National Rugby League (NRL)

Building stronger ties through sports

Albanese made this assurance when addressing Parliament last Thursday in Port Moresby.

Albanese said whether it is rugby league, or cricket with the Barras and the Lewas, or the work being done here by the AFL, sport is a genuine and powerful way of building strong and lasting ties between our peoples, at a code and club and community and family level.

‘One of the great frustrations of our game’: NRL to trial forward pass technology

The NRL secretly trialled forward pass technology at the end of last season and will implement systems again in this month’s trial games and the NRLW.

Ball-tracking technology was used in the final weeks of last season and the results were kept top secret by the governing body.

But the technology was accurate enough to warrant further investigation and the NRL are using it again this month, before making a final call on introducing it to premiership games.