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    • Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France
      • By Kevin McCarthy Dave Rennie would have flunked Cuisenaire rods at school. For younger listeners, these were painted wood rods of varying units of length that basically taught you simple maths. They were also good for sucking on, and ingesting various chemicals. Unveiling his first twenty-three for the first test against France, he used the...

    • Liam Giving Rising Rams Slight Edge
      • Above: Liam Slight lighting up Maidstone Park with flanker Pene To’o in support in a recent match. Photo: @thephotoguy_nz By Adam Julian The Upper Hutt Rams have rocketed into the Jubilee Cup with nine consecutive wins and a second-place finish in the Swindale Shield, their best showing since winning it in 2005. In 2005, Pope...

    • Aotea College retain Beard Trophy in a thriller
      • Aotea College celebrating their first Beard Trophy defence on Wednesday night, beating Mana College 36-32. A week after winning it off Tawa College, the story of Aotea College’s first defence that gets written and stored in the booklet inside the Beard Trophy will be a memorable one. Seemingly down and out, Aotea College came back...

    • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 132: Paul Russo (Marist)
      • Above: Paul Russo highlighted in the back row, winning the Jubilee Cup with Marist in 1960, in his second year out of school at St Pat’s Silverstream. Paul Russo was a feature No. 8 of Wellington club rugby competitions and representative rugby throughout the 1960s. Russo was a four-time Jubilee Cup winner with Marist in...

    • End of Swindale Shield Stat Attack
      • With the curtain having come down on the first round Swindale Shield on a wet afternoon on Saturday, see below for some stats and numbers from the Swindale Shield and other competitions recently completed. The championship rounds commence this coming Saturday. _______________________________________________________________________ 818: The number of tries that were scored in a combined 91 Swindale...

    • Aisle be Back: The Afterglow of your Hurricanes final win
      • Hurricanes players celebrating during their win last Saturday. Photo: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Kevin McCarthy 10 minutes into the second half. The Hurricanes have just notched up 41 points …. To nil. The woman next to me says: Good Game! I agree and add that I’ve never seen anything like it, 41-nil this early in...

    • Proud few days for the Donaldsons just what the doctor ordered
      • Above: Luke Donaldson ordering the script for his forwards in last Saturday’s one-point win for Marist St Pat’s over Old Boys University. Donaldson was playing in his 50th blazer game. Photo: Tane Nathan (Kinetic Images). By Steven White It was a proud few days earlier this week for the Donaldson rugby family On Saturday eldest...

    • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 131 Paul Delaney (Onslow)
      • Paul Delaney was a self-employed plumber by trade, and he was Mr Fixit for many club and Wellington representative rugby teams he played for and coached over many years. Delaney, who was a lock and flanker, was a leading Onslow Senior A player in Wellington club rugby for over a decade spanning the 1950s and...

    • Hurricanes v Chiefs Final Stat Attack
      • By Peter Marriott Final v Chiefs: Won 60-5 After waiting for nine years and 318 days the Hurricanes finally secured their second Super Rugby title. It was the Hurricanes fourth Final and the Chiefs eighth, including the last four seasons in a row, all of which they have lost. The Hurricanes 60 points against the...

    • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Chiefs (Final)
      • By Kevin McCarthy Sitting there on Tuesday morning at my computer, buying a ticket to the grand final was a scary moment. I knew where I wanted a seat and headed straight there, and literally could see the available seats disappearing faster than Russian trucks heading for Crimea. I snared somewhere at nosebleed level which...

    • Wellington College Quadrangular Tournament Team of the Century
      • By Adam Julian & Steven White Rugby’s annual First XV Quadrangular Tournament, featuring Wellington College, Whanganui Collegiate, Nelson College, and Christ’s College, turns 100 this week (June 18-20) at Whanganui. Colloquially known as “The Quad,” it is the oldest four-way rugby tournament in New Zealand (and possibly the world) and together, the schools that contest...

    • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 130: Cam Stewart
      • Cam Stewart was Marist’s first-five and playmaker and vice-captain of the side that won or shared the Jubilee Cup in 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964. He also played for the Wellington representative team over several seasons and played in many of their big matches at the time. He later played for Manawatu after moving to...

    • Hurricanes v Blues Semi-Final Stat Attack
      • Asafo Aumua added his name to the list of try scorers in the win over the against the Blues. He now has 19 in 89 matches. It was his 5th against the Blues, a record for him against another side, one more than his four against the Chiefs. By Peter Marriott Semi-Final v Blues: Won...

    • Henry in top form for Petone in McBain Shield win
      • Henry gets his pass away on Saturday. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian It was a boisterous night on Udy Street as Petone foiled Hutt Old Boys Marist 29-16 to regain the McBain Shield from the Jubilee Cup champions and move within a whisker of winning the Swindale Shield for a record 16th time. The...

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