Wellington Club Weekly / May 2024
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Clutch matches as midpoint of first round reached
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- Petone return home tomorrow to host Oriental-Rongotai on their Old Timers’ Day, while Northern United are back at Porirua Park to play Poneke tomorrow. By Scott MacLean & Steven White This Saturday marks the midpoint of the first round club rugby competitions in Wellington, and with it a series of important matches for many teams....
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Wellington Club Rugby live scoring updates 18 May
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- It’s round SEVEN of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. More significant matches today, as we reach the halfway mark of the first round in Premier, Premier 2 and Colts and the contenders jostle for position and lower ranked and mid-table battle to stay in the mix for the upcoming Jubilee Cup, Ed Chaney Cup...
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Hastings BHS beat Scots and other First XV rugby matters
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- By Adam Julian Photos by Andy McArthur Stoic Hastings Defy Scots despite a red card Hastings Boys’ High School completed a successful pre-season with a 33-17 victory over Wellington Premiership Champions Scots College in Strathmore this afternoon. Hastings, 2017 and 2019 national champions, have won their last three matches against Wellington College, Feilding High School,...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika
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- When the Hurricanes played Moana Pasifika at Upper Hutt in Mid-February in pre-season. Three months later, they host them at Wellington Stadium tonight in round 13 of the Super Rugby competition. By Kevin McCarthy We lost – but heck, yes, that was a proper rugby match last weekend at Eden Park. Amid the realisation that...
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Key Gray-Ericka Rere Legacy Project & the Whenua they played on
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- Ken Gray with the ‘Springboks head’, in the Main Stand at Athletic Park after famously captaining Wellington to their 23-6 win over South Africa on 3 July 1965. Photo credit unknown/supplied. By Adam Julian Background In 2019, while removing items from the walls of the Paremata-Plimmerton Rugby Clubrooms, in preparation for a significant refurbishment, former...
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Hauiti-Parapara to play 100th match on Tawa’s Old Timers’ Day
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- Kemara Hauiti-Parapara gets a pass away for Tawa in their Jubilee Cup playoff match against Petone last July. On Saturday he plays his 100th match for Tawa. By Steven White On Saturday, Wellington Lions halfback and two-time Jubilee Cup winner Kemara Hauiti-Parapara will run out to play his 100th Premier cub match for Tawa on...
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Hurrricanes v Blues Stat Attack
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- When the Hurricanes played the Blues in Wellington several weeks ago. They won that match, but missed out in the return fixture on Saturday in their 20th match played on Eden Park. The Hurricanes met the Aucklanders at Eden Park this past Saturday, missing out to them. Some facts and figures from that fixture by...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 070: Jack Taylor
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- Jack Taylor was the established All Blacks fullback when he landed in Wellington and at the Wellington Axemen club at the start of 1939 – and he immediately helped them win their maiden Jubilee Cup title and first Senior A Championship for a quarter of a century. His topflight playing career in Wellington was brief...
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Goliaths Conquered in Grading: Paraparaumu & Tawa Premiership Bound
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- Tawa College celebrating against St Pat’s Town on Saturday. Photo: Tackld. By Adam Julian Wellington First XV rugby was turned upside down in grading games on Saturday with herculean victories by Tawa College and Paraparaumu College over St Patrick’s College, Wellington (Town) and Rongotai College respectively. Paraparaumu and Tawa have qualified for the topflight alongside...
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Matchday Premier scoring highlights: OBU (48) v Upper Hutt Rams (22)
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- The two clubs met on Rugby League Park in the sixth round of the 2024 Swindale Shield and in the battle of the cloven-hooved quadrupeds. Old Boys University ran clear to win the fixture 48-22 in front of a busy crowd in the stand at their Newtwon enclave. After an early feeling out period, OBU...
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Sideline Conversions 13 May (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Some tight matches in Premier club rugby this past weekend, including Johnsonville’s 36-29 win over Avalon at Fraser Park. Photo: Hugh Pretorius. Monday morning edition: Welcome to week seven, where rugby supporters and players will be in rugby heaven with what is coming up. There are a couple of mid-week First XV fixtures. On Wednesday,...
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Close matches in club rugby in sixth round
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- By Steven White, Scott MacLean and Adam Julian For results and scoring (as received and as updated): http://www.
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Mid-table teams battling to stay in the mix in round six
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- Norths will be chasing a win over Petone tomorrow, while Paremata-Plimmerton are heading into town to play Poneke. By Scott MacLean and Steven White It’s been a highly competitive season to date, not least in the Swindale Shield where the battle to make the ‘top 8’ and challenge for championship glory is already intensifying. With...
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Wellington club rugby live scoring updates 11 May
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- It’s round SIX of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. More big matches today, as the contenders jostle for position and lower ranked and mid-table battle to stay in the mix for the upcoming Jubilee Cup. It’s the second week of school rugby, with second round grading games tomorrow. Men’s Premier Swindale Shield matches...
