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This week in History: 13-19 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Isaac O’Connor (MSP) bears down on Steve So’oialo (Tawa) in their sixth round regular season match in 2013. MSP won this game 20-10 , but Tawa would win the final three weeks later. So’oialo’s brother James also features this week in history, for Northern United in 2009. See below for more. Some selected Wellington...
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Short Passes 13 July (news in briefs)
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- Above: Johnsonville’s winning sprint team from Hurricanes Club Night at Wellington Stadium yesterday, evoking memories of former Hawks wing Guy Davenport-Brown’s club sprint win at Athletic Park in the late 1990s. PHOTO: Peter McDonald. Round four of 13 of Wellington Premier club rugby is in the can, with just Tawa and OBU left standing...
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Petone and Norths come out on top in close games
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- By Steven White and Adam Julian Petone (pictured above with the Bill Elvy Memorial Trophy) and Northern United won the two closest games of the fourth round of Wellington’s Premier Swindale Shield on Saturday, as all the home teams prevailed and Tawa and Old Boys University sit atop the standings as the only unbeaten teams....
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This week in History 6-12 July
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- Above: This week in 2010 Norths and HOBM contested a dramatic 23-23 draw. A decade on, these two teams meet this coming weekend at Jerry Collins Stadium in round 4 of the 2020 Swindale Shield. Some selected Wellington club rugby memories from this week in history. 6 July 1957: Defending Jubilee Cup champions Petone are...
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Saturday 4 July – Wellington club rugby updates. Click here for scores and results
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- Draws & Teamlists HERE It’s round three of the Premier Swindale Shield, Premier Reserve Harper Lock Shield and Premier Women’s competitions, and the second week of Colts and U85kg competition matches. See below for some updates as the day unfolds. Full review on this website on Saturday night, with plenty of video and photo content...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Chiefs this Sunday
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- Avalon’s Asafo Aumua crosses for the Hurricanes at Wellington Stadium in their previous match. By Kevin McCarthy It’s not you, it’s me. The Blues have probably heard that line in the last week. Beauden Barrett, the player on which to build a dynasty, is off to Japan. Admittedly not for a whole year. He’ll just...
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D.D. (“DANIE”) WEIR – 1877 – 1918
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- Above: Daniel Weir – circled – Manager of the Hawke’s Bay RFU representative team of 1899. D. (Daniel Duncan) Weir (known as “Danie”) was perhaps Wellington Rugby’s most notable casualty of the influenza pandemic that swept across New Zealand in late 1918. While the rugby season had long-ended, the President of the Wellington Union, the...
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This week in history 29 June – 5 July
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- Above: This week in 2014, the Upper Hutt Rams beat Old Boys University 34-30 at the Basin Reserve in a classic come-from-behind win. A bumper week in history in Wellington club rugby, as laid out below. 29 June 1985: MSP snatch a 21-18 victory from under Upper Hutt’s nose after seemingly holding an unstoppable...
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Give ‘Em The Axe
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- The Wellington Football Club celebrates its 150th Anniversary in 2020 and a new book, “Give ‘Em The Axe’ has been published to mark the milestone. Written by club President and leading rugby commentator Keith Quinn, the nearly 200-page book is not your typical dry club history. Containing a photograph on almost every page the chapters...
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Saturday 27 June – Wellington club rugby updates. Click here for scores and results
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- Draws & Teamlists HERE It’s round two of the Premier Swindale Shield, Premier Reserve Harper Lock Shield and Premier Women’s competitions, while Colts and U85kg matches kick off today. See below for some updates as the day unfolds. Full review on this website on Saturday night, with plenty of video and photo content to come...
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Ōtaki Domain Double Header for Sam’s Day
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- Ōtaki Domain will be packed out for Sam’s Day on September 5th when Manawatū Turbos play Wellington Lions in a Mitre 10 Cup pre-season game and Horowhenua Kapiti take on Wairarapa Bush as a fundraiser for Sam Doyle. Three of the four teams in action once had Sam Doyle running around in their colours. Sam...
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Size matters – a case for more weight-restricted junior rugby
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- By Touchline Twenty years ago, there were 72 weight-restricted boys’ teams competing in Wellington Secondary School Rugby. That’s right, 72 teams. At that time, the strength of secondary school rugby in Wellington was represented by weight-restricted teams, which accounted for two-thirds of all boys playing the game at high school. In 2020, weight-restricted teams comprise...
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Ruck and Roll – Strict Liability and Perverse Incentives
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- Above: TJ Perenara and the Hurricanes enter Wellington Stadium on Sunday to play the Crusaders. By Rugby Nerd Visit https://toehack.com/ for this and other thoughts Of the changed law interpretations announced by New Zealand Rugby with regard to Super Rugby Aotearoa, the increased focus on and sanction of players not rolling away from the breakdown...
