Rugby / April 2020
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Lockdown with Malcolm Mashingaidze
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We're catching up with our players to hear how they have been through the COVID-19 lockdown period....
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The greatest All Blacks XV to not win the World Cup
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Happy days for the 2016 Bledisloe Cup-winning All Blacks. Ardie Savea is the only player in this side in our All Blacks XV that has never won the Rugby World Cup, but several legends of the NZ game are on this list. By Adam Julian Remarkably, the 1999 All Blacks were New Zealand’s only World...
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This week in club rugby history: 27 April – 3 May
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: When Petone edged Poneke 25-24 in 2013 in their Swindale Shield and F.J. Tilyard Shield match. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 27 April 2002: Avalon’s Mano Flutey kicks a penalty on fulltime to see his side beat Wests 11-10 in atrocious conditions to extend...
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Lockdown with Monica Tagoai
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We're catching up with our players to hear how they have been through the COVID-19 lockdown period...
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Where are they now? Gerard Wilkinson
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We catch up with players and club members from years gone by and see what they are up to now...
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Return to community rugby values key to rugby’s re-start says Potter
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The challenges community rugby faces in getting back on its feet are considerable, but current Hurricanes Chairman and former Marist St Pat’s Jubilee Cup winning captain and coach Iain Potter is optimistic. “Even though this year is going to be a disaster in some respects, rugby is well-positioned to keep its place as one of...
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Unique clubrooms experience
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- With all club rugby postponed, the first night 'at the clubrooms' was a little different to normal as club members joined virtually...
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Lockdown with Aaron Bouzaid
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We're catching up with our players to hear how they have been through the COVID-19 lockdown period...
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COVID 19 – NZ Rugby update (24 April)
- College Sport Wellington
- Please see below and attached updates and advice from NZ Rugby regarding Return to Play Guidelines, following consultation with Government and Sport NZ.
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Lockdown with Aidan Morgan
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We're catching up with our players to hear how they have been through the COVID-19 lockdown period...
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From the vault: SIXTH round matches in images
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Hutt Old Boys Marist loosehead prop Simon Malaeulu crosses for a popular try on the Hutt Rec against Tawa in the sixth round of the Swindale Shield in 2011. HOBM won this game 27-10 and when on to finish third in the Swindale Shield, while Tawa were 10th of 12 teams. In the second...
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Rugby in 2020 – an update
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Fulltime in the Poneke-Tukapa pre-season match for the Zemba Cup was almost two months ago. Players and supporters alike are hoping for some rugby soon. PHOTO: Tom Minton. While the move back to normality commences with this coming Monday night’s move to Level 3 on the Covid-19 response chart, rugby will remain dormant. Sports that...
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Lockdown with Georgia Broughton
- Marist St Pats Rugby
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Hundy Club profiles
- Old Boys - University Rugby Club
- #image_988861562 { width: 100%; } #image_1496367141 { width: 50%; } #image_1125503858 { width: 55%; } Hundy Club Profile: Chris Te’o Chris played for OBU for most of the 90s (1992-2000) and became the first (and only at that time) member of the Hundy club in 1999.
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Lockdown with James Zino
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- We're catching up with our players to hear how they have been through the COVID-19 lockdown period...
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Where is he now? Apoua Stewart
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- Apoua Stewart was a dynamic fullback for Marist St Pats throughout the 2000s. He played two tests for Manu Samoa in 2005...
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This week in club rugby history 20-26 April
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: On Anzac Day 2013 when Taniela Koroi and Tawa beat Norths 28-27 to win the Sammy Saili Trophy. PHOTO: Chainsaw Photos. Selected highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby, including recapping some past Anzac Day rounds. 20 April 1985: Paremata-Plimmerton clinch their maiden Swindale Shield win, beating...
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Somes Island start for Swindale Shield
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Swindale Shield will resume on Matiu/Somes Island at the conclusion of the Level 2 lockdown. Head of Community Rugby Will Caccia-Birch made the announcement following an urgent meeting with clubs and shareholders. “We have to do everything to get the game underway again. I can’t handle any more phone calls from Damian Collins...
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From the vault: FIFTH round matches in images
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Petone’s Nick Grigg and teammates on the burst against Wainuiomata in their fifth round clash in 2014. Wainuiomata won this match 41-34. Petone would finish third in the 2014 Swindale Shield, while Wainuiomata snuck into the ‘top 8’ and went on to reach the Jubilee Cup final against Hutt Old Boys Marist. The...
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CSW Rewind – Premier Rugby
- College Sport Wellington
- Over the next few weeks College Sport Wellington are going to be taking a visual look back at some of the last few years of our sports, highlighting special moments, teams, players and more.