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Top try scorers in Wellington club rugby of the last 20 years
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- Club Rugby turns 20 in 2024. From its beginnings as an e–newsletter in the early 2000s, this website started in 2005. There are some well-known names are on Wellington club rugby’s top try scoring list from the past 20 years. This website’s player database started with the website in 2005, so we have complete scoring...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues
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- By Kevin McArthy Do not fret unduly, fan, about this weekend’s mouth-watering clash of the century. The Blues, at Eden Park. A win of course will be graciously accepted, and would likely, be enough – all things being equal – to nail down home advantage all the way. A loss will on the other hand...
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The ‘JLo Show’ Reaches 200
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- Jason Love entering William Jones Park with his young family in support to play his 200th match for Wainuiomata this past Saturday against Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Jason Love (Te Āti Awa/Ngāti Poro) is an unapologetic original. So, when the veteran Wainuiomata rugby player was asked to describe himself, he invented his...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 069: Jim Sherratt
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- Jim Sherratt was one of the most exciting players in Wellington rugby circles at the close of the 1930s when the second world war broke out. Sherratt was a tall, strapping, fast right wing, originally from Gisborne and out of the Whanganui Collegiate First XV in 1936 who had quickly risen through Wellington’s Fourth Grade...
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Hurricanes v Waratahs Stat Attack
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- The Hurricanes met the Sydneysiders in Wellington this past Friday night, resuming their winning ways. Some facts and figures from that fixture by Peter Marriott below. Week 11 v Waratahs: Won 41-12 The Hurricanes and the Waratahs have now met on 27 occasions. The Hurricanes have won 17 matches to the Waratahs 10. There have...
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Great days in club rugby 010: In for the Try
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- Norths wing AJ Va’alepu makes headlines for scoring five tries in the 2011 Jubilee Cup semi-final. PHOTO/CREDIT: Dominion Post 1 August 2011. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part...
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Matchday Colts scoring highlights: HOBM Colts (41) v MSP Colts (26)
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- The two clubs met on the Hutt Rec in the fifth round of the Paris Memorial Trophy Colts competition. They were also playing for the inaugural McGuinness Shield. HOBM ran clear in the end to win 41-26, but this was another highly competitive Colts fixture. MSP were all over HOBM like a rash for long...
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Sideline Conversions 6 May (some news and information to start the week)
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- Chargedown. The Upper Hutt Rams’ Tynan Barrett gets his kick away as Wellington Axemen halfback Will Cosgriff attempts the chargedown. Photo: Peter Mcdonald. Monday morning edition: The biggest weekend yet of rugby in the Wellington region for 2024 has just come to a close, and it’s only just getting underway with college rugby now in...
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OBU and HOBM joint leaders after rollicking day of club rugby in the sunshine
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- Petone were too good for home side Wainuiomata on Old Timers’ Day at William Jones Park this afternoon.
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Community Rugby in Wellington to come alive in round five
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- Poneke’s Caleb Robson is caught in a sea of Tawa players in their match last week. The fine weather is set to continue tomorrow, as Poneke travel to Fraser Park to play Avalon and Tawa host Old Boys University. More details of these and the other five Premier matches below. By Scott MacLean & Steven...
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Wellington club rugby scoring updates 4 May
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- It’s round five of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. Update: Because of prior commitments along the way, tonight’s results and Saturday evening written round-up might be a bit tardy. All going well, we will have all this up by 8.30pm, a bit later than usual. We apologise for any inconvenience. In the first instance...
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Portugal Power Sharpening Axemen
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- António Prim playing against Northern United this past Saturday. PHOTO: Brad Roberts. By Adam Julian The Wellington Axemen have some Portuguese power propping up their scrum this season. António Prim is a 21-year-old tighthead prop standing 190cm and 120kg. Prim has started the first four Swindale Shield matches and though the Axemen are winless in...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs
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- Billy Proctor captains the Hurricanes from centre tonight and TJ Perenara starts on the bench, as the Hurricanes hope to fend off the Waratahs challenge. By Kevin McCarthy We’re heading to tunnel vision time – when fans get fixated on the final run-in for their teams, understandably. I’m as tempted as anyone to look at...
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Salmon on mission to make Norths proud
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- Klein Salmon has made two starts for Norths at lock, including this past weekend against the Wellington Axemen at home at Jerry Collins Stadium. PHOTO: Brad Roberts. By Adam Julian Klein Salmon will be competing for more than pride when Northern United travels to Ngāti Toa Domain on Saturday to tussle with Swindale Shield holders...
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Great Days in club rugby 009: Between the Posts
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- James So’oialo slots his last-gasp dropped goal in Tawa’s 16-15 win over Old Boys University in 2017. Photo: Tawa TV. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of our...
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