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Pōneke And Johnsonville teams to meet in Reserve Grade decider on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White The last club final of the year could be one of the most fervently supported and hotly contested of the season. The Pōneke Ruffnuts and the Johnsonville Cripples meet at Kilbirnie Park to decide this year’s Reserve Grade Division 1 John Davies Cup champion. There have been 11 editions of the John...
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Familiar foes Wellington College and St Patrick’s Silverstream clash in Sunday’s Premiership final at Jerry Collins Stadium in Porirua
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian Photos by Andy McArthur Wellington College and St Pat’s Silverstream meet on Sunday at Porirua Park in the 2026 Wellington First XV Premiership final. Since the Premiership began in 1979, both schools have won it 23 times. The final started in 1993 with a 20-20 draw between Bishop Viard College and Hutt...
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St Mary’s and Taita Colleges contest drawn Schoolgirls Premier 1 final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It’s an 11-peat of titles for the St Mary’s College First XV, but this one will be shared. St Mary’s, winners of the Wellington schoolgirls title every year since 2015, and Taita College contested a thrilling 27-27 draw in the final on Wednesday night at Porirua Park. St Mary’s now go on to play Manukura...
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NPC Number Crunching: Wellington v Auckland
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Captain Caleb Delany trucks it up against Hawke’s Bay in their first match. The Stat Attack by compiled by Peter Marriot continues for this year’s 50th National Provincial Championship competition. The second one from the match against Auckland is below. The Lions meet North Harbour in their third round fixture and 526th NPC battle overall at Wellington...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 137: Ken Gray (Paremata-Plimmerton and Petone)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- One of the giants of Wellington rugby. Ken Gray rose to become a leading figure in Petone, Wellington and All Blacks rugby. “A great forward,” wrote doyen Sir T.P. McLean. “Durable, vigorous, relentless, pursuing, and supremely intelligent.” Gray has strong ties to both the Paremata-Plimmerton and Petone clubs, having played all his top club rugby...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Wellington Centurions (50) v Whanganui (28)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The two teams met at Cooks Gardens, Whanganui, in their annual Heartland Championship pre-season fixture. In fine conditions, the Centurions won 50-28, after leading 22-14 at halftime. They won eight tries to four. This was the Centurions’ sixth straight win over Whanganui. Match highlights here: The Centurions made a fast start, with early tries to...
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Sideline Conversions 10 August (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Thumbs up to Ma’a Nonu, who will wear the #23 jersey for the Sharks against the All Blacks on Wednesday at 5.00am at Durban. Monday morning edition (updates expected): It’s school finals week in Wellington, with the schoolgirls finals at Porirua Park on Wednesday evening, Premier 2 and lower grade boys college finals at...
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College Finalists found, MSP Internationals win Reserve Grade Division 2 title, Centurions win at Whanganui
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington College were pushed hard by Rathkeale College in their Premiership First XV final today. They will meet St Pat’s Silverstream in next week’s final. More below. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian Wellington College and St Pat’s Silverstream will meet in next weekend’s Premiership final at Porirua Park following...
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College semi-finals, U85kg and Reserve Grade club rugby, representative games this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Action from the Wellington Centurions v Whanganui match last year, with the Centurions winning 41-0 at the Hutt Rec. The two sides meet at Cooks Gardens tomorrow in the Centurions’ first game of the year and Whanganui’s last before the Heartland Championship gets underway next weekend. Photo: Kinetic Images. By Scott MacLean & Steven...
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Aisle be Back: What Goes On Tour
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy If you don’t understand the fuss over the All Blacks ending a 30-year touring drought, you are certainly in a minority, or under 30. Perhaps it would be useful to do this little thought experiment. How much do you remember about the Bledisloe in 2014, or the Rugby Championship in 2017. I’d wager...
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Du’Plessis Kirifi: The Selfless Seven Come 12
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Du’Plessis Kirifi packs down with the Wellington Lions scrum in their season opener this past Sunday. This week he makes a move to the midfield. By Steven White Being the consummate professional, Du’Plessis Kirifi is channeling any disappointment at not being with the All Blacks in South Africa by focusing on the Wellington Lions for...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 136: Clarrie Gibbons
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Clarrie Gibbons was synonymous with rugby in Wellington for many years Gibbons was a player in Wellington in the early 1930s, then a Wellington A selector and coach in the 1950s and 1960s and later an administrator and WRFU Chairman between 1964-68 and NZRU President in 1967. As well as rugby, Gibbons was a track...
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NPC Number Crunching: Wellington Lions v Hawke’s Bay
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Stat Attack by compiled by Peter Marriot continues for this year’s 50th National Provincial Championship competition. The first one from the match against Hawke’s Bay is below. Round 1 v Hawke’s Bay: Lost 33-52 The Wellington Lions began the 51st season of NPC rugby (renamed Hilux NPC this year) with a loss: the 16th...
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Matchday scoring highlights: Horowhenua-Kapiti (73) v Te Ūpoko O Te Ika – Wellington Māori Rugby (31)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The two teams met at Porirua Park on Saturday in fine but breezy conditions, in their opening fixtures of the 2026 representative rugby season. Players in both sides were coming off hard-fought, committed campaigns with their club teams spread throughout the Wellington and Horowhenua-Kapiti competitions. Horowhenua-Kapiti made a bright and breezy start to the game...
