Wellington Club Weekly / January 2022
February 2022 | December 2021-
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All you need is Ruben
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- Ruben Love playing for the Hurricanes last year against the Rebels. PHOTO: Mike Lewis. By Steven White Ruben Love is the first player since Jeff Wilson to represent New Zealand secondary schools’ teams at both rugby and cricket and the first player to be born this century to play for the Hurricanes. It’s been a...
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Bond Banter 31 January (news and information to start the week in rugby)
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- The Upper Hutt Rams at pre-season training last week. The shadows are slowly lengthening, which means the start of the rugby competitions are drawing nearer. In theory, we are counting down to the start of the 2022 rugby season. As scheduled, the Super Rugby squads play their first two matches this coming weekend, the Hurricanes...
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Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Looking back a century: rugby in 1922 (part one club rugby)
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- Following a memorable 1921 season, particularly on the representative front with Wellington ending the year with the Ranfurly Shield locked away and the All Blacks hosting the Springboks in their inaugural series, 1922 failed to reach the same lofty heights. Wellington fell away – and lost the Shield to Hawke’s Bay in the first defence...
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All Blacks Sevens squad wins Bula Fiji 7s but Whanganui Fijians impress
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- Player of the Tournament Timoci Serawalu scores in the corner for the Whanganui Fijians in the first match of the morning against the New Zealand national squad. The two teams also met in the last game of the day almost 12 hours later in the Cup Final. The Ignite NZ Sevens team, also known as...
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Inaugural Bula 7s tournament at Porirua Park on Saturday
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- After a long break from rugby in the capital and many parts of the country, a red-hot sevens rugby injection comes to Porirua Park this Saturday with the inaugural Bula 7s tournament. Rugby-starved fully vaccinated supporters can roll up to Porirua Park from early in the morning to later in the evening to see no...
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington goes Solo in 2022 All Black Sevens Squad
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- Above: Roderick Solo on debut for Oriental-Rongotai in the 2020 Swindale Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. Oriental-Rongotai’s Roderick Solo is a new face in the All Blacks Sevens squad for 2022. The fleet-footed former Scots College flyer is one of five new faces in this year’s national men’s sevens set-up. Solo joins Leroy Carter (Bay of...
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Dave Meaclem – Educator, Laugher, Champion
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- By Adam Julian Dave Meaclem, cheerful stalwart of Oriental Rongotai, Scots College and Rongotai College rugby, passed away on Thursday morning after an arduous battle with cancer. The vice president of Wellington Rugby was 60-years old. Whether drinking at a flashy do, spinning yarns with businessmen in Corporate Cabs or guiding a young man from...
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Remains of the day
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- Above: “Barney” Ronaldson seated on the ground at bottom right in the Greytown team photo of 1884. By Touchline An unplanned walk among the derelict tombstones of the “public” section of Wellington’s Karori Cemetery on New Year’s Day caused Touchline to muse that the pride of society in its history can perhaps be seen in...
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Burning Questions 2022
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- The Tawa RFC celebrates with the Jubilee Cup last season at the Hutt Rec, after beating Marist St Pat’s in the final. Can both these teams rise to the top again in 2022? Photo: Andy McArthur. Happy New Year and welcome to a new season of rugby. As always, we kick the year off with...
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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