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Women's team 'Pass the Ball'
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- Amidst the current national lockdown, our Premier Women's team have started a new Q&A video series...
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Sporting students staying motivated during Lockdown (Part 3)
- College Sport Wellington
- What does the lockdown mean for sporting students? How has it affected them and what are they doing to stay fit and motivated? Two more local sports students are Toby Cook (Wellington College), who spent the summer preparing to travel with his school’s rugby party to Argentina and Jacob Madigan (St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie) who was winding up his summer sport and about to start his winter code. We asked them what they are doing during lockdown: Jacob Madigan in action for St Patricks Kilbirnie (Photo by Hamish Wareham) College Sport Wellington: Please tell us what you were preparing for before the Lockdown? Toby: As I was a part of the Wellington College touring rugby squad to Argentina, 30 of us boys had been training pretty hard from the end of last year. Although three weeks before the lockdown started we were informed the trip had been cancelled, we then shifted our focus to training for the regular season which is also currently at a standstill. Jacob: I was involved with the St Pats First XI cricket team and we were nearing the end of the season with only one game left plus a T20 tournament during summer tournament week. On that same weekend we had our first preseason First XI football games up in Palmerston North, which got cancelled CSW: what you are doing to keep fit and train? Toby: Our coaches and trainers from school have been great in sending out information so you can train no matter what equipment you have. My sister was also able to bring home an erg which is a welcome change from running. As well as trying to get a session in each day I’m also trying to keep up my basic skills. Jacob: Our football coach gave us a programme to do over the lockdown period which means hopefully we can be fit going into the season. I have also been doing some technical work for football and cricket in my back garden and at the park. CSW: Please share a lockdown sports practice or training tip for your school mates and others out there in the same situation? Toby: I normally try to complete my training in the morning as I find it gets it out of the way and sets you up for the rest of the day. Another thing I’ve found helpful is our trainer turned our sessions into a competition and we have to record and send in our training and time which keeps us accountable. Jacob: Keep doing something relating to your sport. It is hard in these times to keep motivated when you can’t actually go and train and play but if you keep doing fitness or technical work, then you will be good to go when the season comes. Also track your times of what you are doing and compare them to a friend and see who can do better as a bit of motivation. CSW: Are you in contact with your sporting friends about the above and are you motivating each other remotely? Toby: As above, the majority of the squad have been videoing and sending through their workouts to our chat. This has been great as it allows us to see what everyone else is doing to motivate each other, the videos also keep us accountable for the work we are doing. Jacob: Yes, I’ve been talking to the boys about how they are going and a few of them send me daily photos of them doing the exercises. I have also been talking to friends outside of school who are doing their own fitness work just to see what they are doing and how they are going. -Story courtesy of College Sport Media The post Sporting students staying motivated during Lockdown (Part 3) appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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From the vault: fourth round matches in photos
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: No. 8 Ben Tupuola marches ahead for Wainuiomata against Marist St Pat’s in their midweek fourth round fixture under lights at Porirua Park in 2014. This match was drawn 30-30. PHOTO: Chainsaw Photos. If not for pestilence keeping everyone at home, it would be the fourth round of the 2020 Swindale Shield this...
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COVID 19 – NZ Rugby update
- College Sport Wellington
- Media Release: NZ Rugby 8 April 2020 Postponement of Community Rugby in line with Alert Levels Community and club rugby is postponed until COVID-19 alert levels are once again at a safe level for sport, in line with Ministry of Health guidance.
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First Pope of the Vatican Army
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- One of the colourful pieces of Marist St Pats' history is the election of the 'Pope' to lead the Marist St Pats 'Vatican Army'...
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Steve Hansen top of the charts
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Hansen taking questions from his fans. Image credit: You Tube. It seems whatever former All Black coach Steve Hansen turns his hands to, it ends in success. The Rugby World Cup winning coach is the owner of several winning racehorses and now his new country album Shag & Tell is top of the charts. Kim...
