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• • Bond Banter 29 November (Some rugby news and happenings to start the new week)

    • 28 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Glory days. Wainuiomata v Upper Hutt 2007. Home side Upper Hutt won this late April clash in the wet at Maidstone Park 19-17.  Morning edition: It is just about the the end of the line as far as rugby goes for 2021. There is a match this coming weekend in Taupo between the NZ Heartland...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 2022 Swindale Shield draw released

    • 25 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • See the 2022 Swindale Shield draw below – a commentary story to follow.
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• • Aisle be Back: much to ponder in the off-season

    • 25 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A break for everyone coming up, before pre-season community and Hurricanes rugby in the New Year. By Kevin McCarthy Nearly 80 years ago, on World War II’s Eastern Front, there was a battle fought at a place called Kursk. Nazi Germany had been dealt a major defeat a few months earlier in the depths of...
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• • 8 Things You Didn’t Know About The All Blacks

    • 24 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • New Zealand’s rugby team is one of the most famous (if not most famous) sports teams globally. The All Blacks are a dominant force in the rugby world and have a record for winning against every other team they play against. They are indeed the MVPs of sporting excellence. But, other than their pre-game Haka...
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• • All Blacks v France Stat Attack

    • 24 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The All Blacks played France this past weekend – some facts and figures from that game below.
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• • Bond Banter 22 November (some news and information to start the week)

    • 21 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The inaugural Hutt Valley 7s tournament was won on Saturday by Paremata-Plimmerton, who defeated Hutt Old Boys Marist 17-10 in the final. Full gallery HERE  Morning edition: That’s the end of the 2021 rugby season. All going to plan, the rugby should spark up again in January with some re-scheduled and new sevens tournaments, followed...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Livestream: Hutt Valley Women’s 7s tournament

    • 19 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • View below a livestream or replay on demand of Saturday’s third leg of the Hutt Valley 7s series from William Jones Park. This week it is the Women’s tournament. Thanks for Huddy Sports for the feed. The scheduled draw is below the feed.  
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• • Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France

    • 18 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy There are many ways to skin a cat, but in the end, the cat dies. Thus, there are many ways to write a rugby opinion piece, but in the end, we want the cat to live. The cat being the All Blacks. So, the perhaps favourite technique is to absolutely lambast the...
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• • All Blacks v Ireland Stat Attack

    • 18 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The All Blacks met Ireland last weekend in Dublin. Some facts and figures from that game below.
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• •  Lauaki wins major CSW award

    • 16 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Siale Lauaki playing for St Pat’s Town (2020). For the second consecutive year in 2021, he made the New Zealand Secondary Schools squad.   By Adam Julian “I would have been happy with the rugby one, but I’m shocked to get the big one. It still hasn’t sunk in,” Siale Lauaki said when reflecting on being...
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• • Bond Banter 15 November (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 14 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Morning edition: In lieu of the WRFU Sevens series, the RDOs of Hutt Old Boys Marist (Nick Risdon), Wainuiomata (Earl Va’a) and Avalon (Thomas Kiwara) have combined to stage the three-leg Hutt Valley 7s Series. Saturday’s tournament was taken out by recent three-time WRFU tournament champions the Upper Hutt Rams, who beat city guest club...
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• • Livestreaming: Hutt Valley 7s Series Men’s tournament

    • 12 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Tune in to watch the Hutt Valley 7s Series Men’s tournament, live with Huddy Sports:   Draw below:  
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• • Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Ireland

    • 11 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy I guess that makes it definitive. Beauden Barrett is back as the first choice first-five, courtesy of the team to face Ireland on Sunday. Not what many would have picked a year ago. Of course, 50 years ago, Richie Mo’ounga would have sent a bunch of flowers to his missus, rather than...
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• • All Blacks v Italy Stat Attack

    • 10 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The All Blacks played Italy this past weekend – some facts and figures from that game below. New Zealand v Italy: Won 47-9 New Zealand and Italy first met at test level at Eden Park in Auckland on 22 May 1987. It was the opening match of the inaugural Rugby World Cup...
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• • Wellington Lions v Tasman Stat Attack

    • 10 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Pepesana Patafilo scored five tries this year for the Lions including this one against Southland, joint top equal with Peter Umaga-Jensen. By Peter Marriott The Wellington Lions finished their 2021 NPC season last weekend against the Tasman Mako. Some facts and figures from that game below: Round 10 v Tasman: Lost 22-34 Wellington’s record in...
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• • Bond Banter 8 November (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 7 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Morning edition: With the 2021 sevens season a wasteland of cancellations, some clubs in the Hutt Valley have organised a few weekends of tournaments – all within the Covid-19 rules of course. The Hutt Valley 7s series saw a mini Colts tournament being played on Saturday, between Wainuiomata, Hutt Old Boys Marist and Avalon. HOBM...
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • George Serrallach and the Evolution of Rugby Analysis

