Wellington Club Weekly / November 2023
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Sideline Conversions 30 November (some off-season news and happenings to end the month)
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- This column will return on a weekly basis in the new year, but some general off-season news is below. We all want more in 2024 and Club Rugby intends on starting a weekly e-newsletter early next year, delivered to your inbox on Thursdays. Please sign up to this HERE +++++ Rest in Peace Aggy Faraimo:...
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Thirteen new caps in Hurricanes Poua as Leti-i’iga ruled out
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- New Hurricanes Poua lock Sam Taylor in action for the Manawatū 7s team on Saturday. Taylor and several of her teamnates have been selected as first time Hurricanes Women’s players. There will be 13 new players lining up in the 2024 Hurricanes Women’s Poua team, but the Rolls Royce of women’s rugby try-scorers Ayesha Leti-L’iga...
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Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu win Central 7s tournament
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- Above: The two women’s division finalists, winners Manawatu and runners-up Hawke’s Bay. By Steven White Hawke’s Bay (Men’s) and Manawatu (Women’s) won today’s revived Central 7s tournament at a cool, showery Massey University. Both winning teams were convincing winners, both piling on the points and unbeaten all day and winning their finals well. Hawke’s Bay...
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Tentative comeback for Central Region 7s tournament on Saturday
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- After a four-year hiatus, the Central Region 7s tournament returns this Saturday at Massey University at Palmerston North, albeit in an abbreviated format from last time. For several years this tournament was held at Playford Park, Levin, and constituted qualification for the National Provincial 7s tournament formerly in Queenstown and most recently at Mt Maunganui....
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Enthusiasm building for 2024 season with release of Swindale Shield draw
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- Action from this year’s Swindale Shield decider between Old Boys University and Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. The 2024 community rugby season in Wellington is drawing nearer. Next year’s Swindale Shield draw was recently finalised and released by the WRFU, with the Premier competition kicking off on Saturday 6 April 2024. The WRFU has also confirmed...
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NZ Rugby reports increase in community playing numbers and extension of tackle height trial
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- The following is an unfiltered NZ Rugby media release related to community rugby. Community rugby participation in New Zealand has continued its post-pandemic recovery, spurred by the growth of women and girls’ rugby. NZR has today confirmed 147,434 players for the 2023 season, an increase of 7% on 2022, with women and girls’ participation up...
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Paremata-Plimmerton and Petone win men’s and women’s Wellington club 7s titles
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- Paremata-Plimmerton with the American Ambassador’s Trophy that they won today.
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Shields, Judd return to the Hurricanes in 2024
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- The Hurricanes will have big shoes to fill in 2024, with no Ardie Savea (Japan) or Dane Coles (retired), and TJ Perenara making his way back from injury that sidelined him for the entirety of this year. But two former players will be back on board in 104-game Hurricanes loose forward Brad Shields and former...
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Wellington club rugby one-off club sevens tournament on Saturday
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- Details of the tournament below, but not the draw, which is expected to be released by Friday afternoon. Check both WRFU channels and club pages for this. We will also add it in here once received. Wellington’s leading sevens players will need to hit the ground running on Saturday morning at Trentham Memorial Park at...
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Aisle be Back: The end of season wrap
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- By Kevin McCarthy Napoleon (the movie) thunders on to our cinema screens soon. Which got me thinking in the aftermath of the rugby world cup final about his supposed preference that his Generals above all else be Lucky. Was there anyone else who, watching Sam Cane dying a thousand deaths on the touchline for nigh...
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