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Club Rugby pre-season underway this Saturday
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- Action from last year’s Hardham Cup final, with Poneke playing in Paraparaumu tomorrow and the Upper Hutt Rams meeting Linton away. Photo: Tane Nathan. It’s the opening weekend of the 2026 club rugby pre-season, with many clubs holding their own internal club days but also a number of others in actual on the field against...
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Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua matches Stat Attack
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- In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2026. Facts and figures from both opening matches (starting with the most recent one) below. Round 3 v Fijian Drua: Lost 20-25 The Fijian Drua made their Super Rugby debut in 2022. They have now played the Hurricanes five times for two...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs
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- Petone’s Brad Shields and others celebrate Oriental-Rongotai wing Fehi Fineanganofo’s try against Moana Pasifika in their opening game. By Kevin McCarthy What are you planning to do in the next 15 months? If you answer, trying to win a world cup, sorry – that’s gone. Dave Rennie, new All Blacks coach, also has the tour...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: First Phase Finishes
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 118: Alan Clark
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- Alan Clark was a bustling No. 8 who played 59 matches for Wellington A between 1952 and 1957. Not to be confused with the Clark brothers, Bill and Tony, who played for University, [Leslie] Alan Clark was a leading light and the captain of the Wellington Axemen club who were battling hard in the lower...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Trophies Chat Volume 2
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- Northern United and Marist St Pat’s celebrate their shared Jubilee Cup title win in 2008, the last time it was shared. The cup itself is lidless, and had been for at least 35 years. There are many cups and trophies that are contested each year between clubs or internally in clubs to be presented at...
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Sideline Conversions 2 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Action from the Academy Series at Massey on Saturday. Photo: Club Rugby pre-season starts this coming weekend. The summer is almost over and with it games below include (but not limited to in case there’s more on we don’t know about): Paraparaumu v Pōneke, Soldier Field Paraparaumu Northern United v Marist St Pat’s, Porirua Park...
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Club Rugby highlights series: In the Loose
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club rugby pre-season 2026 – what’s coming up in March?
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- The scheduled kick-offs of major club rugby competitions in Wellington (4 April), Manawatu (28 March), Hawke’s Bay (21 March) and Wairarapa-Bush and Horowhenua-Kapiti (both TBC) are in sight. All matches that have been collated below and ordered by date are assumed to be between ‘Premier [Senior A]’ squads unless stated, although many are Premier/Premier Reserve...
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Sideline Conversions 23 February (some rugby news to start the week)
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- Above: General scene at Massey on Saturday in the first week of the Academy Series between Wellington, Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay. The first weekend of 15s rugby is in the can, many more to come. Nice for many to be back at the stadium, an official crowd of just shy of 14,000, but it will...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes open season against Moana Pasifika
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- By Kevin McCarthy Turns out a so-called debate about whether New Zealanders take far too long a summer break was very short lived. Summer decided not to show, and the nothing-happening vibes of January also failed to show. Here or anywhere. Rugby was meant to be on the beach – with a mountain of rocks...
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Academy Series underway Saturday as Hurricanes teams kick off
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- Sevens rugby took the spotlight a fortnight ago, now it is the start of the fifteens game for many players in the wider region. The second annual Sam Doyle Memorial Cup series takes place at Massey University, Palmerston North over the next fortnight. The series sees the Academy sides of Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu...
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Sideline Conversions 16 February (some news and information to start the new week in rugby)
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- Above: Flashback to the 2007 Swindale Shield clash between Upper Hutt and Wainuiomata. Upper Hutt won 19-17. These two teams meet this year in round 11 on 13 June. All photos are here: https://clubrugby.smugmug.com/ Plenty of activity behind the scenes as the autumn leaves of the off-season gather (or in the case of Sunday night’s...
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What happened 100 years ago: Part 1 Club Rugby
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- The winning Wellington club rugby 1926 Senior Championship side Athletic, featuring All Blacks Cliff Porter and Kenneth Svenson in the front row. As we enter a new season of rugby in the Wellington region, a look back at how the season panned out 100 years ago. This year it is 1926. A recap of the...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Kick & Collect
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Sideline Conversions 9 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Ethan Webster-Nonu flies in for his match-winning try in home team Paremata-Plimmerton’s 21-17 semi-final win over Nelson Marist on Saturday.
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HOBM National 7s Champions in all Wellington Final
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- By Steven White & Adam Julian Photos by Andy McArthur Hutt Old Boys Marist holds the McBain Shield, Jubilee Cup, Ambassador Sevens, and now the National Club Sevens titles. They dethroned hosts and reigning national champions Paremata Plimmeton 19-12 in an all-local final at a sun-kissed Ngati Toa Domain. With fatigue mounting, the decider was...
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National Club Sevens all day Saturday at Ngati Toa Domain
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- For the third time in the past decade, the National Club Sevens comes to Wellington, with Paremata-Plimmerton hosting the 2026 tournament at Ngati Toa Domain on Saturday. Paremata-Plimmerton will be seeking to become the first Wellington club of the modern era to successfully defend it on home soil, following Wainuiomata’s and Northern United’s unsuccessful defences...
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Community match for the Hurricanes on Saturday
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- The corporate veil will soon descend over the Hurricanes for another year, but first fans can view the team in action up close when they take on the Chiefs at Porirua Park on Saturday, kick-off 1.00pm. The Hurricanes have traditionally brought a pre-season match to their community, with Wainuiomata last year, Levin the year before...
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Club Rugby Compilation Highlights Series: Tries from the Kick-off
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Sideline Conversions 2 February (some news and information to start the week and the year)
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- Above: Flashback to the 2013 Hardham Cup final with Vaea Fifita skipping clear for the Wellington Axemen. Norths would win the final 26-16, but Fifita made the first of his 52 appearances for the Wellington Lions that season. He subsequently made his Hurricanes debut in 2015 and played 11 Tests for the All Blacks 2017-19...
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Club Rugby Compilation Highlights Series: Intercepts & Chargedowns Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Compilation Series: Tries by Halfbacks Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: “The Jubilee Mystery”
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- By Touchline The 20-year period between the two World Wars saw the introduction of “the Jubilee Cup” to Wellington’s senior rugby championship. But despite the generally accepted narrative of its origin being in 1929, new information obtained by Touchline suggests its true beginnings are shrouded in the dense tobacco-smoke and oft heady beer-fumes of local...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Long-range Strikes Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Shooting Stars
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- A look at some of the many players and personalities of the local game who packed in plenty in short careers that were cut short due to such factors as injury, death or transferring to rugby league. Going back to the start of the game in the latter years of the nineteenth century, There would...
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Excitement machine Grant Batty passes away in Australia
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- Grant Batty scores his final try, for the All Blacks against the British and Irish Lions in Wellington in June 1977. Grant Batty, who passed away in Australia late last week aged 74 was the excitement machine of his era. Batty was a pocket-rocket try-scoring wonder who scored 109 tries in 142 first-class matches in...
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Tenacious Wellington Flyers defend Bula 7s title
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- By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur Several times across their final three knockout games of the day, the Wellington Flyers had to dig deep. On each occasion they responded with a timely turnover, tackle out wide or an offload to a support player backing up, seeing them win all these matches and defending their...
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Bula 7s tournament at William Jones Park on Saturday
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- Supporters starved of action over the festive season will get their rugby fix all day at William Jones Park on Saturday. The sixth annual Bula 7s tournament has drawn a bumper 16-team field to kick-start the year in rugby, but being on one field means that it is scheduled to go into the evening hours...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Cutting Loose Part 1 –
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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