The 2010
Rugby League Four Nations
The Rugby League Four Nations was a rugby league football tournament run in partnership between Australia national rugby league team, Australia, England national rugby league team, England, New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand, a ...
tournament was played in Australia and New Zealand in October and November 2010. The tournament was the second time the Four Nations had been held, following on from the
2009 edition held in England and France.
The series was contested between
Australia
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,
England
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,
New Zealand
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and the winners of the
2009 Pacific Cup,
Papua New Guinea
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.
Teams
Australia
Coach:
Tim Sheens
Of the twenty five players, twenty three were Australian born while two were Fijian born.
* Replaced originally selected
Jarryd Hayne after he withdrew due to injury.
England
Coach:
Steve McNamara
All twenty four players were English born.
1 Ruled out of the rest of the tournament after round one due to injury.
2 Replaced originally selected
Adrian Morley who was originally selected to captain the squad, but withdrew due to an injury suffered in the pre-tournament match against the
New Zealand Māori.; while
James Graham was named the team captain.
New Zealand
Coach:
Stephen Kearney
Of the twenty two players, seventeen were New Zealand born while five were Australian born.
1 Replaced originally selected
Fuifui Moimoi who withdrew due to injury.
2 Ruled out of the rest of the tournament after round one due to injury.
Antonio Winterstein and
Lewis Brown were included in the squad but not selected to play in any of the tournament's matches.
Papua New Guinea
Coach:
Stanley Gene
Of the twenty four players, fourteen were Papua New Guinea born while one was Australian born.
* Replaced originally selected
Sigfred Gande who withdrew due to injury just hours before the tournament started.
Venues
The games were played at venues in Australia and New Zealand. The tournament final was played in Brisbane.
Officiating
Three referees were initially appointed to control matches in the Four Nations:
*
Tony Archer (3 matches)
*
Shane Rehm
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Playing ...
(2 matches)
*
Richard Silverwood (1 match)
Richard Silverwood suffered a leg injury and missed round two. He was replaced for this round by Australian referee
Ben Cummins.
Pre-tournament matches
Before the series, New Zealand played an additional Test against
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...
. It was the first time the two nations have clashed.
England played Cumbria on 3 October as a memorial match for
Gary Purdham.
England also faced the
New Zealand Māori rugby league team
The New Zealand Māori rugby league team is a rugby league representative side made up of Māori people, New Zealand Māori players.
With some controversy, the team participated in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup, 2000 World Cup as Aotearoa M ...
in a curtain raiser to the New Zealand-Samoa test.
Papua New Guinea vs Prime Ministers XIII
Cumbria vs England
Ipswich Centennial XIII v Papua New Guinea
New Zealand Māori v England
New Zealand vs Samoa
Results
Standings
Round one
New Zealand vs England
In the curtain raiser match the
Junior Kangaroos defeated the
Junior Kiwis 24–16.
Australia vs Papua New Guinea
In the curtain raiser match
Samoa
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defeated
Tonga
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22–6.
Round two
New Zealand vs Papua New Guinea
In the curtain raiser match the
Junior Kiwis defeated the
Junior Kangaroos 32–20 to square the series 1-all. The Junior Kangaroos were ahead 20–0 at half time.
With the victory, New Zealand retained the
Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy.
Australia vs England
Round three
England vs Papua New Guinea
New Zealand vs Australia
Final
Broadcasting details
The Four Nations was broadcast to over 60 countries worldwide.
* Australia:
**
Nine Network
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– All Kangaroos matches live (except New Zealand vs Australia) plus the final, others delayed
**
Fox Sports
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– Some live and some delayed
* Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia:
**
Astro – All Matches Live
* Fiji, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tahiti, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna, Tokelau, Marianas, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia and Guam:
**
FijiTV – All Matches Live
* New Zealand:
**
Sky Sport – All Matches Live
**
Prime
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– All New Zealand matches delayed
* Niue:
**
Broadcasting Corporation of Niue – All Matches Live
* Papua New Guinea:
**
EMTV – All Matches Live
* Samoa:
**
Samoa Broadcasting Corporation – All Matches Live
* Singapore:
**
StarHub
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– All Matches Live
* Tonga and Solomon Islands:
**
Tonga Broadcasting Commission – All Matches Live
* Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Croatia:
*
SportKlub – All Matches Live
* Ireland:
**
BSkyB
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– Live coverage of all matches except NZ v England & Australia v PNG.
* United Kingdom:
**
BSkyB
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– Live coverage of all matches except NZ v England & Australia v PNG.
**
BBC
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– Live coverage of NZ v England & Australia v PNG. All other matches delayed.
* Afghanistan, Chad, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Qatar, Oman, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Algeria
**
Orbit Showtime Network – All Matches Live
* Sub-Sahra Region and South Africa
**
SuperSport – Coverage of tournament final
* Canada, the United States of America and the Caribbean:
**
Fox Soccer Channel
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– All Matches Live
References
External links
Rugby League Four Nations - official website
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