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    • Club Rugby Compilation Series: Tries by Halfbacks Part 1
      • Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...

    • Club Rugby Summer Series: “The Jubilee Mystery”
      • By Touchline The 20-year period between the two World Wars saw the introduction of “the Jubilee Cup” to Wellington’s senior rugby championship. But despite the generally accepted narrative of its origin being in 1929, new information obtained by Touchline suggests its true beginnings are shrouded in the dense tobacco-smoke and oft heady beer-fumes of local...

    • Club Rugby Highlights Series: Long-range Strikes Part 1
      • Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...

    • Club Rugby Summer Series: Shooting Stars
      • A look at some of the many players and personalities of the local game who packed in plenty in short careers that were cut short due to such factors as injury, death or transferring to rugby league. Going back to the start of the game in the latter years of the nineteenth century, There would...

    • Excitement machine Grant Batty passes away in Australia
      • Grant Batty scores his final try, for the All Blacks against the British and Irish Lions in Wellington in June 1977. Grant Batty, who passed away in Australia late last week aged 74 was the excitement machine of his era. Batty was a pocket-rocket try-scoring wonder who scored 109 tries in 142 first-class matches in...

    • Tenacious Wellington Flyers defend Bula 7s title
      • By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur Several times across their final three knockout games of the day, the Wellington Flyers had to dig deep. On each occasion they responded with a timely turnover, tackle out wide or an offload to a support player backing up, seeing them win all these matches and defending their...

    • Bula 7s tournament at William Jones Park on Saturday
      • Supporters starved of action over the festive season will get their rugby fix all day at William Jones Park on Saturday. The sixth annual Bula 7s tournament has drawn a bumper 16-team field to kick-start the year in rugby, but being on one field means that it is scheduled to go into the evening hours...

    • Club Rugby Highlights Series: Cutting Loose Part 1 –
      • Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...

    • Two decades and counting covering community rugby
      • Steven White is a leading rugby exponent in the Wellington region, renowned for his passion and dedication to grassroots rugby. Since 2005, he has run the well-known website clubrugby.nz, where he serves as editor, reporter, content creator and historian. Club Rugby is the only website in New Zealand dedicated exclusively to covering senior club rugby, First...

    • Club Rugby Summer Series: Late Bloomers and Slow Burners
      • By Club Rugby contributors The buzz of watching and following young talent excites fans and academy managers alike. But some players come on later and mature into great players. Below are some examples of such players, from previous eras to modern times, who came into their prime a bit later than many others. As always,...

    • They won club rugby titles in more than one province
      • By Steven White & Adam Julian The recent passing of Mick (Stu) Bremner, who won Auckland and Canterbury club rugby titles as well as winning Wellington’s Jubilee Cup with University a decade apart as a player and coach prompted us to think which other players have achieved similar feats. There are many such instances, particularly...

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      • Australian online casinos have never been under a brighter spotlight. How they handle payments, bonuses, and player care is getting picked apart by a sharper-eyed public. In 2024, PayID’s popularity keeps rising, players have come to expect instant payments and no-nonsense policy language. This appetite for transparency isn’t just a passing trend; it reflects a...

    • Savea wins Kelvin R Tremain Memorial for the third time
      • Oriental-Rongotai loose forward Ardie Savea’s dominant performances across the rugby season have been reflected in the New Zealand Rugby Awards, with the 32-year-old acknowledged as the best player in the country in 2025 – for the third time. In the season where he brought up his 100th Test, Savea has been named as the Kelvin...

    • WRFU and Hurricanes part ways
      • The Wellington Rugby Football Union and the Hurricanes have parted ways. The WRFU have sold their reported 50% share of the Hurricanes that they have owned since 2012 to new owners, NZ Sport Investment Limited (NZSI). NZSI is a joint venture between Malcolm Gillies and Summit Capital Limited, and has acquired WRFU’s 50% shareholding, with...

