Wellington Club Weekly newsitems

• • The Monday Wrap 3 October (some community rugby news to start the week)

    • 2 Oct 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Du’Plessis Kirifi and the Wellington Lions are back home this coming Saturday at 2.05pm to host the Hawke’s Bay Magpies in their NPC quarter-final.  The Hurricanes U16s tournament is this week. The draw for the first two days is below, Finals Day on Thursday. Division 1: Monday Wellington A v Hawke’s Bay, CIS 2, 11.00am...
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• • Hurricanes U16s tournament this week in Upper Hutt

    • 2 Oct 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • After two disrupted years, the Hurricanes U16s tournament returns in full this week, to be played at the new Campus of Sport and Innovation (CIS) on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. As always, the teams are split into two divisions. The Division 1 teams play for the Don Broughton Shield and the Division 2 sides for...
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• • Aisle be Back: Women’s World Cup, Lions and All Blacks

    • 29 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy I used to live in Auckland for a few years. I used to meet people there who literally had no conception there was a country below the Manukau Harbour. And certainly, they could find no reason to go there. They’d go to Melbourne a lot though. Well, they’ll be well served with...
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• • Jonah Lomu remembered in Lions and Steelers match on Sunday

    • 29 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Billy Proctor, Pepesana Patafilo and TJ Perenara in action in last weekend’s Ranfurly Shield defence against Waikato. There is no rugby in Wellington this weekend. The closest fans can travel to get their fix is Levin where Horowhenua-Kapiti host the Whanganui Butcher Boys in their seventh round Heartland Championship fixture at 2.30pm. The Hurricanes U16...
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• • Desperation, Defence, Delany

    • 28 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian The last time Wellington held opponents try-less in consecutive games before 2022 was in 1999. Caleb Delany wasn’t even born in 1999 but the blindside flanker has been an integral part of a new-found Lions fortress. The Ranfurly Shield is safe for the summer following a 34-6 account of Waikato on Saturday. ...
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• • Wellington Samoans U18s win title, Lions roar in Shield defence, U16s underway

    • 24 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Ranfurly Shield has been locked away for the summer, with the Wellington Lions successfully defending it against Waikato this afternoon. The Lions beat Waikato 34-6, after leading 10-6 at halftime, producing a suffocating second half to hold off the visitors and deny them a sniff at the Shield. Wellington also goes to the top...
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• • Hurricanes U18s and U16s competitions and Ranfurly Shield defence on Saturday

    • 23 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • It’s Finals Day in the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council’s U18 competition and Wellington’s first and only Ranfurly Shield of the year, in matches on Saturday. All six U18s teams in the Hurricanes U18s still standing are in action tomorrow in three matches, two in Napier and one in Whanganui. In Napier, Poverty Bay U18s takes...
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• • Aisle be Back: Bledisloe 2.0

    • 23 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Considering where they were a month or so ago, the All Blacks could almost consider part two of the international season a success if they win the Rugby Championship. Whether others will depends largely on what you thought, oh, about a month ago. Remove the historic Argentinian victory on New Zealand soil,...
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• • Breakneck Japan out to Surprise at World Cup

    • 23 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Images supplied Sakura is the national flower of Japan, the cherry blossom which represents a time of renewal and optimism. It’s also the name of the Japanese women’s rugby team – a team with good reason for optimism ahead of the World Cup starting in New Zealand on October 8. Japan is...
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• • When Wellington won the Ranfurly Shield off Waikato, ushering in 50 days of fanfare

    • 22 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington left wing Ron Jarden scoring a try for Wellington against Otago in their third challenge of 1953. Jarden scored all the points for Wellington in their successful challenge against Waikato three weeks earlier.  August and September 1953 were heady days for not only Wellington’s rugby fans, but the city’s community as a whole. On...
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• • Pek propping up Wellington

    • 21 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Pek Cowan and the Ranfurly Shield, at the Hutt Valley High School Rugby Awards on Tuesday night this week, where he coaches the school’s U15 team.  By Adam Julian Pek Cowan was tentative about playing any rugby in 2022. The 36-year old had little to prove following 10 tests for the Wallabies, 130 games for...
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• • Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 030 George Aitken

    • 20 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • One of Buller High School’s favourite sons, the multi-talented George Aitken captained his then Westport District High School’s First XV aged 14 and first represented Buller as a 16-year-old in 1914. He played for his home province for two seasons, before moving to Wellington and bursting on to the Wellington club, university and provincial rugby...
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• • Resilient Rory Woods looking forward to South African tour

    • 19 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Rory Woods playing for the Wellington Academy last year. He has since moved to join the Northland Academy and has recently been selected in the New Zealand U19s for their tour which kicks off overnight on Monday in South Africa. PHOTO: Andy McArthur.  The following article by Adam Julian was first published on AllBlacks.com last...
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• • The Monday Wrap 19 September (some rugby news and information to start the new week)

    • 18 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • We appear to have come to the end of the line as far as Saturday afternoon community rugby is concerned in Wellington for 2022, with the Hurricanes U16 competition being played at Petone over the first week of October. Also, some sevens tournaments to come starting in a month or so. All three Wellington U18...
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• • At Last, the Ranfurly Shield is back

    • 18 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • After 4,767 days the Ranfurly Shield is finally back in Wellington following the Lions 19-12 victory over Hawke’s Bay at McLean Park in Napier. A TJ  Perenara try and four penalties and a conversion to first-five Aidan Morgan was enough to blunt an unusually inaccurate Hawke’s Bay whose points were scored via four Lincoln McClutchie...
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• • Wellington wins Ranfurly Shield to start 11th tenure

