Live stream: All Nations NT providing pathways opportunity at Pacific Youth Rugby Festival

All Nations NT is offering their players a thrilling opportunity at one of the country’s premier junior rugby carnivals - and they can’t wait. Catch them LIVE from Friday. Check the schedule.

A group of tearaway youngsters from the Territory will be determined to make their mark as the Pacific Youth Rugby Festival kicks off from Friday.

The tournament will feature cultural teams from across Queensland and the Northern Territory, and will take over the Albany Creek rugby fields from October 18-20.

Every match of the championships from five fields each day will be streamed LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on KommunityTV.

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It will be a record-breaking year for the Pacific Youth Rugby Festival with more teams, more athletes and more matches than every before across the weekend.

One group who are a massive part of the change is the All Nations NT squad.

The squad will be sending two teams to compete at the festival for the first time, with an under-16s and 18s boys team set to make the trek from Darwin to Brisbane.

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All Nations NT founder Junior Po-Ching said organising an opportunity like this is something ‘he’s always wanted to put together.’

“I want to help create some additional pathways for our junior players here, and I thought, why not create something where players here are getting the opportunities that the kids in a place like Brisbane are getting,” Po-Ching said.

“We started off with just the one team, but it’s since blown out to two junior boys teams, a senior men’s team and a handful of girls that will be playing.”

All Nations NT under-16 boys captain Noah Po-Ching in action

Po-Ching said there were some really pleasing signs within the community in terms of the number of players willing to put their hand up to compete.

“It’s great to see,” he said.

“There is a lot of interest in rugby union in the region, but we just don’t have the same pathways to offer as rugby league or soccer.

“We have a lot of kids with very diverse backgrounds, we’ve got a lot of local Indigenous boys as well as South Africans, Tongans, kids from the Cook Islands and Kiwis.

“That’s why we went with the name ‘All Nations’ to kind of reflect that diverse background of our players.”

As for why they elected to participate in the Pacific Festival in particular, Po-Ching said past experiences had revealed it was an ‘awesome tournament.’

“My older son played for the Queensland Kiwis side in the tournament last year, and it’s just such a great experience for them to see all different sorts of cultures come together in one team,” he said.

“It’s a massive tournament, with the Kiwi, South African, Fijian teams and more, with two or three games a day, the environment is going to be awesome for them.”