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Schedule for remainder of Premier and Premier 2 club season set, with semis and finals on 18 and 25 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The following statement was released at noon Thursday, by the WRFU to all club delegates for distribution: Following consultation with councils regarding venue availability and scheduling options, WRFU has carefully explored opportunities to provide clubs with the option of rescheduling Premier and Premier 2 fixtures during the coming week. While there was a genuine desire...
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Finals and Semi-Finals this weekend in lower North Island club rugby competitions
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Just two points separated Paraparaumu and Waikanae when they met in this match in early May. They play a Ramsbotham Cup semi-final at Waikanae Park tomorrow. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Scott MacLean Whilst Wellington club rugby falls silent this weekend and then has two more weeks to play to take it through to the...
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PNBHS beat Wellington College in the mud in traditional
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Lineout action in today’s traditional between Wellington College and Palmerston North Boys’ High School. The visitors won 14-5. By Steven White Palmerston North Boys’ High School beat Wellington College 14-5 in a mudheap at Wellington College on Wednesday afternoon in their First XV traditional. The two teams were playing for the 143 Shield, which was...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 133: Rongo Wirepa (Taita)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Rongo Wirepa was Taita’s captain and talismanic tighthead prop who played in Wellington club rugby throughout the latter 1950s and the 1960s. He never played for Wellington, but was a Māori All Black in 1960 and 1964. During his career Taita were always competitive and showed flashes of being a top level side, with several...
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Matchday scoring updates: Oriental-Rongotai (28) v Paremata-Plimmerton (28)
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- Visitors Oriental-Rongotai beat Paremata-Plimmerton in a hard fought fixture in windy conditions at Ngati Toa Domain on Saturday in their opening match of the championship rounds in Wellington. This was the first round of the 2026 Jubilee Cup and was between sixth placed qualifier Paremata-Plimmerton and seventh Oriental-Rongotai. This meant that, while the winner would...
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Continuing referee abuse sees Wellington referees withdraw their services for next weekend’s rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Rugby Referees Association (WRRA), has withdrawn their services from refereeing club rugby in Wellington next weekend. The association’s President and Chairman Ben Van Berkel issued the following statement on Sunday evening: As advised last week, we had informed WRFU that if further referee abuse was reported this season, we would not appoint referee’s to...
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Sideline Conversions 6 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The reaction of the HOBM and Petone players say it all – trytime for the Eagles. Their win over Petone earned them a week off, but it transpires that all teams will have this week off. More below. Photo: Tane Nathan (Kinetic Images). Welcome to a new week in community rugby, perhaps just not...
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HOBM and Upper Hutt Rams earn week off, while OBU and Paremata-Plimmerton drop out of Jubilee Cup race
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Upper Hut Rams enjoyed their new temporary home of NZCIS 1, belting out some lively tries in their 47-29 win over Tawa, to earn next week off in the Jubilee Cup. Photo: Andy MacArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Premier draw next weekend at a glance (seedings from the first round in brackets):...
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Championship rounds kick off in Wellington club rugby this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Jubilee Cup and Hardham VC Memorial Cups will take pride of place in Wellington Premier club rugby over the next month. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition, to be updated later in the afternoon. It’s the start of the Jubilee and VC Hardham Memorial Cup rounds this weekend, with seven big battles coming up....
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streaming, commentary and updates 4 July
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 4 July 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores...
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Liam Giving Rising Rams Slight Edge
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Liam Slight lighting up Maidstone Park with flanker Pene To’o in support in a recent match. Photo: @thephotoguy_nz By Adam Julian The Upper Hutt Rams have rocketed into the Jubilee Cup with nine consecutive wins and a second-place finish in the Swindale Shield, their best showing since winning it in 2005. In 2005, Pope...
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Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Dave Rennie would have flunked Cuisenaire rods at school. For younger listeners, these were painted wood rods of varying units of length that basically taught you simple maths. They were also good for sucking on, and ingesting various chemicals. Unveiling his first twenty-three for the first test against France, he used the...
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Aotea College retain Beard Trophy in a thriller
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Aotea College celebrating their first Beard Trophy defence on Wednesday night, beating Mana College 36-32. A week after winning it off Tawa College, the story of Aotea College’s first defence that gets written and stored in the booklet inside the Beard Trophy will be a memorable one. Seemingly down and out, Aotea College came back...
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End of Swindale Shield Stat Attack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- With the curtain having come down on the first round Swindale Shield on a wet afternoon on Saturday, see below for some stats and numbers from the Swindale Shield and other competitions recently completed.
