Wellington Club Weekly / April 2015
May 2015 | March 2015-
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Women’s rugby resumes under lights this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The big hits continue for Tawa and Hutt Old Boys Marist women’s sides who both play under lights on Friday night in the third round of the Fleurs Trophy competition.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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First XV college rugby starts up in earnest this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: St Pat's Silversteam joins St Pat's Town, Wellington College, Feilding High School, Palmerston North Boys' High School, Gisborne Boys' High Schools, Hastings Boys' High School and host team Napier Boys' Bigh High School this coming Saturday in the opening weekend of the Tranzit Coachlines 1st XV Festival.
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Wellington against international teams: versus South Africa 1956
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- Match Details Result: South Africa 8 – Wellington 6When: 23 June 1956, at Athletic ParkWeather: Cloudy Crowd: 45,000 The Tour The 1956 Springbok tour will go down in folklore as one of the greatest rugby winters in New Zealand, not just for the All Blacks’ 3-1 series win, but the events leading up to it and surrounding it.
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Super Rugby Round 11 Review
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- Above: Julian Savea, who opened the Reds with both barrels to score the decisive try of the match and the try of the week of the eleventh round of Super Rugby.
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Hutt Old Boys Marist, Tawa out in front after explosive round
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- Above: The Hutt Old Boys Eagles Premiers and some of their junior supporters celebrate with the Father Cleary Shield after a helter-skelter top-of-the-table 54-49 win over Marist St Pat’s today.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Big afternoon of Anzac Day rugby on Saturday
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- Above: In two significant matches this Saturday, Adam Stewart and the Wellington Axemen host the Old Boys University Goats at Hataitai Park and Dean Brunsdon’s Northern United meet neighbours Paremata-Plimmerton for the Ivan Hargreaves Trophy at Ngatitoa Domain.
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NZ Under-20 Profile: Vince Tavae-Aso
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- Above: Vince Tavae-Aso playing for the Petone club in Wellington last weekend against Hutt Old Boys Marist in their famous McBain Shield match.
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Wellington against international teams: versus British Lions 1950
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- Above: The crowd builds at Athletic Park in 1950 for the big match.
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Referee Recruitment night on Wednesday
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- The Wellington Rugby Referees’ Association, together with the Wellington Rugby Football Union, is holding a referee recruitment night this Wednesday at the Green Man from 5.
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HOBM regain McBain as Poneke end OBU’s unbeaten run in Colts rugby
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- Above: No way through for Marist St Pat’s fullback Emmanuel Quintane in today’s Swindale Shield match against Wainuiomata.
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Bumper day of rugby around Wellington tomorrow
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- Above: Tough knocks.
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Thomas Fleming: committed to the cause for OBU
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- Thomas Fleming playing for Old Boys University against Avalon at the start of this season.
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All teams underway this Saturday in women’s rugby
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- Above: Defending champions Oriental-Rongotai host Wainuiomata at the Polo Ground in the second round of the Fleurs Trophy this Saturday.
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Jimmy Grbich Dinner to celebrate Rongotai College’s contribution
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Rongotai College Old Boys’ Association is hosting a dinner next week to celebrate the college’s contribution to Wellington Rugby, and in particular through the professional era with such players as Ma'a Nonu, Julian and Ardie Savea, Ofisa 'Junior' Tonu'u, Motu Matu'u, Roy Kinikinilau and Mark Reddish household rugby names out of Rongotai College.
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Referee Profile - Danial Bremner
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- Profile and photo courtesy of the Wellington Rugby Referees Association here When did you start refereeing?2012 with the Tasman Union Did you play rugby?I played for the Waimea Old Boys after playing rugby at Naylands College.
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Wellington against international teams: versus Australia 1946
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- Above: A year after hostilities have ceased, former Major General and now Governor General Sir Bernard Freyberg meeting the touring Wallabies before they play Wellington.
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High scoring Swindale Shield round as MSP, HOBM and Tawa secure fourth wins
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- Above: HOBM prop Rei Manaia crashes over for a try in his side’s win over the Upper Hutt Rams today.
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Club rugby in full swing this weekend with all grades in action
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- With three weeks gone in the Premier and Premier Reserve grades the teams are starting to spread themselves out and some are already finding themselves in catch-up mode and needing their passes to stick if they want to make the sharp ends of their respective grades for the back end on the season.
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Vaea Fifita working hard for higher honours
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- Above: Vaea Fifita bursting away to score a try for Wellington against Johnsonville a fortnight ago in Wellington club rugby.
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Nine teams entered for start of women’s competition
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- Above: the last three Wellington women's championship winners, Oriental-Rongotai, Northern United and Wainuiomata.
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NZRU releases 2015 ITM Cup draw
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The New Zealand Rugby Football Union has today released the 2015 ITM Cup draw, which runs from mid-August through to the third week of October.
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Wellington against International teams: versus South Africa 1937
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington College All Black and second five-eighth Jack Griffiths was Wellington’s best player in this match according to The Dominion in its follow-up edition.
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