Matching Newsitems

• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Chiefs

    • 16 Apr 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes come out to play in front of their teeming supporters last Saturday at home against the Blues. By Kevin McCarthy The demise of Moana Pasifika will be a sad story – but as Shakespeare might have said once, ‘tis a tragedy foretold. It’s also a canary in the coal mine for Super Rugby....
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 1 month ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    2025 Wellington Enduro Series points standings updated

    • 22 Feb 2025
    • Wellington Mountain Bike Club
    • We've updated the points standings for the Wellington Enduro Series, which can be found here. Your four best results count towards the overall series standing, and there's three more rounds to collect points in - the Waimapihi Enduro, the Revolve Super-V (for women), and the Rivenrock Enduro, so plenty of chances still to go...
    • Accepted from WMTBC feed 2024 15 months ago by feedreader
    • Automatically tagged as:
    • mountain-biking
  
  
• • 

    NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UPDATE ON RUGBY IN NEW ZEALAND

    • 23 Mar 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UPDATE ON RUGBY IN NEW ZEALAND Following the New Zealand Government’s lifting of the coronavirus alert status to level 3, all rugby in New Zealand will be suspended for the foreseeable future. SANZAAR, New Zealand Rugby (NZR), New Zealand’s Super Rugby Clubs and the New Zealand Rugby Players Association (NZRPA) had been...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 74 months ago by feedreader
    • Automatically tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Grounded Coles to finish on his terms

    • 14 May 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Dane Coles playing for Poneke in his most recent club match, last year against Petone. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. There’s little that Dane Coles hasn’t achieved in rugby. A World Cup winner in 2015 with 69 All Blacks caps on his resume, he is also a Hurricanes centurion with the 2016 Super title to show...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 72 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • art
    • petone
    • rugby

    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
• • 

    Hurricanes v Fijian Drua and Crusaders Opening two rounds Stat Attacks

    • 24 Feb 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2025. Starting the new season, the Hurricanes played their 408th and 409th Super Rugby competition matches against the Crusaders in Christchurch and the Fijian Drua in Napier. Facts and figures from both matches (starting with the most recent one) below. Round 2...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 15 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    In the nick of Trei – Mu on his miracle match winner

    • 28 Jun 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wainuiomata’s players celebrate against Petone. PHOTO: Joe (Tackld). By Adam Julian  “It was super clean. You can’t rob me of that. You can’t do the dirty on me.” “Did I do something wrong? I was onside. I was one hundred percent certain I got it down.” These are the immediate thoughts of Trei Mu after...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 71 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • wainuiomata
    • media
    • petone

    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: A bad week for NZR

    • 1 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Super Rugby wasn’t officially dead at that point but earlier this week I found myself remembering and chuckling at the competition’s finest moment – Merhts running towards the stands at Loftus and flipping the bird at the faithful. See, that’s how you communicate directly and clearly, good people at Sanzar. Even Mehrts...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 68 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Short Passes 7 December – news in briefs and happenings

    • 6 Dec 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The fifteens season is over, but resumes early in the New Year when the Super Rugby teams embark on their pre-season programmes. The representative sevens season is all but over, just this coming weekend’s Condor Sevens in Auckland to come. We will preview this from a Wellington schools perspective in a couple of days. +++++...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 66 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Neill Forks hut from Waiohine Gorge Roadend

    • 22 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Via Totara Flats and return via Cone Ridge. Tramping club was finally back after the long break due to COVID-19 and I had a rare weekend off work so I was super keen to lead a trip to ensure I got out tramping … We were straight into winter tramping – cold and rainy – ... Read more
    • Accepted from WTMC news 2020 69 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • covid-19
  
  
• • 

    Inaugural Moana Pasifika squad named to play Māori All Blacks

    • 24 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Tomasi Alosio in action in club rugby this year – one of six players in the 26-man Moana Pasifika squad not aligned with a Super Rugby team.  The Inaugural Moana Pasifika squad has been named to play Māori All Blacks. The colours of Pacific nations Fiji, Samoa and Tonga will come together under the...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 66 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Inaugural Hurricanes U20 squad selected

    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The inaugural Hurricanes U20 squad was revealed on social media on Monday, the squad being: The team plays at Wellington Stadium this Saturday at 4.25pm against the Hurricanes Hunters Development team, as part of its preparation for the  inaugural Super Rugby U20 tournament in April against the flower of the four other franchises. The team...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 62 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: The Silver Lake deal vote and Canes v Chiefs tonight

    • 22 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy  The fiasco of the European Super League should send a shiver down your spine. Touted by some as a victory for fan power, it’s likely to be the sort of victory in a zombie film where the last ghoul is slain, but you realise there’s still 15 minutes running time. Nek minnit....
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 61 months ago by feedreader
    • Automatically tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    30-strong NZ U20s squad named for 2021

    • 11 May 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Peter Lakai, one of four Wellington players selected. Photo by Natural Light Photography. New Zealand Under 20 Head Coach Tabai Matson has today named 30 players in the 2021 national squad. The squad features several players with Super Rugby experience, and more than half have graduated from the New Zealand Schools programme. Matson said the...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 60 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  

• • Edwin sinel babot

    • 2 Mar 2021
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Edwin Sinel Babot, Master Mariner, died in April 1903 – just a few months after starting his retirement. He was born about 1831 in Southampton, educated at Greenwich College and in 1846 went to sea as an apprentice in a vessel trading to South American ports. He was marine super-intendant in London for the Shaw, […]
    • Accepted from Friends of Karori Cemetery stories 55 months ago by tonytw1
    • Automatically tagged as:
    • community-groups
    • karori
    • local-history

    Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues and 50th cap for James Blackwell

    • 24 Feb 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • James Blackwell (Petone) will play his 50th match for the Hurricanes when they take on the Blues in round two of the Super Rugby Pacific competition this Saturday in Dunedin.  By Kevin McCarthy  Round one down and in a season like no other, it still feels like a season like every other. In short, a...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 51 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    2022 Election Flyers

    • 14 Aug 2022
    • Sarah Free
    • This election, more than ever needs to be about spending priorities- how to provide the infrastructure renewals and upgrades we need to build an inclusive and liveable city fit for the future- while managing the pressures on rates and general affordability. The flyer with my priorities is below. As always, super keen to have feedback, […]
    • Accepted from Sarah Free posts 45 months ago by feedreader
    • Automatically tagged as:
    • people
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: The return of the Hurricanes

    • 24 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Why the gloom and despair out there folks. There seems to be at times a professional industry around talking down rugby and its future in this country. We’re told the All Blacks are sliding down the world rankings. That the northern hemisphere and South Africa are the new powerhouses. That Super Rugby...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 50 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Legends of the Jubilee Cup: John Gallagher (Oriental-Rongotai)

    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • John Gallagher playing for Wellington against Queensland on 18 April 1987 in the South Pacific Championship – the forerunner to Super Rugby. The Reds won 27-25 that day, but Gallagher won many matches for Wellington in the 1980s. PHOTO: Evening Post.  John Gallagher came to New Zealand from England in the 1980s and spent several...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 49 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Fijian Drua

    • 5 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy I’m tempted to say we’re now playing to finish 7th in Super Rugby. That’s probably a round too early to make a definitive call. But at 5 and 5 in the wins and losses, the Hurricanes are tracking for a poor season. Sixth place is feasible, I’m just not sure that’s going...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 49 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    100th cap for Ben Bam May in Hurricanes opener

    • 17 Feb 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Captain Hurricane supports the team last year. By Peter Marriott and Steven White Blenheim born Ben Bam May will play his 100th match for the Hurricanes in their 2022 season opener against the Crusaders on Saturday night in Dunedin. It will actually be May’s 99th Super Rugby match as he played against the British &...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 51 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Crusaders One-Hit Wonders

    • 6 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Grizz Wyllie III On June 18 the New Zealand Herald was forced to begrudgingly acclaim yet another Crusaders Super Rugby triumph. Trouncing the bumbling Blues at Eden Park represented an unprecedented 12th championship, and sixth in a row. It’s often said records are made to be broken. At the Crusaders records are added to,...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 47 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs

    • 27 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • When the Hurricanes played the Waratahs in early May last year, winning 41-12. Will it be a similar scoreline tonight? Photo: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Kevin McCarthy It’s not quite halfway through the Super Rugby Pacific regular season, but some things are becoming clearer. Now we may have one fewer team – and two byes...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 14 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Hurricanes v Brumbies Stat Attack

    • 28 Apr 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Fehi Fineanganofo (above) carried on with his try scoring habit becoming just the fourth Hurricanes player to score four tries in a Super Rugby match. The previous instances were by Ben Lam (against the Rebels at Melbourne in 2018), Ngani Laumape (against the Blues at Wellington in 2018, 10 matches after Lam) and Bailyn Sullivan...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 1 month ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Hurricanes v Force Stat Attack

    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Jordi Viljoen became the 300th different player to make his debut for the Hurricanes in a Super Rugby match. He also became the third instance of a father and son to both play for the Hurricanes, following his father Joggie’s seven appearances in 2000. By Peter Marriott Some facts and figures from the Hurricanes’...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 27 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Highlanders

    • 21 May 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy It’s the penultimate round but really, it may as well be the final round of Super Rugby Pacific for the Hurricanes, if they execute this weekend. There are as always the odd booby traps to make things tasty, however. The Crusaders host the Chiefs at their new home. Should they win, then...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 1 week ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Catholics chipper ahead of Premiership after big midweek wins

    • 14 May 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Action from the St Pat’s Silverstream – New Plymouth Boys’ High School fixture this afternoon in which the home team won by a point. In town, St Pat’s Town held off Palmerston North Boys’ High School. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian St Patrick’s College Wellington (Town) enjoyed their best pre-season win, rolling Super 8...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 1 week ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • silverstream
    • rugby

    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Crusaders in Wellington

    • 30 Apr 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Ruben Love is set to play his 50th match for the Hurricanes against the Crusaders. Team news below. By Kevin McCarthy About this point in the Super season, I typically indulge in some , unscientific methods to see who has the toughest run in from here in the top 6. That is back of the...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 1 month ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Experienced and new faces combine in Wellington Lions squad in 2024

    • 30 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White & Adam Julian On paper, and barring injuries in a couple of key positions, the 2024 Wellington Lions squad looks strong, and there is no reason why they shouldn’t re-enter the NPC winners’ circle in 2024. There is a core group of vastly experienced players, another cohort of established Super Rugby players...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 22 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika

    • 29 May 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy You can read any number of analyses of what the eight still viable teams need to make the Super Rugby Pacific top six, or improve their standing for those five already locked in. It makes for one of those ideal scenarios for the last weekend where all but two of the sides...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 12 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby
  
  
• • 

    Hurricanes v Brumbies Stat Attack

    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Xavier Numia – made like Christian Cullen and scored two tries against the Brumbies. The Hurricanes met the Horsemen in Canberra on Saturday afternoon, meeting their maiden loss of the 2024 Super Rugby season. Some facts and figures from that fixture by Peter Marriott below. Week 10 v Brumbies: Lost 19-27 The Hurricanes and the...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 25 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • rugby