Wellington Club Weekly / March 2022
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Chiefs
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- By Kevin McCarthy Changes were to be expected for the Hurricanes for this Sunday’s match against the Chiefs, but I didn’t expect we’d see Jordie Barrett suddenly popping up at second-five. I haven’t seen any rationale for that, but there must be one. The Canes haven’t played a settled backline for a very long time...
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Hardham Cup to become 10 teams this year
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- By Chris Rattue-kneepkens The Hardham Cup will be extended to 10 teams in 2022 in the wake of the continued growth of Omnicom. Wellington Rugby Union Community Liaison Officer Michael Langley announced the decision during a club committee meeting on Zoom last night and reinforced the move with a he/him pronoun email this morning. “Following...
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The A-Z of Wellington Club Rugby for 2022
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- By Scott MacLean The 2022 club season kicks off this weekend with the first round of 13 in the Premier Men’s Swindale Shield as well as the start of the Women’s Rebecca Liua’ana Trophy campaign, with the remaining club competitions to get underway later this month. Our seventh annual A-Z looks at the season ahead....
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Alosio and Moana Pasifika on the board in Super Rugby Pacific
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- “It was awesome to get an opportunity to make my Super Rugby debut. It was a dream I was never going to give up on,” Hutt Old Boys Marist and Wellington outside back Tomasi Alosio told the Huddy Hui on Wednesday night. Whilst Alosio didn’t play in the team’s historic win against the Hurricanes last...
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Wellington club rugby Gains & Losses 2022
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- The 2022 Wellington club rugby season kicks off this coming Saturday. Round one Swindale Shield teams will be named here in the Draws & Results section (above) on Friday. As always there is player movement between clubs and new players from school First XVs and some others from overseas set to join the playing ranks...
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Polls: Who do you think will win the Swindale Shield and Rebecca Liua’ana Trophy competitions?
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- The start of the 2022 club rugby season in Wellington is this Saturday, 2 April. The two competitions that are scheduled to get underway this Saturday are the Premier Men’s Swindale Shield and Premier Women’s Rebecca Liua’ana Trophy competitions. Fourteen teams will line up for the start for the Swindale Shield and eight this year...
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The rugby wrap-up 28 March (Community rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Lunchtime edition: Here we are. After an uncertain past few weeks, piled on top of a disjointed past two years, the 2022 club rugby season starts up this coming Saturday. In Wellington and Manawatu that means the start of the Swindale Shield and Hankins Shield competitions, while Horowhenua-Kapiti also starts with the opening round of...
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Some players to watch in club rugby in 2022
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- The fulltime whistle in the Jubilee Cup final – a moment for every player on the winning team to relish and for opponents to look to vow to come back stronger next year. By Scott MacLean In this space the past two years we’ve taken a look at a player from each of the 14...
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Aisle be Back: The return of the Hurricanes
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- By Kevin McCarthy Why the gloom and despair out there folks. There seems to be at times a professional industry around talking down rugby and its future in this country. We’re told the All Blacks are sliding down the world rankings. That the northern hemisphere and South Africa are the new powerhouses. That Super Rugby...
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Final pre-season matches tomorrow for many clubs
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- Johnsonville played 100 minutes against Feilding last week and themselves and the Wellington Axemen have matches lined up tomorrow before they meet each other in the opening round of the Swindale Shield competition next weekend. Many Premier teams will be having their final round tune-ups – or in a couple of cases much needed only...
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Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 006 Thomas Hoar
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- Thank you to the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association for this article. First published October 2021. FOOTBALL EVENING POST, VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE 80, 4 APRIL 1892, PAGE 2 “There is some probability of T. Hoar, who played three-quarter for the Melrose Club, and who has been lately playing for the Merivale Club, Christchurch, returning to...
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Some school leavers to watch in 2022
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- St Pat’s Silverstream celebrate their last-gasp semi-final win over Wellington College last year. They went on to draw 36-36 with Scots College in a shared final. A number of these players are joining the senior club rugby ranks in 2022. Year in, year out the Wellington club rugby competition produces new talent for fans and...
