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    Hurricanes Schools 7s tournaments this weekend

    • 12 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The boys and girls Hurricanes Youth Council 7s tournaments are being played at Feilding High School on Saturday and Sunday. The boys tournament is on Saturday and the girls is on Sunday. There are five schools lining up on Saturday and another three on Sunday – a far cry from a decade ago when three...
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    Sideline Conversions 9 November (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 8 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Flashback to 10 years ago – the Upper Hutt Rams after winning the 2016 American Ambassador’s 7s series. The time remaining in the year is getting shorter and so are these columns. But a few things below this week, which will be added to as news comes in. First a reminder of what’s coming...
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    Petone seal women’s sevens title with second tournament win

    • 7 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur The Petone Ponies are this year’s WRFU Women’s 7s series winners with a convincing win today’s second of two tournaments at Rugby League Park. Petone won last week’s first tournament so were in the box seat to take out the series. Sevens rugby can throw up surprising results,...
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    Four-team shootout in second and final women’s sevens series tournament

    • 6 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The second and concluding WRFU women’s 7s tournament is scheduled to be played at Rugby League Park tomorrow. The scheduled field has been reduced from six to four teams, with last week’s entrants Oriental-Rongotai and the Wellington Axemen falling off the pace and leaving Petone, Avalon, Old Boys University and Pōneke to don their club...
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    Aisle be Back: The North

    • 5 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy. It’s fashionable in the recent times to say satire may be dead, given what some would politely call, a 24-7 cycle of change. Or, less politely, the continual cluster-fudge. Kudos then for World Rugby proudly announcing it will be doing more biometric testing of fans to see what happens to them as...
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    Club Rugby Awards 2026

    • 3 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • One of the action shots of the year. Emmanuel Solomona crashes over to score for Wainuiomata against Paremata-Plimmerton. Pure determination and power to score in terrible conditions. Photo: Andy McArthur. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The last comprehensive piece of our season are our annual awards, where we...
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    Sideline Conversions 2 November (some rugby news to start the new week)

    • 1 Nov 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Georgia Daals on the burst for Petone against Poneke in their WRFU women’s 7s tournament on Saturday. Photo: Andy McArthur. The first of five scheduled Saturdays of sevens was held at Rugby League Park on Saturday with the first of the two WRFU women’s tournaments. The Petone Ponies have the upper hand heading into this...
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    Wellington Club Sevens underway tomorrow with Leg One of Eleanor Roosevelt Cup Women’s Tournament

    • 29 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • We have blast off for the Wellington club rugby sevens season A scheduled four-week Wellington club rugby sevens series starts tomorrow with the first of two scheduled women’s tournaments. The plan for the WRFU is to run two weeks of women’s and then two weeks of men’s club sevens over the next five weekends –...
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    Matchday Scoring Highlights: CSW 7s Open Boys Knockout Matches

    • 27 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The 2026 College Sport Wellington 7s tournament was held at its usual venue of Naenae College on Labour Day Monday. Conditions were fine but windy, with afternoon gusts sweeping down the ground. The action and results from the knockout and finals matches proved close. In the Open Boys competition, St Pat’s Silverstream and Wellington College...
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    Hawks Academy

    • 27 Oct 2026
    • Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
    • Some pics from the Hawks Academy 2026
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    Rugby 7s

    • 27 Oct 2026
    • Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
    • Rugby 7s training has started. Are you in?
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    St Pat’s Silverstream, St Mary’s, Scots College and Naenae take home the sevens silverware at CSW 7s

    • 26 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur St Pat’s Silverstream, St Mary’s College, Scots College and host school Naenae College won the silverware at today’s 2026 College Sport Wellington Sevens Tournament. Silverstream defended their Open Boys title and their B team won the Open Boys Bowl, St Mary’s defended their Open Girls title (from two...
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    Condor Sevens at Naenae College on Monday

    • 24 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Twenty-seven teams will vie for local supremacy at the annual College Sport Wellington Sevens tournament at Naenae College on Monday. The tournament returns to its traditional Labour Day date this year, after last year’s event was postponed a fortnight due to weather. There is also a change in the qualification for the National event in...
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    Summer of Sevens around the corner

    • 20 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Rupeni Raviyawa flashes in for a try at the WRFU Club Sevens last November for his new club Hutt Old Boys Marist. The Eagles won the series and in February won the National Club 7s and Raviyawa was one of the leading players of the tournament. Photo: Andy McArthur. The 2026/27 sevens season for lower...
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    Sideline Conversions 19 October (some rugby news and information to start the new week)

    • 18 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington U85kgs plot their next move from the penalty and upcoming lineout in the corner in their match against Manawatu on Saturday. Monday morning edition – updates expected later today: That’s it for 15s rugby for the year for most. Just the NPC final to come, but for many readers of this website, when...
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    Wellington U85kgs shut out Manawatu U85kgs, King Country win Meads Cup

    • 17 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Johnsonville No. 8 and Wellington U85kg captain Seamus Rowberry scores the second of his two tries in Wellington’s comfortable win over the Manawatu U85kgs in Feilding on Saturday. By Steven White A well-drilled Wellington representative U85kg team beat their Manawatu counterparts 62-0 in their one-off fixture played at Johnston Park, Feilding on Saturday afternoon. In...
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    U85kgs representative match and Heartland Championship finals this weekend

