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    • Some players to watch in club rugby 2025
      • Above: That winning feeling at fulltime in last year’s Jubilee Cup final, the space every player and club wants to be in four months from now. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Scott MacLean A regular part of our pre-season coverage has been our selection of players to watch. As usual, we’ve scanned the likely Premier squads...

    • Link here to club rugby Tipping Competition 2025 (with prizes)
      • For the first time online, a Wellington club rugby tipping competition is being run. The inaugural online tipping competition is for the Wellington men’s Premier competition – the Swindale Shield and Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions. The link is here: https://www.faceyoursfears.com/games/WGTN2025/join Please head over and sign up with a username of your choice at...

    • Last afternoon of pre-season club rugby tomorrow
      • Above: Action from last Saturday’s match at Evans Bay Park between Pōneke and Tukapa. The ground hosts three games tomorrow, more details below. Photo: Andy McArthur. It’s the final weekend of pre-season rugby for most of the lower North Island, so for many supporters, unless they live in Horowhenua-Kapiti, it could be a final opportunity...

    • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs
      • When the Hurricanes played the Waratahs in early May last year, winning 41-12. Will it be a similar scoreline tonight? Photo: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Kevin McCarthy It’s not quite halfway through the Super Rugby Pacific regular season, but some things are becoming clearer. Now we may have one fewer team – and two byes...

    • Link here to club rugby Tipping Competition 2025 (with prizes)
      • For the first time online, a Wellington club rugby tipping competition is being run. The inaugural online tipping competition is for the Wellington men’s Premier competition – the Swindale Shield and Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions. The link is here: https://www.faceyoursfears.com/games/WGTN2025/join Please head over and sign up with a username of your choice at...

    • Some School Leavers to watch in club rugby in 2025
      • By Steven White The Wellington club rugby competition consistently produces prodigious talent. As always, some players leave school and head to other regions for work or study or to join their rugby academies, others to other codes or sports. But there is always a core group of promising school leavers making their debuts in Wellington...

    • Laws Talk. New for 2025
      • By Scott MacLean There’s nothing drastic, but rugby will look a little different in parts this year as World Rugby – and to a lesser extent New Zealand Rugby – continue to make tweaks to improve player safety and game flow. Let’s look at what those are. The first group are Laws which came into...

    • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 093: Harry Avery
      • Harry Avery was the captain of the St Pat’s Old Boys club that won (shared with Petone) its sole Jubilee Cup title in 1949. Avery was a lock and spent four seasons from the late 1940s in the Wellington representative team, and he played against the touring British and Irish Lions in 1950. Arthur Henry...

    • They didn’t make their First XVs
      • Above: When Upper Hutt and Poneke met in the Jubilee Cup round of 2008. Ahead of the annual ‘School Leavers to Watch’ article coming out later this week. Many young up and coming players destined for higher honours or long club rugby careers are well known before they join the senior ranks, having already made...

    • Club Rugby Unearthed 005: Cory Jane
      • A series on Club Rugby’s social media channels throughout the first half of this season celebrating many of the players to have played to a high level who have largely come through club rugby and mostly not played in NZ school or age grade teams along the way. Fullback/wing Cory Jane will need no introduction,...

    • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 092: George Martin
      • The Hutt Valley has long been a hotbed of sporting talent and achievement. There would be fewer more gifted all-round sports people out to come out of there than George Martin. Lifelong Lower Hutt stalwart George Martin excelled in athletics, rugby and rugby league from a young age, and later played softball and golf to...

    • Hurricanes v Highlanders Stat Attack
      • In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2025. Facts and figures from the third round match against the Highlanders in Dunedin below. Round 5 v Highlanders: Won 20-18 The Hurricanes and the Highlanders have now met on 43 occasions. The Hurricanes have won 28 times to the Highlanders 15....

    • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Highlanders tonight
      • Asafo Aumua slips the tackle of the late Connor Garden-Bachop when the two teams met on 1 June last year, with the Hurricanes winning 41-14 in Wellington. Aumua is on the bench tonight for his first game this season. By Kevin McCarthy I could brag about picking the upset of the Chiefs last week –...

    • Club rugby pre-season matches continues this weekend
      • The Wainuiomata and Paremata-Plimmerton Premier squads are both lacing up again tomorrow, Wainuiomata back at Mary Crowther Park and Paremata-Plimmerton sailing Cook Strait in Blenheim. Updated: There are several pre-season club rugby matches this weekend, as the days countdown to the start of club rugby competition seasons in Wellington and neighbouring unions on Saturday 5...

    • Club Rugby Unearthed 004: Conrad Smith
      • A series throughout the first half of this season celebrating many of the players to have played to a high level who have largely come through club rugby and mostly not played in NZ school or age grade teams along the way. Centre Conrad Smith will need no introduction, from humble roots as halfback for...

    • Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika Stat Attack
      • In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2025. Facts and figures from the third round match against Moana Pasifika at Albany below. Round 4 v Moana Pasifika: Lost 31-40 Moana Pasifika was introduced to Super Rugby in 2022 and has now played 46 matches for eight wins and 38...

    • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika
      • Petone’s Harry Godfrey flies through to score his try last week against the Blues. By Kevin McCarthy Into round 4 and don’t think we’ve had a banana peel result yet. That is when everyone thinks a team could not possibly lose to some underdog – and then it does. This year’s Super Rugby Pacific is...

    • Week two of Club Rugby pre-season tomorrow
      • Above: When Pōneke and Paremata-Plimmerton met last year. These two clubs are in action tomorr0w in pre-season rugby. Photo: Andy McArthur. Week two of pre-season club rugby sees another handful of matches in Wellington and plenty more around the country, including the annual New Zealand Marist Federation Spillane tournament in Hamilton. Wellington’s Marist St Pat’s...

    • Club Rugby Unearthed 003: Lome Fa’atau
      • A series on Club Rugby’s social media channels celebrating many of the players to have played professional rugby – many international rugby – who have largely come through club rugby and mostly not played in NZ school or age grade teams along the way. Right wing Lome Fa’atau exemplifies this pathway to the top, as...

    • Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack
      • Kini Naholo tries to punch through for a try against the Blues. He missed this one but he did score his 15th try and his fourth for the Hurricanes against the Blues in this match. In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2025. Facts and figures from the third round...

    • Schedule of Pre-season matches in March
      • With a month of Saturdays leading up to the start of major club rugby competitions starting in the lower North Island, all clubs are getting into the swing of their pre-season campaigns. As well as internal trainings, trials and camps, many teams play games against each other over the next few weeks, including some ‘cross-competition...

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