Rugby / July 2023
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Shock and Orr as Lions 40-man NPC squad named
- Wellington Club Weekly
- For the first time since 1982, the Wellington Lions will head into the new season as defending National Provincial Championship winners and Ranfurly Shield winners. Today a 40-strong squad has been selected with that task, starting with this coming weekend’s opening NPC and Coronation Cup clash against Manawatū (non-Ranfurly Shield match). The Lions have named...
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Wellington club rugby scoring highlights: Colts Final Ories v OBU
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oriental-Rongotai beat Old Boys University 39-26 in the final of the 2023 Colts Division 1 competition. Ories won the John E Kelly Cup for the first time since 1994. In bright sunny conditions with a large crowd in attendance, Ories climbed into the final and scored three tries inside the opening 25 minutes to lead...
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Sideline Conversions 31 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Try-time for the Wellington Pride in their match against Counties Manukau on Sunday at the Hutt Rec. The visitors won 53-20. Representative rugby gets underway this coming weekend and we are into semi-finals of college rugby and Reserve Grade club rugby. Premiership First XV semi-finals at a glance are (both games kicking off at 12.30pm):...
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Colts titles for Ories and Upper Hutt Rams, as HIBS make first XV semi-finals
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Ories Colts celebrating their Division 1 title win today. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Adam Julian Oriental-Rongotai and the Upper Hutt Rams won the two Colts titles on offer this afternoon in Wellington club rugby, while first time semi-finalists Hutt International Boys’ High School and Wellington College grabbed the final two Premiership...
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Colts Finals top billing in rugby tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Colts Division 1 John E Kelly Cup (left) and Division 2 Vic Calcinai Cup (right). By Steven White & Ian Knightly There are two Wellington club rugby Colts finals at the opposite ends of the region tomorrow. At the northern gates, the Upper Hutt Rams Colts host the Poneke Colts in the Division 2...
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Wellington club and college rugby scoring updates and results post for 29 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- There are two Wellington club rugby Colts finals at the opposite ends of the region tomorrow. Upper Hutt Rams Colts host the Poneke Colts in the Division 2 Vic Calcinai Cup decider at Maidstone Park, while the Oriental-Rongotai Colts and the OBU Green Colts meet in the Division 1 John E Kelly Cup final on Polo 1. Both finals kick off at 1.00pm. To...
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Dominic Ropeti – Maintaining faith while stealing the ball
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Dominic Ropeti (left) with the Jim Brown Plate and brother Alex with the Jubilee Cup, surrounded by supporters and family. It was fitting Dominic Ropeti kicked the ball out to end the Jubilee Cup final. The Oriental Rongotai flanker won the Jim Brown Memorial Medal as the best player in the decider, as Ories beat Paremata-Plimmerton...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 052: Norman Millard
- Wellington Club Weekly
- For the much of its existence as Wellington’s Premier rugby ground, the far side of Athletic Park was known as the western bank, and its denizens were known as western bankers. Not for the faint-hearted, the western bank was a precarious, often dangerous, and sometimes feral embankment that was upgraded following the infamous All Blacks-...
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Moana Kuma – Build It and they will come, Bunnings Assist a Game Changer
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wainuiomata Women’s team after a win on their Old Timers’ Day last season. Photo: T-Paul Gale. When Wainuiomata Rugby Club originally built their bathroom facilities they weren’t really designed with females in mind. There was a single bathroom at the back of the clubhouse that could only be accessed by passing a long male...
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Matchday scoring highlights: Oriental-Rongotai (34) v Paremata-Plimmerton (21)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oriental-Rongotai beat Paremata-Plimmerton 34-21 in Saturday’s 2023 Jubilee Cup final. In cool, cloudy conditions at the Hutt Rec in front of an estimated 3,000-strong crowd, Ories went out to an early 8-0 lead with the wind in their favour. Paremata-Plimmerton came back to old a 14-8 lead, but Ories struck three times to take a...
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Premiers fall to Petone in final
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- Our Premier Men have fallen to Petone in the Hardham Cup Final in challenging conditions at Hutt Rec...
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Sideline Conversions 24 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Monday morning edition. It is expected some more information and items will be added to this article below later in the day. Perhaps some clarification on a couple of things outlined in the introduction too. We will also have more visual content from Wellington club rugby Finals Day on our social media channels, as well...
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Wins for Ories, Petone and Tawa on Finals Day
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oriental-Rongotai – Jubilee Cup winners 2023. Photo: Andy McArt By Steven White & Adam Julian Oriental-Rongotai won the Jubilee Cup and Premier 2, Division 2 HD Morgan Memorial Finals today, while Petone annexed the Hardham Cup and Tawa won the Premier 2, Division 1 Ed Chaney Cup. An extended round-up of Finals Day matches at...
