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Swindale Shield set to come alive in round five as college rugby takes flight
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Scott MacLean & Steven White Friday lunchtime edition – updates expected later in the afternoon. With a month of the competition behind us, the month of May is typically season defining for clubs that have designs on first round title success or of making the Jubilee Cup round later in the winter. As such,...
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 2 May
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 2 May 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores and get...
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Cunning Cowie a hit over the hill
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wainuiomata fullback Campbell Cowie flying in to score one of his two tries in their fourth round 34-17 win over Marist St Pat’s. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Campbell Cowie bucks the trend of players quitting senior rugby due to tumbling numbers, other priorities, or a lack of motivation. Wainuiomata is his fourth...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Crusaders in Wellington
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Ruben Love is set to play his 50th match for the Hurricanes against the Crusaders. Team news below. By Kevin McCarthy About this point in the Super season, I typically indulge in some , unscientific methods to see who has the toughest run in from here in the top 6. That is back of the...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 124: Colin Currie
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Colin Currie is part of the group of Wellington’s most capped hookers with 63 ‘A’ team appearances between 1959-65. He also spent one season in 1960 playing for Auckland and etched himself into that union’s folklore by winning a late tighthead that led to Auckland’s winning try over Canterbury in a Ranfurly Shield match. In...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Intercepts & Chargedowns Part 2
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Celebrating community rugby highlights of the past decade. Intercept and chargedown tries can turn games and take the breath out of opposing players and supporters alike. They are also often exciting and thrilling to watch, the sight of a winger coming up in the line and poaching a pass and doing what he or she...
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Hurricanes v Brumbies Stat Attack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Fehi Fineanganofo (above) carried on with his try scoring habit becoming just the fourth Hurricanes player to score four tries in a Super Rugby match. The previous instances were by Ben Lam (against the Rebels at Melbourne in 2018), Ngani Laumape (against the Blues at Wellington in 2018, 10 matches after Lam) and Bailyn Sullivan...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Paremata-Plimmerton (39) v Upper Hutt Rams (12)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Paremata-Plimmerton stormed home in the second half to beat the Upper Hutt Rams 39-12 in their fourth round Swindale Shield encounter at Ngati Toa Domain on Saturday. The Rams led 12-5 at halftime and were still very much in the game even after Paremata-Plimmerton had run in three quick tries early in the second half...
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Sideline Conversions 27 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Scene at Kilbirnie Park on Saturday in a high scoring match between Tawa and Poneke. Photo: Kinetic Images. We are into the fifth week of the club rugby season and the Swindale Shield and other competitions are just starting to heat up. A look at Premier Swindale Shield fixtures this coming Saturday in Wellington (Premier...
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Bonus point wins the order of the day as OBU remain unbeaten
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Hooker Dion Lealofi, with loose forwards Braydon Soi and Fa’amanu Anae in close support for Wainuiomata in their convincing win over Wainuiomata today at Evans Bay Park. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean What a difference a week makes. After an awful afternoon last Saturday, the sun shone brightly over today’s Anzac...
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Early season top-of-the-table clash for Anzac Day round
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Norths and HOBM teams in close-quarter action in the wet last weekend. Norths return home to host the Wellington Axemen and HOBM are at the Hutt Rec for the first time this year to play Old Boys University in an early season top-of-the-table fixture. Photo: Kinetic Images. By Scott MacLean FIRST EDITION PREVIEW –...
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 25 April
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 25 April 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores and...
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Team Lists for 25 April 2026 - note venue change
- Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
- Team Lists for 25 April 2026 - note venue change
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Welcome Home Lucas Aukuso and Mike Faimalo
- Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
- Welcome Home Lucas Aukuso and Mike Faimalo
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Murphy Taramai bringing experience and energy to the Rams in 2026
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Co-captains of the Upper Hutt Rams this year – Todd Svenson with ball in hand and Murphy Taramai hot on his heels in support. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White By the time this article is published (Thursday afternoon), Murphy Taramai could well be a proud father for the third time. Taramai’s partner is...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Brumbies and Kirifi’s 100th
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Not everyone will agree, but sometimes you’ve got to say a certain piece of building is worth every disputed dollar. At a bit over 600 million dollars , with inevitable turf battles over cost and who pays what, Christchurch and Canterbury tonight get back what many would feel was the beating heart,...
