2017 internationals (non World Cup).

[adamkungl]

Balkans Cup: Greece 68 Bulgaria 8.

lol
there have been worse debuts
Congrats to Bulgaria for getting on the pitch for the first time.

 

[adamkungl]

Serbia 50 Greece 8
Not sure if Serbia are going to play Bulgaria?

Edit:
Greece as winners vs Bulgaria winner got to play Serbia for the Balkan Cup.
The loser, Bulgaria, played a Serbia XIII B team in the curtain raiser, in which Serbia B won 50-20.

All in all sounds like a solid few days of footy.
Serbia a class above and doing great work in developing the game among their neighbours, but I don't think they don't play stronger opposition often enough.
Need to line up matches vs the likes of Lebanon, Canada, USA, Jamaica, Ireland, Wales and get players into semi-pro and professional systems in France and England if they ever want to progress to a WC quality team.

 

[Jim from Oz]

Serbia 50 Greece 8
Not sure if Serbia are going to play Bulgaria?

Edit:
Greece as winners vs Bulgaria winner got to play Serbia for the Balkan Cup.
The loser, Bulgaria, played a Serbia XIII B team in the curtain raiser, in which Serbia B won 50-20.

All in all sounds like a solid few days of footy.
Serbia a class above and doing great work in developing the game among their neighbours, but I don't think they don't play stronger opposition often enough.
Need to line up matches vs the likes of Lebanon, Canada, USA, Jamaica, Ireland, Wales and get players into semi-pro and professional systems in France and England if they ever want to progress to a WC quality team.

All great – but what happened to Bosnia???

 

[adamkungl]

All great – but what happened to Bosnia???

Nfi - I've only got the scraps that google translate can spit out from their FB pages/whatever RLIF bother to report.

Information on most of what goes on in these grassroots internationals is extremely flimsy beyond the scoreline. Would be good if we could convince people from each developing nation to get on here! But they'd likely be driven off by the constant negativity.

 

[Force]

Has Josh Mansour joined the Kangaroos squad cos I have seen his name on the Lebanon team to play Niue this weekend as their warm-up game for the World Cup.

 

[adamkungl]

Has Josh Mansour joined the Kangaroos squad cos I have seen his name on the Lebanon team to play Niue this weekend as their warm-up game for the World Cup.

Mansour is playing for Australia.

 

[adamkungl]

Sydney fans this Saturday we have
Warm up match
Lebanon v Niue @ Leichhardt

AND
Malta v Hungary @ Cabramatta
with curtain raisers
u16s Malta Heritage v Italy Heritage
u18s Italy Heritage v Philippines
Latin Heat v Africa United

 

[siv]

I saw Malta playing Hungary in Liverpool yesterday being live streamed. Didnt catch the final result

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Malta 48 d Hungary 16

 

[kbw]

The Lebanon Niue game was pretty physical the score something like 26-10 Lebanon's way.
Tim Mannah and Mitchell Moses did not play. I don't think the Lebanon boys were overly happy with their performance but it was their first hit out.

The Australian based Lebanese Women played Australian based Fiji Women in a cracker of a game as an opener. The defense was terrific with the Lebanese Women winning 8-6

 

[langpark]

Czech Republic vs Norway this Saturday in the northern border town of Teplice (Krupka), home of the Dragons, current Czech champions.

 

[thorson1987]

Czech Republic vs Norway this Saturday in the northern border town of Teplice (Krupka), home of the Dragons, current Czech champions.

Norway 30 Czech Rep 24 (have also seen someone post 26).

Norway finish 2017 undefeated.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Vanuatu 40 Solomon Islands 20 not been mentioned yet. First international in Solomon Islands.

 

[Coparugby]

The Lebanon Niue game was pretty physical the score something like 26-10 Lebanon's way.
Tim Mannah and Mitchell Moses did not play. I don't think the Lebanon boys were overly happy with their performance but it was their first hit out.

The Australian based Lebanese Women played Australian based Fiji Women in a cracker of a game as an opener. The defense was terrific with the Lebanese Women winning 8-6

 

[Coparugby]

Norway 30 Czech Rep 24 (have also seen someone post 26).

Norway finish 2017 undefeated.

Something rugby league in the Norwegian press. Canberra Raiders even get a mention
https://www.aftenposten.no/100Sport...k-Na-skal-han-debutere-for-Norge-243340b.html

 

[thorson1987]

Something rugby league in the Norwegian press. Canberra Raiders even get a mention
https://www.aftenposten.no/100Sport...k-Na-skal-han-debutere-for-Norge-243340b.html

Yeah the Rugby League Norge Facebook page is pretty active in posting these articles.

 

[adamkungl]

Vanuatu 40 Solomon Islands 20 not been mentioned yet. First international in Solomon Islands.

These 2 teams could be the next big thing in Pacific RL if they received a bit of a boost

 

[adamkungl]

There is a 4N event scheduled for Thailand in November 5-8 including Thailand, Philippines and Hungary. Not sure of format or anything. South Africa were due to participate but pulled out.
Source: Thai XIII facebook

 

[siv]

You also have Hong Kong v Japan on Nov 4

 

[adamkungl]

Japan 24 Hong Kong 22