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Jubilee Cup, Hardham Cup and Premier 2 Finals Day at the Hutt Rec tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White & Ian Knightly Jubilee Cup Final line-ups (as received, subject to change) HERE Hardham Cup Final line-ups (as received, subject to change) HERE A major mark on the 2023 Wellington club and college season is passed this weekend, with Premier and Premier 2 Finals Day at the Hutt Recreation Ground. There are...
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Jubilee Cup finals – a decade of big moments
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Paremata-Plimmerton and Oriental-Rongotai meet in the 2023 Jubilee Cup final this coming Saturday. Kick-off a th A look at some of the big moments in the last 10 Jubilee Cup finals, counting backwards. 2022: Northern United denied a dogged Petone to capture the Jubilee Cup for the sixth time since 2004. In a pulsating decider...
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Wellington club rugby scoring updates 22 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It is week four of the second round of the 2023 Wellington club rugby season. The fourth round of the Premier top 8 Jubilee Cup and bottom tier Hardham Cup competitions sees all both Finals played at the Hutt Rec. Petone and Marist St Pat’s meet in the Hardham Cup final at 12.30pm and Paremata-Plimmerton...
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Aisle be Back: Good times with the All Blacks
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy When sometime in the future Ukraine finally liberates its territory the stuff of legend will include a video done a few months ago called Plans Love Silence. The cinematic style video featured a series of Ukrainian soldiers holding a single finger to their lips; the message of course a variation on the...
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Alex Ropeti – Family Ties Building Momentum
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Alex Ropeti playing against Poneke. Photo: David Brownlie. By Adam Julian Oriental Rongotai has faced Jubilee Cup elimination for five weeks and won five times to set up a meeting with Swindale Shield winners Paremata-Plimmerton in the final at the Hutt Rec on Saturday. “We are the eighth seed. It’s a great feeling being underdogs...
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Wins for St Pat’s Silverstream and Lions in First XV and Ranfurly Shield matches
- Wellington Club Weekly
- St Pat’s Silverstream about to score on of three second half tries in their win over St Pat’s Town today. Photo Andy McArthur. By Steven White and Adam Julian Two contrasting matches in the Hutt Valley this afternoon. St Pat’s Silverstream beat St Pat’s Town 27-16 in their First XV traditional at home, while the...
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Ruck and roll: Hutt Rec to get regional rugby games in July and August
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council and Wellington Rugby Football Union (WRFU) are bringing six exciting regional matches to the Hutt Recreation Ground over July and August.
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MSP and Love preparing for Hardham Cup final against Petone
- Wellington Club Weekly
- MSP halfback Logan Love getting his pass away in his team’s recent match against first round winners Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White After a delayed start to the club season because of a groin injury, Marist St Pat’s halfback Logan Love has been one of the Scarlets’ most consistent performers all year, and...
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Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 051: Evan ‘Ted’ Jessep
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The first hooker to play in the All Blacks in the hooker position when New Zealand adopted the three-man front row, and one of a select group of players to play for both the All Blacks and the Wallabies. Evan ‘Ted’ Jessep also won a Jubilee Cup with his Wellington club Poneke in 1932 and...
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Ranfurly Shield Match Savers: Wellington v Auckland 1956
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington team with the Ranfurly Shield 1956. The Match: Wellington v Auckland, Athletic Park, 29 September 1956 Referee: W.H. Fright (Canterbury) Conditions: Fine and sunny Crowd: 20,000 The Result: Wellington 9 – Auckland 6 The Teams: Wellington: 1.W.G. Dick, 2. G. Harris, 3. I.M.H. Vodanovich, 4. D.N. McIntosh (captain), 5. J.B.S. Hutchinson, 6. I.N....
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Matchday scoring highlights: Ories (39) v Johnsonville (26)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oriental-Rongotai beat Johnsonville 39-26 in their 2023 Jubilee Cup semi-final at Helston Park on Saturday. A big crowd saw Johnsonville amass a 23-0 lead by late in the first half through three penalties and two converted tries. Ories replied with a try on halftime, before going on a scoring spree in the second half and...
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Premiers to play Petone in final
- Marist St Pats Rugby
- Our Premier Men have won a nailbiting semi final against Poneke and will play Petone in next week's final...
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Sideline Conversions 17 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Three weeks after winning the title, with a week to spare and then a week off last week, the HOBM Green Colts were presented with the first round Paris Memorial Trophy. They opened their second round with a quarter-final victory over Poneke and are a fortnight away from a possible championship title as well. PHOTO:...
