AMI Stadium – the first international in the city since 2006. The Kiwis ran in 14 tries, including hat-tricks to Peta Hiku and Te Maire Martin,…