This week we await with anticipation the new commission in Australia that will run Rugby League. Unfortunately there is not much information about how the states outside of New South Wales and Queensland will fare and how the International Game will suffer because of it. Though Colin Love is leaving his post in the ARL and NSWRL will he also be leaving the RLIF or will there be someone new to hijack the international game. But in the meantime there have been some international and domestic results from various countries.
In the Elite 1 Champion ships round 9 was played over the weekend. Last years dual champions, Lezignan suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of the Grizzlies. Limoux winning 43-18. The Carcassonne Canaries beat Carpentras 52-4. Pia won the Catalan derby 48-26 while Montpellier’s season is still struggling with them losing 16-44 to Avignion. Villeneuve had a close shave against St Gaudens/ Toulouse winning by a try 20-16.
| Team | P | W | D | L | B | PD | Pt | |
| 1 | Limoux | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 98 | 23 |
| 2 | Lezignan | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 187 | 22 |
| 3 | Pia | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 114 | 21 |
| 4 | Avignion | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| 5 | Carpentras | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | -4 | 18 |
| 6 | Villeneuve | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -11 | 18 |
| 7 | Carcassonne | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 52 | 17 |
| 8 | UTC | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | -32 | 16 |
| 9 | Montpellier | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | -180 | 11 |
| 10 | St Gaudens/Toulouse | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | -225 | 11 |
Round 2 of the Bank of Beirut Championships sees LAU and USJ maintain their early dominance of the competition. USJ defeated Balamand 34-22 while LAU had a resounding win over the Wolves 46-12 and AUB beat Jounieh 28-14. AUST had the bye. The table stands as:
| Team | P | W | D | L | B | PD | Pt | |
| 1 | LAU | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 4 |
| 2 | USJ | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 4 |
| 3 | Balamand | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
| 4 | AUB | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 |
| 5 | AUST | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -24 | 0 |
| 6 | Jounieh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -46 | 0 |
| 7 | Wolves | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -64 | 0 |
The Australian Institute of Sport and School Boys teams are touring Europe at the moment. Several games were played over the weekend, but the wild weather had an impact on one of the games. The AIS game against Widnes academy had to be called off due to the severe winter weather with snow and the pitch frozen to the point it was unsafe to play on. The Australian University team had a close call against the French University team in Paris just winning 30-26.
The Australian Schoolboys, on the back of their wins over Wales and England played two games in the last week. the first was against a Great Britain Community Lions which they won 30-20. However when they came out against the England Academy it was a completely different story. The English came out firing and it was a tough tit for tat game with the lead switching between the two constantly. In the last few minutes the English were able to pull away and get a resounding victory over their long time foes 38-30.
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