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Extra Time Extraordinaire: Jacob Waikari-Jones on Jubilee Cup Final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Jacob Waikari-Jones celebrates another try in last week’s 100-minute semi-final between Petone and the Upper Hutt Rams. He scored four of them and 26 points in total. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian & Steven White Jacob Waikari-Jones was the star of the show in Petone’s 100-minute semi-final last week, scoring four tries and 26...
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HOBM preparing for title defence in final against great rivals Petone
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White Ben Tuiomanufili says the banter is flying on both sides of the Ewen Bridge this week as local clubs Hutt Old Boys Marist and Petone prepare for the final this Saturday at neutral Porirua Park to decide the 98th Jubilee Cup champion. “I have had groups of people come up to me...
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Sideline Conversions 20 July (some news and information to start the new week in rugby)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Monday morning edition – updates expected: The 2026 club rugby Premier, Premier 2 and Women’s finals are upon us. It’s the defending champions Hutt Old Boys Marust against the first round winners and multiple past champions Petone in this coming weekend’s Jubilee Cup final, while Paremata-Plimmerton and Wellington meet in the Hardham VC Memorial Cup...
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All set for Premier and Premier 2 semi-finals this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Tawa’s George Risale takes on the Upper Hutt Rams’ defence in their most recent match two weeks ago at NZCIS. In tomorrow’s semi-finals, the Rams are back at this venue to host Petone whilst Tawa are playing Hutt Old Boys Marist at the Hutt Rec. Photos: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean So here we are,...
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Sideline Conversions 6 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The reaction of the HOBM and Petone players say it all – trytime for the Eagles. Their win over Petone earned them a week off, but it transpires that all teams will have this week off. More below. Photo: Tane Nathan (Kinetic Images). Welcome to a new week in community rugby, perhaps just not...
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Sideline Conversions 29 June (some news and information to start the new rugby week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Petone were awarded the Harper Lock Shield late on Sunday after the competition was declared closed after the last round was unable to go ahead on Saturday after extreme weather late last week. PHOTO: Petone Rugby Monday morning edition – updates expected later in the day: Four weeks until the end of the Wellington...
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Petone win Swindale Shield on day of late boilovers and upsets throughout club and college rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone with the Swindale Shield on their home ground, following today’s win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Grant Wall. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Petone are the 2026 Swindale Shield champions, winning the first-round title for the 16th time with next week’s final round to spare with a 43-17 win over Paremata-Plimmerton this afternoon. Petone and...
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Spotlight on club rugby in penultimate rounds of the Premier and Premier 2 competitions
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Trytime in last Saturday’s match between the Wellington Axemen and Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. The Axemen are back home hosting Oriental-Rongotai in Round 12, while Paremata-Plimmerton are at Petone. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition – updates to come later this afternoon as a handful of teamlists hadn’t been revealed by the noon hour: The...
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Henry in top form for Petone in McBain Shield win
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Sideline Conversions 15 June (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Action from the Petone Rec on Saturday, during the latter stages of the first round Colts decider. Photo: Warwick Burke Visitors HOBM won the Paris Memorial Trophy, joining the Tawa Ducks (U85kgs) and Petone Women as first round winners so far. Will the Swindale Shield and Harper Lock Shield titles be decided in this coming...
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Petone win McBain and have Swindale in their sights, but chasing pack bunched together
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone run in the opening try on the McBain Shield today in their win over Hutt Old Boys Marist. By Steven White, Scott MacLean, Adam Julian & Andy McArthur (photos) Petone beat Hutt Old Boys Marist 29-16 in their biggest regular season match of the year, while other results today meant the chasing pack is...
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Bumper weekend for club rugby in Wellington and around the region coming up
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Avalon and Petone scrums pack down last week at Fraser Park. Avalon are back there in the 11th round hosting Marist St Pat’s, while Petone are at home against Hutt Old Boys Marist for the McBain Shield. By Scott MacLean It’s a bumper weekend for club rugby coming up, with top-of-the-table clashes as well...
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Stoic Maulolo On Petone & McBain Magic
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Lester Maulolo running freely for Petone in a recent Swindale Shield match against Ories. On Saturday Petone hosts HOBM for the McBain Shield. Photo: Kinetic Images. By Adam Julian Lester Maulolo wryly laughs. “If the body still works, I might as well use it.” On Saturday, the Petone midfielder will line up for his 93rd...
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Mana, McBain, Winner, Waylon Tuhoro-Robinson
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Waylon Tuhoro-Robinson gets his kick away in a recent match for HOBM against Paremata-Plimmerton. On Saturday they meet Petone for the McBain Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. Waylon Tuhoro-Robinson has an air of authority that draws people in. He wasn’t always outspoken, but the tough, talented, versatile, diligent, honest, and articulate Hutt Old Boys Marist halfback...
