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Club Rugby Compilation Highlights Series: Tries from the Kick-off
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Sideline Conversions 2 February (some news and information to start the week and the year)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Flashback to the 2013 Hardham Cup final with Vaea Fifita skipping clear for the Wellington Axemen. Norths would win the final 26-16, but Fifita made the first of his 52 appearances for the Wellington Lions that season. He subsequently made his Hurricanes debut in 2015 and played 11 Tests for the All Blacks 2017-19...
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Club Rugby Compilation Highlights Series: Intercepts & Chargedowns Part 1
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Compilation Series: Tries by Halfbacks Part 1
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: “The Jubilee Mystery”
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Long-range Strikes Part 1
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Shooting Stars
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Excitement machine Grant Batty passes away in Australia
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Tenacious Wellington Flyers defend Bula 7s title
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Bula 7s tournament at William Jones Park on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Cutting Loose Part 1 –
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Two decades and counting covering community rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Late Bloomers and Slow Burners
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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,...
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They won club rugby titles in more than one province
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Top PayID Casinos Australia setting the standard for transparency
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Sideline Conversions 22 December (some off-season news in briefs)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Club Rugby wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. This is probably our last article of the year, so after this we will see you on the other side! A few bits and pieces as the year winds down and the summer season kicks in. +++++ In the last tournament of the...
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Rugby
- Newtown Festival
- Noise funk laser beam jam sandwich, experimental (mental) dog rock band. Hi we are Rugby. We have come out of the depths of Newtown with crash cymbals, jokes and coherent musical ideas. We love to play music and we love to have you listen to it. Dancing is optional but we’ll tickle you with the […]
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Savea wins Kelvin R Tremain Memorial for the third time
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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WRFU and Hurricanes part ways
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Top PayID Casinos Australia setting the standard for transparency
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Sideline Conversions 1 December (some rugby news and information to start the month)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The thrills and spills of sevens rugby. Lots of action at Trentham Memorial Park on Saturday. Photo by Andy McArthur. Full gallery here That’s lights out for the rugby season. But in just several weeks it starts up again, with the annual Bula Fiji 7s tournament later in January (to be confirmed) and the National...
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HOBM and Norths win American Ambassador’s sevens series
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Weather Effects on Betting Predictions in Rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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American Ambassador’s Sevens finale this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Aisle be Back – that’s a wrap for the year
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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 –...
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Ories and HOBM Eagles unbeaten after first leg of American Ambassador’s series
- Wellington Club Weekly
- General crowd scene as seen from tournament headquarters at Mary Crowther Park on Saturday. Oriental-Rongotai and Hutt Old Boys Marist are the two unbeaten teams in the men’s division at the conclusion of the first of two Wellington club rugby sevens tournaments, played at Wainuiomata’s Mary Crowther Park on Saturday. But the Upper Hutt Rams...
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Wellington club sevens series underway on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Onslow Sport Wrap up – 20th November
- Onslow College
- A massive congratulations to Sahana Sambhus (Year 10) who dominated the College Sport Wellington Junior Tennis Tournament, winning the Gold draw and dropping only four games in the entire competition, including a decisive 4-0, 4-2 victory in the finals.
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Wellington club sevens series underway on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Wales and the end of the season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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...
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Avalon Wolves Rugby Football Club
- Avalon Wolves Rugby welcomes players and supporters from all over the region. We currently have members throughout the Hutt Valley, including Stokes Valley and Upper Hutt as well as from Wellington City and the surrounding suburbs.
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Centurions Rugby Club
- The Centurions Rugby Football Club has been in Wellington for over 80 years. It is membership by invitation to those who have made a significant contribution to rugby through playing, coaching, refereeing or administration.
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Centurions Rugby Football Club
- The Centurions Rugby Football Club has been in Wellington for about 68 years. Its membership of almost 300 is made up of people who love the game of rugby union and who have excelled as players, referees, coaches or administrators.
