Swindale Shield / May 2024
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Ties to church and family key to Penieli Poasa’s success
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Ories captain Penieli Poasa and teammates with the Jubilee Cup last July. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Penieli Poasa is passionate about his rugby and his church. When Oriental-Rongotai won the Jubilee Cup last year, 39 players including 15 seniors and all four Ories Poasa brothers, were affiliated with the EFKS Ueligitone Christian Congregation...
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Double century of Wellington Premier cub rugby matches up for James Coburn
- Wellington Club Weekly
- James Coburn, playing against Norths in round five at the start of this month. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White James Coburn runs out on to Ngati Toa Domain for his 200th Premier match on Saturday, for Paremata-Plimmerton against Johnsonville in round nine of the Swindale Shield. Joining the 200-club would perhaps have flown under...
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Matchday Swindale Shield Scoring Highlights: HOBM (29) v Wainuiomata (13)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The two clubs met at the Hutt Recreation Ground. Conditions were fine, but breezy and underfoot conditions were greasy early on following a heavy shower of rain. HOBM won 29-13. A workmanlike Eagles side outscored Wainuiomata 5 tries to 1 on the day, their set-piece on top and their lineout the direct source for three...
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OBU stay out in front in Swindale Shield as Hutt Rams beat Johnsonville with last play try
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Members of the Upper Hutt Rams in front of the Helston Park scoreboard on fulltime today.
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Highly competitive round of club and college rugby in store for tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Neither Ories or Petone will be going to ground tomorrow – both are in the eastern suburbs tomorrow, with Ories hosting Norths at home on their Old Timers’ Day and Petone playing Wellington on their ODT. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean Another busy day of club and community rugby tomorrow, with the Wellington Premier,...
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Wellington club rugby live scoring updates 25 May
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It’s round EIGHT of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. Another round of massive matches today as the contenders and the strugglers in the Premier, Premier 2 and Colts jostle for position and for the upcoming Jubilee and Hardham Cups, Ed Chaney and HD Morgan Memorial Cups and John E Kelly Cup competitions. It...
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Patelesio proving dangerous on the wing for Wainuiomata
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Niko Patelesio playing against Avalon last season. Photo: Hugh Pretorius. By Adam Julian When Niko Patelesio returned to Wainuiomata in 2021 and announced he was an outside back he was frowned upon. Patelesio had started his career at lock in 2015 and might have been expected to lose pace after three shoulder surgeries. Fast forward...
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Matchday Swindale Shield Scoring Highlights: Tawa (40) v Johnsonville (35)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The two clubs met at Lyndhurst Park, Tawa, on Tawa’s Old Timers’ Day, for the Carman Cup. Tawa won a thriller 40-35. They scored the winning try with the final play of the game, from a scrum and vigorous probe at the line near the posts and then a pass out wide for the try...
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Sideline Conversions 20 May (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Paremata-Plimmerton and HOBM Presidents after their match on Saturday. Photo: Warwick Burke. Monday morning edition 2.0: Blink and you will miss it. It’s the back half of the 2024 Wellington club rugby first round competition. Heading into this coming weekend’s eighth round of 13 of the the Swindale Shield, OBU lead by 5 points,...
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OBU lead, big wins for Ories, Tawa, Rams and Pare Plim as points table tightens
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Catch me if you can.
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Clutch matches as midpoint of first round reached
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone return home tomorrow to host Oriental-Rongotai on their Old Timers’ Day, while Northern United are back at Porirua Park to play Poneke tomorrow. By Scott MacLean & Steven White This Saturday marks the midpoint of the first round club rugby competitions in Wellington, and with it a series of important matches for many teams....
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Hauiti-Parapara to play 100th match on Tawa’s Old Timers’ Day
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Kemara Hauiti-Parapara gets a pass away for Tawa in their Jubilee Cup playoff match against Petone last July. On Saturday he plays his 100th match for Tawa. By Steven White On Saturday, Wellington Lions halfback and two-time Jubilee Cup winner Kemara Hauiti-Parapara will run out to play his 100th Premier cub match for Tawa on...
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Matchday Premier scoring highlights: OBU (48) v Upper Hutt Rams (22)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The two clubs met on Rugby League Park in the sixth round of the 2024 Swindale Shield and in the battle of the cloven-hooved quadrupeds. Old Boys University ran clear to win the fixture 48-22 in front of a busy crowd in the stand at their Newtwon enclave. After an early feeling out period, OBU...
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Close matches in club rugby in sixth round
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White, Scott MacLean and Adam Julian For results and scoring (as received and as updated): http://www.
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Mid-table teams battling to stay in the mix in round six
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Norths will be chasing a win over Petone tomorrow, while Paremata-Plimmerton are heading into town to play Poneke. By Scott MacLean and Steven White It’s been a highly competitive season to date, not least in the Swindale Shield where the battle to make the ‘top 8’ and challenge for championship glory is already intensifying. With...
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Wellington club rugby live scoring updates 11 May
- Wellington Club Weekly
- It’s round SIX of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. More big matches today, as the contenders jostle for position and lower ranked and mid-table battle to stay in the mix for the upcoming Jubilee Cup. It’s the second week of school rugby, with second round grading games tomorrow. Men’s Premier Swindale Shield matches...
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Top try scorers in Wellington club rugby of the last 20 years
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Club Rugby turns 20 in 2024. From its beginnings as an e–newsletter in the early 2000s, this website started in 2005. There are some well-known names are on Wellington club rugby’s top try scoring list from the past 20 years. This website’s player database started with the website in 2005, so we have complete scoring...
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The ‘JLo Show’ Reaches 200
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Jason Love entering William Jones Park with his young family in support to play his 200th match for Wainuiomata this past Saturday against Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Jason Love (Te Āti Awa/Ngāti Poro) is an unapologetic original. So, when the veteran Wainuiomata rugby player was asked to describe himself, he invented his...
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Great days in club rugby 010: In for the Try
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Norths wing AJ Va’alepu makes headlines for scoring five tries in the 2011 Jubilee Cup semi-final. PHOTO/CREDIT: Dominion Post 1 August 2011. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part...
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Community Rugby in Wellington to come alive in round five
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Poneke’s Caleb Robson is caught in a sea of Tawa players in their match last week. The fine weather is set to continue tomorrow, as Poneke travel to Fraser Park to play Avalon and Tawa host Old Boys University. More details of these and the other five Premier matches below. By Scott MacLean & Steven...
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Portugal Power Sharpening Axemen
- Wellington Club Weekly
- António Prim playing against Northern United this past Saturday. PHOTO: Brad Roberts. By Adam Julian The Wellington Axemen have some Portuguese power propping up their scrum this season. António Prim is a 21-year-old tighthead prop standing 190cm and 120kg. Prim has started the first four Swindale Shield matches and though the Axemen are winless in...
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Salmon on mission to make Norths proud
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Klein Salmon has made two starts for Norths at lock, including this past weekend against the Wellington Axemen at home at Jerry Collins Stadium. PHOTO: Brad Roberts. By Adam Julian Klein Salmon will be competing for more than pride when Northern United travels to Ngāti Toa Domain on Saturday to tussle with Swindale Shield holders...
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Great Days in club rugby 009: Between the Posts
- Wellington Club Weekly
- James So’oialo slots his last-gasp dropped goal in Tawa’s 16-15 win over Old Boys University in 2017. Photo: Tawa TV. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of our...
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