Wellington Club Weekly / February 2023
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Law changes locked in for 2023 rugby season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Almost the only thing certain about rugby these days is ongoing change, especially when it comes to the Laws of the Game as more tweaks are made for the 2023 season. At the World Rugby level, the only change is that the five Laws trialled last year – Goal-line drop-out, the 50/22, and those around...
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Sideline Conversions 27 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Clubs are sailing closer to the start of the pre-season kicking off. This week, Club Rugby is going to start contacting all the Wellington clubs for details of their pre-season campaigns and player news so look out for that or come to us at editor@clubrugby.co.nz Four weeks out from the start of the Premier competition...
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Aisle be Back: The start of the rugby season
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- By Kevin McCarthy It’s the rugby season. As always, arriving a couple of weeks, or months too early. I mean, I plan on sitting at the Basin on day four of the cricket. But by that time, round one of Super Rugby will be done and dusted. Traditionally this is when the fan lays out...
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Three rugby matches this Saturday for Hurricanes supporters
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Hurricanes Poua women’s side opens its Super Rugby competition on Saturday, hosting the Chiefs Manawa at Levin. There are three matches this Saturday for lower North Island rugby followers to watch and follow. After last week’s Wellington – Hawke’s Bay Hurricanes U20s match was called off, the scheduled third match of this series between...
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Northern United’s Tamati Ellison named as Wellington Lions Head Coach
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- Tamati Ellison playing for Northern United against Petone in the Jubilee Cup in 2007. He memorably helped his club Northern United win its first Jubilee Cup title in 2004 and then sat a university exam the next day. Now, Tamati Ellison will be tutoring the next generation of Wellington lions players with confirmation of his...
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Roigard revving up for new Hurricanes season
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- Hurricanes halfback and former speedway driver Cam Roigard flies in for his try in the Hurricanes’ pre-season win over the Crusaders in Levin last Friday. By Steven White Can Roigard is is part of the new guard for the Hurricanes. Needless to say, Roigard and the Hurricanes are looking forward to taking the field this...
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Sideline conversions 20 February (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Big crowd in Levin Friday for the Hurricanes. Kick-off was 5.00pm but the crowd was pouring in at 4.15pm and the ground was brimming with fans, families and flags by then. Club Rugby wishes the people of Hawke’s Bay, Poverty Bay and surrounding areas, and all those affected by the recent events all the best...
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Hurricanes v Crusaders pre-season match scoring highlights
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- The Hurricanes beat the Crusaders 31-26 in their Super Rugby pre-season fixture at the Levin Domain on Friday. The Hurricanes won with a withering second half comeback. The Crusaders got off to a hot start and capitalised on some early Hurricanes errors and raced to a 21-0 lead with barely 15 minutes on the clock....
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Hurricanes teams in action this weekend, Academy match cancelled
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- Action from the Hurricanes season launch this week. The Hurricanes and Hurricanes Women’s sides are both in action today and tomorrow, while the Wellington – Hawke’s Bay Academy match has been cancelled. The Hurricanes kick-start the weekend’s action at Levin Domain at 5.00pm this evening, with their second pre-season match. The Hurricanes Poua Women’s team...
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Feverish Finishes Part 2
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- In the lead-up to the 2023 season, Club Rugby is running a series on social media called Feverish Finishes. A look at some of the many crazy finishes and roaring comebacks in Wellington club rugby in recent years – of which there have been many. These will also be posted here in a 3-4 part...
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Hurricane Higgins looking forward to new season
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- Riley Higgins running away to score one of his two tries against Auckland in last seasons’s NPC semi-final win. PHOTO: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Steven White Riley Higgins had a season to remember in 2022, and he is just getting started. The former St Pat’s Silverstream and current Petone midfielder joins the Hurricanes this year...
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Looking back 100 years in rugby: 1923 Part 2 (representative rugby)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Wellington team in 1923 was not a vintage side, captained by Poneke’s 31-year-old hooker Umberto Calcinai, who had first played senior rugby in 1909 and had played four matches including the three tests against New South Wales on their 1922 Australian tour. The fourth annual instalment of our series recapping the club, domestic...
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Sideline conversions 13 February (community rugby news and information to start the week)
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- The 15s season is underway, with matches coming up this Friday and Saturday: Friday: Hurricanes v Crusaders, Super Rugby pre-season, 5.00pm Levin Domain. Saturday: Hurricanes Women v South Island Women, Porirua Park (kick-off TBC) Saturday: Hawke’s Bay U20s v Wellington U20s, Palmerston North (venue and kick-off TBC) +++++ Changes to the Swindale Shield draw incoming....
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Wellington Academy v Manawatu Academy Match Highlights
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- The Wellington Academy beat their Manawatu counterparts 48-14 in the opening match of the Hurricanes U20s Academy series at the Campus of Innovation and Sport on Saturday. Scoring highlights from the match below: Wellington won the match by a margin of eight tries to two, after leading 19-0 at halftime. In blazing sunshine, Wellington broke...
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Fifteens season kicks off tomorrow with Academy and Hurricanes pre-season matches
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- The 2023 rugby season is underway on Saturday. It starts at the Campus of Innovation and Sport #2 field at 12.00pm with the first match of the Hurricanes U20s series between the Wellington Academy and Manawatu Academy teams. This fixture is the first of three weekends of Academy matches between the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and...
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Sideline Conversions 6 February (some rugby news and information to kick-start the week)
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- Happy birthday New Zealand. +++++ The 15s rugby season opens in Wellington this coming weekend, with the Wellington Academy and the Manawatu Academy meeting in the first of three weekends of Academy matches. These are effectively trial games for the Hurricanes U20s side whose campaign is in March. Academy games over the following three weeks...
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Looking back 100 years in rugby: 1923 Part 1 (club rugby)
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- Above: Crowd scene on a wet day at Athletic Park circa 1920. Club rugby enjoyed a healthy following a century ago, with several thousand dapper spectators regularly attending club rugby matches there on Saturdays and thousands more at other leading venues of the day such as the Petone Rec and the Basin Reserve. Image credit...
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