    • 6 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian It’s November 1999 and the baggage carousel rumbles at Heathrow Airport. Weary All Blacks collect their luggage after the long haul across hemispheres. Technical advisor Wayne Smith waits anxiously for a meandering 43kg parcel marked Oversize and Fragile to reach him. Inside two cases, attached to wheels, is ‘Battlestar,’ a computer that...
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• • Aisle be Back: When in Rome

    • 5 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy I don’t know definitively that the refereeing delays in the All Blacks win over Wales were longer than usual. I certainly am not going to sit here and do a rewind with stopwatch in hand. Probably I just hit peak TMO, that feeling that surely I didn’t sign up to watch a...
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• • Women’s Super Rugby squads announced for 2022

    • 3 Nov 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The inaugural New Zealand Women’s Super Rugby competition, Super Rugby Aupiki, will be contested over four weekends in March 2022 and the four squads were announced on Thursday. These include teams from the Blues, Chiefs, Hurricanes and a combined South Island line-up. The Hurricanes squad of 26 players, with two to be added in December,...
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• • Bond Banter 1 November (some rugby news to start the week)

    • 30 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Breakfast edition: Otago beat Wellington 33-28 in a non-competition, first class match in Dunedin on Sunday. Peter Umaga-Jensen continued his eye-catching form for Wellington, but the Lions pack lacked spine against the Southerners, reduced to 14 for 20 minutes after a high, no-arms tackle. Disturbingly, replacement prop and former Wallaby Pek Cowan became a magnet...
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• • Aisle be Back: bread from heaven

    • 28 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy The roof will be on, so there’ll be no raining on the parade of Beauden Barrett this Sunday in Cardiff. No surprise that he would be handed his 100th cap at a prestige venue, rather than against Italy a week later. However, coach Foster is clear that this was also a form...
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• • All Blacks v USA: Stat Attack

    • 28 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The All Blacks met the USA in Washington this past weekend – some facts and figures from New Zealand v United States: Won 104-14 New Zealand and the United States first met at test level at California Field in Berkeley, California, on 15 November 1913.The home side was then known as All...
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• • Club and school Sevens tournaments cancelled for 2021

    • 27 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • This Covid disease is something else. Following the announcement earlier this week by College Sport Wellington that their tournaments have been cancelled, the WRFU has now moved to cancel all its sevens tournaments for 2021. Three tournaments were scheduled; an age-grade and women’s tournament on 6 November, followed by the two American Ambassador’s series events...
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• • Lordy Ōwhango has two All Blacks

    • 27 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Roy Roper (centre) – the oldest living All Black. By Adam Julian Roy Roper and Josh Lord separated by a foot in height and three quarters of a century in age share an unlikely connection. The All Blacks were born in Ōwhango, situated 20 kilometres south of Taumarunui on State Highway 4 on the “main...
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• • Wellington Lions v Southland Stags Stat Attack

    • 27 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The Wellington Lions beat Southland 24-22 last Saturday at Porirua Park in a non-NPC fixture. Some facts and figures from the game below: Non-Championship v Southland: Won 24-22 This match did not count towards the National Provincial Championship competition. In addition to the scheduled NPC round-robin matches, a non-championship game is now...
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• • Bond Banter 25 October (some news and information to start the week in rugby)

    • 24 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • MORNING EDITION: Labour Day Monday is synonymous with the Condor 7s qualifying tournament at Naenae College. But not today. That tournament has been ‘postponed’ and the Hurricanes Schools 7s tournament previously scheduled for this coming Saturday has been called off. The upcoming WRFU tournaments scheduled for 6, 13 and 20 November could be on shaky...
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• • Rugby on this weekend

    • 22 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The rugby continues on a narrower front around Wellington and the lower North Island on Saturday. Starting in the Johnsonville sector, the Fijian Flyers are hosting a ‘Mini-7s Tournament‘ at Helston Park. Five sides are in action from early in the morning, with Hutt Old Boys Marist, the Johnsonville Hawks, the Palmerston North Fijian Tigers,...
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• • Aisle be Back: ‘Merica

    • 21 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Rugby in the US always lurks on the edge of our New Zealand consciousness. We know it exists, but we don’t really know much about it or take it seriously. I remember reading a book once on one of the late 1970s tours which touched down briefly in the US. Stu Wilson...
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• • Lions supporters marking 21 years since last NPC title win

    • 20 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Today marks the 21st anniversary since Wellington last won the National Provincial Championship. They won in 1978, 1981, 1986 and, most recently, on 21 October 2000 when they beat Canterbury 34-29 in the final in Christchurch. Unlike those previous three winning seasons, and most recently 1986 when they won every game (albeit no finals series),...
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• • Wellington Lions v Manawatu stat attack

    • 20 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The Wellington Lions beat Manawatu in their most recent NPC match, also for the Coronation Cup. Some facts and figures from the game below: Round 7: v Manawatu: Won 36-16 Wellington’s record in all NPC matches is now played 474, won 295 (62.2%), lost 167 and drawn 12. Wellington’s record in all...
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