    • 17 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington province’s 11th Ranfurly Shield reign started at 8.45pm on Saturday night Napier Standard Time. The Wellington Lions held on to beat the Hawke’s Bay Magpies 19-12 in a typical last-gasp thriller between these sides for the Ranfurly Shield. But unlike 1967, there were no death-knock heroics for the Hawke’s Bay defenders. Putting aside...
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• • Centurions beat Tasman, as Hawke’s Bay finish top qualifier for Hurricanes U18s final

    • 17 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Samoans U18s after their 52-12 win this afternoon over the Wellington Māori U18s at Evans Bay Park. The Samoans will play top qualifier the Hawke’s Bay Saracens U18s in next week’s final. The Wellington Centurions completed their 2022 campaign with a comfortable though perhaps unconvincing 26-12 win over the Tasman Development side at...
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• • Last round of Hurricanes U18s competition, final Development team match and Ranfurly Shield challenge tomorrow

    • 16 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes Youth Council’s U18 competition is finely poised heading into this weekend’s third and final round of matches, heading into next week’s Finals Day. Added to the mix, the scheduled eight-team competition at the start of the term has been further reduced, with Wairarapa-Bush joining Manawatu in withdrawing from the Trustbank Secondary School Shield....
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• • Aisle be Back: A timeless Bledisloe Cup win

    • 16 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Karma so they say, is a B****. Or a B******. It will get you in the end. This time it happened strangely to the Wallabies, on a Thursday evening, at a funnily named action hero stadium in Melbourne, with a covered roof but some early artificial cloud cover. The karma in question...
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• • Ranfurly Shield challenge for Wellington on Saturday in 100th match

    • 15 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Hawkeye and Leo the Lion in the 1960s, prior to another tight tussle between Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. It was recently asked of a long-time supporter what would you rather Wellington held at the end of the season if you they could have one but not the other, the National Provincial Championship title or the...
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• • O’Reilly and Lions hoping to find spark against Hawke’s Bay in Ranfurly Shield challenge

    • 14 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • James O’Reilly playing in his 100th game for HOBM earlier this year, against Marist St Pat’s, the team he scored his first Premier try against in his first year out of school in 2013.  By Steven White James O’Reilly and his Wellington Lions teammates will be hoping its lights out for the Hawke’s Bay Magpies...
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• • Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 029 Billy Wallace

    • 13 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Carbine was a popular racehorse who won 33 of 43 starts including the 1890 Melbourne Cup and failed to place only once and that was because of an injured hoof. In 1892 Carbine sired a Colt named Wallace, so named after the champion’s owner Donald Wallace. Carbine’s progeny went on to become a champion in...
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• • Wellington U19s v Manawatu U19s try scoring highlights

    • 12 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington U19s retained the Hurricanes Youth Council’s Central Region Shield with a 48-15 win over the Manawatu U19s at Lyndhurst Park, Tawa, on Saturday 10 September. The Wellington U19s led 19-7 at halftime, and then 24-15 early in the second half, but pulled away towards the end of the game to win well. Scoring...
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• • The Monday Wrap 12 September (news and information to start the new rugby week)

    • 11 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Lions with the Mike Gibson Memorial Trophy after their 32-26 win over Otago yesterday. Anyone in Wellington game enough for a road-trip the Napier this coming Saturday? The Wellington Lions have a rare Ranfurly Shield challenge. The game against the Hawke’s Bay Magpies kicks off at 7.05pm Saturday at McLean Park, so start...
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• • Nail-biting Nationals: Hamilton Boys’ wins Top 4 again as girls title is shared

    • 11 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian and Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur. Reports of the two 2022 First XV Top 4 finals below. MANUKURA (19) v Christchurch Girls’ High School (19) The engraver will put the names of MANUKURA and Christchurch Girls’ High School as joint winners in 2022 on the Hine Pounamu Trophy, after the two...
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• • Wellington Centurions bounce back, U19s retain title, Canterbury Māori win tournament

    • 10 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Members of the Wellington U19s with the Central Region Shield following their win over the Manawatu U19s at Lyndhurst Park this Saturday. The Wellington Centurions men’s side bounced back from their defeat to Manawatu last week to comfortably beat the Hawke’s Bay Saracens 55-17 at the Petone Recreation Ground this afternoon. The Centurions started well...
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• • Representative rugby rolls on this weekend

    • 9 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Update 1: The 2022 representative season reaches its peak this weekend in terms of teams in action and games played. Starting today at the new Campus of Innovation and Sport (CIS) turf and continuing through to Sunday afternoon at Wellington Stadium, there is much to look forward to in Wellington and the lower North Island...
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• • Club and College Rugby Awards 2022

    • 8 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Few guesses required for what our club rugby Match of the Season was, and our Premier Try of the Season. Here, Petone’s Tupou Sopoaga charges down a Brandyn Laursen attempted pot to set in motion a crazy finish to their McBain Shield match. Petone won 27-20. PHOTO: Andy McArthur.  By Scott MacLean, Steven White and...
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• • Inaugural Te Upoko O Te Ika Māori Rugby Invitational tournament this weekend 

    • 8 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • This Friday and Saturday’s Te Upoko O Te Ika Māori Rugby Invitational tournament is a first for two reasons. As well as being the inaugural tournament, it marks the introduction of rugby being played at the all-new New Zealand Campus of Innovation of Sport facility in Upper Hutt. Te Upoko O Te Ika (Wellington Māori)...
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• • Brenda Collins Inspiring Greatness at Manurewa

    • 7 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Manurewa High School girls rugby squad at Jerry Collins Stadium during their trip to Wellington earlier this year. Coached by the late Jerry’s sister Brenda, Manurewa are heading to Palmerston North this weekend for the National Top 4 tournament.  By Adam Julian Brenda Collins was a popular and successful teacher and rugby player in...
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