    • Top PayID Casinos Australia setting the standard for transparency
      • Australian online casinos have never been under a brighter spotlight. How they handle payments, bonuses, and player care is getting picked apart by a sharper-eyed public. In 2024, PayID’s popularity keeps rising, players have come to expect instant payments and no-nonsense policy language. This appetite for transparency isn’t just a passing trend; it reflects a...

    • HOBM and Norths win American Ambassador’s sevens series
      • Fereti Soloa and the HOBM Eagles celebrate their 2025 American Ambassador’s win. By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur and Mike & Caroline Lewis The 2025 Jubilee Cup champions are also the Wellington club rugby sevens champions. The Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles played through the two-week American Ambassador’s tournament unbeaten to win this year’s...

    • Weather Effects on Betting Predictions in Rugby
      • Weather Effects on Betting Predictions in Rugby Weather can change how a rugby match is played and because of that it also changes the chances that bookmakers and bettors give to different outcomes. Rain makes it harder for players to handle the ball and often leads to fewer points being scored, something frequently seen in...

    • American Ambassador’s Sevens finale this Saturday
      • The 2025 rugby season in Wellington goes out with a bang this Saturday with the second and concluding leg of the American Ambassador’s Sevens series. All sporting roads in the Wellington region head to Trentham Memorial Park for the tournament that kicks off at 9.00am and runs until late afternoon, with the addition of finals...

    • Aisle be Back – that’s a wrap for the year
      • Peter Lakai – the Club Rugby website Wellington Player of the Year 2025, in action against the Chiefs in early May. By Kevin McCarthy I guess a wrap of the year traditionally consists of highs and lows. Indeed, as I write this, a gusty gale is blowing through Wellington, making it feel like mid-winter –...

    • Wellington club sevens series underway on Saturday
      • The wait is almost over. It’s a later than usual start to sevens rugby in Wellington this season as the 2025 American Ambassador’s series kicks off at Mary Crowther Park on Saturday morning. Like last year, this is the first leg of two, with the six-team women’s tournament taking place on Mary Crowther 1 and...

    • Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Wales and the end of the season
      • By Kevin McCarthy There’s a saying in our household. When you come Lord, make it quick. As in, when death comes, please don’t make it a lingering demise. It maps nicely to our favourite international rugby team, which is currently about to undergo a convulsive review of two years of Razor Robertson. You may recall...

    • Wellington club sevens series underway on Saturday
      • The wait is almost over. It’s a later than usual start to sevens rugby in Wellington this season as the 2025 American Ambassador’s series kicks off at Mary Crowther Park on Saturday morning. Like last year, this is the first leg of two, with the six-team women’s tournament taking place on Mary Crowther 1 and...

    • Paremata-Plimmerton win inaugural Feilding Blitz 7s
      • Wellington club Paremata-Plimmerton won the inaugural Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament on Saturday. Paremata-Plimmerton beat Whanganui’s FullSend in the final in the tournament that was played in blustery but fine conditions at Johnston Park on Saturday. The tournament was well run by the Feilding Yellows club and the competition was well-contested with the rugby trumping the...

    • Feilding 7s Blitz tournament on Saturday
      • Sevensvember continues on Saturday with the inaugural Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament. The Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament tournament hosted by the Feilding Yellows club features 12 men’s teams in a one-day shootout at Johnston Park. There are four Wellington teams, including three club sides ahead of the scheduled two-leg WRFU club sevens on 22 and 29...

    • Aisle be Back: All Blacks v England
      • By Kevin McCarthy Seasons shouldn’t be assessed on one match in theory – but throw that out this weekend. England, Twickenham, and a Grand Slam in prospect (yes I know, don’t forget Wales). It’s not a world cup knockout, but it isn’t far short of it. It seems a constant but England – despite protestations...

    • Feilding 7s Blitz tournament on Saturday
      • Sevensvember continues on Saturday with the inaugural Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament. The Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament tournament hosted by the Feilding Yellows club features 12 men’s teams in a one-day shootout at Johnston Park. There are four Wellington teams, including three club sides ahead of the scheduled two-leg WRFU club sevens on 22 and 29...

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