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 132: Paul Russo (Marist)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Paul Russo highlighted in the back row, winning the Jubilee Cup with Marist in 1960, in his second year out of school at St Pat’s Silverstream. Paul Russo was a feature No. 8 of Wellington club rugby competitions and representative rugby throughout the 1960s. Russo was a four-time Jubilee Cup winner with Marist in...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Paremata-Plimmerton (19) v Wainuiomata (12)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Visitors Paremata-Plimmerton beat Wainuiomata 19-12 in a tough fixture at William Jones Park on Saturday in their Smith & Wilson Cup match in the last round of the 2026 Swindale Shield. It was always tight and it came down to who could take their chances. Paremata-Plimmerton did just that, while also coming up with three...
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Sideline Conversions 29 June (some news and information to start the new rugby week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Petone were awarded the Harper Lock Shield late on Sunday after the competition was declared closed after the last round was unable to go ahead on Saturday after extreme weather late last week. PHOTO: Petone Rugby Monday morning edition – updates expected later in the day: Four weeks until the end of the Wellington...
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Top eight to start the Jubilee Cup found on wet afternoon of club rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Mud and glory – Marzy Karim slides through to score the clincher for Paremata-Plimmerton over Wainuiomata. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White and Scott MacLean The top eight sides to start next weekend’s coveted Premier Jubilee Cup competition and next week’s opening round club rugby championship draw were found on a wet and wild afternoon...
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Round 13 lucky for some as knockout rounds seedings decided this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition – updated expected later this afternoon. It is absolute carnage out there overnight, today and forecasted for tomorrow. As such junior rugby and all college rugby has been blanket cancelled already. Update #1 – this is unconfirmed but we are hearing that all rugby except for Men’s Premier and Premier...
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Wellington club rugby links to live updates, commentary and streaming 27 June
- Wellington Club Weekly
- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 27 June 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. Just two grades going ahead today, Men’s Premier Swindale Shield and Women’s: WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Women’s Premier Alternatively, follow...
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Proud few days for the Donaldsons just what the doctor ordered
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Luke Donaldson ordering the script for his forwards in last Saturday’s one-point win for Marist St Pat’s over Old Boys University. Donaldson was playing in his 50th blazer game. Photo: Tane Nathan (Kinetic Images). By Steven White It was a proud few days earlier this week for the Donaldson rugby family On Saturday eldest...
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Aisle be Back: The Afterglow of your Hurricanes final win
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Hurricanes players celebrating during their win last Saturday. Photo: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Kevin McCarthy 10 minutes into the second half. The Hurricanes have just notched up 41 points …. To nil. The woman next to me says: Good Game! I agree and add that I’ve never seen anything like it, 41-nil this early in...
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Aotea College new Beard Trophy holders with win over Tawa College
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White A new era of the Beard Trophy has started – at least until next week’s third match of four in the 2026 series when Mana College have their challenge. Aotea College stopped Tawa College’s reign in their 10th defence since they had won it in the final challenge of 2023 with an...
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Hurricanes v Chiefs Final Stat Attack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Peter Marriott Final v Chiefs: Won 60-5 After waiting for nine years and 318 days the Hurricanes finally secured their second Super Rugby title. It was the Hurricanes fourth Final and the Chiefs eighth, including the last four seasons in a row, all of which they have lost. The Hurricanes 60 points against the...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 131 Paul Delaney (Onslow)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Paul Delaney was a self-employed plumber by trade, and he was Mr Fixit for many club and Wellington representative rugby teams he played for and coached over many years. Delaney, who was a lock and flanker, was a leading Onslow Senior A player in Wellington club rugby for over a decade spanning the 1950s and...
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Matchday Highlights: UH Rams (24) v Tawa (19) – first win over Tawa in a decade
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Visitors the Upper Hutt Rams came screeching back over the final 15 minutes to beat Tawa 24-19 at windy Lyndhurst Park on Saturday. Tawa were left ruing a number of missed opportunities and a pair of second half yellow cards which cost them the game. They had earlier sprung to life midway through the first...
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Sideline Conversions 22 June (some news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Xavier Numia and Billy Proctor running freely during the Super Rugby Final. They won a College First XV Premiership final together in 2015 for St Pat’s Town and have now won the Super Rugby title together for the Hurricanes. Photo: Caroline Lewis. Monday morning edition – updates expected later today. It’s the last week of...
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Petone win Swindale Shield on day of late boilovers and upsets throughout club and college rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Petone with the Swindale Shield on their home ground, following today’s win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Grant Wall. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Petone are the 2026 Swindale Shield champions, winning the first-round title for the 16th time with next week’s final round to spare with a 43-17 win over Paremata-Plimmerton this afternoon. Petone and...
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Spotlight on club rugby in penultimate rounds of the Premier and Premier 2 competitions
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Trytime in last Saturday’s match between the Wellington Axemen and Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. The Axemen are back home hosting Oriental-Rongotai in Round 12, while Paremata-Plimmerton are at Petone. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition – updates to come later this afternoon as a handful of teamlists hadn’t been revealed by the noon hour: The...
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Wellington Club Rugby 20 June links to live scoring, updates, streaming and more
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- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 20 June 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores...
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