Rugby / May 2015
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Wellington, Petone, Old Boys University and Wainuiomata clinch final four spots
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Josh Robertson-Weepu scores a try today in Wainuiomata’s 24-22 win over Old Boys-University, to seal their place in the Jubilee Cup.
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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WRRA Referee Profile: Ben Van Berkel
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The WRRA have been catching up with some of our referees and finding out about them and why refereeing rugby is appealing.
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Norths hoping to pull clear of the pack in Women’s rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Round 7 of the Fleurs Trophy reverts to Saturday morning after last Friday night’s round of matches.
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St Pat’s Town edge Wellington College in tight battle at Evans Bay Park
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington College's place on the WelTec Premiership's cloud nine has ended today following a down-to-the-wire 15-11 loss to St.
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Wellington against international teams: versus Wales 1969
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Match Details Result: Wales 14 – Wellington 6When: 7 June 1969Weather: Fine, with a fresh northerlyCrowd: 46,000 The Tour NASA were circling the moon and preparing to put a man on its surface, back on earth Wales were touring New Zealand for the first time as a standalone country.
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Eagles all but win Swindale Shield; top eight race to go down to the wire
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Midfielder Alexis Time makes a break in today’s match between HOBM and Tawa The Jubilee Cup glistens in Hutt Old Boys Marist’s Hutt Recreation Ground clubrooms trophy cabinet and next week no matter what happens the Swindale Shield will be presented to them as well if the WRFUcommittee overturns Tawa’s appeal for their docked two points from last month.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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All seven results to count in significant Swindale Shield round
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Tawa and Norths, who met last weekend, will be locked in key battles tomorrow – but for different reasons.
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Double century up for Nick Risdon for the Eagles on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Nick Risdon runs out to play his 200th Premier match for the Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles in Saturday’s top-of-the-table Swindale Shield match against Tawa.
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New Plymouth accuracy proved the difference in win
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: New Plymouth Boys' High School first five-eigth Brayton Northcott-Hill scored 18 points for his side in the win over St Pats Silverstream yesterday.
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College at Club Round as Tawa and Wairarapa Colleges join the competition
- Wellington Club Weekly
- This coming weekend sees the start of competition proper in the top two Premier grades, with several matches being played at club grounds as part of the ‘College at Club’ round which is intended to showcase and smooth the way for school leavers into the senior club game.
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Loads of talent in all-time colleges XVs
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Heading into the WelTec 1stXV Premiership rugby season in Wellington with which starts this coming Saturday with the College at Club round, we’ve taken a look at the four traditional First XVs in Wellington and named all-time XVs.
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Wellington against international teams: versus South Africa 1965
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Match Details Result: Wellington 23 – South Africa 6When: 3 July 1965Weather: Fine, with a southerly breezeCrowd: 38,430 The Tour The 1965 Sprinboks toured New Zealand in 1965 for the fourth time.
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New Zealand U20s Profile: Henry Stowers
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Henry Stowers running rampant for Wainuiomata in last year's Wellington club rugby Jubilee Cup final.
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Poneke stun Hutt Old Boys Marist as Swindale Shield tightens up
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Premier rugby returned to the Basin Reserve today, with home team Old Boys University here trying to get themselves over the chalk against the Upper Hutt Rams.
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Pivotal Swindale Shield ninth round afternoon
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Hutt Old Boys Marist prop Simon Malaeulu running freely last weekend against Johnsonville.
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Ories and Norths match top billing in Women’s rugby on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Please advise this article below has been publishsed on the assumption that Women's club rugby is still going ahead this Saturday: Above: Action from last year’s Women’s final that saw Ories beat Norths and win the championship.
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Plenty of College Rugby on this coming weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Much focus this Saturday will be on Scots College in their return to local action after finishing third in the SANIX World Championship in Japan, and on St Pat's Silverstream who will hope to back up their win last weekend over Gisborne BHS.
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New Hurricane Sam McNicol happy in the capital
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Sam McNicol playing for Petone last weekend against Paremata-Plimmerton.
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Wellington against international teams: versus England 1963
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Match Details Result: England 14 – Wellington 9When: 18 May, 1963, at Athletic ParkWeather: Fine, but with a strong, cold southerlyCrowd: 27,000 The Tour Four years after Wellington played and lost to a full British Isles team, England’s 1963 tour to New Zealand represented the first time one of the individual four home unions – England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – toured here.
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Eagles well out in front as chasing pack closes up in eighth round thriller
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The sun shone brightly on Wellington club rugby today.
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Scramble on for top eight places in eighth round
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Avalon and the Wellington Axemen meet Poneke and Ories respectively tomorrow in key games for all four sides, as the race to the Jubilee Cup intensifies.
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Third place for Scots College at SANIX tournament
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Scots College kicking off in one of their games.
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Fourth round of the Fleurs Trophy on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Fleurs Trophy about to be presented last year to Ories, who this Saturday take on HOBM at the Hutt Rec.
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Apa Heemi to reach century for the Upper Hutt Rams on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- When the Upper Hutt Rams Premier team is selected each week Apa Heemi’s name is invariably the first written down.
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Move to Wellington paying off for Teariki Ben-Nicholas
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Teariki Ben Nicholas playing in a recent Swindale Shield match between his Old Boys University side and Tawa.
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Wellington against international teams: versus British Lions 1959
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Fans camping out overnight outside Athletic Park ahead of the big match the following day between Wellington and the British Isles.
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Eagles and Tawa out in front as Johnsonville run down by Norths in heartbreaker
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Upper Hutt Rams’ Jamie Norman scores today in his sides win over Wainuiomata.
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A beer with an All Black: Murray Mexted
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Mexted with his Wellington All Black teammates Stu Wilson, Jamie Salmon and Allan Hewson with the Ranfurly Shield in 1981.
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Race for Jubilee Cup spots heats up this weekend in pivotal seventh round
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: HOBM hooker James O’Reilly scores a try in last week’s 54-49 win for his side over Marist St Pat’s.
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Referee Profile: Richard Gordon
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The WRRA has been catching up with some of referees and finding out about them and why refereeing rugby is appealing.
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