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Sporting students staying motivated during Lockdown (Part 2)
- College Sport Wellington
- Connor Lusty bowling in the Boys Premier Youth Cricket competition What does the lockdown mean for sporting students? How has it affected them and what are they doing to stay fit and motivated? Following on from our catch-up with two Queen Margaret College rower Mollie Nicol and Wellington Girls’ College runner Emma Douglass HERE, we check in with two local male athletes to see what they are doing to keep fit and motivated. St Pat’s Silverstream sprint champion Oliver Krijnen and Onslow College First XI cricketer Connor Lusty. We put a few questions to each below. College Sport Wellington: Please tell us what you were preparing for before the Lockdown? Ollie: Before the whole lockdown happened I was preparing for the second day of the Wellington Junior Champs and looking ahead to the North Island Champs in Hamilton which would have been the last big event to close the season off. Connor: When the lockdown started our cricket team had just finished our Saturday competition games for the term, finishing with 3 wins and 4 losses to qualify for the 6-team competition for term 4 for the first time since 2016. We had been starting to prepare for our Summer tournament Week, which for cricket is the Hunt Trophy three-day Twenty20 tournament. I’m also a part of our Onslow College 1st XV Rugby team and I was about to start attending pre-season training the week that the lockdown was put in place. CSW: what you are doing to keep fit and train? Ollie: To keep fit and keep my body active at the moment I’m doing home exercises like plyometrics and lots of core work as well as doing a lot of power work to try and get stronger When I can get out, depending on the weather, I normally try to work on my block starts and my technique in the front yard or at the park close by. Connor: I’ve been trying to stay as fit and active during this period of lockdown as possible. Cricket is my number one sport, and being a spin bowler I’ve found myself going to the nets quite often just to have a bowl, to stay as fit and to keep my training levels up. I have also been regularly going for runs, not only to stay active and keep a routine going, but as we have been advised by our 1st XV coaches to stay fit and keep some sort of fitness programme going. I have been running up Mt Kaukau most days. CSW: Please share a lockdown sports practice or training tip for your school mates and others out there in the same situation? Ollie: Make sure you are drinking enough water as with nothing to do sometimes I forget to drink and this affects my energy levels greatly. Another tip I have is getting your family to do it with you for example my brother and I have been working out together and we do core work and simple things together like push ups and burpees and whatever else we can think of. Really make sure you are eating right. Connor: If there is any tip I can give to anyone out there, it’s just to stay fit and active! During times like these it’s often hard to maintain the same diet as to what you’d normally have, but staying fit during this lockdown time is something that is in your control. Challenge yourself, make yourself work hard. Go for a run, go kick a football, go to the cricket nets. Do what makes you happy and active! CSW: Are you in contact with your sporting friends about the above and are you motivating each other remotely? Ollie: I’ve been in contact with most of my training partners and friends checking up on them. We want to see how each other are doing and to share exercises to make sure all of us are staying in shape and healthy. Connor: We have a Facebook Messenger chat going for our 1st XV team, which a lot of the boys are using to send through their progress of either just running/fitness or strength and conditioning. By doing that, I believe we are motivating one another. On our 1st XV group page, we also have our assistant coach Dean Gorrie figuring out programmes which are best suited to us all, and reminders to stay fit. Are you a student in Wellington who is involved with sport and wants to feature in an article like this? Fill out the form HERE and send it to james@collegesport.org.nz to be considered. -Story courtesy of College Sport Media The post Sporting students staying motivated during Lockdown (Part 2) appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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This week in club rugby history: 6-12 April
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Poneke’s Greg Foe charges ahead in their 40-35 win over Norths on 7 April 2018. Photo: Andy McArthur. Some highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 6 April 1963: The first round of matches see the previous year’s joint champions Marist Brothers Old Boys and Onslow held to tight...
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Short Passes 6 April (some rugby news to start the new week in lockdown)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Lonely rugby posts at a suburban rugby ground in Wellington. Rugby, we miss you! Short Passes wishes everyone well as the start of the the fourth week with no rugby and the halfway mark of the initial 4-week lockdown period rolls around. Following our article on Friday looking at what shape rugby could...
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The lockdown and the shape of club rugby this year?
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Scott MacLean Normally in this space every week during the season you’ll find my weekly preview. Today would be the third installment, with six of the 14 Premier sides about to run out on their home field for the first time this year and a picture starting to build of the pecking order. The...
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From the vault: third round matches in photos
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Captain Mateaki Kafatolu and Petone celebrate their 2014 McBain Shield win over Hutt Old Boys Marist after winning 20-19 in their third round match at the Petone Rec. Ordinarily, the third round of the 2020 Swindale Shield would have been played this Saturday. But with no rugby on Saturday, below are some images...
