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• • Wellington club rugby gains and losses 2023

    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The 2023 Wellington club rugby season kicks off this coming Saturday. Round one Swindale Shield teams will be named here in the Draws & Results section (above) on Friday by the noon hour. As usual there’s plenty of player movement between clubs and players coming into senior rugby from school. There’s also the usual smattering of...
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• • [POLLS] The Swindale Shield and U85kg JC Bowl: who have you got?

    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Three Wellington club rugby first round competitions start this coming weekend, these being the Premier Swindale Shield, Premier 2 Harper Lock Shield and U85kg JC Bowl. Three polls below. Poll 1: The Swindale Shield Defending Swindale Shield champion: Petone Swindale Shield draw HERE      Poll 2: The U85kg JC Bowl Defending JC Bowl champion:...
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• • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 035: Albert de Clifton

    • 27 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington representative team in 1919, with Albert de Clifton circled.  Then, as now, several well-known players stayed in the game post-retirement and became referees. In the early years, people like J.P. Firth and Peter Webb were prominent officials as well as players (in a couple of instances doing both at the same time) and...
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• • Sideline Conversions 27 March (some rugby news and information to start the new rugby week)

    • 26 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Week 1 is upon us for many club rugby competitions throughout the land, including Wellington where up to five grades kick off on Saturday. The Premier Swindale Shield is locked in, as well as the first round Premier 2 draw, which was issued over the weekend. The second-tier reverts to a single-round format for the...
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• • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika

    • 23 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Four games in and the Hurricanes sit third in Super Rugby – although it doesn’t feel like they’ve done anything terrific yet in the season. They could have not squandered a late bonus point against the Waratahs last weekend, and losing to the Blues was ugly, but there’s not much else to...
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• • Final weekend of pre-season for club rugby teams

    • 23 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • It is the final weekend of preparations before the start of the Premier club rugby competitions in Wellington, Manawatu and elsewhere, while the Horowhenua-Kapiti competition gets underway. Many clubs are holding internal camps, practice sessions and summits, while others will be taking to the field against like-minded opposition tomorrow. Starting in Wellington, three Premier Swindale...
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• • Some players to watch in the Swindale Shield 2023

    • 22 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Northern United players celebrate winning the Jubilee Cup on fulltime last July. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Scott MacLean We’ve cast our eye over the likely Premier squads and taken our pick of one player from each to keep an eye on. Here’s Club Rugby’s list of Players to Watch in 2023, listed alphabetically by surname....
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• • Hurricanes U20s come from behind to beat Highlanders U20s

    • 22 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • In a thrilling encounter at Owen Delany Park in Taupo this afternoon, the Hurricanes U20s defeated the Highlanders U20s 36-26 to book their place in the final against the Blues U20s this coming Saturday. The Hurricanes team was: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hurricanes (@hurricanesrugby)   It was a tough start...
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• • Some school leavers to watch in 2023

    • 21 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: St Pat’s Town rumble towards the line for their winning try in last year’s semi-final against Wellington College. Town lost to St Pat’s Silverstream in the following week’s final. Many players on both sides will be making their club rugby debuts this year in the Premier and Colts grades. Photo: Andy McArthur. The Wellington...
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• • Sideline Conversions 20 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 19 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • It’s the autumn equinox tomorrow, when there will be exactly 12 hours each of night and day – so the community rugby season in almost upon us! +++++ Some more pre-season rugby coming up this Saturday, and a number of clubs holding internal camps on their final free afternoons before kick off on Saturday 1...
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• • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs

    • 16 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy  When it was obvious Ardie Savea was going to sit out last week with a citing, I joked to a workmate that the Hurricanes didn’t need him, the team was that good. Of course, we did and do need him. I am pretty sure, although we can never know, that some how...
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• • Pre-season club rugby and Hurricanes teams at home

    • 16 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wainuiomata and Poneke met last Saturday and both are having internal camps this weekend. But 10 of Wellington’s Premier squads are in action in pre-season games tomorrow. PHOTO T-Paul Gale. The Hurricanes open up this weekend’s rugby with their match tonight at Wellington Stadium, which clears the decks for a full day of club rugby...
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• • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 034: U.P. Calcinai

    • 15 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • U.P. Calcinai was one of two brothers that were fixtures in Poneke teams for a decade and a half in the early years of last century and part of a family that was synonymous with Poneke throughout most of the 20th century as players and coaches. U.P was a bit of a late bloomer, first...
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• • Lions to defend the Ranfurly Shield against Horowhenua-Kapiti and South Canterbury

    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Horowhenua-Kapiti and South Canterbury will be the Wellington Lions’ two Heartland Championship Ranfurly Shield challengers this season, ahead of the National Provincial Championship starting in August. The Lions will defend the Ranfurly Shield on the road in Levin against Horowhenua-Kapiti on Wednesday 12 July. They will then host Heartland Championship Meads Cup winners South Canterbury...
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• • Sideline conversions 13 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 12 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Some of St Bernard’s College’s Intermediate students had their last session at the Gareth Head Leadership Rugby Clinic on Sunday and were able to get a photo with some legends. Ken Laban, Yogi Roger’s, Norman Hewitt and Christian Cullen with the Ranfurly Shield and NPC Trophy. PHOTO: https://www.instagram.com/sbc183sport/  Monday morning edition: Two more weekends of...
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• • Two draws at Rugby League Park on Saturday