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Team Reports for 18 April 2026
- Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
- Team reports for 18 April 2026
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 123: Bill Dick (Petone)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Prop Bill Dick was one of those players that binds the club competition and makes it stronger. The reliable, consistent Dick played in Petone’s front row for more than a decade throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s and was later President of Petone. Dick was a four-time Jubilee Cup winner – in 1956,...
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Magic Anzac Day Rounds of the past 25 years
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Trytime for Ories in their one-point Anzac Day win over Pōneke in 2015. Saturday’s fourth round of the 2026 Swindale Shield will be the fifth time that club rugby has been played on Anzac Day since our records began in 2002 (Anzac Day also fell on a Saturday in 2001 but we don’t have...
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Hurricanes v Chiefs Stat Attack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Hurricanes emerge from the tunnel to play in a recent home match. Photo: Kinetic Images. In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2026. Facts and figures from the Hurricanes’ defeat to the Chiefs in Hamilton below. Round 10 v Chiefs: Lost 17-22 (a.e.t.) The Hurricanes have played the...
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Matchday Scoring highlights: Johnsonville (23) v Wellington (3)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Johnsonville beat the Wellington Axemen in frightful conditions at home at Helston Park in their third round Swindale Shield and Mick Kenny Memorial Cup match. Johnsonville scored two first half tries, to first-five Niall Delahunt and to fullback Jacob Walmsley, and then kicked a penalty on halftime to lead 15-3 at the interval. A second...
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Sideline Conversions 20 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Northern United and Hutt Old Boys Marist teams in action at Porirua Park on Saturday. Photo: Kinetic Images. A wild Saturday saw most matches played in conditions more akin to mid-July than Mid-April, and a handful spanning at least four grades that didn’t go ahead. The most high profile of these was the Paremata-Plimmerton...
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More close results in third round matches as appalling weather dominates
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Johnsonville and Axemen scrums pack down at a sodden Helston Park. Photo: Steven White. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian. There were a series of close results to mark the third round of the Wellington Premier Swindale Shield competition in atrocious conditions that swept through the Wellington region overnight and today. The...
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Swindale Shield set to heat up in round three
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Action from the UHR Rams – Petone match last week. The Rams are back home hosting Oriental-Rongotai whilst Petone are away playing Old Boys University. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition – updates expected later this afternoon. Despite the forecast of bad weather for the first time this season, the Swindale Shield...
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Team Lists for Saturday 18 April 2026
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- Team Lists for Saturday 18 April 2026
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Ha'amea 'Ahio 150 games this Saturday!!!!
- Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
- Ha'amea 'Ahio 150 games this Saturday!!!!
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 18 April
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 18 April 2026) Please be aware there is some bad weather around – leave early and bring wet weather gear to your games today. More here: CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU...
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Friendship & Festivities – Nelson and Wellington Honour First College Rugby Game
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The match-day programme when Wellington College and Nelson College met in 1976. By Adam Julian When Wellington College hosts Nelson College in a one-off fixture on Saturday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first interprovincial secondary school game of rugby in New Zealand, it will bring together friends, old rivals – and even old...
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Randall Bishop – Tawa’s Mr. Reliable set to play his 200th Premier match
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Randall Bishop gets his kick away last Saturday in Tawa’s one-point win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Some 15 seasons after making his Premier debut, and three Jubilee Cup titles two more finals appearances and a Horowhenua-Kapiti title later, Randall Bishop is set to run out to play his 200th match for...
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Team Reports for Saturday 11 April 2026
- Johnsonville Rugby Football Club
- Strong weekend for our Hawks whānau Plenty of heart, hustle, and pride on display. Check out this week’s team reports
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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
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Centurions Rugby Club feed
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Johnsonville Rugby Football Club feed
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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
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Petone Rugby club match reports
- Petone Rugby Club
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HOBM news feed
- Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Club
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Petone Rugby Club news
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Ories news
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
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WRRA news
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Wests rugby news
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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
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WRFU Feed
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
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Rugby Club Weekly Feed
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Latest Item: 19 Mar 2019
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Rugby watchlist
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Northern United Rugby Football Club Inc - NEWS
- Northern United Rugby Football Club
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HOBM news
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