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Petone men’s create buffer at top of Swindale standings as their women win their first round title
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Petone Ponies with the Rebecca Liua’ana Trophy today after their last round top-of-the-table 33-15 win over Northern United today. More on this game in the Women’s round-up below. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Swindale Shield points table (unofficial) after 10 rounds: https://stats.clubrugby.nz/table/2026-swindale-shield/ Petone have one hand on the Swindale...
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Swindale Shield picture to become clearer in 10th round matches
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone celebrate a try against Marist St Pat’s last week. They are up river for their tenth round match to play Avalon while Marist St Pat’s cross the road to play Poneke at Kilbirnie Park. Photo: Wall Sport Media. By Scott MacLean and Steven White Friday early afternoon edition – updates later: The 2026 Wellington...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Petone (59) v Marist St Pat’s (19)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Your 2026 Swindale Shield leaders. Petone produced a swashbuckling first half of attacking rugby to exhaust Marist St Pat’s defensive supplies, and went to halftime leading 40-5. The home side were in peak form, the visitors meeting a side playing like it was 1973 all over again. First year Left wing William Davis, out of...
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Plenty on the line in round nine King’s Birthday Weekend fixtures
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Trytime at Evans Bay Park last Saturday. Marist St Pat’s are on the road to play Petone tomorrow, while Paremata-Plimmerton return home to host Old Boys University. With a month to play after these games, both a big fixtures. Photo: Tane Nathan/Kinetic Images. By Scott MacLean FRIDAY LUNCHTIME EDITION – updates later this afternoon: It’s a...
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Sideline Conversions 18 May (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A lineout scene in Saturday’s match between Petone and Ories. Petone won 39-10. Photo: Kinetic Images. Photos from the weekend at https://clubrugby.smugmug.com/2026 The Swindale Shield reached its halfway point on Saturday and the race for the first round title is heating up with several teams in the mix and no conclusive favourite at this point....
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Close games expected as Swindale Shield reaches halfway point
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wainuiomata are back home this weekend to host the Wellington Axemen for the Bill Jones Cup, while Oriental-Rongotai are on the road to play Petone for the Jim Brown Memorial Trophy. Both big games for the four teams involved and other rivals on the points table. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime version – updates will...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Petone v Northern United
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone announced their serious challenge for this year’s Swindale Shield with this big win over Northern United. Petone led 17-7 at halftime and pulled clear to win 10 tries to 3 in the second half and the final score was 62-19. Northern United are rebuilding this year and there will be better days ahead for...
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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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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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Swindale Shield Matchday Highlights Round Two: Tawa (26) v Pare-Plim (25)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Round Two of the 2026 Swindale Shield came to Lyndhurst Park where home team Tawa met Paremata-Plimmerton. Coming off a hefty first round loss to Petone, it took Tawa just a few minutes to score their opening try of the year. Paremata-Plimmeerton responded and eventually both teams were deadlocked 12-12 just before halftime when the...
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Axemen raise the half century as first round form reverses for some teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Losi Filipo dives over to score one of two tries for Petone in their tight win over the Upper Hutt Rams. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian An opening win of the competition for the Wellington Axemen against Pōneke and generally much closer matches than last week were two...
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Where are they Now: Martin Leslie (Petone and Scotland)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian The recent Six Nations broke many scoring records and was regarded as one of the best ever. Noteworthy was Scotland’s 50-40 win over eventual champions France. In 1999, Scotland beat France in a similarly dramatic match in Paris, dominated by Petone legend Martin Leslie. Petone started the 2026 Swindale Shield with a...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone’s Brad Shields and others celebrate Oriental-Rongotai wing Fehi Fineanganofo’s try against Moana Pasifika in their opening game. By Kevin McCarthy What are you planning to do in the next 15 months? If you answer, trying to win a world cup, sorry – that’s gone. Dave Rennie, new All Blacks coach, also has the tour...
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What happened 100 years ago Part 2: Representative rugby in 1926
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A look back at how the season panned out 100 years ago. A recap of the 1926 representative season below. As discussed in part 1 of this series looking at the 1926 club and grassroots season, Athletic won the Senior Club Championship with University runners-up, ending the multi-year dominance of Petone and Poneke. The representative season...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 114: Tom Katene
- Wellington Club Weekly
- One of the original ‘pocket battleship’ wings. The years 1955 and 1956 were heady ones for in Petone, Wellington and New Zealand rugby. Petone were runners-up and then won the Jubilee Cup in these two seasons, Wellington won back the Ranfurly Shield and the country hosted the Springboks. Tom Katene was in the thick of...
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Axemen win Reserve Grade club rugby title, two tight rep matches at Rugby League Park
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White The last of the club rugby finals in Wellington was this afternoon, with top qualifiers and first round winners the Wellington Axemen beating the Petone Brotherhood 29-22 to win the Reserve Grade Division 1 John Davies Cup title. Elsewhere, the Wellington U18 Pasifika side beat the Manawatu Māori Colts 53-14 in Palmerston...
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