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MSP lower Norths colours at Porirua Park in Swindale Shield season opener
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- Above: Stokes Valley have joined the Harper Lock Shield Premier Reserve competition this season, missing out to Paremata-Plimmerton’s second team 25-12 in today’s opening round of Wellington club rugby competition matches. More below. Results HERE Last July’s season rankings meant little at Jerry Collins Stadium today as the 2019 tier two Hardham Cup champions Marist...
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Gains and Losses 2020
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- After a well-documented delay, the 2020 Wellington club rugby season kicks off this coming Saturday. As well as on all the club social media channels, round one Swindale Shield teams will be named in one place in the Draws & Results section (above/menu bar) on Friday. As always there is player movement between clubs...
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School leavers to watch in 2020
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- Above: Fulltime in last season’s Wellington First XV final, won by Scots College. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian, Steven White and Scott MacLean Remarkably the 2019 Hurricanes Under 18 squad featured nine players from Scots College and just a single boy from traditional powerhouses Wellington College and St Patrick’s College, Silverstream. What does...
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A dozen Wellington club rugby rivalries
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- They joined forces during the war, now Poneke and Oriental-Rongotai play for the Jim Grbich Memorial Memorial Trophy annually in the first round. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean What are the most keenly contested club rugby matches in Wellington club rugby? With the start of the club rugby season just around the corner, here...
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From the Vault: Week 12 matches in photos
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- Left wing Chase Tiatia with the winning try in the dying embers of the 2014 Jubilee Cup opener at the Basin Reserve between eventual champions Hutt Old Boys Marist and Old Boys Marist. HOBM won this one 30-27. If the season ran its usual course, Week 12 of the Wellington club rugby season would be...
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Short Passes 1 June
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- Bernie Fraser scores in Bernie’s Corner in Wellington’s 1982 Ranfurly Shield defence against Hawke’s Bay. Wellington won 13-12. PHOTO: John Selkirk. It’s the start of June and – all going well – a return to rugby is imminent. Just one more weekend to cut the lawns before the rugby starts up again on 13 June...
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From the vault: 11th round matches in photos
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- Above: Peter Sciascia kicks ahead for Marist St Pat’s against Upper Hutt in the 11th and last round of the Swindale Shield in 2008. MSP were presented with the first round silverware after this match. If the season ran its usual course, Week 11 of the Wellington club rugby season would be this Saturday. The...
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Naitoa Ah Kuoi taking rugby return one step at a time
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- By Adam Julian Naitoa Ah Kuoi left Wellington to play Super Rugby for the Chiefs because it was a “great opportunity to grow my game and become more independent.” A Covid-19 lockdown and pair of twins later the 20-year old has grown up quicker than most youngsters migrating for career prospects. On April 9 his partner...
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This week in club rugby history: 11- 18 May
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- Above: This week in 2008, OBU beat Norths 37-26 at the Basin Reserve. PHOTO: Chainsaw Photos. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 11 May 1968: Naenae Old Boys create the first major upset this season, toppling highly fancied University 8-6. St. Pat’s Old Boys hold last year’s runners-up...
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This week in club rugby history: 4 May – 10 May
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- Joyner Key crossing for the winning try for the Upper Hutt Rams in their 31-30 win over Northern United in 2015. PHOTO: Chainsaw Photos. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 4 May 2013: A day of dramatic results. Tawa their sixth win in seven matches over...
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This week in club rugby history: 27 April – 3 May
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- Above: When Petone edged Poneke 25-24 in 2013 in their Swindale Shield and F.J. Tilyard Shield match. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 27 April 2002: Avalon’s Mano Flutey kicks a penalty on fulltime to see his side beat Wests 11-10 in atrocious conditions to extend...
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This week in club rugby history 20-26 April
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- Above: On Anzac Day 2013 when Taniela Koroi and Tawa beat Norths 28-27 to win the Sammy Saili Trophy. PHOTO: Chainsaw Photos. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby, including recapping some past Anzac Day rounds. 20 April 1985: Paremata-Plimmerton clinch their maiden Swindale Shield win, beating...
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This week in club rugby history: 6-12 April
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- Above: Poneke’s Greg Foe charges ahead in their 40-35 win over Norths on 7 April 2018. Photo: Andy McArthur. Some highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 6 April 1963: The first round of matches see the previous year’s joint champions Marist Brothers Old Boys and Onslow held to tight...
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Short Passes 6 April (some rugby news to start the new week in lockdown)
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- Above: Lonely rugby posts at a suburban rugby ground in Wellington. Rugby, we miss you! Short Passes wishes everyone well as the start of the the fourth week with no rugby and the halfway mark of the initial 4-week lockdown period rolls around. Following our article on Friday looking at what shape rugby could...
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