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The Rugby Wrap 21 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- MORNING EDITION: It’s the first week of autumn, meaning loads of rugby is imminent. Hopefully. The WRFU came out with some messages late last week, signalling that the Premier Swindale Shield competition will start as advertised on 2 April, as per the current draw, to be ratified by the Rugby Board at their meeting this...
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Pre-season rugby set to ramp up on Saturday
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- After a stop-start (mostly stop) March of pre-season rugby so far, it is hoped that most of the scheduled matches will go ahead tomorrow. Several Premier squads will be relishing the opportunity to play their first games of 2022, ahead of the slated start of the competition season in Wellington and Manawatu on Saturday 2...
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Pioneers of Wellington Rugby: 005 J.P. Firth
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- The Boss. Joseph Pentland Firth lived and breathed rugby, and his love and passion for the game was a major reason why rugby had cemented itself as the leading sport in the capital by the turn of the 20th century. At 6 foot 5 inches tall, Firth was a larger-than-life figure on and off the...
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The Rugby Wrap 14 March (some news and information to start the week)
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- Formerly called Bond Banter – a news and information column to start the week in rugby from the ground up. Please support our sponsors, helping to keep the promotion of community rugby going. Mention Club Rugby and they will sort you out. Rob Law Max – with branches in Wellington, Lower Hutt, Kapiti, Napier, Auckland and Brisbane. Need a job give...
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Disruptions aplenty continue to stall start of 2022 season
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- Problems in the pitlane continue to stall the start of the 2022 community rugby season, as a slew of pre-season matches have already been cancelled this Saturday, and more could be heading that way today (Friday). For the NPC unions in the Hurricanes region, Wellington, Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay, meaningful pre-competition game-time for the players...
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Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 004 Sid Nicholls
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- The Poneke team of 1886. Sid Nicholls seated with rugby ball in hand. Profiling some of 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. Who’s your “Daddy’”? If you are involved with Poneke and to a lesser extent...
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The Monday rugby wrap 7 March (some news and information to start the week)
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- Formerly called Bond Banter – a news and information column to start the week in rugby from the ground up. Please support our sponsors, helping to keep the promotion of community rugby going. Mention Club Rugby and they will sort you out. Rob Law Max – with branches in Wellington, Lower Hutt, Kapiti, Napier, Auckland...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Highlanders
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- By Kevin McCarthy Typically, as I’m watching the closing stages of a Hurricanes match, I am thinking about what I can write about in the following week’s column. Last weekend, at the 70th minute mark, I was thinking, oh no, I’ve to write THAT column. The one where the Hurricanes lose, and you try to...
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Club rugby pre-season – what’s coming up in March?
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- There is one month to the start of the *scheduled* kick-off for major club rugby competitions in Wellington and the Manawatu, while the Hawke’s Bay competition gets underway on the last weekend of March. After a disrupted last two years and a recent round of sevens tournament cancellations in February, it is hoped that the...
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Law changes for 2022 season
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- By Scott MacLean Wellington club rugby is going to look a little different this coming season. After several years of stability on the rules front, 2022 will see a raft of changes. Five of these are from World Rugby’s Global Law Trials package, which are mandated across the globe. Two of these, the 50/22 rule...
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Pioneers of Wellington Rugby: 003 George Campbell
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- The Athletic Football Club in 1882, with the Union Challenge Cup. George Campbell in the centre holding the ball. By Dribbling Rushes 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. Seven years after the first rugby match...
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Hurricanes v Blues stat attack
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- By Peter Marriott The Hurricanes beat the Blues 33-32 in their second round Super Rugby match this past Saturday. They are back in Wellington for their first home game this coming Saturday evening to play the Highlanders. Some facts and figures from their second match below. Round 2 v Blues: Won 33-32 The Hurricanes and...
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Patience paying off for Ories and Hurricanes prop Xavier Numia
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- By Steven White Patience is paying off for Xavier Numia. The Oriental-Rongotai and Hurricanes loosehead prop and former midfield back has fought back from several forced stints on the sideline to be a key member of this year’s Hurricanes squad in the Super Rugby Pacific competition. Numia has kept the faith over the past five...
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