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Randall Bishop – Tawa’s Mr. Reliable set to play his 200th Premier match
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Randall Bishop gets his kick away last Saturday in Tawa’s one-point win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Some 15 seasons after making his Premier debut, and three Jubilee Cup titles two more finals appearances and a Horowhenua-Kapiti title later, Randall Bishop is set to run out to play his 200th match for...
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Swindale Shield Matchday Highlights Round Two: Tawa (26) v Pare-Plim (25)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Round Two of the 2026 Swindale Shield came to Lyndhurst Park where home team Tawa met Paremata-Plimmerton. Coming off a hefty first round loss to Petone, it took Tawa just a few minutes to score their opening try of the year. Paremata-Plimmeerton responded and eventually both teams were deadlocked 12-12 just before halftime when the...
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Sideline Conversions 13 April (some news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Action from Old Boys University’s Peter Dunford Cup win over Wainuiomata on Saturday. Monday morning edition: The first full weekend of club rugby was played on Saturday. And we got lucky with the weather. Saturday was fine and warm but 24 hours later it was grey and wet. It’s the second week of school holidays...
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Axemen raise the half century as first round form reverses for some teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Losi Filipo dives over to score one of two tries for Petone in their tight win over the Upper Hutt Rams. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian An opening win of the competition for the Wellington Axemen against Pōneke and generally much closer matches than last week were two...
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All grades underway in Wellington club rugby tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wainuiomata will be seeking their second straight win to start the year when they host Old Boys University in Round Two of the Swindale Shield, while Avalon are at home for the first time and playing Hutt Old Boys Marist. Photo: Hugh Pretorius. By Scott MacLean Welcome to the first full weekend of the club...
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Where are they Now: Martin Leslie (Petone and Scotland)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian The recent Six Nations broke many scoring records and was regarded as one of the best ever. Noteworthy was Scotland’s 50-40 win over eventual champions France. In 1999, Scotland beat France in a similarly dramatic match in Paris, dominated by Petone legend Martin Leslie. Petone started the 2026 Swindale Shield with a...
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Barker College make fast start on three-game tour
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian Barker College opened its three-game New Zealand tour with a 40-36 victory over St Patrick’s College, Silverstream on Wednesday. The North Sydney independent Anglicans stunned the 2025 Wellington Premiership winners by blasting to a 26-0 lead in under 10 minutes. Not since 2017, when Silverstream was caned by national championships, Hastings Boys’...
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Swindale Shield Matchday Scoring Highlights: Round One MSP (58) v Norths (22)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Round One of the 2026 Swindale Shield came to Porirua Park where home team Northern United met Marist St Pat’s for the Maurice Standish Cup. In breezy conditions, home side Norths scored first and late led 12-7 during the first half. MSP got their noses ahead 19-12 by halftime. Early in the second half a...
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Sideline Conversions 6 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Upper Hutt Rams celebrate a job well done, beating Poneke 66-32 in their Swindale Shield season opener. Is this the year of the Ram? Photo: Tane Nathan/Kinetic Images. The first weekend of Wellington club rugby saw seven entertaining Premier fixtures played throughout the region and the opening round of Premier 2 games. There were Premier...
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Paremata-Plimmerton pip first round defending champions, second half blowouts elsewhere
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Ethan Webster-Nonu scores a key try against his former side today in round one of the Swindale Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Oriental-Rongotai played through last year’s first round Wellington club rugby Premier Swindale Shield with 13 straight bonus point wins. In today’s 2026 season opener, Ories were pipped at...
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Pasilio Tosi giving back to community rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Pasilio Tosi playing for Paremata-Plimmerton in 2023. This Friday he will present his All Blacks jersey to his Wellington club, just down the road from where grew up in Levin. By Adam Julian It’s a Good Friday to be at Ngāti Toa Domain, Porirua. Paremata-Plimmerton will receive an All Blacks Test rugby jersey from prop...