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Sideline Conversions 3 August (some rugby news and information to start the new rugby week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The National U85kgs Knockout Cup is underway, with Paremata-Plimmerton advancing to the second round with their win over Wellington. They play Eastbourne this week in one of two games in Wellington. Monday morning edition – updates expected later on: It’s semi-finals and finals this coming Saturday in the Reserve Grade, semi-finals in college rugby and...
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Petone and OBU win Colts titles as college semi-finals confirmed
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone captain Junior Tupou scores one of this two tries as MSP’S Bentley Faulkner tries to stop him in today’s Colts Division 1 final. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean The party continues at Petone this weekend, with their Colts side crowned Division 1 John E Kelly Cup champions this afternoon with...
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Wellington club rugby 1 August – links to live streams and scoring
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 1 August – Colts finals) WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores for Colts, U85kg Knockout Cup and Reserve Grade and get results off the WRFU site at: https://www.wrfu.co.nz/senior/draws-results ________________________________________________________________________ College Rugby Visit https://www.collegesport.org.nz/draws-results-1/draws-results-1 and navigate to live scores and fulltime scores of all College Rugby competitions. _______________________________________________________________________...
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Club, college and representative rugby all being played this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Action from last week’s Colts semi-finals semi-final between Poneke and Norths. Poneke are back at home tomorrow hosting Old Boys University in the Division 2 decider. Photo: Bob O’Neill. By Scott MacLean & Steven White It’s the club rugby Colts finals, the start of the National U85kg Knockout Cup competition, Reserve Grade quarter-finals and Presidents...
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Aisle be Back: Afrika
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy They reckon it helps to have suitable mood music going in the background when you need to concentrate and write. Bach, Handel, you know the sort. Very rarely do they recommend Afrikaans. But anyway, right now I’ve got a YouTube video playing of the full 3rd test, All Blacks v South Africa, at...
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MSP and Petone meeting in Colts Division 1 decider this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White A week after Marist St Pat’s beat Petone 17-13 the MSP and Petone Colts team do it all again this Saturday in the season decider, only this time in MSP territory at Evans Bay Park by virtue of that win. The standings heading into this straight final saw MSP finish on 20...
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Back with Iron – Cam Ferreira on Jim Brown Medal win
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Number one – fulltime in the Jubilee Cup and Petone halfback Cam Ferreira celebrates victory, alongside lock Archie Schrader and No. 8 and captain Connor Tuifao who both also had big games. By Adam Julian Photos by Andy McArthur When Cam Ferreira slipped a disc in his lower back on June 13 during Petone’s...
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Rugby coming up in August
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Now that club rugby is mostly over – with just this coming weekend’s Colts finals to come and the Reserve Grade deciders after that – attention is turned to the ‘representative’ season. Starting for August, here is much of what is happening in rugby in Wellington and the lower North Island. This is just a...
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Club Rugby winners around the country 2026
- Wellington Club Weekly
- And just like that, club rugby has largely come to an end for 2026 with the last five finals played over the weekend just gone. In Wellington Petone defeated their eternal rivals Hutt Old Boys Marist 18-10 at Porirua Park to claim the Jubilee Cup for the first time since 2005. But what about everywhere...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 135: Ralph Caulton
- Wellington Club Weekly
- All Black number 600, Ralph Caulton was a leading outside back in Wellington club rugby, Wellington provincial rugby and for the All Blacks from the late 1950s to the first half of the 1960s. Caulton, who was a centre or wing, was Pōneke’s first All Black selected in 21 years when he played against the...
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Finals Day Sideline Reflections
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Saturday’s 98th Jubilee Cup final was also a celebration of 100 years of radio broadcasts. More below. By Adam Julian It was double delight for Petone in the Jubilee Cup and Tia Passi Memorial Cup finals. In the Tia Passi women’s decider, Petone extended their winning streak to 21 consecutive matches with a 31-12 win over Oriental...
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Sideline Conversions 27 July (some news and Information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Monday morning edition – updates expected: Congratulations to all winners of the club finals on Saturday, now the club season turns to the ride its conclusion of the Colts and Reserve Grade competitions. The Colts finals this coming Saturday at both at the Kilbirnie precinct, with Marist St Pat’s emerging as top qualifier to earn...
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Petone, Avalon and Paremata-Plimmerton win Finals Day trophies
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White & Scott MacLean The Petone club won all three finals that they contested on Porirua Park 1 on WRFU’s Finals Day today, with the Premier Men’s winning the Jubilee Cup with an 18-10 win over Hutt Old Boys Marist, their Premier 2s winning the Ed Chaney Cup with a 19-8 win over...
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Wellington club rugby live streaming, listening and scoring updates 25 July (Finals Day)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 25 July 2026 – Finals Day) WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores and get results off the WRFU site at: https://www.wrfu.co.nz/senior/draws-results ________________________________________________________________________ Finals Jubilee Cup/Hardham VC Memorial Cup teamlists at this link and...
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Taranaki v Wellington XV NPC pre-season livestream
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A Wellington XV plays the Taranaki NPC squad in their second and final NPC pre-season match on Friday afternoon in coastal Taranaki, in a fixture dubbed the ‘Battle of the Beach.’ Check out the home team’s livestream of the encounter below: The teams are: Wellington (as received): 1. Jake Turnbull (USA) 2. James O’Reilly (HOBM)...
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Finals Day takes top billing tomorrow in community rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Scott MacLean Friday noon edition – updates expected later on: There are six club rugby finals at Porirua Park tomorrow, three on Porirua Park 1 and three up top on Porirua 2. Grade deciders in action include both Women’s divisions, both Premier 2 Divisions and the Premier Hardham VC Memorial Cup and Jubilee Cups...
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