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The Royals Rugby League Football Club (RLFC) is an institutional club that started and took part in the Lae Rugby League Football Association since the 70’s. It is mostly made up of police personals, family members of police officers from the Bumbu Police Barracks, youths from Bundi Camp, Nawae, Speedway, Kamkumung, Boundary Road, Miles ares and settlement and Eric Woo (Eriku) including those from other vicinities of Lae who wanted to be a part of the club plus students from Papua New Guinea University of Technology (PNGUnitech), National Polytechnic Institute of Papua New Guinea, Balob Teachers College, Lae and Bugandi Secondary Schools.
The club comprises of both male and females. Two male teams referred to as A Grade and Under 20 (U/20) plus the female Open team. The club mentors and train youths between the age of 16 to 28 who are either full-time students, have completed formal education, and are employed or looking for employment. We groom and train them so that they become future leaders in the society and community that they live in.
As an institutional club, Royals started out with the passion to keep policemen fit and healthy for duty and also groom and influence youths to become positive representatives and law abiding contributors wherever they reside. The Royals RLFC has overtime trained, groomed and contributed a lot of representative players playing in the national colour of yellow, red and black. They are Augustine Justin, Andrew Kuno, Michael Matmilo, Thomas Daki plus some others in the 80’s and 90’s whilst current Kumuls are Sherwin Tanabi now with Hunters and Justin Olam with Melbourne Storms.
BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SPORTS
The club continues to train and groom young players every year that is why it has a larger player base from which to select players. The club envisage to take on very young male and female between the age of 13 -16 to create and academy where they can be trained the peripheries and technic of playing rugby league at that early age so that we can be competitive in this code against our neighbouring rugby league playing nations later.
Royals RLFC has played too many grand finals and has a history of winning most grandfinals than other clubs affiliated to the Lae League. A history that will not be altered from 1992 to 1997 is where Royals RLFC convincingly for six seasons in a row won all its normal local matches and continued onto winning the grand finals, it is feat that can never be defeated by other clubs. That is all attributed to players self and team-discipline and performance both on and off the field of play that all games played was never lost.
Our prominence and continued surge and participation in the local rugby league competition is made possible by National Rice Distributors (NRD) business arm of Kendo Limited and especially Sir. Patrick Wong.
In pride of this continued sponsorship and naming right, the club is named Kendo Royals RLFC. Since 2018 our female side played in two grand finals winning one and lost to one, our male sides were very dominant in the competition but lost in the finals play-offs. In 2021 U/20 won the grand final and lost last year. All trophies received have been handed over to the sponsor.
The club will continue to train and groom players to be competitive at the local level and also be made available for representative duties.
Our aim and endeavor is to involve youths in sport of rugby league and deter them from criminal activities and affiliation, making Lae a safer place to live and work in through rugby league the greatest game of all.
- Tapi WILSEN (Former Detective Inspector of Police, President of Royals 2003-2023)