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    • Academy Series underway Saturday as Hurricanes teams kick off
      • Sevens rugby took the spotlight a fortnight ago, now it is the start of the fifteens game for many players in the wider region. The second annual Sam Doyle Memorial Cup series takes place at Massey University, Palmerston North over the next fortnight. The series sees the Academy sides of Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu...

    • What happened 100 years ago Part 2: Representative rugby in 1926
      • A look back at how the season panned out 100 years ago. A recap of the 1926 representative season below. As discussed in part 1 of this series looking at the 1926 club and grassroots season, Athletic won the Senior Club Championship with University runners-up, ending the multi-year dominance of Petone and Poneke. The representative season...

    • Club Rugby Highlights Series: From the Lineout
      • 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...

    • What happened 100 years ago: Part 1 Club Rugby
      • The winning Wellington club rugby 1926 Senior Championship side Athletic, featuring All Blacks Cliff Porter and Kenneth Svenson in the front row. As we enter a new season of rugby in the Wellington region, a look back at how the season panned out 100 years ago. This year it is 1926. A recap of the...

    • Club Rugby Highlights Series: Kick & Collect
      • 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...

    • Sideline Conversions 9 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
      • Ethan Webster-Nonu flies in for his match-winning try in home team Paremata-Plimmerton’s 21-17 semi-final win over Nelson Marist on Saturday. This last-gasp try set up an all-Wellington National Club 7s final, with Hutt Old Boys Marist winning 19-12. Photo: Andy McArthur – full gallery at https://clubrugby.smugmug.com/2026/2026-Sevens-/National-Club-7s-Mixed-Gallery-2-inc-presentations-pics/i-jBWknXS A busy day of rugby in Porirua and Mana...

    • HOBM National 7s Champions in all Wellington Final
      • By Steven White & Adam Julian Photos by Andy McArthur Hutt Old Boys Marist holds the McBain Shield, Jubilee Cup, Ambassador Sevens, and now the National Club Sevens titles. They dethroned hosts and reigning national champions Paremata Plimmeton 19-12 in an all-local final at a sun-kissed Ngati Toa Domain. With fatigue mounting, the decider was...

    • National Club Sevens all day Saturday at Ngati Toa Domain
      • For the third time in the past decade, the National Club Sevens comes to Wellington, with Paremata-Plimmerton hosting the 2026 tournament at Ngati Toa Domain on Saturday. Paremata-Plimmerton will be seeking to become the first Wellington club of the modern era to successfully defend it on home soil, following Wainuiomata’s and Northern United’s unsuccessful defences...

    • Community match for the Hurricanes on Saturday
      • The corporate veil will soon descend over the Hurricanes for another year, but first fans can view the team in action up close when they take on the Chiefs at Porirua Park on Saturday, kick-off 1.00pm. The Hurricanes have traditionally brought a pre-season match to their community, with Wainuiomata last year, Levin the year before...

    • 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...

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