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| Madang Madgauns (Yellow) taking on Defense (Black) in the Jonah Lomu Legacy Cup |
By FIDELIS SUKINA
The Madang Madgauns may have left without a trophy in the Jonah Lomu legacy Cup tournament, bowing out in the bowl qualifiers but they are looking to improve.
The Madgauns lost to Defence in the Bowl qualifiers but the team got some experience to build the team.
Madang Rugby Football Union president Jacky Tokam said they had a chance to get as much experience in this tournament for the growth of the team going into the future.
“We have this opportunity to get back some pride for Madang by giving some of our players the exposure for more tournaments we don’t really have had that much experience in recent times,”
But he added that the team was in a rebuilding stage from their dominant years when they were champions in the Coca cola sevens circuit.
“We in a rebuilding process in Madang to bring back in some experience guys to help build the team, we have our experience players making a return for the Gauns, Don Kais, Eddie Elua, Arnold Lange, Edwin Paliau Benjamin ,Robert Wail, young promising talents Joshua Singura and Benjamin Wahune,” Tokam said.
Tokam said the 15s Madang Rugby Football Union (MARFU) competition this year was really challenging but they managed to rally support from the Madang Open MP to help support the competition.
“We didn’t have a field to play so we were sharing the field with rugby league and we did well the club presidents and players cooperated and we started at 8am and finished at 11am and played through the season without any violence.
“We achieved our goal of preventing violence in sports and we would also like to thank current open member Nixon Duban for his K100, 000 donation for the Duban 7s that promoted the code of rugby union and Madang province as well,” Tokam said
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