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Chainsawphotos - Event and sport photography incl Wellington club rugby photos
- A photography site of a part time photographer involved in event and sport photography. Lots of Wellington club rugby photos, plus a few other photos around New Zealand.
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Hurricanes
- Hurricanes news, player profiles, match pictures, game highlights, Super 12 competition standings, and rugby links
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Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Club
- Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Club has been a strong performer in the Wellington Club competition with teams in the top three grades and good age grade sides. The Premier First side won the coveted Jubilee Cup in 2007 and has been one of the leading clubs in Wellington in recent years. The Club’s top Colts side has reached the Colt’s A grade final six times in the last ten years.
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Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
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Johnsonville Rugby and Football Club, 80, Helston Road, Paparangi, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Northern United Rugby Football Club
- Northern United Rugby Football Club Inc was established in 1990 as a result of the amalgamation of the Porirua and Titahi Bay Rugby Football Clubs after their 1989 season. Northern United RFC is known as ‘Norths’ within the Wellington Rugby Football Union. The initial playing strip was the Porirua Rugby Club jersey with the Titahi Bay Rugby Club shorts and socks but in 1990 the official blue and white playing strip was introduced, which remains prominent 30 years on.
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Paremata Plimmerton RFC
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Paremata Plimmerton Rugby Football Club
- The Paremata Plimmerton Rugby Club prides itself on providing good rugby for young people. There has always been a strong junior section at the Club with Christian Cullen playing here in his earlier days.
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Poneke Rugby
- The Poneke Club, founded in 1883, is the second oldest club behind the Wellington Football Club, still actively participating in the WRFU competition.
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Tawa Junior Rugby
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Vodaphone Wellington Lions
- The Vodafone Wellington Lions are Wellington's top representative side, having won the former Air New Zealand NPC first division competition on four occasions - 1978, 1981, 1986 and 2000. Wellington has also experienced nine Ranfurly Shield tenures and many more heartbreaking challenges.
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Wellington Football Club
- Founded in 1870, the Wellington Football Club (the Axemen) is New Zealands oldest playing through Rugby Club. Clubrooms are situated at Hataitai Park just through the Mount Victoria Tunnel.
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Wellington Sallies Rugby Team
- For over 50 years the Wellington Sallies Rugby Team has played under the club banner of the Wellington Rugby Football Club Inc. also known as "The Axemen", and currently compete in the local Senior 3rd competition.
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Upper Hutt RAMS blog
- Upper Hutt RAMS
- Latest Item: 11 Mar 2020
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Centurions Rugby Club feed
- Centurions Rugby Club
- Latest Item: 13 Nov 2022
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Johnsonville Rugby Football Club feed
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- Latest Item: 20 Nov 2025
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Johnsonville Rugby and Football Club, 80, Helston Road, Paparangi, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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OBU feed
- Old Boys - University Rugby Club
- Latest Item: 19 Mar 2022
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Petone Rugby club match reports
- Petone Rugby Club
- Latest Item: 29 Jun 2013
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HOBM news feed
- Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Club
- Latest Item: 19 Jul 2015
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Petone Rugby Club news
- Petone Rugby Club
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Ories news
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
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WRRA news
- Wellington Rugby Referees Association
- Latest Item: 4 May 2022
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Wests rugby news
- Western Suburbs Rugby Football Club
- Latest Item: 20 Feb 2018
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PPRFC news
- Paremata Plimmerton Rugby Football Club
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Wellington Rugby Referees Associaton news feed
- Wellington Rugby Referees Association
- Latest Item: 4 May 2022
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WRFU Feed
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- Latest Item: 20 Nov 2013
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Rugby Club Weekly Feed
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Latest Item: 19 Mar 2019
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Northern United Rugby Football Club Inc - NEWS
- Northern United Rugby Football Club
- Last Changed: 23 months ago
- Sportly RSS feed probably available.
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HOBM news
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