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. Find out how you can watch nearly 150 games LIVE and EXCLUSIVE.

The Pacific Youth Rugby Festival will welcome a brand new squad to its ranks for the 2024 competition, with All Nations NT set to compete in its inaugural campaign.

The squad will be sending two teams to the October 18-20 youth festival, 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.”

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