    • 11 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • There were two draws involving Hurricanes teams at Rugby League Park in Wellington on Saturday, and almost a third in the first match of two at Wellington Stadium. The Huricanes U20s were first up on the day and scrambled to a 31-31 draw with the Crusaders U20s. The Crusaders U20s led 31-10 after 55 minutes...
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• • Week two of club rugby pre-season and four Hurricanes teams playing at home on Saturday

    • 9 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • It’s the second weekend of the 2023 club rugby pre-season and several clubs are taking the field in practice and trial matches against other opposition, home and away. There are four matches between Wellington clubs tomorrow: Tawa v Paremata-Plimmerton, Lyndhurst Park, from 1.00pm Oriental-Rongotai v Old Boys University, Rongotai College, from 11.ooam Wainuiomata v Hutt...
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• • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues

    • 9 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Move on. Move on. Heard that a bit this week, after Ardie Savea’s infamous throat-slit gesture. Moving on for some meant justifying or rationalising the act. Odd stance. You can’t really do that and expect an apology to be enough. No-one thinks it was meant in a literal sense, but guys like...
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• • Feverish Finishes Part 3

    • 8 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Poneke celebrate their extra time Hardham Cup final win over Petone in 2021. In the lead-up to the 2023 season, Club Rugby is running a series on social media called Feverish Finishes. A look at some of the many crazy finishes and roaring comebacks in Wellington club rugby in recent years – of which there...
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• • Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 033: Patrick McEvedy and Arthur O’Brien

    • 7 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Arthur O’Brien (left) in 1904 and Patrick McEvedy in 1908. Two players who attended St Pat’s Town a couple of years apart in the 1890s and played against the All Blacks for Great Britain/Anglo-Welsh teams on their tours in 1904 and 1908. Of the pair, McEvedy, is the most well-known, primarily because he leant his...
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• • Sideline Conversions 6 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 5 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Hurricanes Hunters fullback Chicago Doyle makes a break against the Crusaders Knights on Friday.  Monday morning edition: A quad-tacular of Hurricanes matches this coming weekend in Wellington, and week two of pre-season fixtures in club rugby. As well as inter-club pre-season rugby, all four Hurricanes teams will be in action on Saturday, one after another....
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• • Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels

    • 2 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy. We couldn’t lose to the Rebels tonight, could we? Yes, we could.  But surely it hasn’t been keeping any Hurricanes fans sleepless this week, sweating like the players were in last weekend’s thumping of the Reds. If you can’t win the title in rounds one and two, you surely can as I...
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• • Four Hurricanes teams in action, club rugby pre-season begins this weekend

    • 2 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • All four Hurricanes teams are playing this weekend, in Wellington, Taupo, Melbourne and Christchurch. The action starts this afternoon at Rugby League Park, Newtown, with the Hurricanes and Crusaders A sides meeting. The match between the Hurricanes Hunters and Crusaders Knights kicks off at 2.30pm. The Hurricanes men’s side are playing the Rebels in Melbourne...
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• • PIONEERS OF RUGBY IN WELLINGTON 032: Peter Webb

    • 1 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Peter Purves Webb was one of a group of the earliest players of the game in Wellington and was a founding member of the Wellington Football Club, under the leadership of James Isherwood . Webb was involved as an early player, administrator and referee of the game, and played for New Zealand on their maiden...
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• • Law changes locked in for 2023 rugby season

    • 28 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Almost the only thing certain about rugby these days is ongoing change, especially when it comes to the Laws of the Game as more tweaks are made for the 2023 season. At the World Rugby level, the only change is that the five Laws trialled last year – Goal-line drop-out, the 50/22, and those around...
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• • Sideline Conversions 27 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 26 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Clubs are sailing closer to the start of the pre-season kicking off. This week, Club Rugby is going to start contacting all the Wellington clubs for details of their pre-season campaigns and player news so look out for that or come to us at editor@clubrugby.co.nz Four weeks out from the start of the Premier competition...
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• • Aisle be Back: The start of the rugby season

    • 24 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy It’s the rugby season. As always, arriving a couple of weeks, or months too early. I mean, I plan on sitting at the Basin on day four of the cricket. But by that time, round one of Super Rugby will be done and dusted. Traditionally this is when the fan lays out...
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• • Three rugby matches this Saturday for Hurricanes supporters

    • 23 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes Poua women’s side opens its Super Rugby competition on Saturday, hosting the Chiefs Manawa at Levin.  There are three matches this Saturday for lower North Island rugby followers to watch and follow. After last week’s Wellington – Hawke’s Bay Hurricanes U20s match was called off, the scheduled third match of this series between...
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• • Northern United’s Tamati Ellison named as Wellington Lions Head Coach

    • 22 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Tamati Ellison playing for Northern United against Petone in the Jubilee Cup in 2007.  He memorably helped his club Northern United win its first Jubilee Cup title in 2004 and then sat a university exam the next day. Now, Tamati Ellison will be tutoring the next generation of Wellington lions players with confirmation of his...
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• • Roigard revving up for new Hurricanes season

    • 22 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Hurricanes halfback and former speedway driver Cam Roigard flies in for his try in the Hurricanes’ pre-season win over the Crusaders in Levin last Friday. By Steven White Can Roigard is is part of the new guard for the Hurricanes. Needless to say, Roigard and the Hurricanes are looking forward to taking the field this...
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