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Paremata-Plimmerton and Ories to meet in Jubilee Cup Final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It was a high-octane semi-final of punch and counter-punch at Helston Park this afternoon, where visitors Oriental-Rongotai beat home team Johnsonville 39-26. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Adam Julian & Scott MacLean JUBILEE Cup results and scoring (as received) HERE HARDHAM Cup results and scoring (as received) HERE Paremata-Plimmerton and Oriental-Rongotai will meet in...
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All set for Semi-finals Saturday in Jubilee and Hardham Cups and Premier 2
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Scott MacLean Noon edition: It’s a massive day around the province with the eight Premier and Premier 2 semi-finals being played, along with four Colts quarter-finals, the second round in the Under 85s, and a couple of College matches as well. It should be a stormer. This week’s radio commentary match on the E...
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Wellington club rugby scoring highlights 15 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It is week three of the second round of the 2023 Wellington club rugby season. The third round of the Premier top 8 Jubilee Cup and bottom tier Hardham Cup competitions sees all four semi-finals matches kick-off at their usual time of 2.45pm. Today’s Jubilee Cup radio broadcast match is the Paremata-Plimmerton v Old Boys...
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Aisle be Back: All Blacks v South Africa in Auckland
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Have we learned nothing? Last weekend the All Blacks produced a meritorious win away over Argentina in Mendoza. There was much to like and certainly a good early marker in World Cup year. It was amazing however to see the game result being extrapolated in some quarters into quite the second coming....
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Tough Tackling Tyler Ready to Stop Magpies in Jubilee Semi-final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Johnsonville flanker Tyler Hall and Johnsonville are hosting Ories in a home Jubilee Cup semi-final this Saturday. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Tyler Hall turned down the chance to be in the Wellington Lions training squad. The tenacious Johnsonville openside is on a fast track to becoming a certified plumber, a job he described...
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Wellington defends Ranfurly Shield against spirited Horowhenua-Kapiti
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian and Steven White Wellington: 68 (Sione Halalilo, Dominic Bird, Asafo Aumua, Isi Saumaki 2, Sam Clarke, TJ Clarke, Lewis Northcott, Kailopasi Uluilakepa, Joe Faleafaga tries; Aidan Morgan 9 con) Horowhenua Kapiti: 7 (Malaki Masoe try, Jack Tatu-Roberston con) Wellington successfully defended the Ranfurly Shield in their first defence of 2023, resisting a spirited Horowhenua Kapiti...
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Semi-finals heartstoppers
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone supporters celebrate with their team on fulltime after beating Tawa in a thriller a year ago. This coming weekend it’s Jubilee Cup semi-finals time. Ngati Toa Domain and Helston Park will become the newest venues in Wellington to host Jubilee Cup semi-finals, with Paremata-Plimmerton hosting Old Boys University and Johnsonville welcoming Oriental-Rongotai. Kick-off at...
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Superior strikepower key to Paremata-Plimmerton’s continued success
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Paremata-Plimmerton left wing Louis Northcott on his way to the try-line against Petone a few weeks ago. By Steven White When Paremata-Plimmerton and Old Boys University met just under three weeks ago at Rugby League Park in the deciding match of the first round Swindale Shield, Paremata-Plimmerton tore through the Billygoats to take a 28-5...
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Ranfurly Shield on the line for the first time in new tenure as both teams named
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Lions match-day squad to defend the Ranfurly Shield on Wednesday is: 1. Ha’amea Ahio (Johnsonville) 2. Asafo Aumua (Avalon) 3. PJ Sheck (Tawa) 4. Hugo Plummer (Tawa) 5. Dominic Bird (Upper Hutt Rams) vice-captain 6. Dominic Ropeti* (Oriental-Rongotai) 7. Sione Halalilo (Oriental-Rongotai) 8. Keelan Whitman (Marist St Pats) 9. Logan Henry* (Petone) 10....
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Ranfurly Shield Match Savers: Wellington v Auckland 1920
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Match: Wellington v Auckland, Auckland Domain, 7 August 1920 Referee: Mr.
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 050: Joey Sadler
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Bernard “Joey” Sadler was a supernova who burst on to the scene after leaving Wellington College in 1932 and rose to be the number one halfback in the land less than three years later on the 1935/36 tour of Britain, before he was cut down with injury the following year forcing his premature retirement aged...
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Premier sides advance
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- Our Premier Men and Premier 2 sides have won their quarter finals and will both play Poneke next weekend...
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Matchday Highlights: Old Boys University (22) v Tawa (16)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Old Boys University beat Tawa 22-16 in their knockout Jubilee Cup match at Nairnville Park on Saturday. OBU ground out the win in slippery conditions under ashen skies at their first match at their second venue this year. Just two tries were scored in the fixture, the remainder of the scoring by penalties. Nevertheless there...
