Wellington Club Weekly / February 2022
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The Monday rugby wrap: 28 February (some news and information to start the week)
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- Above: When Tawa and Hutt Old Boys Marist met in the first round of the 2012 Swindale Shield. HOBM won this match 29-18 and went on to win the first round club rugby title. Formerly called Bond Banter – a news and information column to start the week in rugby from the ground up. Please...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues and 50th cap for James Blackwell
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- James Blackwell (Petone) will play his 50th match for the Hurricanes when they take on the Blues in round two of the Super Rugby Pacific competition this Saturday in Dunedin. By Kevin McCarthy Round one down and in a season like no other, it still feels like a season like every other. In short, a...
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Pioneers of Wellington Rugby 002: Captain James Isherwood
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- The Wellington Football Club 1875. James Isherwood fourth from left – a strapping gentleman who means business. By Dribbling Rushes Recognised as the founder of rugby in Wellington. Having played in early organised matches in Wellington for Wellington selections against the crew of the HMS Rosario in 1868 (under non-rugby rules) and against Nelson in...
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Hurricanes v Crusaders Stat Attack
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- Jordie Barrett started at Fullback for the 58th time (including the match against the British & Irish Lions in 2017) for the Hurricanes in their season opener against the Crusaders last Saturday and is now one start ahead of Cory Jane in that position. At the top of the list though is Christian Cullen who...
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Has the traditional team-building rugby outing survived the pandemic?
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- Has the traditional team-building rugby outing survived the pandemic? Team building is important in every sport, even more so in rugby. In rugby, so many moments depend on the whole team working smoothly together as a unit. You don’t manage to fight your way down the pitch for as many phases as it takes to...
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Bond Banter 21 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Breakfast edition: The pre-season holding pen remains an unsettled place to be for rugby players, administrators and supporters alike, as disruptions could escalate over the next few weeks. The close contact isolation rule could start proving a nightmare amongst teams and clubs preparing for their pre-season campaigns in March and the scheduled start day of...
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Aisle be Back: Super Rugby kicking off this weekend
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- The pre-season is over for the Hurricanes and the competition gets underway this weeekend. By Kevin McCarthy It’s all kicking off this weekend, isn’t it. I mean, it’s ALL kicking off. It’s impossible to think of a stranger way to be starting Super rugby than we have right now. Adding to the fun, no-one really...
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100th cap for Ben Bam May in Hurricanes opener
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- Captain Hurricane supports the team last year. By Peter Marriott and Steven White Blenheim born Ben Bam May will play his 100th match for the Hurricanes in their 2022 season opener against the Crusaders on Saturday night in Dunedin. It will actually be May’s 99th Super Rugby match as he played against the British &...
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NZR guidance on community rugby under the traffic light settings
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- The below article and information was published on New Zealand Rugby (NZR) channels on Wednesday – republished here with permission.
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Bond Banter 14 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Random rugby shot of the day. When Old Boys University beat the Upper Hutt Rams 38-22 at the Basin Reserve in 2015. It’s Valentines Day today, but the only date we all need to be concerned with is the start of the 2022 rugby season, which is scheduled to be starting over the next few...
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Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 001 Charles Monro
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- Profiling the people that built and helped shape the game in Wellington, from its inception in 1870 through to the WRFU’s 50th Jubilee year in 1929. The first of these profiles is Charles Monro, widely recognised as the founding father of rugby in New Zealand – as played under the then rules of the English...
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Bond Banter 7 February (some rugby tidbits and news to start the week)
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- We have rugby underway. In three pre-season Super Rugby matches this weekend, the Highlanders edged the Crusaders 20-19, the Chiefs accounted for new side Moana Pasifika 61-7 and the Hurricanes went down 21-28 to the Blues The Hurricanes used 34 players including a dozen non-squad members in their 28-21 pre-season loss to the Blues at...
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RUGBY IN 1922 (part TWO REPRESENTATIVE rugby)
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- The Wellington team that toured the South Island in 1922. Whilst club rugby at the Senior Championship level was as strong and competitive as ever, before or since, the second great era of the Wellington rugby team drew to a close in 1922. ‘Five-eighths’ later summed up a frustrating representative campaign in the Dominion by...
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