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March update from DCM - together we can end homelessness
- Downtown Community Ministry
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Is it just us, or does the first half of March seem so long ago, almost like we were living in a different world? Here at DCM, we are totally committed to finding new and different ways of working, so that we can continue to support people who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness throughout the COVID-19 crisis period. Doing things differently at DCM – Dom supporting taumai with Money Management in the courtyard, and Rob manning our 0800 number service for taumai from his home. It is important that we are able to provide appropriate levels of support related to the assessed vulnerability of the taumai. We have identified a group of the most marginalised taumai – these have been assigned to a support team and they will be supported across a number of key domains, including money management/access to income, food support, emergency housing, connection to mental health supports, and access to medication. Kaimahi are also rostered to share the task of supporting rough sleepers into emergency housing over this period. Where possible, kaimahi are keeping in touch with taumai who they are keyworking by calling them on the phones we have provided them with; we have also set up an 0800 number for taumai to call us on. As always, as we are able to lift up our taumai, in turn they lift us up; it is something very special to be part of this important mahi. As Stephanie reflected at the end of a very different Monday afternoon Foodbank session this week: “It has truly been very moving to be able to support our taumai at this time. Today a number of people came to us for food support. We were able to send them away with a generous selection of canned and dried foods, fresh fruit and veges, bread, milk and frozen meals. But more than that, we reminded them that we are still here for them, that so much has changed, but DCM is only a phone call away. As we spoke with taumai out in Lukes Lane, with spaces set up to ensure that we maintained and modelled safe distances, we asked them how things were going for them. People were in tears, they were so touched by the support and community that DCM continues to offer them.” Many of you have made donations for us to purchase phones for our taumai – one of our key responses to keeping in touch during this difficult time. Every day we hear uplifting stories from our kaimahi about taumai who have received and are using these phones. Nani shares one below, about a man who says very little. At the other extreme, yesterday Natalia received a very lengthy and reflective text from a man she has provided with a phone. He ended the text with this reflection – we couldn't have put it better ourselves: "We need to remind ourselves how lucky we are to be in Aotearoa, not only are we pioneers of the world, adversity brings us together. History has proven that. Maybe this is what we need to get us all together, to build again real communities". <!-- --> How can I help? When our seasonal kai for autumn (ngahuru) was not able to go ahead earlier this month, the wonderful people from Wellington’s Sikh community who were to prepare this community meal for our taumai, brought down 100 delicious pre-cooked meals, which we were able to hand out at our Foodbank. We have always known that DCM sits at the centre of a community that is totally committed to supporting us in our work to end homelessness. But at times like this, we are reminded of it daily, as so many of you have got in touch to ask what you can do to help. And of course your support is needed now more than ever. And so we have put together some thoughts on how you can continue to be involved during this lock-down period. Click here to find out more. <!-- --> "It's Nani calling!" The Sustaining Tenancies team - Moses, Sia, Poutalie, Alan and Nani. This photo was taken 11 March at a mihi whakatau to welcome new team member, Poutalie. A few short weeks later, it is difficult to believe that we were all able to stand so close together just the other day! This year, we are introducing you to some of our kaimahi, the amazing team of people here at DCM who support taumai to access and sustain housing. Nani joined DCM's Sustaining Tenancies team last September. This team works with people at risk of homelessness, supporting them to sustain their tenancies and thrive in their homes. Tell us a little more about yourself, Nani. My full name is Utuagiagi Taupau; Utuagiagi is the name of my iwi on the island of Salua Manono Tai, and Taupau is my dad’s last name and title name. I love my Samoan culture, it has moulded me as a person and taught me all about love and respect, not only for myself but for all those who I come face to face with. I went to school just down the road from home: Russell School, Brandon Intermediate and – the best days of my life – Porirua College. What have you most enjoyed about your time at DCM so far? I’ve enjoyed meeting new people every day. It's also amazing to be able to work with and learn from my amazing team leader, Sia Toomaga. She continues to empower and encourage me to do better and I am very grateful for this. Your favourites... Food? Spicy fried chicken, taro, mum’s chop suey. Sport? Volley ball, touch and rugby. Film? War Room. Thing to do as a child? Playing gutter ball and of course eating. Whakatauki? “Ua fuifui fa’atasi ae vao ese’ese” – “We are from different parts of the forest, but connected in one cause”. At DCM we often share “moments” from our interactions with taumai. What’s a special “moment” you enjoying sharing with others? D is a man who doesn’t say very much. As you know, we have been working hard to provide our taumai with phones – this is so important at this very challenging time for everyone. I gave D his new phone, and I called him to test it. As his phone rang, my name came up as the caller, and he says very loudly: “Hey, it’s you; it’s Nani calling!” This was a moment for me, because D really only responds to his voices, or says yes and no. Yet here he was speaking to me, and using my name. Love it. <!-- --> Please help us get the message out there! Forward this email on to everyone you can think of who may be interested in how to respond to homelessness, and just generally people who are passionate about Wellington. <!-- --> Read More Success Stories Nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive <!-- --> Copyright © 2020 DCM. All rights reserved. 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