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Sideline Conversions 30 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Lyndhurst Park scene – looking very lush as it starts its new year of hosting rugby and is always good for a thriller or two such as last July’s semi-final between Tawa and Johnsonville. The days are counting down until the start of the 2026 Wellington club rugby competition. Three grades kick off this Saturday,...
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Club Rugby pre-season underway this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Sideline Conversions 2 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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 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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What happened 100 years ago Part 2: Representative rugby in 1926
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- A look back at how the season panned out 100 years ago. A recap of the 1926 representative season below. As discussed in part 1 of this series looking at the 1926 club and grassroots season, Athletic won the Senior Club Championship with University runners-up, ending the multi-year dominance of Petone and Poneke. The representative season...
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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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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
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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
- Wellington Club Weekly
- 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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Ories and HOBM Eagles unbeaten after first leg of American Ambassador’s series
- Wellington Club Weekly
- General crowd scene as seen from tournament headquarters at Mary Crowther Park on Saturday. Oriental-Rongotai and Hutt Old Boys Marist are the two unbeaten teams in the men’s division at the conclusion of the first of two Wellington club rugby sevens tournaments, played at Wainuiomata’s Mary Crowther Park on Saturday. But the Upper Hutt Rams...
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Paremata-Plimmerton win inaugural Feilding Blitz 7s
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington club Paremata-Plimmerton won the inaugural Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament on Saturday. Paremata-Plimmerton beat Whanganui’s FullSend in the final in the tournament that was played in blustery but fine conditions at Johnston Park on Saturday. The tournament was well run by the Feilding Yellows club and the competition was well-contested with the rugby trumping the...
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St Pat’s Silverstream, St Bernard’s and Aotea Colleges Condor Sevens winners
- Wellington Club Weekly
- St Bernard’s College with the Roderick Solo Cup for winning the Wellington region Condor 7s U15 tournament. By Steven White. Photos by Andy McArthur. For the first time since 2020, St Patrick’s College, Silverstream, are Wellington Open Boys Condor Sevens champions. Silverstream added the Christian Cullen Cup to their First XV Premiership title from last...
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Club Rugby Awards of the Year 2025
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- By Scott MacLean, Steven White & Adam Julian The final piece of our club season coverage for this year is our Annual Awards. A mix of the serious and silly, here’s ours for 2025. Team of the Year: The Upper Hutt Rams Colts. Melding any age-group team together is a skillful operation, dealing with players...
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Solomona and Meroiti win College Sport Wellington rugby awards
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Elijah Solomona playing for the St Pat’s Silverstream 7s team on Saturday. Photo by Club Rugby. St Pat’s Silverstream captain and openside flanker Elijah Solomona and Tawa College and Northern United utility back Baylee Meroiti are the 2025 College Sport Wellington boys and girls Rugby Players of the Year. The pair won these awards at...
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Condor 7s chance for smaller rugby schools to shine
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Defending champions Hutt International Boys’ School return to the scene of their triumph when they line up alongside nine other Senior Boys school teams at the annual Wellington region Condor 7s tournament at Naenae College tomorrow. Last year HIBS beat then two-time defending champions Scots College 19-17 in a blockbuster final to win their first...
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Best & Fairest Teams of the Season 2025
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- By Scott MacLean A regular of our end of season coverage is to name teams based on the Men’s Billy Wallace and Women’s Erin Rush Best & Fairest standings, which represent the outstanding and consistent performers across the club season. Last week the WRFU announced the two winners – Men’s winner Esi Komaisavai from Paremata-Plimmerton...
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Lifetime Contribution Award for Denys Latham at WRFU Awards
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- Coach Denys Latham and the Porirua College First XV in 1973, after winning the Wellington secondary schools First Grade competition. By Steven White Denys Latham has been involved in rugby in Wellington as a player, coach and administrator almost continuously since he moved south from Taranaki to become a founding teacher of Porirua College in...
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