Lahanis and Vipers set for final showdown
BIG hits, bone crunching tackles and may be even a punch or two will be part of an epic end to the Digicel Cup rugby league season on Sunday.The Goroka Lahanis are hell-bent on putting a cruel end to...
View ArticlePNG Kumuls Team Red & Gold named
Twenty two year old Penrith Panthers hooker James Segeyaro has been named in the Kumul Gold team to take on the Kumul Red team in Port Moresby on Sunday September 22. Paul Aiton from Wakefield Trinity...
View ArticlePNG Kumuls sides announced for trial matches
PNGRFL SIDES ANNOUNCED FOR TEAM KUMUL TRIALPNGRFL Chairman Don Fox today announced the Team Kumul Red and Gold teams who will take on each other in a trial match on Sunday 22nd September 2013 at Lloyd...
View ArticleKangaroos train-on squad announced World Cup and Prime Ministers XIII
The Australian Rugby League Commission has today named 18 players in the Holden Kangaroos’ World Cup train-on squad.Players from the train-on squad will also be selected to represent the Prime...
View ArticleStanley Gene appointed head coach for Gateshead Thunder
KUMUL great Stanley Gene has been appointed as the new head coach of Championship 1 side Gateshead Thunder.Gene, 39, a former Papua New Guinea international, has been on the coaching staff of Hull KR,...
View ArticleHope for zone players
NATIONAL Zone players will be considered for places in the Papua New Guinea Rugby League Foundation’s train-on squad for the Queensland Cup next year.PNGRLF chief executive officer Brad Tassell said...
View ArticleAiton and Segeyaro arrive today for Kumuls trial matches
OVERSEAS-based World Cup hopefuls Paul Aiton and James Segeyaro arrive today for the Kumul Red and Kumul Gold trial match at Lloyd Robson Oval on Sunday.Super League’s Aiton of the Wakefield Trinity...
View Article32 battle for Kumuls spot
IT’S make or break time for 32 Papua New Guinea Kumuls hopefuls. With several spots more than likely to be taken up by class acts from either Australia’s National Rugby League or the English Super...
View ArticleEMTV TO BRING RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP LIVE IN PNG AND PACIFIC
Media Niugini Limited, through EMTV, has won the exclusive rights to broadcast the 2013 and 2017 Rugby League World Cups. The rights also include the 2014 and 2016 Four Nations contests.England and...
View ArticleIntensity is what Kumuls need to show in trial
PENRITH Panthers hooker James Segeyaro and English Super League’s Paul Aiton were yesterday in doubt for Sunday’s Kumuls Red and Gold trial in Port Moresby.Kumuls manager Matt Natusch was still unsure...
View ArticleKumul Red and Gold battle for WOrld Cup spot on Sunday
PAPUA New Guinea Gold looks to be the blueprint of what national selectors are looking for to play in Sunday week’s challenge against the Australian Prime Minister’s XIII.That is fuelling the prospect...
View ArticleAnother chance to impress for Kumuls hopefuls
Local players in Papua New Guinea get another chance to press their claims for a place in the Kumuls Rugby League World Cup squad this afternoon in a trial game in Port Moresby.The Kumul Red and Gold...
View ArticlePNG Kumuls Reds beat Kumul Gold 18 - 0 in a trial match
WILL the Papua New Guinea Kumul national selectors overlook the fighting performance by PNG Red?That question will would have thrown a spanner in the works after the second-string outfit beat the more...
View ArticlePNG Junior league under former NRL star
FORMER Canberra Raiders and 2000 World Cup PNG Kumul Mark Mom has been appointed to lead the much anticipated National Rugby League School Programme. The programme is expected to deliver rugby league...
View ArticleKumuls player wins appeal against suspension
An International Disciplinary Tribunal has tonight cleared Paul Aiton to play in Papua New Guinea’s Rugby League World Cup Group B game against Samoa at Craven Park, Hull, on Monday November 4.Aiton...
View ArticleMENINGA's OPEN LETTER TO KUMUL SUPPORTERS
We’re hurting. The game on Sunday was heart wrenching, heart breaking but chock full of heart. The dressing room afterwards was so downhearted; it was so hard to come with the right words to soften the...
View ArticleMENINGA STILL BELIEVES IN KUMULS
Kumuls Coaching Director Mel Meninga has sent in an open letter to PNG Kumuls supporters.He said the game on Sunday was heart wrenching, heart breaking but chock full of heart. It was so hard to come...
View ArticlePositive PNG name squad to face Samoa
Kumuls celebrate a try against France. Getty Image Ray Thompson is relishing the experience of his first ever World Cup for Papua New Guinea and after a narrow loss to France in their opening game of...
View ArticlePNG Kumuls to face Somoa
PAPUA New Guinea’s hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals of the Rugby League World are still alive.They just have to beat Samoa on Tuesday morning to give themselves a chance of finishing second...
View ArticlePNG Kumuls Co-Captain Paul Aiton joins Leeds
Papua New Guinea hooker Paul Aiton has left Wakefield to join Yorkshire rivals Leeds on a three-year contract.Aiton joined Wakefield from Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks prior to the start of last season...
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