Rugby / September 2015
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Canterbury and Waikato to meet in Jocks Hobbs Memorial U19s final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Canterbury and Waikato will meet in the Premiership final of the Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 tournament in Taupo on Saturday, each winning their semi-finals today.
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Ma’a Nonu: The Magnificent Misfit
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Ma’a Nonu flanked by the Savea brothers whilst playing for Oriental-Rongotai.
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Wellington and Hawke’s Bay: A provincial rivalry steeped in tradition
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Watch highlights of Hawke’s Bay’s 1960s Ranfurly Shield era, including footage of two epic matches against Wellington here As far as New Zealand provincial rivalries go, few top the one between Wellington and Hawke’s Bay.
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Wellington Centurions U85kgs lose to North Harbour on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The visiting North Harbour U85kg defeated the Wellington Centurions U85Kg side 18-12 at SPC artificial on Saturday in their one-off fixture.
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Taranaki knock defending champions Wellington out of National U19 tournament
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington has relinquished its National U19 title, stumbling to a disappointing 29-10 defeat to Taranaki on the first day of the Jock Hobbs Memorial tournament in Taupo on Sunday.
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Comeback wins for Wellington Pride and Development teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Pride and the Wellington Development teams both came back from slow starts to win well in their respective representative matches at the Petone Recreation Ground today.
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Shelly Bridgeman, let me explain
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It was a Thursday afternoon.
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Double header at Petone headlines tomorrow’s representative matches
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington Development outside backs Isaia Petelo and Paddy Hughes fighting for the ball against Manawatu last week.
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Wellington U19s profile: Kaide McCashin
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington U19s are heading to Taupo this weekend to defend the Graham Mourie Cup that they won at the inaugural National Jock Hobbs Memorial event.
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Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 tournament starting this Sunday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Sixteen teams in two divisions take to Owen Delany Park in Taupo over three days on 27 and 30 September and 3 October to contest the 2015 Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 Tournament.
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Tomasi Palu enjoying his rugby this season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: In driving rain, Tomasi Palu kicks ahead in last month’s Jubilee Cup final between his Old Boys University side and Marist St Pat’s.
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Canterbury U19s profile: Jack McCormack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Jack McCormack was in the Wellington rugby representative system from the age of 15.
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NZU U23s finish World Universities Cup in Oxford
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Their countrymen stunned South Africa at the Rugby World Cup and the Japanese Waseda University side went on to pip the New Zealand U23 Universities team in their playoff for 5th and 6th at the World Universities Cup on Monday (NZT).
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Wellington U19s profile: Te Whenua Poihipi
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington U19s flanker Te Whenua Poihipi (left) with his teammate Joe Walding-Karaitiana.
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Strong first half fires Wellington 85kg team to win over Waikato
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Centurions U85kg team came out on fire in the first half of their match on Saturday against Waikato in perfect conditions at Owen Delany Park, Taupo.
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Wellington Pride put the Heat on; wins to Wellington U19s, Development and U18 teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Wellington U19s with the Central Region Shield today after beating the Manawatu U19s today 19-7 at Porirua Park.
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Wellington Centurions U85kg playing Waikato tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Centurions U85kg Squad is currently preparing for two big games.
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Busy weekend for Wellington representative teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington Development hooker Valentine Meachen takes on three defenders in last week’s game against the Wellington Samoans.
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Chase Tiatia enjoying his rugby with Bay of Plenty
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Chase Tiatia breaking the defence in his most recent match in Wellington club rugby, the McBain Shield game between Hutt Old Boys Marist and Petone.
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NZU U23s in crunch game on Friday to book World Universities Cup Major semi
- Wellington Club Weekly
- New Zealand Universities U23s require a bonus point win in over Trinity College, Dublin, in their next match on Friday (UK time) to advance to the semi-finals of the World Universities Cup to progress to the major final.
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Wellington U19s Player Profile: Josh Robertson-Weepu
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington U19s are the defending National U19 tournament champions.
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Defence Blacks team preparing for upcoming European tour
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: two of the players joining the Defence Blacks for their tour of Europe and the United Kingdom to compete in the International Defence Force Rugby World Cup, captain and Old Boys University club midfielder Logan Vaughan and Upper Hutt Rams club wing Tafa Tafa.
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Wellington U19s Player Profile: Josh Houston-Tupou
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Josh Houston-Tupou playing for the Upper Hutt Rams Colts earlier this year.
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Wellington teams win well in representative rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington representative teams piled on the points in today’s matches, with several teams making life hard for their opposition and winning by wide margins.
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Wellington teams spread far and wide this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington representative teams are playing across the North Island tomorrow, with away matches on Saturday in Wanganui, Ruatoria and the East Coast and games at home at the Petone Rec, Helston Park and Maoribank Park.
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Tomasi Alosio enjoying his rugby in Wellington Lions squad
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Tomasi Alosio evading the tackle of Petone's Jared Kahu and scoring a try for Hutt Old Boys Marist when the two sides met in this year's Jubilee Cup in June.
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Wellington U19s Player Profile: Bradd Forster
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Bradd Forster (yellow head gear) in the thick of the action playing for Tawa earlier this season The Wellington U19s are the defending National U19 tournament champions.
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New Zealand team heading to the World Universities Rugby Cup
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The New Zealand Universities U23 team departs for England this week to compete in the Inaugural World Universities Rugby Cup, hosted by Oxford University.
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Rotorua Boys’ High School beat Scots College in thriller
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Rotorua Boys’ High School are the 2015 National Top 4 champions.
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Record breaking hat-trick for Thrush in 50-point win over the Stags
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Lock Jeremy Thrush scored a hat-trick in the Wellington Lions’ 53-3 fourth round ITM Cup victory over the Southland Stags on Saturday.
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Wellington representative teams round-up 5 September
- Wellington Club Weekly
- UPDATED: Wellington Pride miss out to Waikato , Wellington U19s win well, Wellington U16s come back to win Wellington Pride 16 - Waikato 27 The Wellington Pride were desperately unlucky not to come away from Waikato Stadium with any competition points in their third round Women’s NPC fixture.
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Wellington and Canterbury Maori teams to play tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington and Canterbury Maori teams meet tomorrow at Helston Park in the feature representative clash of the day in Wellington.
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Scots College and Rotorua BHS to meet in National Top 4 Final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington’s Scots College and Rotorua Boys’ High School will meet on Sunday in the final of the National Secondary Schools Top 4 tournament in Rotorua.
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Wellington against international teams: versus Wales 1988
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Match Details: Result: Wellington 38 – Wales 22 When: 21 May 1988Weather: OvercastCrowd: 32,000 The Tour: The All Blacks were in their pomp in 1988, having won the previous year’s inaugural Rugby World Cup and, with players such as John Kirwan, Michael Jones, Sean Fitzpatrick and Grant Fox in their prime, they lay in wait for Wales.
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Rich history between Wellington and Southland
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Lions and Southland Stags teams go into Saturday’s clash having met 27 times in ITM Cup rugby with Wellington having now won 21, Southland five and one draw.
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Wellington Samoan team in action throughout September
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Samoan Men’s team has three matches coming up in September, against the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu Development sides.
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Junior Lions squad selected for competition season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The 2015 Wellington U19s 25-player squad has been selected, to prepare for the defence of their National U19 title in Taupo next month.
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