The NRLW volition interruption caller crushed successful 2022, kicking disconnected its postponed play with back-to-back rounds of standalone triple headers.
The competition's 2021 play had to beryllium deferred owed to the COVID-19 outbreak that crippled NSW and forced Queensland to instrumentality strict protocols astir anyone entering the state.
It means the NRLW play volition footwear disconnected with Round 1 connected Sunday February 27, and diagnostic 3 games each astatine Newcastle's McDonald Jones Stadium connected the aforesaid day.
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Round 2 volition beryllium different triple header, astatine WIN Stadium connected Sunday March 6.
Rounds 3, 4, and 5 volition coincide with the commencement of the NRL season. The NRLW volition past play a week of semi-finals and past the expansive last the pursuing week.
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"It's been proven there's a existent appetite for women's athletics and I deliberation it's truthful breathtaking Channel Nine is truly taking connected women's sport, and programming truthful overmuch of it," rugby league large Ruan Sims told Wide World of Sports.
"The archetypal 2 rounds being standalone triple-headers, due to the fact that there's nary NRL games on, is fantastic. I deliberation we're going to spot a immense turnout to these games, and particularly due to the fact that we spot 3 caller teams.
"It's bully to spot it successful a antithetic timeslot successful the year. When it started it was fantastic to person it astatine the backmost extremity of the men's season… present I deliberation this is simply a bully mode to commencement the year.
"Not lone volition they commencement the year, but they'll decorativeness it (too). So the women's contention is truly going to bookend the NRL, it's wonderful."
The Titans, Knights, and Eels person joined the league to marque it a six-team competition.
The Broncos person dominated the NRLW, winning each 3 titles played for to date.
Sims, though, believes the contention volition beryllium overmuch harder to extremity this clip around.
"I really truly similar the mode the talent's been dispersed this year," she said.
"We've seen a batch of players determination to antithetic sides… Jess Sergis is going to beryllium playing for the Roosters. It's truly exciting.
"We're going to spot the champion of the champion moving around. Game one, with Dragons v Titans, we're going to spot Emma Tonegato backmost playing rugby league. She started her vocation playing for Australia, for the Jillaroos. She went and killed it successful Rugby Sevens and to spot her travel backmost to rugby league is an fantabulous triumph for the Dragons."
The NRLW volition besides person a 2nd afloat play successful 2022, to beryllium played aboriginal successful the year.
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