    • 16 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The sun goes down on the community rugby 15s season this weekend, with the last of the representative games and the Heartland Championship finals. By Scott MacLean & Steven White And finally, we reach the end of these Friday preview pieces for 2026 with our 30th and final look at the weekend’s upcoming rugby. To...
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    Aisle be Back: Rotation

    • 15 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Do you remember when the land was stalked by the dreaded R word? Rotation. Suddenly the All Black jersey was irreparably damaged if the same starting XV did not get named game after game. The only acceptable change came from injury, and even then, the player needed to show up with said...
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    2027 Premiers Coach Appointment

    • 14 Oct 2026
    • Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
    • We’re delighted to announce that Jason Adamson is returning to the Hawks whānau as our Premier Club Head Coach for 2027.
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    Hawks Meet and Greet

    • 14 Oct 2026
    • Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
    • HAWKS CLUB MEET & GREET: Friday 30 October 2026 6.30pm Hawks Clubrooms Light refreshments provided
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    Best & Fairest competitions Teams of the Season

    • 12 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Best & Fairest starting halfback Esi Komaisavai celebrates a try for Paremata-Plimmerton against Johnsonville in early June. Photo: Stewart Baird Photography. By Scott MacLean, of the WRRA A big part of our end of season pieces is to name teams based on the Men’s Billy Wallace and Women’s Erin Rush Best & Fairest standings, which...
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    Sideline Conversions 12 October (some rugby news and information to start the new week)

    • 11 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Horowhenua-Kapiti No. 8 Mika Alaifatu scores a try that wasn’t on Saturday, after running on to a pass that was ruled forward by flanker David Leota-Johnson. H-K did score soon after and led with two minutes to play before a try on fulltime and then extra time momentum carried Whanganui to a 39-38 win. Monday...
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    Pride win Women’s Championship as Whanganui win Heartland final berth

    • 10 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White & Scott MacLean The Wellington Pride are the 2026 Farah Palmer Cup Women’s Championship winners, following their 39-15 win over the Northland Kauri in the final at Wellington Stadium this afternoon. The Pride survived a late first half scare to pull away from the Northlanders and win well in the end, on...
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    Women’s final and Heartland Championship semi-finals tomorrow

    • 9 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Jackie Patea-Fereti and the Pride will be hoping to finish their season with the title in the bag, hosting Northland in their FPC final. By Scott MacLean The 15s season is closing fast, with just one representative match tomorrow involving Wellington teams this weekend, as well as the Heartland Championship semi-finals. Representative Just one team...
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    Aisle be Back: Bledisloe Cup in Auckland

    • 8 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Delirious All Blacks fans in the stands earlier this year. By Kevin McCarthy It’s so 2026 for everything to be moving at hyper speed. Even the very worthwhile tour of South Africa and Baltimore seems ages ago. Admittedly some of All Black bodies won’t feel that way, as indeed the injury list will testify. But...
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    Murphy Taramai and Ana Kerr win Best & Fairest competitions

    • 7 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Anastasia Kerr and Murphy Taramai led their teams’ performances this year and won the 2026 Best & Fairest competitions. Photos: Andy McArthur. Upper Hutt’s Murphy Taramai and Petone teenager Anastasia Kerr took home the two big individual club prizes from this week’s Wellington Rugby Awards; the Billy Wallace and Erin Rush Best & Fairest competition...
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    Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay win 2026 Hurricanes region U16s titles

    • 7 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Poverty Bay celebrate their Saracens Cup win on fulltime. The Division A and Division B Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council’s U16 titles are both heading east this year. The Hawke’s Bay Black team won the Division A Don Broughton Shield and Poverty Bay won the second tier Saracens Cup amongst the contest of the Heartland unions....
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    NPC Number Crunching: Wellington Lions v Taranaki

    • 6 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: When Wellington beat Taranaki in 2004. The Wellington Lions secured a 0/10 season record with their final round loss to the Taranaki Bulls in New Plymouth on Sunday. In his final stat attack of the year, Peter Marriott looks at the game below. ________________________________________________________________________ Round 10 v Taranaki: Lost 26-68 The 2026 National Provincial...
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    Sideline Conversions 5 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 4 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Action from the Wellington Pride’s semi-final win over Hawke’s Bay. They are hosting the Northland Kauri at Wellington Stadium at 12.05pm. The rugby to watch and follow is thinning, but there is still some to note and follow. The Hurricanes U16s tournament is this week in Whanganui. We previewed this in the body of our...
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    Pride win semi-final, maiden win for the Wellington Co-ed Schools, U85kgs reps win well, lower NI Heartland teams advance to semi-finals

    • 3 Oct 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Trytime for the Wellington Co-ed Schools against the Wellington Māori U18s. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean The Wellington Pride defeated the Hawke’s Bay Tuis 54-26 in today’s Farah Palmer Cup Championship division semi-final at Rugby League Park, while the Wellington Co-ed Schools won their maiden victory in beating the Wellington Māori...
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