Despite large amounts of money and advertising, Solomon Islanders remained loyal to rugby union, and rugby league in the islands underwent a ten-year hibernation.
[4] These efforts have now been compounded by Rupert Murdoch backed television, but still without little return from the vast amounts of money spent.
Delegates from Solomon Islands were amongst those who went to the centenary congress of the International Rugby Football Board in 1986.
[5] Like many Pacific archipelagos, rugby sevens is the preferred code, and there are regular competitions.
[7] The Solomon Islands national rugby union team played their first international at 18 August 1969, losing to Papua New Guinea by 23-5.