It’s the first weekend of July and the opening weekend of the championship rounds in Wellington club rugby for 2025. The Jubilee and Hardham Cups are underway. Plenty to play for, and several sets of supporters will hope their side doesn’t sink beneath the waves this afternoon. Others could emerge stronger and be primed for...
Just the teamlists for week 14 of Wellington Premier club rugby at at 12.00pm Friday – the opening round of the 2025 Jubilee and Hardham Cup competitions. All teams subject to change. A full round preview will be published as a separate feature article on this website later on Friday afternoon. Note the Tawa v...
By Kevin McCarthy The French are coming – but they’re sending the Marie-Louises. The young, callow conscripts that Napoleon had to call up in 1813 and 1814 to defend France – because, basically, he’d killed, maimed or frozen to death most of his old timers. The European monarchies found this terribly disrespectful, but decided to...