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Sideline Conversions 10 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Two weeks to go in the Wellington Premier and Premier 2 club rugby competitions. Top tier Jubilee Cup semi-finals this coming Saturday at a glance (home teams first): Paremata-Plimmerton v Old Boys University Johnsonville v Oriental-Rongotai Hardham Cup semi-finals this coming Saturday at a glance (home teams first): Marist St Pat’s v Poneke Petone v...
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OBU and Ories win Jubilee Cup eliminators in tightly fought matches
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oriental-Rongotai flanker Sione Halalilo pressing hard at the end of the Magpies’ 30-27 win over the Upper Hutt Rams in front of a big crowd at Maidstone Park today. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean and Adam Julian JUBILEE Cup results and scoring (with scorers as received) is HERE HARDHAM Cup results and...
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Elimination rugby comes to town on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Tawa and Petone are both in the hunt for silverware over the next three weeks, but in two different competitions. Tomorrow Tawa meets Old Boys University at Nairnville Park in the Jubilee Cup, while Petone plays Avalon in the Hardham Cup. The winners progress to their prospective semi-finals, the losers face the end of the...
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Wellington club rugby live scoring updates 8 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It is week two of the second round of the 2023 Wellington club rugby season. The second round of the Premier top 8 Jubilee Cup and bottom tier Hardham Cup competitions sees six matches kick-off at their usual time of 2.45pm. Today’s Jubilee Cup radio broadcast match is the Upper Hutt Rams v Oriental-Rongotai match....
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Mature McCashin on Growing Rams Spine
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian When Kaide McCashin suffered a pectoral injury lifting weights in the gym in 2021, he thought his rugby career was over. He couldn’t even bring himself to Maidstone Park to watch the Upper Hutt Rams. The halfback had already ruptured the ACL in his right knee in 2017 and 2019 and fractured...
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Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Argentina
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Inevitably he first All Blacks team of the year has been described as having surprises But does it? Damian McKenzie at first-five hardly shocks, when Richie Mo’unga is the clear first choice and Beauden Barrett is coming off a poor season. It would have been a bigger surprise if DMAC had been...
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The Unit on Scallywags Success and U85kg Camaraderie
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian Matt ‘The Unit’ Fowler won three Jubilee Cups with Old Boys University in 2017, 2018, and 2020. This year he’s a player/coach for the Old Boys University Scallywags who won the first-round Under 85kg JC Bowl. The Scallywags won all 11 matches and outscored opponents 626 to 52 achieving a maximum of...
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Ranfurly Shield Match Savers: Wellington v Wairarapa 1905
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Wellington team in 1904 – the inaugural Ranfurly Shield winners. The nucleus of this team – minus Billy Wallace, Duncan McGregor and Fred Roberts who were away with the ‘Originals’ All Blacks – played in Ranfurly Shield defences in 1905 including this one against Wairarapa. The Match: Wellington v Wairarapa, 16 August 1905,...
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Fewer clubs mean fewer players – but all is not lost
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Touchline While following the drama of the Jubilee Cup on the wireless this past Saturday afternoon, (and being aware of six defaulted games in the Under 85 competition), Touchline mused on the state of the game in the Capital. As an older member of Wellington’s rugby community, Touchline’s circle of rugby colleagues is of...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 049: Kenneth Svenson
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Australian born and raised Kenneth ‘Snowy’ Svenson eventually played for four provinces but made his biggest mark playing for Wellington as a midfield back or wing. From Toowoomba, about an hour’s drive inland from Brisbane, Svenson started his career at the end of World War One at Whanganui before playing for Buller, Wellington and later...
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Premiers drop to Hardham Cup
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POLLS (new): Who do you think will win the Jubilee and Hardham Cups?
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington club rugby Jubilee and Hardham Cup teams have been confirmed for the remainder of the season. We are now into knockout rugby for the next three weeks. Starting this Saturday, the winners progress to the semi-finals on Saturday 15 July and the finals on Saturday 22 July and the defeated end their seasons...
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Sideline Conversions 3 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Action from the Reserve Grade match at Maidstone Park on Saturday between the Upper Hutt Rams J8s and the Poneke Ruffnuts. The J8s won 31-27. It is tight at the top of the Mike Copeland Cup competition with two rounds to play in the round-robin. The standings are: Johnsonville Cripples 47, UH Rams J8s 45,...
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Paremata-Plimmerton and Johnsonville earn week off, Petone and MSP drop to Hardham Cup
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Tawa second five Lua Lualua on the charge against Petone in today’s opening round Jubilee Cup fixture, won narrowly by Tawa. Jubilee Cup results and scoring (as received) HERE Hardham Cup results and scoring (as received) HERE Club rugby round-up by Steven White and Scott MacLean The top two qualifiers from the first round, Swindale...
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